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The Plague
Albert Camus
“the most important book that i've read in the last year”
“the most important book that i've read in the last year when i've been forced to be isolated was existential literature it was i decided to reread camous the plague”— Barry Barish
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The Plague
Albert Camus
“that's a great book it's a great book”
“oh yeah that's a great book it's a great book and it's right now to read it it's fine i think that book is about love”— Lex Fridman
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“one of my favorite books of his is the idiot”
“one of my favorite books of his is the idiot and his which is a christ-like figure in there well there's prince miskin”— Barry Barish
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
“i recommend people read old man in the sea much shorter much better”
“in terms of fish i recommend people read old man in the sea much shorter much better it's still a metaphor though”— Lex Fridman
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Dubliners (The Dead)
James Joyce
“only the dead the final story is still rings with me today”
“his short stories the dead i think it's called was very good ... the final story is still rings with me today”— Lex Fridman
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The Ratchet of Curiosity
unknown (inferred)
“there's an interesting book called the ratchet of curiosity you know a ratchet is something that goes in one direction”— Barry Barish
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“it's like uh victor franco has a man search for meaning i have a similar kind of sense of um of the cruelty of human nature”— Lex Fridman
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“i got through ulysses with the help of some cliff notes and so on but uh and so i did ulysses and then finnegan's wake”— Lex Fridman
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