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A review by hananr8
We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
5.0
I can’t remember where exactly I knew about this book. I think someone mentioned it in an article but I am not sure. I am just grateful that this book found its way to me.
The book is a collection of essays talking about a number of mundane topics you think you have read everything that’s ever written about them. How wrong you would be. I felt sad reading about friendship and we all now what a positively happy topic friendship is.
It is the kind of books that one can’t simply be finished with. You read it once for content, then you read countless other times to mend your heart. Not because it offers you some priceless wisdom but because it is beautiful and insightful. Reading the book feels like two strangers discussing how wistfully painful it is to be a person in the world.
The book is simply brilliant!
The book is a collection of essays talking about a number of mundane topics you think you have read everything that’s ever written about them. How wrong you would be. I felt sad reading about friendship and we all now what a positively happy topic friendship is.
It is the kind of books that one can’t simply be finished with. You read it once for content, then you read countless other times to mend your heart. Not because it offers you some priceless wisdom but because it is beautiful and insightful. Reading the book feels like two strangers discussing how wistfully painful it is to be a person in the world.
The book is simply brilliant!