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Maybe you confuse Principia Mathematica by Newton and Principia Mathematica by Russell and Whitehead. And "the inaccessible one" isn't probably the right wording
superisis
His Highness' dog at Kew
Every work of science is a work of philosophy
Atticus said:
no I didn't but I thought Fifty might have. You're hinting at both being quite the literar work out?
Fifty
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Not really, unless you want to invoke non-standard and/or historical accounts of what "science" or "philosophy" are!
superisis
His Highness' dog at Kew
I was more refering to the idea that a literary text is what the reader makes it, and that since science explores the new philosophy must naturally follow in order to assimilate (bad word but I'm le tired atm) the new into ones own philosophical system (see previous parenthesis)
No doubt they are, I haven't read them, but I've took a brief look at both. Newton's principia seems to be presented in a way that isn't easy to grasp. Modern notation in physics and mathematics is much more easier to read. But I wasn't hinting at dfficulty of those books, rather at some modern philosophers.
aaglo
Furioso!
Worst nonfiction: Finnish-Germany dictionary. That's a horrible read. Maybe my Germany teacher just was too bad as a teacher... 
Worst fiction: Finnish epic poem Kalevala. I hated it when we had to read it on the 8th grade. I really didn't get anything out of it, except that it was hellish thing to understand. Now it migth be differently, but I'm afraid to attempt reading it again
Worst fiction: Finnish epic poem Kalevala. I hated it when we had to read it on the 8th grade. I really didn't get anything out of it, except that it was hellish thing to understand. Now it migth be differently, but I'm afraid to attempt reading it again
Erik Mesoy
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Hee. Let me give you the short version as I remember from reading the Donald Duck simplified version when I was about 10 years old. This is likely to be horribly mangled by lots of factors.Worst fiction: Finnish epic poem Kalevala. I hated it when we had to read it on the 8th grade. I really didn't get anything out of it, except that it was hellish thing to understand. Now it migth be differently, but I'm afraid to attempt reading it again
Ilmarinen the blacksmith forges a magical handmill Sampo that produces salt, flour or gold when you grind it. Evil witch Louhi steals it. Ilmarinen enlists the help of the wizard Vainamoinen, the two set off on heroic quest to retrieve Sampo. Ilmarinen has a nifty boat that flies, Vainamoinen has a magical instrument called a kantele made from a fish's jawbone. The two sneak through the Realm of the Dead and other nasty places, grab the handmill in secret. On the way back, Louhi in the hame of a bird with iron claws and whatnot attacks. Vainamoinen plays his kantele, Louhi is rebuffed. Louhi attacks again, the Sampo is destroyed, Ilmarinen cannot repair it and leaves the story, Vainamoinen flies off with the broken Sampo behind the Northern Lights.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
It should be. Seriously, it was just a bunch of blank pages with a cover.
Fifty
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Worst fiction: Finnish epic poem Kalevala. I hated it when we had to read it on the 8th grade. I really didn't get anything out of it, except that it was hellish thing to understand. Now it migth be differently, but I'm afraid to attempt reading it again
I studied it for a Scandinavian Lit class and while I didn't love it, I found it pretty good!
Ecofarm
Deity
Red Badge of Courage
Seriously, spare me the biography of a coward. The main character was such a sniviling little bastard, I only read on in hope of his death.
Seriously, spare me the biography of a coward. The main character was such a sniviling little bastard, I only read on in hope of his death.
Swedishguy
Deity
I read that too! What a weird coincidence!
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. The whole thing is the author awkwardly bludgeoning the reader with the "I was eating ice cream, then he raped me" juxtaposition of innocence and brutality. It got distracting well before halfway through. No subtlety whatsoever. I've finished some bad books in my day, but I had to return that one to the library.
Cleo
Cleo
Ecofarm
Deity
I agree about Catcher in the ryhe... Like 'Red Badge of Courage', a book about a total coward.
I loved Catch 22 though. The roomate that made the tent so nice because he knew he would abandon his bunk-mate (via a spectacularly planned and cleverly foreshadowed raft-escape!).
I enjoyed Hitchhikers. Fun, light reading.
I actually kind of liked Catcher in the Rye. It was fun to listen to the whiny self-indulgent justifications of a complete hypocrite.
superisis
His Highness' dog at Kew
Since quite a few got a bad taste from Catcher in the Rye, I'll give you guys a heads up. Don't read Erlend Loe's "Naiv. Super.", it's a crappy version of "Cathcer in the Rye", written in 1996.
Zardnaar
Deity
Most of the original Dune series after Dune by Frank Herbert were reasonably awful. Wonder if the new ones any good. Also the Wheel of Time got boring fast and I never managed to finish Lord of The Rings due to it being boring as hell.
Was just going to come here to slate a book, but as you list loads I have read, thought I would comment....
Great Expectations - Not Dicken's best, rather dated to read now, but I still like it.
Catch 22 - helps to be somewhat drunk/stoned for me to enjoy it.
The Great Gatsby - wouldn't buy it, but would read it if stuck in an airport or something.
The Bluest Eye - Had to read it as it was my English teacher's faveroute book. Didn't like it - I stopped reading half-way through and used a crib off the 'net for my essay on it... (Don't make me read it - just give me the jist of it!)
The Hitchhikers Guide - Didn't get it when I first read it (age 14), now love it.
Old Man and the Sea - Fair read, same as The Great Gatsby...
The Bible - I actully enjoy reading it sometimes. I like to work out how many of the laws in Liviticus actully cancel each other out...but I was brought up old-style, and can still quote passages ad nausem.
War and Peace - Suffers the Russian Novel disease (v. dense, v. long, odd culture) I used to be like that, but after plodding through several Russian Classics, I now can read them as well as 20th English Novels.
Worst books ever -
The New Dark Age - ???. Some 1970's book that states that the oil crisis of 1973 will cause a global crash and subiquesnt collsapse of civilization. The old saying - don't judge a book by it's cover held true (the cover was the most interesting thing about it) Swedes would like it because it 'predicts' that Sweden would conquer Europe after the collapse of civilization (???)
Modern Economic Theory - ??? Some blue-bound Pelican from the 1960's that predicts that the advent of technology means that the Economic Ministry will control all economic production by 2000. Has just enough economic terms to make it look plausable, but delve a little deeper and a student of Economics will realise it's a load of ****.
Uncle Binko (or something) - ???. Some children's book that I was forced to read when I was 10 or so. I hated it, and in my book report I said as much. Got told off beacuse I had givien it a bad review. Ordered to do it again. I did, saying the same as before but making the review 3 pages long and using quotes throughout (I was a real **** ****** as a kid) Got told off even more. Used sarcasm on teacher in front of class. Suspended for a week. When I came back, I gave up and gave it a bald sycophantic review. It then got put up on the wall.
Great Expectations - Not Dicken's best, rather dated to read now, but I still like it.
Catch 22 - helps to be somewhat drunk/stoned for me to enjoy it.
The Great Gatsby - wouldn't buy it, but would read it if stuck in an airport or something.
The Bluest Eye - Had to read it as it was my English teacher's faveroute book. Didn't like it - I stopped reading half-way through and used a crib off the 'net for my essay on it... (Don't make me read it - just give me the jist of it!)
The Hitchhikers Guide - Didn't get it when I first read it (age 14), now love it.
Old Man and the Sea - Fair read, same as The Great Gatsby...
The Bible - I actully enjoy reading it sometimes. I like to work out how many of the laws in Liviticus actully cancel each other out...but I was brought up old-style, and can still quote passages ad nausem.
War and Peace - Suffers the Russian Novel disease (v. dense, v. long, odd culture) I used to be like that, but after plodding through several Russian Classics, I now can read them as well as 20th English Novels.
Worst books ever -
The New Dark Age - ???. Some 1970's book that states that the oil crisis of 1973 will cause a global crash and subiquesnt collsapse of civilization. The old saying - don't judge a book by it's cover held true (the cover was the most interesting thing about it) Swedes would like it because it 'predicts' that Sweden would conquer Europe after the collapse of civilization (???)
Modern Economic Theory - ??? Some blue-bound Pelican from the 1960's that predicts that the advent of technology means that the Economic Ministry will control all economic production by 2000. Has just enough economic terms to make it look plausable, but delve a little deeper and a student of Economics will realise it's a load of ****.
Uncle Binko (or something) - ???. Some children's book that I was forced to read when I was 10 or so. I hated it, and in my book report I said as much. Got told off beacuse I had givien it a bad review. Ordered to do it again. I did, saying the same as before but making the review 3 pages long and using quotes throughout (I was a real **** ****** as a kid) Got told off even more. Used sarcasm on teacher in front of class. Suspended for a week. When I came back, I gave up and gave it a bald sycophantic review. It then got put up on the wall.
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The worst I have read so far was The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. I had to read it for school and I found it utterly boring and predictable.
I have never read somehthing so full of cheese and whine. It was a relief when that sissy finally committed suicide.
I have never read somehthing so full of cheese and whine. It was a relief when that sissy finally committed suicide.
scherbchen
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Eye of the World - first in the Wheel of Time series. boring, predictable, cookie-cutter fantasy. I actually tried to read it 3 times since it has been hyped so much, never made it past the first half...
