Ridiculous list; nothing on it more than 40 years old, if that, and many titles from the last decade or so which will have the literary lifespan of mayflies. A dozen, maybe, on my to-read-one-day list--including Bryson, Woolf and Marquez--but *this* list fails the truly-significant-reading test by an enormous margin.
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I've read ten--all of them published some time ago.
Shouldn't there be some math books in a list like that?
I actually read a couple.
Seepy, Bryson's book discusses math history. Fortunately Bryson does not include lousy country music tunes.
Ridiculous list; nothing on it more than 40 years old, if that, and many titles from the last decade or so which will have the literary lifespan of mayflies. A dozen, maybe, on my to-read-one-day list--including Bryson, Woolf and Marquez--but *this* list fails the truly-significant-reading test by an enormous margin.
Yeah, there's some recency bias in this list.
Ptah! Not a single Gold Medal paperback on the list!
Echo! And I will continue to not read most of them 8-)
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