Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Can you elaborate?
Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
#52It‘s not a book, but Bret Deveraux‘ history blog is so comprehensive I‘ve probably read several books‘ worth of pages on it: https://acoup.blog/ Also, it pointed me to a number of the „real“ books I read this year.
Aside from that, the book that I enjoyed the most was probably Chernow‘s „Washington“.
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#53Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Can you elaborate?
Yeah: I'm not religious, but I really enjoyed his writing style & his angles on things as simple as "rules" or even children's fairy tales. Definitely spurred a lot of re-thinking of my own biases/priors, and anything that has that effect is usually at least fun to read.
I think people can pick up the gist of his rhetoric via secondhand sources (eg. "Chesterton's Fence", or simply the idea that Christianity is good), but I think the actual writing and style of his arguments is like 70% of the magic (and more interesting to me than even the substance he's trying to get across).
I stumbled upon it this year via a random link to a specific page in this online version, and basically just felt compelled to read it start to finish: https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gilbert_K_Chesterton/Orthodo...
Re: Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
#54'The Burnout Society' from 2015. Kinda post-Marxian thing from a Korean-German philosopher named Byung-Chul Han. Takes dead-aim at the culture of positivity and individual achievement. Fantastic.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best book you read in 2020?
#55https://lwgmnz.me/2020/12/19/books-ive-read-this-2020/
Just want to share the books I've read this 2020. My favorite is the Netflix book.
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#56Paul Kalanithi - When Breath becomes Air.
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#57Paul Kalanithi - When Breath becomes Air.
and V. S. Ramachandran - Phantoms in the Brain.
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#58You Look Like a Thing and I Love You. I'm a data scientist and this is a brilliant overview of the promise and peril of real world AI. Doesn't hurt that it's hilarious too.
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#5912 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson