What is the best book you have ever read?
Since the very beginning of their circulation in Europe, books have represented an incomparable good.
Be it for academic purposes or just leisure, books accompany us in our everyday life.
Let’s celebrate #WorldBookDay with some of the most beautiful libraries in our Union!
@EU_Commission Too many to decide. But I’d love to read anything in that beautiful building. ❣️
The best book I’ve read (yet, in two parts) is The Listening Society by Hanzi Freinacht
https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Society-Metamodern-Politics-Guides-ebook/dp/B074MKQ4LR
@EU_Commission “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell, with “The Overstory” by Richard Powers a close second.
This library seems more modest at first
But...
It's in the Francke foundations in #Halle (Saale), Germany. 1746
The Francke foundations are on the german shortlist for #UNESCO world heritage site. They are an aggregate of pedagogic, #social and educational institutions developed around an orphanage. Today the city hosts the #university named after Marti-Luther.
In febr. 23 Halle won the competition for the #future center #german unification and #european transformation.
@EU_Commission Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut. That book just blew me away.
@EU_Commission Probably a book that was banned in Florida.
Hard to pick the best, and the pleasure of reading them was much greater when I was under 20... but the one I have re-read most times may be _Gods, Graves, Scholars_ by C. W. Ceram. Runners-up are Dostoyevsky's _The Brothers Karamazov_, _Microbe Hunters_ by Paul de Kruif, _The Mysterious Island_ by Jules Verne, _Solaris_ by Stanislaw Lem, and several others that don't occur to me now...
@EU_Commission
I like te idea of Umberto Eco’s antilibrary, where the books you would like to read are more valuable than the ones you’ve read.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
@EU_Commission who wouldn’t love this space?! #Paris #BibliophileLife #BookloverHeaven
@EU_Commission I could never decide on one to save my life. There are so many good ones!
@EU_Commission The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin; Beloved, Toni Morrison; ReAssembling the Social, Bruno Latour. Could never choose just one, these are just the ones that hit me today! Oh wait, Moby Dick, and.....😂
@EU_Commission I think it might be Moby Dick - though I would love it to be a good bit of science fiction - perhaps Project Hail Mary ?
Too many to pick a favorite! Also, the ones I've read more than 5 times is a big list that included Stephen King's The Stand, and books I read a kid--The Hobbit, etc, Shirley Jackson's shorts, O'Henry, Poe, The Old Man and the Sea, The Things They Carried, The Little House books---no judgement, please!!...many of the books I was "forced" to read in school (I always loved them!) and so on and so on!!
@EU_Commission Just ONE book?! Alright... Good Omens by Pratchett and @neilhimself
@EU_Commission for me at this point in time it's Octavia E. Butler – Earthseed
@EU_Commission Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a book I have read many times - each time I find something new
@EU_Commission Cosmos - Carl Sagan.
@EU_Commission war & peace
@EU_Commission The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison!
