Apparently I'm the antithesis of pretention. While my gf loves "Crying of Lot 49" and I enjoy PKD, I have almost none of the books suggested. Rolling through my book shelf I did find "The Prince" but that's played out (as is The Book of Five Rings).
I did find some book called "The Art of Courtly Love" by Andreas Capellanus, which is pretty much the most useless book I've ever seen -- it's life in Queen Eleanor's court between 1170 and 1174, and the opening sentence is:
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We must first consider what love is, whence it gets its name, what the effect of love is, between what persons love may exist, how it may be acquired, retained, increased, decreased, and ended, what are the signs that one's love is returned, and what one of the lovers ought to do if the other is unfaithful.
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Wow.