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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes, by Paul Strathern. Some years back, I read an insightful telling of the life of Wittgenstein that explained his significance for modern philosophy and, importantly, the differences between his early work and his later work. This was before I was keeping track of the books I'd read, so I don't know what it would have been - probably a chapter in a popular history of philosophy? I cannot find it on my own shelves, and I hoped this brief look at Wittgenstein's thinking would be a reasonable equivalent. It was not. The author focuses on how miserable Wittgenstein was, and how miserable he made others, without much insight into his thinking, except that he supposedly killed the field of philosophy twice. I'm afraid that five minutes with Wikipedia gave me a lot more useful information than this book. I'd have enjoyed its satiric tone a lot more if the author also conveyed why Wittgenstein is considered the most important philosopher of the 20th century.