Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by qingcharles on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:36PM (#41769368)

I'm atheist-agnostic, but I've read the Bible several times and the Qu'ran twice. I think it is important to have at least a passing knowledge of these books, and TBH, as long as you cherry-pick, there is a lot of good life advice in there.

I'm fascinated by both books for their history and authorship, though. Who wrote them? Why did they write them? How did they write them? What parts of their content is backed by historical record? etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by Dove on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:56PM (#41772400)

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy

I know, right? These works are deeply mysterious and not to be dismissed lightly. I remember coming away from the Bhagavad Gita with the same sense of Who? What?? How??? What on earth?

An experience not to be missed, to be sure. The world is full of the bizarre and inexplicable, and would surely be diminished by a need to explain everything.

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