I tried to come up with a good answer to this all day but I can't. Giving any book or a list is almost always gonna overstate it. Every book changes me in at least a little way. And sometimes subtle things snowball in ways often tangential to the book.https://twitter.com/realJessyLin/status/1223675277571571717 …
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This is a VERY small scene in the book, and its not a complicated sentiment to convey. But it had a big effect on me and shaped my views on marriage (and therefore the trajectory of my life) 1000% more than parents or peers.https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1182342847661576192 …
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Anna Karenina had bigger influences on me for other reasons (Levin's conflict of alienation), but its things like this anecdote, usually, that stay with me from books. The author makes to me in some passing comment some remark that remains.
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The more you read one author, the more you realize they are turning around these ideas in their mind, in their works, trying to study them, or just look at them. Most of them, I think, never quite get to the point where they can clearly say the thing it is they want to say.
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So it's not a book per se but the author that influences, and following them book to book, trying to catch the thread, which I almost never catch, I think maybe they almost never catch, the best I can do is stand there and look in the direction with them.
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And I want to find them and ask them, but they're almost always long dead. So instead you have to find people who read the same books, then maybe you don't have the same experience. The best you get is this kind of eye contact, a reassurance, from the people who read what you did
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to actually answer Jessy's question as best I can, There are lots of books changed how I think about the past. Some: The World of Yesterday The Origins of Political Order Seeing Like a State (James Scott) Against the Grain (Scott) Reflections on the Revolution in France
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In general, if you want to learn about the past, biographies and books of letters are often more insightful than 99% of history books. The more you read older correspondence, the more you realize something today is missing, or absent, though it is not easy to articulate what.
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The most clear example of a single book is probably Tamar Adler's book An Everlasting Meal (which I recommended to a few people in the other thread). It fundamentally changed how I think about food day to day. I think
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For fiction, almost all of it changes my view of the world, in some way. I think fiction is much more interesting and more powerful than non-fiction. We are storytelling animals and we forget that at our own peril. (And, I think, we often forget it).
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This is something I’ve realized as well. Are you married?
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Yeah, though I married late(!) or later than I'm giving advice to
I got married at 30, last year. Later than I'd like!
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