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i'm increasingly realising that i'm quite ignorant of, well, lots of things: economics, history, modern physics, 20th century philosophy, jazz, queer theory etc etc. my solution to this is to read lots of books; so what should i be reading? in other words, what non-fiction should be on every well-informed persons' shelf?

― toby, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

add to that: feminism post- (or indeed pre-) "the female eunuch", postmodernism etc etc

― toby, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Helpful sub-question: what if each field is limited to one book? Three?

― Josh, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Read William L. Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich' - if the thought of 1500 pages isn't too off-putting.

― Johnathan, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm ignorant of almost everything. Nice to meet you.

I pull what I do know out of fiction.

― Maria, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Read Pomosexauls, The end of gay, discipilne and punish and gender outlaw

― anthony, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

jazz - listen to c.l. bob, they are awesome.

― rainy, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Read psychology books, current ones. Know thyself, you silly froggy.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Read those '... for Beginners' books. Dead handy.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

You don't even need '...For Beginners'. You can get away perfectly well with reading the backs of books.

― Tom, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

back covers or spines? (i know which i prefer)

― mark s, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

(rowr)

― mark s, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I just look at the covers (the effort to flip them over is too much) and let the whole vibe of said cover tell me what the book is about. Then I recommend it to others or damn it to hell.

― hans, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

try anything by foucault or judith butler, though you may want a reader, such as the foucault reader, to start things off.

― Geoff, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

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