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What is a nonfiction book you would characterize as beautiful?

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>>19787307
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

>> No.19788064

Walden
Zhuangzi

>> No.19788099

>>19787342
That book bummed the fuck out of me, mainly because the best way to learn about the brain is by observing people with damaged or abnormal brains. I got through about half the book before I decided it was about as much fun as hanging out in an institution for incurables and dropped it.

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>>19787307
The Bible, Difference and Repetition and Spinoza's Ethics

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>> No.19788751

>>19788099
>as much fun as hanging out in an institution for incurables and dropped it
sounds more like awakenings, also by sacks; to me anthropologist on mars is more about the autists who made the world a better place