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To: Borges
"Influential" doesn't necessarily mean "good." Cybernetics was seminal but a slog, and anyone other than a philosophy major who can get through Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had the tip of BtD's hat - I've tried.

Moreover, one has to wonder what it is that's being influenced. The Joy Of Sex was something of a watershed in popular culture and a wild best-seller as well, but intellectual it was not. Mein Kampf was certainly influential. So was Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa - the preceding two despite a certain shortage of factual underpinning.

Once again, the list ignored one of the most influential books of my life, but then Naughty Nurses In Bondage never did get any credit as the think-piece it is...

40 posted on 07/27/2004 12:49:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
I would have expected to see the original edition of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty on this list, when you consider that it served as the foundation of modern supply-side economics.
47 posted on 07/27/2004 12:59:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: Billthedrill
Art of War?

The Prince?

Certainly more influential them some mind games.
145 posted on 07/27/2004 7:03:06 PM PDT by Joe_October (Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
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