A great number of the questions are akin to Ring of Gyges situations, where someone is given a dilemma or problem and has to suss it out. This illustrated volume features selections from the esteemed Chilean poet’s series of 316 questions with no set answers, but with a universe of possible responses. I can see groups of people sitting around looking at this book maybe at a party and discussing eachother's answers. It's a great conversation starter and gets everyone thinking about how they feel about life, values, problems, etc.

The book is large and contains playful fold-out pages and whimsical illustrations that help bring readers into the imaginative world of the questions… In illustrating these questions, Valdivia didn't want to hint at any answers. They're questions that probe your values and beliefs, hopping between hypotheticals and your life observations, from finance to piety to pure implausibility.And remember that beyond helping you figure out who you are, properly crafted questions can help you immediately change your state!

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer? I tried this with my older brother and his wife several years back but they were too close minded and guarded to be honest. A book becomes the Book, fragments of the law that are in some way unified, where past and present, the visionary, and the common place, encounter each other.Man defines himself in the world against all that threatens his existence- death, the infinite, silence, that is, God, his primal opponent. And of course the meaning of it all— If you were handed an envelope with the date of your death inside, and you knew you could do nothing to alter your fate, would you look? The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges—and even changes—the way you view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own.

In fact, part of the magic of Neruda's questions is not that the reader finds an answer but rather finds even more questions.Many are stupefyingly inane, or have answers that were very straightforward and easily justifiable to me. I see many don't agree with me but I looked at questions that made strange assumptions or gave an incomplete premise, or an absurd premise and mostly shook my head. We were all teens and we wanted something to entertain our time (no portable DVD players or cell phones back then) so I bought this book. Which is more important: actual experiences , or the memories that remain when the experiences are over? If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone?