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most books don't feel like they stretch my brain much
some math books, some programming projects, and only a select few philosophy texts
what was the last book that made your brain work hard?

>> No.18004155

critique of pure reason

>> No.18004157

Infinite Jest filtered me

>> No.18004172

>>18004155
actually i take this back, finnegans wake made me wanna stop reading classics. luckily i realized that only pseuds promote the book

>> No.18004183

Topics by Aristotle (don’t waste your time with difficult pseud books like Delueze, Infinite Jest, Finnegan’s Wake, Hegel’s PoS)

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18004189

Call of the Crocodile.

>> No.18004276

>>18004157

is infinite jest considered harder or easier than Gravity's Rainbow?

Not that I really understood much of what was happening in GR plotwise, at a certain point I just enjoyed it because I liked Pynchon's style of writing.