It is always nice to talk about a book which has been getting universal over-the-top praise and which actually merits that praise. If the discussion below does not convince you to read this book, chalk it up to the failure of Your Humble Narrator and not the book. You, Dear Reader, want to read this book. But first, what seems like a digression. “What did you think about the book? What was good about it? Bad about it?” Every time I am teaching a Great Books class or having a discussion with … [Read more...] about Lost in Thought