/lit/ - Literature

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>be me
>sperg
>second year undergrad
>take a mandatory ethics course
>prof is a virtue ethicist, big fan of Macintyre
>One day, after class want to ask him for book recommendations on virtue ethics
>He asks if I've already read "After Virtue"
>I haven't, but I know about it so I want him to rec something else
>For some reason lie instead and say I have, but haven't finished it
>He asks how much I've read
>Don't know what to say
>remember watching a video about a certain section of the book, decide to use that
>"Oh I've read a decent amount of it. I'm up to that part with the analogy of the society that forgets how to do science"
>He tells me to read "Whose Justice? Which Rationality?"
>Decide to look up where in the book that part is
>It's the first chapter
>Eventually get around to reading the book
>The first chapter isn't even 5 full pages