Title: a dull book with clever marketing
Product review: If you are thinking about buying this book, please understand that this is a long philosophical inquiry into whether we should seek limits to what we know or learn. It is not a catalog of information that was surpressed. It is very learned and mostly uses literary examples to explore this dilemma. It does not examine any of the information on what we currently believe to be limitations on what is knowable (i.e. quantum theory, uncertainty and incompleteness), nor does it go into a broad range of subjects on what information is dangerous to have.It reads like a very well written piece of literary criticism, and I suspect that most people who buy this book will not finish it, nor enjoy it. I was mislead by the title in a book club publication and wish I hadn't purchased it.
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