[HN Gopher] The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand
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       The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Understand
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-07-03 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | whatnotests2 wrote:
       | Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit, Marx's Capital, Foucault's
       | work, von Neumann and Morgenstern' Game Theory, and the Perl 6
       | Apocalypses and Exegeses from the early 2000's.
        
         | hsavit1 wrote:
         | kant's critique of pure reason
        
           | DrStormyDaniels wrote:
           | Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson
        
             | cellis wrote:
             | "Object-Oriented Programming with Java", when I was 13 (24
             | years ago). Had no idea what the hell that book even meant.
             | My dad got it at a yardsale.
        
         | lapcat wrote:
         | I've read a lot of Marx, and in my opinion it wasn't that
         | difficult to understand. Hegel was worse, and Heidegger was
         | ridiculous.
        
       | pessimizer wrote:
       | Wouldn't it be better just to slow down? They're not books that
       | can't be understood.
        
       | robbiep wrote:
       | When I was 11 I was attracted to the cover of a book that showed
       | some boats sailing on a terraformed Mars.
       | 
       | Reading Blue Mars, the final book in the series, at age 11
       | totally blew my mind. Not only was I already scientifically
       | inclined, so Sax's explanations of the world and descriptions of
       | materials science really expanded my 'scope of the possible'
       | (even if a bunch of the high tech stuff was hand wavy), this book
       | also contained their constitutional convention which rolls on for
       | a whole bunch of pages about the different government systems and
       | some of the impact these power structures can have. At 11 I had
       | no conception of what an anarchist is or socialist or communist
       | was (The wall had fallen 7 years earlier and China was a flea
       | bite) but it populated my 'potential space' of how all these
       | words and concepts I barely understood were related to each
       | other, which made it a hell of a lot easier later in life to have
       | some grounding in which they had been discussed
        
       | jyunwai wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
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