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    I got sleepy every 4 pages & a light headache while reading. took a long time to finish. didn't learn much. must try again sometime. not looking forward to it
    lawlz. that one is Critique of Pure Reason done barney style. Reading any of Kant's weighty tomes is daunting experience both for content and for stylistic reasons but he actually makes complete sense. not that he's right about everything or even most things but with effort he becomes very clear. he also happens to be an excellent writer.

    most difficult books? well, the aforementioned Critique of Pure Reason. Heidegger, Being and Time (or really anything of his; this one was just the weightiest and densest). Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

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    Didn´t understood half of it
    But I like Sloterdijk, at least he is quite critical.
    Blue eyed honey in the sun
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    This book was my first introduction to proofs, before that, I was more of a plug-and-chug kind of guy. Thankfully, this book not only humbled me, but inspired me to take more discrete math to fulfill my cs degree.

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    Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

    What is Mathematics ? by Courant and Robbins

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    When Lee Child started messing with coauthors it really broke the flow of his writing for me.

    So probably The Sentinel (2020) or No Plan B (2022)
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    Quote Originally Posted by AA_Excellence View Post
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    This book was my first introduction to proofs, before that, I was more of a plug-and-chug kind of guy. Thankfully, this book not only humbled me, but inspired me to take more discrete math to fulfill my cs degree.
    Someone else has read Thomas Hardy. I got my spark towards pure math during the Linear Algebra part at the beginning of Diffy Qs. Linear Algebra was my introduction tp proofs...unless one counts grade school geometry.

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    Textbooks and Philosophy books are one thing. The hardest book I have read was "Finnegans Wake". This was in college when I put effort into being "hardcore" in everything. It took me almost two years and a few analysis books. A few years later, I concluded that the drunken ramblings of a genius were still drunken ramblings.

    There is a reason I refer to myself as a "recovering intellectual"

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    Once I read a big book in which, although I understood all the words, I could not understand the storyline.

    The title of each chapter was a letter of the alphabet and I seem to remember that its title was "dictionary".

    I don't remember the author, but he must have been crazy, because as I told you, it didn't make any sense.

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    Tractatus logico-philosophicus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gixajo View Post
    Once I read a big book in which, although I understood all the words, I could not understand the storyline.

    The title of each chapter was a letter of the alphabet and I seem to remember that its title was "dictionary".
    What language was it in? I got about halfway through the Polish translation. I also think the plot was gratuitously exotic. And there was waaay too much exposition.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Occiput in Starlight View Post
    What language was it in? I got about halfway through the Polish translation. I also think the plot was gratuitously exotic. And there was waaay too much exposition.
    I read it in Spanish, but I read that that strange book has been translated into all the languages ​​of the world.

    That makes me feel very silly, since apparently it must be a very popular book all over the world and I am not able to make any sense of it.

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