Gatsby is bloody brilliant when you are 30, a total waste in high school.
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Same. Read it when I was 20, nothing. When I was mid-30s: holy cow, this is amazing!
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Saul Bellow's Herzog. Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. James Joyce's Ulysses.
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wish I had read McLuhan early in college, maybe even late HS...
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Too late: The Now Habit (would've saved me so much grief) Too early: Plato's Republic (bored me as an intellectual-wannabe child, fascinated me as a conscript) Right time: Power of Now (I was just exhausted enough to give it a chance)
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Too early: Fifth Business, Robertson Davies Too late: Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien On Time: Robot & Foundation Series, Isaak Asimov
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Crime and Punishment / Lonesome Dove / Ceremony (fiction)
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Early: The Fountainhead Late: Spinoza's ethics Right time: Issacson's Franklin bio
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Too early: Will Durant, actually. Emerson. Tao. Godel Escher. Just right: Herbert's Dune books 3-6. Reality Hunger. Gitanjali. Diaspora (Egan). Sociology of Philosophies. Thomas Kuhn. Justus Buchler. Bachelard. ZAMM. Most around age 25-32. Too late: Joseph Campbell. Borges.
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Funny. My early was Dune 4 (around 15, totally missed the point) and my late was GEB in my early 30s.
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