How geeky are you?

Denial · Post by **Denial** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:42 pm

I picked this list up from slashdot...as the "top 20 geek novels"

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

how many of them have you read? how GEEK are you?

I've only read 6/20 :'(

Post by **Captain_Obvious** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:00 am

I'd figure out what the list that you just posted was about, but that would require me to read.

Turbo_asswhup · Post by **Turbo_asswhup** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:07 am

ive seen a couple of the movies from teh list

does that count as geekiness?

Post by **Captain_Obvious** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:08 am

I've read:

PHP and MySQL Web Development - 2nd Edition
The CSS Anthology
Designing Web Usability
JavaScript For The World Wide Web - 4th Edition
PHP For The World Wide Web
PERL And CGI For The World Wide Web - 2nd Edition
The Internet - 4th Edition

I'd say those books are 10 times as geeky as the ones on slashdot's list.

dede · Post by **dede** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:23 am

haven't read any but seen a of the movies

Denial · Post by **Denial** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:53 am

Captain_Obvious wrote:I've read:

PHP and MySQL Web Development - 2nd Edition
The CSS Anthology
Designing Web Usability
JavaScript For The World Wide Web - 4th Edition
PHP For The World Wide Web
PERL And CGI For The World Wide Web - 2nd Edition
The Internet - 4th Edition

I'd say those books are 10 times as geeky as the ones on slashdot's list.

Captain, Captain...top 20 geek NOVELS! :p
nice list though

{qoou}DOS · Post by **{qoou}DOS** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:32 pm

The Watchmen is an awesome series. Alan Moore is a comic book legend. If you havent read it, do it now......

\/.oDK@ · Post by **\/.oDK@** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:33 pm

I got 1/2 way though Dune in the early 90`s

I read alot of art mags tho,does that make me an art fag {geek}

Rickshaw · Post by **Rickshaw** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:33 pm

I think the last novel I actually read was Hatchet and that was about 8 years ago

. I've skimmed other novels for school classes, but those don't really count

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{qoou}DOS · Post by **{qoou}DOS** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:37 pm

\/.oDK@ wrote:I got 1/2 way though Dune in the early 90`s

I read alot of art mags tho,does that make me an art fag {geek}

fangoria and stuff like that are great. DC's Vertigo line is well worth reading as well. nothing says geek more that a 24 year old with an evergrowing comic collection..

does that answer your question fag?