@curiouswavefn Rhodes, yes. Pinker, not for me; I find him conventionally contrarian and I am in the minority that does not find his style to my taste.
My list would a) change depending on what I'm thinking about and with the passing of years and b) would be eclectic...
My list would a) change depending on what I'm thinking about and with the passing of years and b) would be eclectic...
@curiouswavefn For example. It would likely include Middlemarch, MacLean's A River Runs Through It, Heschel's The Sabbath and Seth's The Golden Gate, all of which had a real impact at the point when I read them. Shroedinger's What Is Life would be on the list at least some of the time...
@curiouswavefn Guy Davenport's The Geography of the Imagination and Kenner's The Pound Era make me think every time I dig into them. Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell opened my eyes to ways of seeing and writing; so did Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek doesn't...
@curiouswavefn thrill me as much now when I take another look at it, but when I was 24 and reading it for the first time, it mattered. I do not know love conventional popular cosmology, but a couple by Tim Ferris back then? Wow.
And so on. I don't really have a list, I guess....
And so on. I don't really have a list, I guess....
@curiouswavefn I have a long conversation with a lot of books, and I try to make sure my books take part in that exchange.
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