what's the best book you have read?
did it left you satisfied? wanting for more? what was the message?
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Keraunos · 36-40, M
Across the full spectrum of my moods, the book that would probably win this contest the most is Spengler's [i]The Decline of the West: A Morphology of World-History[/i].
Dancingxghost · 36-40, M
@Keraunos sounds like a thesis more than a novel
Keraunos · 36-40, M
@Dancingxghost It is certainly not a novel. You did just say "book", though. I don't really read novels.
Dancingxghost · 36-40, M
@Keraunos well yeah in general, I see I'm glad the
Keraunos · 36-40, M
@Dancingxghost …Wut?
Dancingxghost · 36-40, M
@Keraunos my reply got cut off I was trying to say I'm glad The kinds of books you're interested of are more depth that a simple novel but what was the message overall?
Keraunos · 36-40, M
@Dancingxghost That is not the easiest question to answer, at least not in anyway that would actually give meaningful insights into the book. In my view, the book itself at some 1000 pages is a highly condensed abstract of its own "message", which virtually 100% of people who actually read it seem not to have understood well at all, and which basically requires a doctorate-level knowledge of history to follow, and a decent education in mathematics and philosophy besides.
This probably isn't a very useful answer, but it's a work in comparative history and philosophy of history making a case that civilizations follow very broadly similar and predictable trajectories in all of their aspects over long periods of time.
This probably isn't a very useful answer, but it's a work in comparative history and philosophy of history making a case that civilizations follow very broadly similar and predictable trajectories in all of their aspects over long periods of time.