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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War & God by Will Durant
4.0
'Fallen Leaves' is an excellent little book.
Written by intellectual titan Will Durant near the end of his 96-year life, these 22 short chapters pull together the man's thoughts on everything from politics to sex to religion to sports. In the forward, Durant modestly asserts that he has nothing new to teach the reader, as he is merely the product of roughly 10,000 years of Western Civilization: he offers, at best, simply to put his spin on things. That said, Durant's spin is worth reading. Reading 'Fallen Leaves' is like sitting at the knee of your wise great-grandfather.
That said, and Durant is the first to admit it, your wise great-grandfather is a product of his time. Many of his opinions may strike the reader as strange, outdated, or regressive. That's fine, though. The reader needn't agree with everything the writer says to profit from the experience of reading him. Will Durant spent his long and productive life researching, thinking, and writing about the ebb and flow of civilizations. You can profit from spending 5 hours listening to his thoughts.
Written by intellectual titan Will Durant near the end of his 96-year life, these 22 short chapters pull together the man's thoughts on everything from politics to sex to religion to sports. In the forward, Durant modestly asserts that he has nothing new to teach the reader, as he is merely the product of roughly 10,000 years of Western Civilization: he offers, at best, simply to put his spin on things. That said, Durant's spin is worth reading. Reading 'Fallen Leaves' is like sitting at the knee of your wise great-grandfather.
That said, and Durant is the first to admit it, your wise great-grandfather is a product of his time. Many of his opinions may strike the reader as strange, outdated, or regressive. That's fine, though. The reader needn't agree with everything the writer says to profit from the experience of reading him. Will Durant spent his long and productive life researching, thinking, and writing about the ebb and flow of civilizations. You can profit from spending 5 hours listening to his thoughts.