I like mind-bending books. The two in the title are different from each other, but both challenge the mind in different ways. I'm looking for books that give you mental exercise.
It can be fiction or non-fiction. I know about other stuff by Douglas Hofstadter and I'm already aware of Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest.
Currently I'm reading popular math books. Anything like that.
Have you read Labyrinths by Borges? He is kind of an conceptual sci-fi writer, but Danielewski is heavily influenced by him for his stories often have meta elements and layers of things within more layers. He kind of pioneered the genre of conceptual fiction without even realzing it. The book The Tunnel is similar, but the author escapes me at the moment.
Doing a search on conceptual fiction may point you in the right direction, but that term can mean a lot of things.
Just remember, you're not in a position to agree or disagree.
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The Sage is occupied with the unspoken
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
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It can be fiction or non-fiction. I know about other stuff by Douglas Hofstadter and I'm already aware of Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest.
Currently I'm reading popular math books. Anything like that.
Doing a search on conceptual fiction may point you in the right direction, but that term can mean a lot of things.
[Clan Flamingo]
Just remember, you're not in a position to agree or disagree.
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.