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• A reply on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 25 2011: I read it during a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest and it was perfect for the location. However, George came off like he had Asperger's syndrome and Freeman came off like just didn't get it, any of it, yet I don't think either of those assessments is what truly is/was going on. There are some ways the narrator's role in the story resembles Bass' _The Eudaemonic Pie_, which is the story of how some of the original thinkers in Chaos Theory tried to break the bank playing roulette in Vegas. Very cool and a useful supplement to Gleick's _Chaos_.

• A comment on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 25 2011: BTW, where is the consolidated list of books? Does it have a permanent home in the ether?

• A comment on Conversation: What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

  Feb 24 2011: Limiting to works that may be out of print (but shouldn't be)...
  
  1) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  2) Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel and Daisetz T. Suzuki
  3) Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo by Joe Adamson
  4) anything by Robert Benchley
  5) most anything by Spike Milligan, but especially old Goon Show scripts
  6) The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
  7) The Eudaemonic Pie by Thomas Bass
  8) Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
  9) The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
  10) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  11) Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
  12) Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
  
  and...
  
  13) War Music by Christopher Logue (as well as the other works in the series)