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goobster  ·  1003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The King of Elfland's Daughter

GEB was a hard read. I got it the day it came out and slogged through it. Not sure any of it stuck.

But I never managed to get through "The Quark and the Jaguar" by Murray Gell-Mann.





Devac  ·  1003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    But I never managed to get through "The Quark and the Jaguar" by Murray Gell-Mann.

I'll give it a look when I'm done this week, but everyone's difficult book is different. Sapiens didn't take me six hours, the stupid-long 140 pages of Piketty's preface took me a month followed by not giving enough of a shit to finish the book.