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Day 5 - A book that makes you happy
I can think of a lot of books that have made me happy. Graham Priest's Introduction to Non-Classical Logic made me intellectually giddy, as have a few other texts, articles, etc. Peter Gelderloos' Anarchy Works filled me with hope, not just for the ultimate practicality of anarchism, but by also providing a good and succinct way of explaining it to sceptics. David Whiteland's books made me feel all puzzle-happy.
However, the only book that I can think of that consistently makes me happy is ... oh god do I have to say it? ... Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It's not just that I'm a total nerd who likes well-reasoned linguistic arguments. Fowler was a funny guy, y'all. I don't always agree with him (and some of his arguments are well out of date), but I'm nearly always entertained, and usually end up distracted from whatever it was I'd opened it to look up in the first place.
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I can think of a lot of books that have made me happy. Graham Priest's Introduction to Non-Classical Logic made me intellectually giddy, as have a few other texts, articles, etc. Peter Gelderloos' Anarchy Works filled me with hope, not just for the ultimate practicality of anarchism, but by also providing a good and succinct way of explaining it to sceptics. David Whiteland's books made me feel all puzzle-happy.
However, the only book that I can think of that consistently makes me happy is ... oh god do I have to say it? ... Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It's not just that I'm a total nerd who likes well-reasoned linguistic arguments. Fowler was a funny guy, y'all. I don't always agree with him (and some of his arguments are well out of date), but I'm nearly always entertained, and usually end up distracted from whatever it was I'd opened it to look up in the first place.
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