physics
I used to say "Books are for those, who are too lazy to think for themselves". In my younger years I read through a number of books, and none of them was to the least thought provoking or even enjoyable. So it took me until I was 18, to finally find a book that wasn't a bore to me. "The Physicists" by Dürrenmatt.
It's about a guy, who believes he is Albert Einstein, and lives in a mental sanatorium together with two other guys who believe they are famous physicists. However, they are separated from the other patients, as they are very dangerous. In fact, they even killed a nurse. In the course of the book, it turns out none of them ist crazy. The first one made a discovery so dangerous, he believed he only can protect it, by making everyone else believe he has been out of his mind for some time, and what he had been working on is nothing but nonsense. The other two however are opposing spies, who try to get to this discovery. Naturally everyone is deceiving everybody, and even the reader ist often led into wrong conceptions.

Today i study physics, learned to question wether what is possible is also desirable, and read a lot. Through this and Sartres "La Nausée" I eventually even got into philosophy, but that's another story.
(Boor, Mon 19 May 2008, 11:56, 3 replies)

Sounds nteresting,
I might give it a read.
Is it a decent translation from the origional, or is it worth reading in the German?
( Cawl, Mon 19 May 2008, 12:00, closed)

*Books are for those, who are too lazy to think for themselves*
What a load of piffle!
( girlinthehole, Mon 19 May 2008, 13:55, closed)

load of piffle (part 2)
I don't know about the translation. I read it in german. Sorry.

And hey, of course I was talking nonsense. Everybody does when he is young. And today, oh so little has changed...
(Boor, Tue 20 May 2008, 13:07, closed)