Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Lysergius - GoodreadsThe Act of Creation begins where this view ceases to be true. Koestler affirms that all creatures have the capacity for creative activity, frequently suppressed by the automatic routines of thought ... Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Frank - GoodreadsBook 1 is a lucid and well developed theory about the nature of creativity in the arts and science. Book 2 is a poorly conceived attempt to extend these ideas into biology and psychology. The analogy ... Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Leslie - GoodreadsGreat treatise on scientific and artistic creativity, and their overlaps. Amazingly, still very relevant today! Read full review
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Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Matthias - GoodreadsOne of the things I greatly appreciate about Brazil and Brazilians is their great sense of humor, which I find to be very different from my home country. That made me want to learn more about humor ... Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - GoodreadsHere is one of my most treasured books. Without fail, I take it off the shelf and plunge right in to its insigntful observations and gentle humor. A valuable resource for the mind of an artist.
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Anne - GoodreadsRead this book in college and found it one of the most inspiring books regarding creativity and the connections to our world. Changed my life. Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Matt - GoodreadsA fascinating and far reaching look at human creativity. In the first book, starting with humor and proceeding through science and art, Koestler looks at the history of human achievement. In book two ... Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Barbelo - GoodreadsEnjoyed this almost as much as TGITM, will definitely read again. Koestler likes to work with analogies a lot, sometimes stretching them too far, IE, the graphs linking humor and convergent realities, which were perhaps funnier than the run of the mill jokes he cites at whim. Read full review
Review: The Act of Creation
User Review - Patrick Nichols - GoodreadsStartlingly lucid account of our most wondrous and irrational faculty: creativity. In the space of a few chapters, Koestler throws light on the question of humor: what makes a joke funny? And why do ... Read full review
