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Old 05-28-2006, 05:42 PM
Jman28 Jman28 is offline
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Default Re: Books that made you look at things differently

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Just a brilliant book that made me look at the world, and what it means to be alive in it, differently.

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Damn. I guess I'm gonna have to read this. I bought it half a year ago, but it's so freakin big.

Mine is:

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

It's a fiction, but it reads kind of like a philosophy lecture. The main argument made in the story is based on some false premises, because the book is fictional, but it does a great job of making you rethink things that you take for granted.
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