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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
I should send this one to my Grandpa. He’s an avid reader (like me) and the person I go to when I need advice.
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I know it’s a generalization, but…
Half of you would reply with “Ayn Rand?”
The other half with “Dostoyevski?”
Another generalization… :)
Since each of us defines “wisdom” and “great books” differently and independent of one another, this stands up pretty well; those which we’d consider books of wisdom may be what another considers trash, but that makes them no less valuable to those who agree with or adhere to the wisdom within.
Religious texts were my first thought.
Title should read: “Eye of the beholder”
Hmm, you got another graph that accounts for Stephen King books, which I like in general but are almost always too long, and JK Rowling books, which I think are just too long?
I dunno: the Œdipus plays are pretty short…
Love this one! Have to agree with David, tho – some of the best written offerings of wisdom are pretty short (and thus more easily understood and applied), and I’ve met some incredibly wise individuals with very few lines marking their faces.
eh, not necessarily. but then, what do i know – i’m just a young’un.
Makes me feel a little better about all the wrinkles. Nah, not really.
Some of the most inspiring books I’ve read are children’s books.
The Giving Tree, and Le Petit Prince come to mind.
I think by ‘lines’, she means good or quotable lines, not just number of…
Oh! I just got it.
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