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Yes you’re missing out. There are a lot of bad books out there that waste your time (particularly in self-help). For an example of an excellent non-fiction bo
by fossuser 7y ago
Yes you’re missing out.
There are a lot of bad books out there that waste your time (particularly in self-help).
For an example of an excellent non-fiction book that gives sweeping background to a topic that you can’t get from a blog post read The Emperor of All Maladies (about cancer).
For one about Physics read Our Mathematical Universe.
There’s also Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationality which was a large collection of blog posts put into book form.
For fiction I’d recommend The Nix for a really good novel.
The difference between good and bad in books is huge and part of the difficulty is that it’s hard to know up front if a book will be a waste of your time.