Re: A lifetime of must reads
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Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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I almost bought this book. Wasn't quite sold on it. What did you like best about it?
Also, I am in the middle of reading a book by Carl Sagan called Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. It walks you throgh time from the beginning of the universe to the present brushing over a very wide range of topics (biology, mathematics, sociology, psychology) to give a better understanding of why the world is the way it is today.
So far its a solid book. Carl Sagan is not an expert on all of these topics but it says he did a ton of research and he definitely gives his interpretation of things from a somewhat unique perspective.
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