/lit/ - Literature

What are the favorite books of people who don't read very many books?

>>9858219
>not fantasizing about sucking Socrates' wisdom out of his dick even before reading platonic dialogues
I must disagree: while I also quickly learned to skip through the "ohhhh socrates ur so smart" lines, I paid more attention to the not-so-subtle indications about MC Socrates dictating the tempo of the conversation. For example when in the Protagoras, Socrates as a character manages to gather every sophist around in the same spot of the scene and then casually dismisses their opinions, especially Prodicos who basically gets told "lmao i don't care" when asked about the meaning of 'fear' and 'fright'; or during the Gorgias where he repeatedly requires his opponents to speak more concisely before spouting entire monologs; or in another dialogue - I can't remember which one - where he threatens to leave the debate if his opponent does not speak the way he wants him to.
This sort of things are about as much enjoyable as the content in itself. There sure is a lot to write about the Idea of Good and Justice, but writing it in some sort of unpretentious play about homosexual Greeks bantering among lads is a well-appreciated bonus.

>>8747281
It is best not to deal with it.
The human machine is a finely calibrated system. You can slowly program some bits out of it, but it would be a lazy unoptimized hack.