A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“So he wrote it in this brilliant book called The Grasshopper, which is a parable where he takes Aesop's grasshopper, who plays all summer long.”
Why: It is a brilliant book that uses a parable to show how pushing against obstacles makes life meaningful.
David Epstein, Guest on EconTalkThinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
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Range
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Chuck Klosterman
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Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Why We Sleep
Matthew P. Walker
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