/lit/ - Literature

>>5562026
>>>/reddit/

Are you 14?

>>5562026
>because I don't understand it
>because I can't exactly follow it
>because it seemingly more intelligent (based on my intelligence) than anything i've read before
>its the best non fiction

It's like watching Pynchon fans circle jerk about him being the greatest latter 21st century writer.

>>5562051
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>>5562061
i like how the criticism here has regressed into pure inflammatory bickering

>>5562026
>Anybody else read this and mind = blown?
no. I was thoroughly unimpressed. Fugues simply don't work like that.

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>>5562098
What are the best non-fiction books you've read then?

>>5562082
Just because it's inflammatory doesn't mean it's wrong. GEB is only interesting if everything in it is completely new to you. I read it at 13 and was blown away. Then I started rereading it at 18 and realized it's 50% filler, 25% bullshit and 25% poorly explained mathematics.

>>5562113
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

>>5562113
The God Delusion

ITT Babbys first real book. It's ok I guess, that's the way I learned about minimal music and Steve Reich.

>>5562026
It's good, one of the better non-fic books I've read. The Carol-imitation stuff is goofy but fun if you have a tolerance for it, the explanation of Godel's incompleteness theorems is the best in popular literature, and the insight into the natre of consciousness is pretty much unparalleled.

>>5562061
People like Pynchon because he's fun to read, so is GEB

>>5562113
David Graeber's Debt and Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
Michael Lewis's Moneyball and The Big Short
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow
DFW's collections of essays
Naomi Klein's No Logo
Zinn's People's History of the United States
Lewis Hyde's The Gift and Trickster Makes This World

but I like GEB so you weren't really asking me

>>5562113
Anti-Oedipus! What a gamechanger that one is.