ITT: books you will never fucking get to read this and War and Peace

Why? Are you deaf and blind double hand amputee?

I've read like 6 books and one of them was W&P; you can do it.

I hold a deep love for GEB. Please give it a chance!!!

>>9138329
I feel sick.

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>tfw too intelligent to understand Godel Escher Bach

>>9138274
Read em both already sempai

I am a strange loop is much better

every chapter of this book is extremely rewarding, that should be enough for you to go out and get it.

>>9138444
Not OP but that book has been sitting on my shelf for months, maybe it's time to give it a chance

>>9139104
You won't regret it anon, it's fucking awesome. Pleasantly accessible but also very compelling.

>>9138274
will i hate this if i'm the kind of person who abhors any application of the incompleteness theorems beyond mathematical logic?

>>9139173
Yes. (and your attitude is shit).

>>9139216
thanks (pseud)

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I missed the critical period for reading Rand when I was a 13 year old who thought he knew better than the world.

>>9138274
Nearly done with GEB, pretty good so far.

>>9139144
I will give it priority, thanks for the encouragement anon

Game of thrones. Does this count?
And the Human Comedy.

I like the idea of a 10+ book story as much as I like the idea of going to prison.

>>9139383
No worries, anon. If you feel up to it, start a thread with whatever food for thought you have at the end of chapters. From memory, there are good leaping off points for discussion in there.

>>9138274

hi, op! i think GEB might be a bit difficult for some people (it was for me as a very thorough biographical effort on not 1 but 3 people, so i couldnt go through it in one fell swoop as i could with hofstadter's metamagical themas, he describes it as: "If GEB is an elaborate fugue on one very complex theme, and MI is a collection of-many variations on a theme, then perhaps MT is a fantasia employing several themes. If it were not for the postscripts, I would say that it was disjointed.")

for me, the cadence and subject matter of MT was more conducive to my reading/thinking style but still was able to, in my opinion, touch upon of many of hoftstadter's ideas/themes that he dealt with GEB and might be a way to segue into his seminal work!

here's a link for MT if you guys are interested: https://mega.nz/#!hdEkHTyZ!n6Ugc-L6iBJvJErFsYWrxnaa5F2ftzuCw49alvlQu_k

>>9139468
shut up stop trying

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>>9139476

:)

>>9139391
>he doesn't like the idea of going to prison

There are a lot of books that I want to read, but there are just random ones that I really really just don't. Siddhartha is one that I just don't really have interest in, along with Steinbeck in general

>>9139988
Siddhartha is like 100 pages

>>9140166
The most I've ever been able to read is 99 :(