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# This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

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## Customer Reviews

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    Brilliant wit, playful and deep
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022*

I read this book with a friend who'd first met it in childhood and found it formative. When we finished, I felt it would have been formative for me too if I'd known it existed. Smullyan is hilarious -- with the silly, absurdist, and deeply logical humor of, well, a logician or a NERD. Smullyan and I differ on some points (notably, his claim that the only worthwhile art is art that does not require a lot of effort and willpower to create, for instance; I thrill to the idea of the purely and simply passionate artist, for whom art is play, and I envy the ones who exist, and I suspect most of the best artists are like that -- but I personally have to work hard at my art! often it's not enjoyable! it still means more to me than almost anything else, and I get something from it even if it's not easy pleasure), but there were so many aha! moments reading this, and I loved the final long story. The format -- pithy vignettes that exist at various points along the spectrum between "joke" and "parable" -- was extremely engaging and engaged my intellect without taxing my attention span!Smullyan has a fascinating biography too -- a wild educational history, work as logician, philosopher, musician, and stage magician. A real intellectual in the best way.

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    Paradoxical reflections
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2003*

Raymond Smullyan, of whom I am a longtime reader, is probably best known as a creator of fiendishly brilliant logic puzzles. He's also a mathematical logician of high caliber (and a magician, and a pianist, and . . . )But some of his lesser-known works have consisted of philosophical reflections on a wide range of subjects (which nevertheless include a common thread that is devilishly difficult to pin down). There was _The Tao Is Silent_ (for my money, still his best); there was _5000 B.C._ (currently out of print); and just recently he's published _Who Knows?_ (which I recommend too).This is one from 1980, and it's one of few "older" Smullyan works currently available in print. It's not a collection of logic puzzles; it's a collection of essays and short reflections of very much the same "flavor" as _The Tao Is Silent_.As always, Smullyan is a sheer delight to read. In his hands, philosophy becomes what it should always be: a form of intellectual play (and nonetheless "serious" for that, although it surely isn't solemn!).Get this while it's available. And if you like Smullyan, also check out the titles I've already mentioned, as well as his autobiographical _Some Interesting Memories: A Paradoxical Life_.  He's a gifted man as well as pleasant and stimulating intellectual company.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The more you know, the more you realize you don't know anything. Socrates said that, and it's still true!
  

*by R***. on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018*

It really is a budget of living paradoxes, and as I had no expectations, it completely met them, by failing to meet them! (the expectations didn't exist in the first place!) A great book I would recommend to everyone, especially Herr Gropenfuhrer. Thanks, Amazon and the late great Raymond Smullyan!

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