/lit/ - Literature

>Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
>7/10
This was my first Hofstadter book. He has neat ideas and clever ways of explaining it, but sometimes it felt like he was talking about the same thing over and over again after he had made the point. His anecdotes were also off-putting, and at times it felt like he wanted to tell you how smart he was.

>The Four Agreements
>2/10
The worst 'philosophy' book I've ever read. The guy pulls this stuff out of nowhere, acts like it's a universal truth, and his proofs are anecdotes and hypotheticals.

>Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
>2/10
Again, this book's advice is anecdotally based, self-contradictory and factually wrong at times. Without too much effort, I could make equally convincing arguments that recommend the opposite of what this 'ex-navy seal' prescribes.

My father got the last two for me as a gift. I'm slowly learning he has awful taste.

>>15310639
Because the cultures that keep corpses around the house tend to die from bacteria, pests and other wee beasties that like to eat bodies at a slightly higher rate.

Meanwhile, you got civilization A on the other side of the valley that buries their dead away from the village. Which is more hygienic?
Hint: it's the culture that finds or makes an excuse to get rid of their corpses.
>but muh Toraja!
Even then, the dead are hung off a cliffside, and washed and cleaned before they're paraded around.
>This entire thread existing for something so obvious