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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
published: 1946, read: 7/17/24
165 pages, genre: History
rating: 7.375/10, normalized: 7.083/10
0.11σ better than average
-0.543σ or -0.617/10 worse than average in History genre
Recommended by: Penny
Boys just want one thing and it's fucking DISGUSTING: not a tensionless state of homeostasis, but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task!
The first part is a Solzhenitsyn-esque tale of suffering in a concentration camp (excellent), and the latter half is a very high variance 7/10 metered by philosophical insight into suffering (my fav) and zany pseudo-science.
Made me realize that Dan Simmons was prolly tipping his hat to Frankl in Carrion Comfort viz a viz his deus ex machina memory weapon, which is much more favorable than King's child sewer orgy
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