Re: Matt Webb’s Books Baton
Thoughts after reading Matt Webb’s books baton:
- I need to read Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method soon.
- Re: “Last year, somebody told me that people either read [Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateus] or [Douglas] Hoffstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach [Amazon]. Literary types the former, geeks the latter. I’d say I’m a geek, but I read most of GEB and didn’t get much out of it.” I don’t know if I’m a literary type either, but perhaps I would get more out of D&G as well? I started reading “GEB” in the beginning of the 90s, but it was too dense for me at the time.
- I just ordered Foucault’s Pendulum. Suddenly it was available in paperback at one of the Swedish second-hand bookshops hooked up to Bokbörsen.
- I should check out Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised, and David Mitchell’s Number9Dream, and Vonnegut. And I’ve been curious about David Markson’s Reader’s Block ever since reading Matt’s review of it.