What’s a book you read that you would 100% recommend to anyone who asks? And why?
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Replying to @likeplastic_
The most sacred books are only significant for the right people. The most useful books are only useful for the people that can make use of them. The other books are going to be boring and pointless to many. So there is no book I would recommend to everyone.
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Replying to @Plinz
Okay two questions (1) you don’t believe there’s at least one thing that everyone should know? (2) what is a book you personally found valuable?
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Replying to @likeplastic_
1 Epistemology: the nature of truth 2 Good starting points of valuable book threads: Lem: Star Diaries; Bulgakov: Master and Margarita; Wilson: the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy; Kundera: Unbearable Lightness of Being; Egan: Axiomatic; Coupland: Generation X; Vian: L'ecume des jours
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After the classics (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky etc.) he is one of the few contemporary authors that can deliver meaningful contributions to psychology, eudaimonic philosophy and social reflection.
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