Intellectual Brother: Need Gift For Him (book maybe)?

Question

i have a bro who is in college and hes a intellectual person, he like all those farenheit, brave new world( espcially) ,and 1984 books. Hes pretty cool and all but i want to get a book thats good for him. i was thinking about marcel prousts book but idk. any suggestions are great, thanks :) hes into philosphy stuff too (like diffrent ways of looking at the world i guess etc)

Answer 1

I sound like a broken record in here, but I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "I am a Strange Loop" Complicated math and cutting edge theories about how the mind works, meet personal tragedy and questions of an afterlife. Hard to go wrong with this book. For a slightly less personal odyssey perhaps "Godel, Escher, Bach" by the same author.

Answer 2

Proust's book "In Search of Lost Time" is very good.

Or what about "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?"  http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle...

Or going the intellectual sci-fi route, Douglas Adams wrote a great series which starts with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

I recently read Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and thoroughly enjoyed them.  They're more of a back-to-nature, olden-days look at America.

I hope this helps, good luck!

Answer 3

If he likes George Orwell, then you should also get him Animal Farm (if he hasn't read it). Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut is a perfect combo of both Orwell-style writing and philosophical ideas. Basically, anything along the lines of satire will be a good gift. :D

Answer 4

Ask him about his favorite authors...then find out which books from those authors he doesn't have and which of those he wants and go from there...........