by Jonathan Lethem
Recommended by Tim Ferriss and Adnan Virk
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in About New York City, Most Recommended Books, and Mystery & Crime.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyns very own selfappointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincents Home for Boys, he works for smalltime mobster Frank Minnas limo service cum detective agency. Life with...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in About New York City, Most Recommended Books, and Mystery & Crime.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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