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What is your favourite book? (kbin.social)
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What is your favourite book?

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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tao Te Ching Specifically the DC Lau translation https://terebess.hu/english/tao/lau.html

[–] Hotchpotch@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the poetry focused version by Ursula K. Le Guin:

I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that reader to see why people have loved the book for twenty-five hundred years.

[–] recidivi5t@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh! I'm gonna put that on my list. I have an old Prentice Hall one from 1963.

[–] Hotchpotch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By which translator/reteller?

[–] recidivi5t@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Translated, with introductory essays, comments and notes by Wing-Tsit Chan"