What should a person read?

Dvornik2012-02-14 00:54:38

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Dvornik, 2012-02-14 00:54:38

Good day!

I would like to address this question to the Habra community: What to read?

I’ll open my question, I’m interested in what everyone can advise to read, personally on their own, those books that have influenced life / worldview / work / hobbies, that is, those books that strongly motivated and made a strong impression and which, in your opinion, everyone should read Human.

Can be conditionally divided into points.

1. The meaning of life, philosophy of life, worldview.
2. Work. Books that pushed you into the profession, books that are useful to you in your field of work.
3. Entertainment, Hobbies, those books that made you interested in something and what to do.
4. Just useful books.

Please answer personally. And do not offer all sorts of tops.

UPD

I'll add my list, unfortunately it's not big yet.

1. Aristotle Poetics. Rhetoric. Gogol Petersburg Tales.
2. Because I am a student, there is no profession as such yet. But the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" pushed me quite well to the idea of my own business, albeit an unsuccessful one.
3. 1984 George Orwell, Gogol Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment, William Thackeray, Vanity Fair. And quite a lot of fiction, Dune, all G. Harrison, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

UPD
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23 answer(s)

Georg, 2012-02-14
@Georg

Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

bad_guy, 2012-02-14
@bad_guy

I would recommend Murakami Haruki - Clockwork Bird Chronicles . After reading, I was in a strange state for about half an hour. This is where the book ends. There were strange feelings. But I liked the book. There was a moment in the book when the main character would come to the park and just look at people's faces. Oddly enough, but now I do too. I don’t go to the park, but I look at the faces. I peer. It's captivating.
Now I'm reading - Oliver Sachs - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . A neuropsychologist's book about his medical practice. Interesting enough.
Michael Flynn - In the Land of the Blind . Technicians will love it. You read and think, “But it’s true, it’s theoretically possible.”
Kurt Keram - Gods, Tombs and Scholars— an archaeological novel. History of ancient Egypt, its discoveries. But not dry information, but with artistic elements. Interesting facts from the biography of scientists.
Well, everything seems to be :)

KvanTTT, 2012-02-14
@KvanTTT

Reality Transurfing . I don’t know what the author is writing now, but the first books in this series influenced me for the better.
Well, even if you don't agree with the philosophy described in the books, it's still quite interesting to read/listen to.

sergeypid, 2012-02-14
@sergeypid

Stanislav Lem "The sum of technology" replaces a short course in physics and a complete collection of all science fiction. Philosophy of course, but of high quality. After this book, it is no longer necessary to watch the Matrix or, for example, read Sheckley - all the ideas of the distant future of mankind are already outlined and sorted out there.

Alexey, 2012-02-14
@Sterhel

Perhaps you will be interested.
One , two .

Konstantin Birzhakov, 2012-02-14
@KonstRuctor

I re-read Dead Souls a month ago. I am still in shock: I used to read at school, watched performances, films, but somehow it’s not the same. Book in hand and go. My opinion is that the Russian classics must be read without fail. My favorite book is "The Gift" by V. Nabokov. I read it 9 times, probably. I sincerely advise.

nuit, 2012-02-14
@nuit

GEB

Eternalko, 2012-02-14
@Eternalko

Once on the list.
Removed some. Some I haven't read, I don't know.
Dante Alighieri "The Divine Comedy"
Aristotle "Politics"
Alexander Afanasiev "Russian Secret Tales"
Richard Bach "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
Alexander Belyaev "The Air Seller"
Anton Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"
Mikhail Bulgakov "The Grand Chancellor"
Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" »
Boris Vasiliev “Not on the Lists”
Kurt Vonnegut “Slaughterhouse Five”
Goethe’s “Faust”
Nikolai Gogol “Dead Souls”
Alexander Griboyedov “Woe from Wit”
Taoist book of parables “Zhuang Tzu”
Philip Dick “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? »
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
Yevgeny Zamyatin We
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Singer
Carlos Castaneda The Art of Dreaming
Carlos Castaneda The Wheel of Time
Carlos Castaneda The Teachings of Don Juan
Franz Kafka "The Trial"
Nick Cave "And Seeing the Angel of God's Ass"
Jerzy Kosinski "The Painted Bird"
Agota Christoph "The Thick Notebook"
Choderlos de Laclos "Dangerous Liaisons"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Ken Kesey "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Lewis Carroll " Alice Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland. You should also read Hunting for the Snark
Timothy Leary "History of the Future"
Timothy Leary "The Seven Tongues of God"
Terence McKenna "Food of the Gods"
Gerwyn Melville "Moby Dick or the White Whale"
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Vladimir Orlov "Violist Danilov"
Chuck Palahniuk "Fight Club"
Victor Pelevin " Generation P
Viktor Pelevin Chapaev and the Void
Plato The State
Andrey Platonov The Pit
Andrey Platonov Chevengur
Osho Rajneesh Beyond Enlightenment
Jean Paul Sartre Nausea
Jerome Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Strugatsky Brothers Roadside Picnic
The Strugatsky Brothers "It's Hard to Be a God"
The Strugatsky Brothers "The Predatory Things of the Century"
Tatyana Tolstaya "Kys"
Ernest Hemingway "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Karel Capek "War with the Salamanders"
Carl Jung "The Tibetan Book of the Dead"

civitano, 2012-02-14
@civitano

ksonin.livejournal.com/422794.html
A list for schoolchildren, but worth a look.
Personally, I have been greatly influenced by:
1. Alexander Grothendieck: Recoltes et Semailles - Grothendieck's essay on mathematics.
2. The whole Castaneda is for an alternative view of the world.
3. Kafka's diaries.

fStrange, 2012-02-14
@fStrange

I simply don’t read books for points 2 and 4, I manage articles on the Internet.
List of books and authors for paragraphs 1 and 3.
1. Reniksa
2. Black Swan
3. Astrovityanka
4. Strugatsky, Lem (read all)
5. Pavel Shumil
6. The Master and Margarita
7. A Clockwork Orange

Mikhail Lyalin, 2012-02-14
@mr_jok

1) everyone decides for himself: what, why and why to read
2) art classics MANDATORY
3) further - sites with reviews, etc. will allow you not to waste time on obvious waste paper (ru.reader2.com/mr_jok, etc.)

mester, 2012-02-15
@mester

1. Stalin. Economic problems of socialism in the USSR and Dizziness from success: On the issues of the collective farm movement. (this is about the Venus project, how it should be done in practice without any utopia)
2/4. Yuri Mukhin. Laws of power and management of people. About how to work, what to strive for in work and how to grow a company to any size. (content is not as expected by title)

Akson87, 2012-02-14
@Akson87

Once upon a time I came across an interesting book “The DISPUTE ABOUT ZION”, on the topic of philosophy, religion and worldview it will be interesting.
Well, in programming, a list has already been made here many times, and on stackoverflow too. From myself I will add +1 to Code Complete.

Sanchous, 2012-02-14
@Sanchous

sc2tv.ru/content/darkest-night-part-7-list-of-literature-prose
List of references from the ideological inspirer of the sc2tv portal Adolf[RA] with video comments for five hours :) (although there is only a desktop and a notepad, you can listening in the background)
PS The portal itself is eSports, so the video in the "header" is most likely from some match / tournament / etc, to view, open the "Online VODs" spoiler below.

MikhailEdoshin, 2012-02-14
@MikhailEdoshin

I will still give one carefully compiled top . It's hard to give advice, everyone is different. Let's say I really like Lem, and not Ion the Quiet and Cyberiades , as usual (although they are also excellent), but Pilot Pirx and the magnificent Voice of the Lord . Or, for example, Bioy Casares, Morel's Invention - a short story where nothing much happens, but I completely agree with Luis Borges, who called it "perfect".

bye, 2012-02-14
@bye

George Orwell - "1984", "Animal Farm"
William Golding - "Lord of the Flies"

multik, 2012-02-14
@multik

Briefly on the points:
1 be sure to read Exupery's Citadel, according to your mood - the whole Castaneda, Gadamer "The Actuality of the Beautiful" ...
2 Norbert Wiener "Cybernetics is the science of control in the animal and the machine" "Cybernetics and Society" - read everything you find Wiener ...
3 Richard Bach "Biplane", Exupery "Night Flight" ...
4 Hesse - "Sidhartha" "The Glass Bead Game", Hugo - "Notre Dame Cathedral" ... in general, there is a lot of things in this paragraph, of course ...

mib, 2012-02-14
@mib

In fact, a book and a person are like the hands of a sculptor and clay. You can fashion any worldview, perception, logic, feeling, whatever. Tell me who you want / don't want to become, what to feel, and you can pick up books.
(right IMHO :)

Alexander, 2012-02-15
Yankovskiy @Suncheez

Heinlein. You can read everything from the first to the last book. But I especially recommend "Own among strangers, a stranger among his own."

CyrruS, 2012-02-15
@CyrruS

1. Robert Anton Wilson. Psychology of evolution.
While reading this book, the assemblage point dangled like a flower in an ice hole :)

Alex, 2012-02-15
@nesterwsx

lib.rus.ec/b/353969 || mann-ivanov-ferber.ru/books/paperbook/HowtoReadaBook/
Appendix 1 has everything you need :)

Roman, 2012-02-15
@Laroux

Isaac Asimov "Founders and Empire"

Vitaly, 2013-06-28
@zombic

The topic is still relevant))
William Thackeray "Vanity Fair" - a book unexpected for me, I started reading due to the lack of other books at that moment, and I finished reading it already avidly. The book, written in the year 1800, strikes with light humor and lively language, a little outdated and doubly interesting for this. The book is humorous, but it's not light reading, it makes you think about the actions of people. I advise.
Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a good novel that leaves warmth and keeps faith in people. Read all!