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Why not just read it? You can always give up halfway through if you get bored. I quite enjoyed it, but there's something of the Young Adult Reader about it tha
by tom_ 3y ago
Why not just read it? You can always give up halfway through if you get bored.
I quite enjoyed it, but there's something of the Young Adult Reader about it that sat ill with me. One of those books where (once I'd read it) I found myself slightly wary of anybody that would bring it up. Same goes for Atlas Shrugged, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The dice man book is played too clearly for laughs IMO, but perhaps that one as well.
- adverbly 3y ago> Same goes for Atlas Shrugged, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I've got all three of these on my bookshelf behind me. Seems like we have similar taste! Any other recommendations? One I'd add to the list would be Unsong(can find it free online).
- Vecr 3y agoDo you also have a full printed out copy of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality on that bookshelf? I'm not sure you understood your parent comment's point.
- kragen 3y agothe comment you refer to was just attempting to displace the discussion we have been having about interesting ideas with chimpanzee dominance games and ingroup-outgroup dynamics, and it should have been flagged. the comment you were replying to was refusing to play the chimpanzee dominance game and returning the discussion to the topic of interesting ideas. your comment is again attempting to return the discussion to chimpanzee status displays and ingroup-outgroup dynamics and should also be flagged
- tom_ 3y agoThey can always read the book, as I suggested, and make their own mind up. They could do that with the other books I mentioned as well!