The last book I fell in love with was probably Roberto Bolaño's novel "Nazi Literature in the Americas". It's hard to sum up, but it's a fascinating meditation on art and ideology that's also moving and hilarious, in the form of a fake biographical dictionary of mostly failed nazi-sympathizing authors. I think it strikes pretty much the perfect balance between the fun, impersonal play of experimental literature and the sharpness and emotion of socially observant fiction.
I did read your rules and understand them, but in solidarity with everyone who didn't, I'll also post my opinion on Yudkowsky: I think that the majority of the Sequences is light-years better than other "guides to being Rational" that people who read it would otherwise be reading, and Yudkowsky is a great writer of whom I am a fan. He is also (like some philosophers of note), very arrogant and prone to crankishness. What's worse, he tends to needlessly embarass himself and others with his public statements. So worth reading but not worth following, I guess?
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Date: 2018-12-06 12:55 am (UTC)I did read your rules and understand them, but in solidarity with everyone who didn't, I'll also post my opinion on Yudkowsky: I think that the majority of the Sequences is light-years better than other "guides to being Rational" that people who read it would otherwise be reading, and Yudkowsky is a great writer of whom I am a fan. He is also (like some philosophers of note), very arrogant and prone to crankishness. What's worse, he tends to needlessly embarass himself and others with his public statements. So worth reading but not worth following, I guess?