Benjamin Labatut’s __When We Cease to Understand the World__ is an extraordinary blend of history and fiction, a meditation on the bivalent human capacity for discovery and for destruction. I don’t really have a good comparison to offer because I’ve never read anything like it.
one of the best books I ever read. read it twice.
Great book.
One of the best books I read recently. Just incredible.
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That book is so good. Read it in one sitting. Then read it again a week later.
Just read the maniac…… Was eye opening I will take a look at this one..
Red Plenty is sort of similar but for Soviet economics. And Labatut’s own The Maniac, which is maybe even better.
Second that last.
Ordered the Maniac tonight!
I adored that book. Was glued. I can't really explain why.
"Soviet"
It's so good
love the Cajal drawing on the cover!
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Love that book...almost taught it last term
So good!