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Someone needs to mention the important stuff Tor Send a noteboard - 01/04/2011 09:21:48 PM

If you could only hand on one book that has already been handed on to you, which would it be?


Probably something like Euclid's The Elements. Or just about any good introduction to calculus published in the 70s. The calculus would probably be more useful to the future generations.


If you had to choose one book among the books published in your lifetime, which would it be?

University Physics by Young and Freedman, 13th edition. (As it happens, even though this was supposed to be the book I found myself, it was quite literally handed to me by Freedman himself, after he had signed it, just last week.)
Fram kamerater!
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If you could pass on only one book to the next generation, what would it be? Camilla - 01/04/2011 10:29:47 AM 2239 Views
good question Yunalesca - 01/04/2011 12:05:20 PM 1844 Views
The Kama Sutra *NM* Dark Knight - 01/04/2011 01:35:42 PM 649 Views
Well, it WOULD help insure that there would be at least 1 more generation after that... *NM* HyogaRott - 01/04/2011 07:49:30 PM 642 Views
Since you didn't exclude religious books... Larry - 01/04/2011 04:52:56 PM 1311 Views
GRRM's SoIaF, maybe they will live long enough to see the series ended HyogaRott - 01/04/2011 07:59:58 PM 1537 Views
You live in hope, I see. Camilla - 01/04/2011 08:15:05 PM 1240 Views
Norton's Anthology *NM* random thoughts - 01/04/2011 08:44:18 PM 644 Views
Lord save me. *NM* Camilla - 01/04/2011 08:46:13 PM 616 Views
quantiy over quality random thoughts - 03/04/2011 07:16:13 PM 1308 Views
Re: quantiy over quality Camilla - 03/04/2011 07:18:13 PM 1302 Views
I was mostly pissed that I had to $60 for it and everything we read was available for free random thoughts - 03/04/2011 11:27:24 PM 1239 Views
That is a problem. Camilla - 03/04/2011 11:59:28 PM 1394 Views
Volume two hands down random thoughts - 04/04/2011 02:48:12 PM 1207 Views
The first answer is far easier than the second. Tom - 01/04/2011 08:53:30 PM 1392 Views
Someone needs to mention the important stuff Tor - 01/04/2011 09:21:48 PM 1680 Views
I was worried you were going to drag Jordan into this. *NM* Camilla - 01/04/2011 09:23:11 PM 591 Views
cookery is important... Yunalesca - 02/04/2011 12:51:16 AM 1724 Views
I'm tempted to say 1984 nossy - 02/04/2011 01:32:22 PM 1311 Views
Oooh, good choice. Camilla - 02/04/2011 01:33:27 PM 1243 Views
Yeah, that seems like the obvious choice for me as well... but in my lifetime, no idea either. *NM* Legolas - 02/04/2011 06:23:54 PM 620 Views
I'd go with Brave New World, actually. Ghavrel - 02/04/2011 10:36:20 PM 1427 Views
I think Huxley has a better understanding of human nature and less politcal motive random thoughts - 03/04/2011 04:48:19 AM 1229 Views
I love your opening sentence nossy - 03/04/2011 02:34:45 PM 1341 Views
thank you random thoughts - 03/04/2011 07:09:35 PM 1347 Views
You'll be interested to know nossy - 03/04/2011 02:33:25 PM 1372 Views
That was very good. Camilla - 03/04/2011 02:46:30 PM 1353 Views
Some parts of Orwell's dystopia did in fact come true, though. Legolas - 03/04/2011 03:07:07 PM 1269 Views
you really need to read Brave New World random thoughts - 03/04/2011 07:14:04 PM 1203 Views
We agree again. *NM* Camilla - 03/04/2011 07:45:06 PM 649 Views
stop that your scaring me *NM* random thoughts - 03/04/2011 11:27:52 PM 587 Views
I can berate you for writing "your" instead of "you're" if it makes you feel better. *NM* Camilla - 03/04/2011 11:30:14 PM 601 Views
thats OK I'm good random thoughts - 04/04/2011 02:49:45 PM 1227 Views
Re: thats OK I'm good Camilla - 04/04/2011 02:51:34 PM 1247 Views
Stranger in a Strange Land imlad - 02/04/2011 05:37:05 PM 1248 Views
on second thought imlad - 02/04/2011 05:41:14 PM 1324 Views
Can't recommend many published in my life that I've read;the Sprawl Trilogy if I can count a series. Joel - 03/04/2011 12:18:30 AM 1498 Views
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