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Overview

Book (stylized as BOOK) is the 23rd studio album by New York City-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released on November 12, 2021. It was released as a digital download, a compact disc, a vinyl record, a cassette tape, an 8-track tape, and a hardcover book plus CD. The album was announced in July 2020. It was released along with a 144-page book which features lyrics from 14 of the 15 songs from the album, as well as songs from the accompanying "The Pamphlet" EP and other recent They Might Be Giants albums. The lyrics appear in the form of shape poems with accompanying photos. Book was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. Critical reception

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Notable quotes

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“There is an undeniable correlation between functional illiteracy, poverty, and crime—in fact, eleven states predict their future need for prison cells based on the reading levels of their fourth graders. Books can change lives, yes, and so can the lack of them.”
— Roxanne J. Coady in Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen (eds.) The Book That Changed My Life (2006), , p. xvi.
“You recollect what Hobbes used to say, "that if he had read as many books as other men, he should have been as ignorant as they," clearly implying that reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
— Arthur Helps, quoting his pupil "Ellesmere", Friends in Council (1847), Book II, Chapter I: Reading, p. 276.
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Ch. 3: Competition.
“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”
— Francis Bacon, Proposition touching Amendment of Laws.
“They are for company the best friends, in Doubt's Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time's Prospective the Home Traveller's Ship or Horse, the busie Man's best Recreation, the Opiate of idle Weariness, the Mindes best Ordinary, Nature's Garden and Seed-plot of Immortality.”
— Bulstrode Whitelock, Zootamia.

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