Bill Gates has shared hundreds of his favorite reads, but there’s one in particular that has been given the ultimate seal of approval: “The Rosie Project,” by GraemeSimsion. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Gates was introduced to the book by his wife Melinda, who "kept stopping to recite parts of it out loud" to him, he said in a 2016. "Eventually, I decided to take a look. I started it one night at 11:00 p.m. and stayed up with it until 3:00 a.m."
Simsion's debut novel centers around Don Tillman, a geneticist who may or may not have Asperger's Syndrome. Determined to find a suitable wife, he creates a double-sided, 16-page questionnaire to help complete the mission.philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder "The book is less about genetics or thinking too logically or the main character's hilarious journey than it is about getting inside the mind and heart of someone a lot of people see as odd — and discovering that he isn't really that different from anybody else," Gates wrote in
. "It's an extraordinarily clever, funny, and moving book about being comfortable with who you are and what you're good at."
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