I'm generally a bit -1 on rigid taxonomies, but one categorisation I definitely wish books were better sorted into is "Is this book better or worse if I take it seriously while I'm reading it?"
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I'm currently reading Finite and Infinite Games and I'd previously have assumed that the answer was "better" but literally everything in it is wrong and people seem to still get a lot out of it so I guess it must have been a "worse" after all.
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Replying to @DRMacIver
I have thought seriously about writing a dissective denunciation of it. It uses a rhetorical trick to seduce unwary readers, and someone needs to warn.
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Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver
I’d love to read this. It’s been a while since I read it and I can’t remember many of the specifics, but I’ve always handwavily associated the idea of getting too engrossed in a finite game with what you might call an eternalistic stance toward purpose.
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Replying to @JakeOrthwein @DRMacIver
Yeah I think the appeal of the book is that he does vaguely wave at a bunch of phenomena that are important and neglected. But his explanations of each of them is totally wrong.
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It's one of the rare books I didn't finish. The dichotomies were often too squishy and levels of abstraction often didn't stack. You made my day with this. The book is adored by so many I respect that I've doubted my comprehension at times.
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Replying to @Grow_Wiser @Meaningness
This is a bit like saying Jurassic Park gets dinosaurs wrong. I think you guys are looking for praxis in a work of poiesis. Carse cannot be dissected like philosophy. He is best experienced as ecstatic poetry and paired with analytical writers on his themes (Arendt pairs well)
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I’ll add that I’m not at all surprised that the two of you in particular had this reaction. Knowing both your intellectual postures I’d be shocked if you *didn’t* react this way 
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