The Library · Section 01
This shelf is designed to grow.
Cognition
Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander · 2013
Seven hundred pages arguing that analogy isn't a figure of speech — it's the engine. Every concept you have was built by comparison and gets used by comparison.
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Fiction
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
Recommended alongside The Denial of Death, this too turned out to be a different book than I expected. Stevens, an aging butler, narrates with such restraint that the story lives as much in what he avoids saying as what he says. The audiobook is exceptionally cast, and Ishiguro's prose is the most I've enjoyed since Steinbeck.
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Philosophy
James P. Carse · 1986
TL;DR: There are games you play to win, and games you play to keep playing. That's the whole book, and it's enough. I listened to the audiobook on a flight, narrated by Carse himself, which added a certain charm.
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