leximayhew 's review for:

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

4.0

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My review should probably come with the caveat that I actually listened to this as an audiobook, specifically the Amazon Classics version, which likely contributed to my rating because the narration was SUPERB. The book on its own is great, but I think that if I would have read it myself I would have gotten lost in some of the droning on about mathematics and fallen asleep. But instead I got to hear a lovely narration with lots of wonderful sass and inflection that kept me awake - and Im so glad! The premise of this book really is so fascinating, and Im really glad I finally got around to “reading” it, years after a philosophy professor brought it up in a class about phenomenology. It raises a lot of questions about how we know what we know, what we don’t know, and the importance of being open-minded and aware of our subjective knowledge about the world. I can see how this sort of book might not appeal to everyone, but I thought it was just wonderful.