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Name a nonfiction book so good you wish you could read it again for the first time.
I'll go first.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadfter.
It's a bit of a journey, and a tough read in certain sections. I recommend taking it one chapter at a time and really letting it simmer before moving on to the next. But it will completely change the way you think about your own brain and how it works, and the payoff at the end is ridiculous.
Aaron
@mattly @LadyDragonfly Well my reading list just grew by one. I have heard very few books compared to GEB.
Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)
@LadyDragonfly A Pattern Language By Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein: https://www.patternlanguage.com/
Aaron
@mattly @LadyDragonfly Wait, this is the just intonation guy, isn't it!? I totally didn't connect the two.
When I was in college, I experimented with music and came up with what I thought was my own novel music theory, based on the physics of sound. Years later I discovered that (of course!) it wasn't novel at all, aside from the particular idiosyncrasies of my approach, and that it's called just intonation. If this is the person I think it is, then I've been reading his work and being inspired by it for decades now, and I never even realized he had an actual book to read. (I don't pay a lot of attention to specific authors and tend to gather material sporadically and on the fly. Also, I'm terrible with names.)
I think he has also done a lot of work on the physiology and neurological processes of hearing, as well.
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