by Nicholson Baker
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Michael Bierut and Daniel Burka
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In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel?first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback?the author of Vox and The Fermata uses a onestory escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one?s shoes, The Mezzanine ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Fiction.
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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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