"It was about the history of printing, but actually, the book is about the most important books in the Western canon and the impact that they had when they were released. It's such a fascinating book because you really start to understand where the big, fundamental ideas that made Western culture came from."
"Over the course of my life, I've bought, I would say, 60 copies of that book because I always give it to anyone who is about to renovate a house or about to build a house. It's a great read, and you would love it."
"He kept a diary, and this is the most fabulous diary you'll ever read. It's just hilariously funny, deeply moving, and totally confusing-and you realize that Naples was, like, another planet."
Three recommended works are presented: Printing and the Mind of Man, A Pattern Language, and a wartime diary by Norman Lewis. Printing and the Mind of Man is a 1963 British Museum exhibition catalogue that frames the most important books of the Western canon and shows the impact those books had when released. A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander offers a practical vocabulary about habitat design, identifying patterns that make spaces welcoming, fruitful, hostile, or barren, and is frequently given to people renovating or building houses. Norman Lewis's diary from Naples during World War II combines humor, deep emotion, and disorientation, portraying Naples as almost another planet.
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