Really Good Books
by Jacob Cole on Jul.28, 2010, under - Show All Posts
Recently, a lot of people have asked me for book recommendations. Here are three bread-and-butter must reads. Look at the things one must see/hear page for more (link at top).
•Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman. Through old-fashioned common sense and a bit of cleverness, the unquenchably curious but otherwise normal young Feynman wisecracks his way to becoming one of the highest achieving scientists in history.
•Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion – J. R. R. Tolkien. Simply incredible: “The…mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of the morning.”
•Gödel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter: Discourse on how sentience arises from self-referential systems that fundamentally resonates with my thinking
