“Alan Kay 最喜欢哪些书？- Quora” --- What are Alan Kay's favorite books? - Quora
I don’t know how to give a reasonable answer to this question, but I don’t want to ignore the question either.
I have friends, and know of people, who have certainly read more books than I have, but I’ve read enough to be stymied by questions about “favorites”. I have never tried to count them (it wasn’t a competition), but when asked about this a few years ago I estimated “likely not more than 20,000″.
Not a lot when one realizes that the Library of Congress claims more than 23 million books yikes!
In the 80s I was asked by a consulting company for my “top 10 books”, and came up with several hun
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2. Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
3. The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
13. Maps of the Mind by Charles Hampton-Turner
What I actually said was “I’m pretty sure I haven’t read more than 20,000 books”.
I didn’t count them. But I started reading quite early (~ 3 or so) and got fluent pretty quickly, and would be termed “voracious” from age 5 on. I’m 78, so if I read a book a day for 73 years, that would be over 26,000 books. I’m sure I haven’t read that many.
My guess is around 16,000 or so in the 73 years I’ve been reading “at scale”. By the third grade I had been reading quickly and with understanding, but I realized that I’d have to read books again if I didn’t remember them better over the long term.
Trying to