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|title=The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

|sort=Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas, The

|publisher=Gibson Square Books

|date=November 2012

|website=http://www.skepticaldoctor.com/home.html

|summary=Books about books can go either way, depending on whether you've read the books in question. You almost certainly won't have read the books Dalrymple writes about, but fortunately his collection is interesting enough that it's not an issue.

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Having recently read [[Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging only from the title of Theodore Dalrymple's ''The Pleasure of Thinking: a Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas''. Instead of being a book about how people think laterally, as I thought it might be, it turned out to be something rather different, but ultimately equally interesting.