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I'm all about Flatland, which is technically a novella. It's a great allegory, math lesson, and criticism all wrapped into one. ... most highly recommended, and which would you most wish your teenagers to read:
I would second To Kill a Mockingbird.
Flatland: A romance of Many Dimensions
Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas
... had a thought involving Containers and books with introductions by different authors.
Assume you have three copies of Flatland. One is a first edition, another has an intro by A.K. Dewdney, and a third has an intro by Ian Stewart. They are all, effectively, Flatland, but when you get down ... A Mathematician's Apology is a great place to start. An easy read. Its short. Highly recommended.
I suggest Flatland too.
And it you like to read about mathematicians, I suggest Fermat's Enigma. ... Garrett P. Serviss (1900)
A Honeymoon In Space by George Griffith (1900)
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1888)
Flatland by Edwin Abbot (1884)
After London by Richard Jefferies (1884)
Seriously there are 100s - most of them are not very good and haven't stood the test of time. A quick one at 80 pages..
54- Flatland by Edwin Abbott ?/5
I'm not actually sure I can give a rating to this at the moment... a satire on the Victorian class structure through the principles of geometery (more interesting than it sounds, honestly)-a square inhabiting a 2D world finds ... ... Bach
511 Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences
512 Linear Algebra and Its Applications
513 Flatland
515 Elementary Differential Equations
519 Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
520 Cosmos
523 Galactic Astronomy
526 Longitude: The True Sto ... I will cast another vote for Flatland. If the list is for new readers, at least one out of every hundred new readers must have a real interest in math.
Also another vote for Man in the High Castle, assuming we're not excluding alternate history. That book was one of the first alternate ... ... and turning points.
Rating 4/5
C6. The Stand: Captain Trips #5 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Rating 5/5
26. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) by Edwin A. Abbott
A fascinating allegory on Victorian society told with two and three dimensional ... ...
11. Dune by Frank Herbert
12. Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
13. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
14. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
15. 1984 by George Orwell
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Time and Again by Jack Finney
18. We by Eugene Zami ... ... tomanci
3. The Giver
5. Charlotte Sometimes
6. Many Waters
7. Tuck Everlasting
8. Flowers for Algernon
9. Flatland
10. Playing Beatie Bow
They're mostly children's books, since those are the once that had the most impact on me and that I've reread the most, though not ... ... the characters only eat flat food, that is food that can be delivered from under a closed door. Any relationship with the Flatland book?
#112 - Yes, of the English language books Ambassador of the Shadows is the first one.
FLATLAND!! My good golly Moses, I didn't know anyone else except Tim knew that book!! My beloved math-nerd/genius husband loved it, and was always recommending it. I read it (in self-defense) and understood it, to my everlasting amazement. ... my noms, then:
The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Monalisa Overdrive, by William Gibson
Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I, edited by Robert Silverberg (ahhhh... this violates rule #6, does ... I haven't read Many Dimensions but I have read 3rd Degree ... those ideas with social speculation. I agree, the Time Machine IS a critique of capitalism..but (this WAS the era of Flatland) it also invokes the idea of time as the 4th dimension, biological evolution etc). The Victorians were really the first to get into making "science" available to ... Well, there's Flatland.
And the BookWorld in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. ... Julius Caeser, The Odyssey, The House on Mango Street, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Catcher in the Rye, Flatland, Candide, or, Optimism, Henry V, The Stranger, The Trial, The Prince, Death in Venice, The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn, The Pilgrim's Progress ... Best book for aspiring snobs:
Flatland (the pop-up version) ... Hofstadter - I started this when it first came out, and I couldn't even finish the 1st chapter. I will try again
3.2 Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
3.3 The Calculus Wars by Jason Socrates Bardi
3.4 Man is the Measure by Reuben Abel
3.5 ...
2. Phantoms in the Brain—V.S. Ramachandran
3. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid—Douglas Hofstadter
4. Flatland—Edwin A. Abbot
... see what editions are in print and available on Amazon a couple of times a year. One is Looking Backward and the other is Flatland. Both books are longtime survivors which always makes me happy. I may rouse up another copy of Looking Backwardin 2009 because I always ending up giving my ... Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 22. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. A really curious little satire that I enjoyed, despite the feeling that I wasn't really getting it all ... Situations
Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!
My Name Is Red
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Signet Classics)
Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)
Passage to India
The Cherry Orchard
The Glass Menagerie
The Malt ... ... but I like holding my books.)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson
Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
Legends II: Shadows, Gods and Demons, edited by Robert Silverberg
Also, a friend lent me his copy of A Clockwo ... ... abstract, and utopian: What would the world be like if it were completely different? See looking backward or flatland for similar types of thinking.
However, L2 is more powerful stuff, because it is immediate and actionable. Given the current situation, with banks collapsing ... ... I got the two-in-one edition that includes Sphereland by Dionys Burger. I'm not even sure that color illustrations of Flatland would be all that helpful anyway, considering that the illustrations are all line drawings.
EDIT: Though I notice that there's a book tie-in to "Flatland: The Mo ... Coming at this from the other direction, I gave my copy of Edwin Abbott's Flatland away to someone a few years ago and then, not too long ago, needed to get another copy. I just couldn't find it anywhere looking in the Mathematics sections of bookstores, and then finally, in desperation, I took a ... ... reincarnation. Probably because I really don't concieve of time as actually passing. Much of my cosmology was informed by Flatland, I guess. I secrectly suspect that this life is simply a way for the universe to experience itself linearly--kind of a cosmic thrillride of time sense. In that ... ... Sector General)
10. A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
I also like to reread:
11. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbotf
12. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
13. Earth by David Brin
14. Kiln People by David Brin
15. Spacial Delivery by Gordon R. Di ... Saturday by Ian McEwan, I like the books I read McEwan a lot
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, a re-read of a book I love
Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott Finished a totally wacky little tome today
Spaceland by Rudy Rucker. it's an "update" of Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland, which i loved when i read it in college. This book, however, is very contemporary (well, up to the time of the OLde Y2K scare). i'm still processing the darn thing, ... #17- I forgot Flatland. I even have The Annotated Flatland with introduction and notes by Ian Stewart. I wonder if Flatland has ever gone out of print since it came out in 1884. ...
In order of author surname (I couldn't bear to figure out which books I liked better outside my top three favourites.)
Flatland: A romance of Many Dimensions – Edwin A. Abbott
Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
2001: A Space Odyssey – Ar ... I'll second Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, MerryMary. Which reminds me, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster is a lovely little math story. There's also a video version of it. Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions. Seriously. This is a great little adventure/allegory about one-, two-, an three-dimensional worlds written in such a way that even I can understand. ... of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
18. Howl's Moving Castle
19. Chaos: Making a New Science
20. Flatland
21. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
22. Stardust
23. Neverwhere
24. Smoke and Mirrors
25 ... Flatland by Edwin Abbot
Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell
Building Big by David Macaulay
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
... Murakami
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Sexing the Cherry and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ... teacher, and I loved it back then. Happily, I loved it just as much the second time around, a decade+ later.
#24: Flatland by Edwin Abbott. What a strange and adventurous novel, especially for its time. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the first half of the book, with its ... ... after turning in a project. First read George Orwell's Animal Farm (loved it in middle school, love it now), then Flatland by Edwin Abbott, then The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. I've just started Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (which seemed like a fitting read to counteract ... ...
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
22. Les Misérables
23. The Oresteia
24. Flowers for Algernon
25. Flatland ... Strand today and bought too many books, as usual.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (It had a TARDIS on the ... ... reporters. Entertaining in its own right--with some biting commentary--but quite different than "The Winter Queen."
3. Flatland by Edwin Abbott
More a thought experiment than a proper novel, much of "Flatland" is taken up with descriptions of life in a two-dimensional world. There ... ... Life of Pi Yann Martel
The Tenth Circle
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Finite and Infinite Games James Carse
Flatland Edwin A. Abbot
I’m taking the 888 Challenge: "Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008."
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Edited to move remainder of post to LT's 888 Challenge group.
... Eyre
Walden (parts of)
Secret Life of Bees
Lovely Bones
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Flatland
Washington Square
The Red Badge of Courage
The Crucible
The Awakening
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Glass ... ... fstadter
o 511 General principles
o 512 Algebra & number theory
o 513 Arithmetic - Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot
o 514 Topology - Fractals : the patterns of chaos : a new aesthetic of art, science, and ... ... by Ursula K. LeGuin
Lost Horizon
Lord Valentine's Castle
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Cyrano de Bergerac
Flatland
Grrr...That's ten already. I want you all to know this is killing me. If I had time I would divide them into categories (children's, YA, adult fiction) so that I ... Ooh, I love Flatland! I may have to pick up VAS. ... interesting look at eugenics and what things might become if policies get out of hand and no one speaks up. I've not read Flatland, by Edwin Abbott, but I'm thinking that I probably should. From my list (in addition to Flatland):
330 Economics: The Choice: a fable of free trade and protectionism
791 Public performances: The piano ...
236 Eschatology: The Great Divorce
248 Christian experience, practice, life: The Screwtape Letters
513 Arithmetic: Flatland
530 Physics: Flatland/Sphereland
793 Indoor games & amusements: The Man Who Counted ... just went and requested this on bookmooch based on that description! (Trying not to think what that might say about me.)
Flatland is very short and readable and humorous, and a bit different from your typical 19th century novel I think. ...
510 Mathematics – Innumeracy
511 General principles – Set Theory, Logic, and their Limitations
513 Arithmetic – Flatland
599 Mammalia (Mammals) – Genes, Peoples, and Languages
613 Promotion of health – Light on Yoga
652 Processes of written communication – The Code Boo ... ... from the Early History of Mathematics
511 General Principles: Four Colors Suffice by Robin Wilson
513 Arithmetic: Flatland
523 Specific Celestial Bodies & Phenomena: The Copernican Revolution
526 Mathematical Geography: Longitude
530 Physics: About Time
576 Genetics and Evolut ... Flatland : a romance of many dimensions is owned by 1,752, The elegant Universe by 2,019. So, the number of people tagging them read or unread is under 5%. 190,366 have tagged their books "unread" of the unique 22,146,533 in LT; while 213,960 have tagged their books "read." So, about 19% of ... ... the Dog in the Night-Time has a small mathematics tag because it hasn't been tagged mathematics very many times, whereas Flatland has a large mathematics tag.
And then boldness/non-boldness, I think, is determined by how much the tag is to a applies to a particular work in comparison to ... Tao Te Ching & Godel, Escher, Bach definitely.
One I haven't seen mentioned is Flatland. Really informs my thinking about just about everything, and it's almost 30 years since I read it. Jeeze, time to read it again, huh! ... Wynne Jones, and Robin Hobb. I also have a lot of favourite books by authors who just wrote one really good thing: Flatland, Le Petit Prince, The Princess Bride, Flowers for Algernon....
Tamora Pierce and Diana Wynne Jones are childhood favourites; I've read some of ... ... another that I've read more than half of. I'm not really enjoying it but should finish it anyway.
The Book Nobody Read
Flatland/Sphereland - two books in one; Flatland is one of my all-time favourites but I've never read Sphereland
Classics books - I figure that since I'm ... ... books for the journey:
What's the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations about Race by Bever ...
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