(Part 2) Top products from r/bookclub
We found 20 product mentions on r/bookclub. We ranked the 128 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot. Richard Wiseman
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
22. The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel (P.S.)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
24. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Free Press
27. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
HarperTorch
28. The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
29. Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
30. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Classics)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
32. Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
HARPER PERENNIAL
36. How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
PENGUIN GROUP
37. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
38. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
Design with Nature by Ian McHarg
I started reading this one a while ago, but was sidetracked by life and it sat collecting dust. I just started it again, but haven't gone very far. This book is supposed to be the bible for planners and landscape architects, so I'm excited to get back into it.
I just finished reading Need for the Bike by Paul Fournel. This book is a collection of short stories and musings written by a lifetime cyclist. He does an amazing job conveying feelings associated with biking and I devoured this book much quicker than I expected. My wife bought it for me for Christmas because it was supposed to be similar to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, another book I really enjoyed.
I also finally finished The Landscape of Man, which I had been working through. I still don't see how this one was supposed to impact me as much as others claim it should, but it was an interesting read.
General
The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
>“Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.”
>One of the greatest books I've ever read. I plan on reading it 1,000 times more.
[Kitchen Confidential] (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Updated-Adventures-Underbelly/dp/0060899220) by [Anthony Bourdain] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain)
I read this on Kindle on through their Lending Library (it might still be on there) and loved it. It's a great look inside kitchens and Bourdain is a good writer.
Edit: inserted title and author
I found InfiniteSummer to be extremely helpful when reading Infinite Jest. Perhaps this site will prove to be just as helpful for Gravity's Rainbow. The site seems to have various resources (chapter summaries, introduction, links to wiki's, links to papers) at our disposal. Happy reading!
Also, I really recommend avoiding Penguin's edition of Gravity's Rainbow. The edges are frayed, which prove to be rather cumbersome when flipping through a 750ish page book :|
General
[The Glass Bead Game] ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/009928362X?pc_redir=1397308069&robot_redir=1 ) by Hermann Hesse.
Had this on my shelves for a while. Seems like it'd be a good one to discuss.
From Amazon:
>In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas and the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
ok, how about the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon? I've read it seve n or eight times, but love talking about it so...
The Sisters Brothers sounds particularly awesome. I'll be picking that up.
Here is a reasonably priced one, and if you care about "definitive" volumes it's the one to get.
Modern Book Submission
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Gutenberg Submission
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
Lexicon: a novel
https://www.amazon.com/Lexicon-Novel-Max-Barry/dp/0143125427
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0060512806/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217867198&sr=8-2
https://www.amazon.com/Thump-Rat-Tat-Tat-Gene-Baer/dp/0060203617 maybe?
the sister's brothers
https://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Brothers-Patrick-deWitt/dp/0062041282
a soon to be film starring Jake gyllenhall, Joaquin Phoenix, and John C reilly
Bit late, but Papillion?
Modern
[The Bell Jar] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar) By [Sylvia Plath] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath)
Description via Amazon:
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
Quick note for UK book clubbers:
Crime and Punishment is available in the Penguin Popular Classics imprint, and it sells at £2. You can find it on Amazon here, but it should be available at this price everywhere.
Am reading Henrietta Lacks ATM and really liking it.
I also recommend ...
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
Risk - Dan Gardner
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer
How We Know What isn't So - Thomas Gilovich
EDIT : MOAR
Quirkology - Prof. Richard Wiseman
Tricks Of The Mind - Derren Brown
59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot - Prof. Richard Wiseman
How to Lie With Statistics - Donald Huff