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Letter to a HostageBook

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Who uses, recommends or left Letter to a Hostage, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Maria Popova
Writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a long-running reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy.
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Letter to a Hostage is his slim memoir recounting that experience, reflecting on its deeper significance, an experience that informed and inspired The Little Prince but also opened up these enormous questions of what does it mean to live?

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Books I’ve Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen (#436)"; in a "Books I've Loved" solo episode, one of the three books they recommend. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2020-06-15·tim.blog ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.