Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why? by bobosha on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:08AM (#15629992)

1. Thinking fast and slow - Kahneman

2. Godel, Escher and Bach - Hofstadter

3. On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why? by throwaway7645 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:28PM (#15632097)

I started reading GEB, and enjoyed hearing about things like Goedel's incompleteness theorem, but Hofstadter is really hard to get through. What did those who persevered get from it?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why? by memorymappings on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:36PM (#15630503)

I second Godel, Escher and Bach.

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