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how do i improve my taste in books/read less normie books?

>> No.18232392

>>18232373
Don’t read any books by anybody who hasn’t been dead for at least 50 years

>> No.18232404

>>18232373
Why would you? Just read what you find interesting.

>> No.18232406

why do you want to read less normie books? are you not enjoying them?

>> No.18232414

>>18232373
Start with the Greeks.

>> No.18232433

>>18232373
I've never touched one of these pop sci books. Do you actually get anything out of them that you couldn't get from a reddit thread?

>> No.18232655

>>18232373
lmao y u be readin that

>> No.18232679

>>18232373
Rule 1. Do not read anything by a woman.

>> No.18233209

>>18232679
Wrong.
Just don't read anything that's mostly read by women.

>> No.18233244

>>18232404
>why would you want to improve yourself? just stick to harry potter, my fren

>> No.18233271

>>18233209
This guy speaks the truth.

>> No.18233303

>>18232373
Filter authors.
Jordan B Peterson is a charlatan, Harari is a dishonest """""""historian""""""" and Peter Singer is the typical Liberal professor.

>> No.18233434

>>18233209
>>18232392
4chan really is the last place for truth

>> No.18233450
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>>18233244
Yes.

>> No.18233455

>>18233434
Ironic that a website started for anime and shitposting has become a bastion of free speech and independent thought

>> No.18233457

>self-help
>self-improvement
>new age
>jordan peterson
>pop science

DUDE STOP. HOLY SHIT.

>> No.18233507

>>18233455
>bastion of free speech and independent thought
This place is just as shit as every other platform. It's not a bastion of anything

>> No.18233585

>>18232655
Crawl back to your straw hut.

>> No.18233588

>>18232679
Wuthering Heights may be the best book I have ever read.

>>18233209
Bang on

>> No.18233871

>>18232373
>jordan peterson
good lord man

>> No.18233891

>>18233507
You're free to voice that opinion though.

>> No.18234123

>>18232373
It's read fewer normie books anon.

>> No.18234129

>>18233303
Jordan Peterson is boiling down joseph campbell and jung into shit retards can understand. Just go to the source and actually read Joseph Campbell, Jung, and Nietzsche. All he does is parrot them.

>> No.18234134

>>18233244
Harry Potter unironically is a good book for learning a second language.

>> No.18235808

>>18234134
?

>> No.18235827

>>18232373
Do you have an interest in sci-fi or fantasy? If so, read some Tolkein or some Gene Wolfe.

Do you have some interest in classical Greece and Rome as well as Mythology? Read Homer or Aeschylus.

Do you just want some good books?
Read Cormac McCarthy or Jack London.

>> No.18235846

>>18235808
it's easy to read
pick up the language you want, find a translation and have fun

>> No.18235873

Unironically the lit top 100 lists