Name 3 your favorite books~

gravitonring
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thanks zc, Carnegie Mellon

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thanks zc,

Carnegie Mellon teaches more than Computer Science :)

in English Literature and Poetry my daughter was 4.0 !

4.0 in everyday life too :)

i think that i shall never see

an end to new technology

space suits breathing free

and God can only make a tree

everything is true, the opposite of everything is also true

Zhang Chi
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RE: thanks zc, Carnegie

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Quote:

thanks zc,

Carnegie Mellon teaches more than Computer Science :)

in English Literature and Poetry my daughter was 4.0 !

4.0 in everyday life too :

i think that i shall never see

an end to new technology

space suits breathing free

and God can only make a tree


I have use Chinese-English Dictionary~ But is Carnegie Mellon your university?
I know your university is pretty good at physics.
U.S. News Rank School
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 University of California--Berkeley
4 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
5 Georgia Institute of Technology
6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
7 California Institute of Technology
8 University of Southern California
9 Purdue University--West Lafayette
9 University of Texas--Austin
11 Carnegie Mellon University
11 Cornell University
11 University of California--San Diego
14 Texas A&M University--College Station
And ~
your words are always poetic~

Hello everyone!I'm Zhang Chi from China.I am 16 and I am a middle school student.And I love science. I want to be a scientist in the future!

Rod
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I have to add one more book

I have to add one more book that presently is,and will continue to influence me until the end of my days here.

"The Creative License' by Danny Gregory
Giving youself premission to be the artist you truly are

An enjoyable and easy read:-)

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold

BrainSmashR
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tough call.... Obviously

tough call....

Obviously The Chronicles of Narnia and the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings

The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card.

The Black Grypon by Mercedes Lackey (book 2 and 3 in the trilogy not so good)


Haos.PL
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Tolkien`s trillogy Assimov`s

Tolkien`s trillogy
Assimov`s Foundation
Terry Pratchett`s Discworld

also not so far behind, Glen Cook, for The Black Company and Garret P.I.

Dogbytes™
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Shogun Lord of the

Shogun

Lord of the Rings

Childhoods end.

I was going to say Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, and Peter Pan...but thought better of it.

Pav Lucistnik
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Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman

Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet. Absolutly most wicked book ever.

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

And from the pure fantasy genre, probably Wiedzmin saga by polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

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That's a tricky proposition.

That's a tricky proposition. Can I give 3 authors?

1. Frank Herbert (Dune series, The Green Brain, The White Plague, and more)
2. Orson Scott Card (Alvin Series, Ender series, and more)
3. Arthur C. Clark (2010 series, and Rama series)

Laurel
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It's not so easy to narrow it

It's not so easy to narrow it down to only three books, but here is my list:

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard: the book that taught me how to 'see' instead of just 'look'.

I Will Fear No Evil, by Robert Heinlein: a science-fiction love story of beautiful proportions. The book that, many years ago, convinced me to love with abandon and not worry about the risks.

The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff: serenity in a small, cuddly package. :-)

Olivier
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A few favorites of

A few favorites of mine:

1. A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
2. The future of spacetime - Hawking, Thorne and others
3. The god delusion - Richard Dawkins

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