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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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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I love reading John Steinbeck!
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