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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Susan Orlean

4.2 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Alone on the Wall

Alex Honnold and David Roberts

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

Jon Young

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World

Kelly Starrett

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Primitive Technology: A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild (CLARKSON POTTER)

John Plant

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance

Simone Biles, Michelle Burford , et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Running Rewired: Reinvent Your Run for Stability, Strength, and Speed

Jay Dicharry

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement, 2nd Edition

Katy Bowman

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

Michio Kaku, Feodor Chin, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Summer: A Cookbook: Inspired Recipes for Lazy Days and Magical Nights

Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson

5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

A Sense of Where You Are

John McPhee

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers

Arno Ilgner , Jeff Achey, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

Terry Laughlin and John Delves

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

Donald Maass

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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gojomoonDec 1, 2016

Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation also addresses the strains and mutations involved in porting art to a different medium with different demands. The movie self-referentially concerns adapting the book The Orchid Thief into a very-different – but perhaps necessarily-different? – film.

philshemonJuly 6, 2020

I don’t think it explains much in a scientific sense, but with the theme of passion and obsession, I really enjoyed The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief

And this famous quote from that book:

> “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility."

Edit: before the book was the New Yorker article, if you want to “try before you buy” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever

JoeboyonApr 4, 2016

This is by the author of The Orchid Thief, of which Charlie Kaufman's film Adaptation is supposedly an adaptation.

Edit: Jon Ronson on The Shaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtDf82a3pM

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