Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think?

Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by lilcarlyung on Sunday December 20, 2015 @07:20AM (#10766854)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Free Will by Sam Harris. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by krp on Sunday December 20, 2015 @12:42PM (#10767643)

How did Atlas Shrugged change your way of thinking? I've read The Fountainhead, but felt like Officer Barbrady when I started Atlas Shrugged many years ago. Maybe it's worth another shot?

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Re:Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly aff... by EliRivers on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:40AM (#10771549)

While I'm not the OP, I'll answer anyway. It changed how I thought about Atlas Shrugged; previously, I thought it was some kind of political tract cum morality tale, but after reading it I thought it was a fairy tale and was slightly concerned at how seriously it was taken.

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