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>My "here, you​ MUST read this!" books: >Phantoms in the brain - VS Ramachandran I bought this book, gosh, twenty years ago I think. I bought at the same time Complexity by Roger Lewin (which I've read several times). I never got round to reading Phantoms in the Brain but it will now be

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He's still reading them. I'm guessing he's done about 10-11 of them so far? > On 6 Dec 2016, at 5:28 pm, Venkatesh H R wrote: > > Bhaskar - that was quite a list. Nice touch - giving him 19 books. Maybe > I'll do the same some day. I wonder though, how many of these he

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Another book recommendation thread. This time, I am interested in the books > that made enough of an impression that you gifted them to one or more > people. > One-time gifts are not that interesting. There was one book

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Bhaskar - that was quite a list. Nice touch - giving him 19 books. Maybe I'll do the same some day. I wonder though, how many of these he has read :) Oxford I know from personal experience is a dizzying experience, and while he surely would have encountered some of the books in his reading for the

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For fiction, I've stopped recommending books, but in non-fiction the only book I've gifted multiple times is: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman It's a book about the obsession of reading, written with a light, wry touch - can be read from the beginning, middle or end, and

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Funny how we give children books to implant some ideas in their heads, and they come away from the reading with something completely different. I gave my daughter some reading to introduce her to the fact that two of her great-grandfathers had been given the Order of the British Empire...and she

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After loads of consultations, got this set for my eldest cost centre's 18th birthday http://dailysalty.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/so-what-do-you-give-boy-on-his-18th.html?m=1 > On 6 Dec 2016, at 3:03 pm, Rajeev Chakravarthi > wrote: > > I try not to gift books to

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I suppose it would not be cool to say that I simply love the William books by Richmal Crompton...and lke Kate Fenton says about Georgette Heyer (another of my favourites) "have read (the books) to tattered shreds". (I have the set given to my aunt as a school prize to prove this statement. To let

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I try not to gift books to people unless I know what they like to read. However, for kids' birthdays, I go with one of the following - 1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2. The Magic Faraway Tree 3. The Wind in the Willows 4. Anything from the Paddington Bear series 5. Anything from the

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My "here, you​ MUST read this!" books: Phantoms in the brain - VS Ramachandran Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me - Ellen Forney Ocean at the end of the lane - Neil Gaiman The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Udhay

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Thaths wrote: How about your list, Udhay? > ​I was looking for the "here, you​ MUST read this!" kind of book. ​An incomplete list from my perspective: Godel, Escher, Bach (multiple times)​ ​Infinity and the Mind Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

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I gifted someone a set of Heinlein novels, used. Stupid of me, but I was young and impressionable back then and thought they were great. [Well, they are, if you carefully blank your mind out to the weird and wonderful politics and enjoy them for what they are] Other than that, I usually gift

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Listed in order of personal favourites and book-gifts that ALWAYS work: 1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (This is not a book. This is an experience.) 2. The Little Prince by antoine de saint exupery 4. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The hardcover edition) 5. Asterios Polyp / Bone

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Another book recommendation thread. This time, I am interested in the books > that made enough of an impression that you gifted them to one or more > people. > Books are what I usually gift people. But more than the book

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On Tue., 6 Dec. 2016, 8:28 pm Udhay Shankar N, wrote: > Another book recommendation thread. This time, I am interested in the books > that made enough of an impression that you gifted them to one or more > people. > Here are a few that I loved so much that I gifted them to

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Another book recommendation thread. This time, I am interested in the books that made enough of an impression that you gifted them to one or more people. Go! Udhay