Vacation read in a cozy inn.
Slowly chipping away at this masterpiece. 🇷🇺
Still in the middle of this but am loving it. More than just a book of how-to‘s, it showcases Pinker‘s sharp mind with wit, humor, and examples from a host of fields.
“Literature is humanity‘s ongoing conversation with itself about what it means to be human, to be good, to live with meaning.”
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
I decided Ray Bradbury is probably my favorite science fiction author before I read his most famous work. Finishing Fahrenheit 451 solidified that thought. Though the book lost some steam toward the end for me, the message is timeless and important.