If You Are Allowed To Read Only 1 Book In Your Entire Life, What Book Would You Recommend?

如果一辈子只能读一本书，应该读哪本？

获得112.4k好评的回答@Kahill Gibran：

先知》

It does not dictate¹ terms but rather shares perspectives.

这本书不是说教而是分享观点。

The tone of the writing feels humble² to me, yet it hits you hard with the interesting metaphors³ and the stinging anecdotes⁴.

笔调平易近人，却又用有趣的比喻和扣人心弦的奇闻轶事让你印象深刻。

The way it is written provides a great narrative⁵ to connect easily to it as mentioned in the synopsis⁶. Neither it is too dry and phlegmatic⁷, nor too complex and tedious.

这本书的写作手法以很强的叙述性自然简洁地将每个章节连贯起来。既不枯燥无味，又不复杂冗长。

获得107.1k好评的回答@Milan Xavier：

夏洛克福尔摩斯：探案全集》

Sherlock Holmes is an amazing character and his adventures are absolutely fantastic.

夏洛克福尔摩斯是一个厉害的角色，他的历险棒极了。

The show is amazing and they have masterfully brought sherlock into the contemporary world , and there’s no need for me to go on and on about how great Cumberbatch is . But the primal⁸ reason the show is so good is because it’s based on such a fantastic series of books.

电视剧棒极了，它理所当然地流行于当今世界，我也不需要一遍一遍地介绍坎伯巴奇多厉害了。但是电视剧受欢迎的最根本原因还是因为它来源于如此优秀的系列丛书。

获得60.3k好评的回答@Somnath Chatterjee：

哥德尔，埃舍尔，巴赫》

It explores similarity of themes in works of logician⁹ Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Repetition, math and logic¹⁰ have brought different personalities¹¹ in 3 different fields together.

本书探讨了逻辑学家哥德尔、艺术家埃舍尔和作曲家巴赫作品中的共通点。重复、数学和逻辑展示了三个不同领域中的不同特点。

Hofstadter has taken the reader through a ride of logical puzzles, anomalies, paradoxes¹². Even a person not loving science or maths can enjoy sketches¹³ of Escher or music of Bach, and see that “Repetition” is what makes this world beautiful.

霍夫施塔特带领读者经历一系列的逻辑谜题、异象、悖论。即便是一个不喜欢科学或者数学的人都能享受埃舍尔的草图和巴赫的音乐，“重复”让这个世界变得更加美好。