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3660979 No.3660979 [Reply] [Original]

anywway
Let's make a lit of GOOD books and BAD books to NEVER READ and give reasons.
i begin
bad:
the price for peace by b. s.

>> No.3660990

>>3660979
Lets not.

>> No.3660995

Give reaons

>> No.3661002
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3661002

>Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

>> No.3661007

In all seriousness, if you never read so much as a single work by a woman, you'll be sparing yourself a lot of wasted time and effort. You also won't miss anything of value that cannot be had in better form elsewhere. Credo experto...

>> No.3661009

Good: Ancient Greeks, edgy Germans, decadent French

Bad: Miscellaneous

>> No.3661012
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3661012

anywway
Let's make a lit of attributes that we can collectively agree upon to help us grade writing as good or bad
i begin
bad:
continuously stringing together clauses using one repeated conjunction.

>> No.3661016

Good: Blood Meridian

Reasons: Fucking ballin' prose, dem aesthetics, The Judge, so forth

>> No.3661020

>>3661007
A Good Man Is Hard To Find

>> No.3661023

Surely reading some bad books can expand your understanding on why some books fail to be good?

>> No.3661024

>>3661016
>mfw plebistani's eat burgaburga near me

>> No.3661025

>>3661024

Why is this book pleb? Please explain

>> No.3661252

>>3661002
For everyone in this board their rivers of thoughts are pretty much always dry I should think anyway

>> No.3661269

>>3661002
Saying this in the time of Schopenhauer is different than saying it now though. If you're not aware of the conclusions that have already been reached in the Enlightenment and during the Romantic era, then any thinking you do is sure to be redundant.

>> No.3661273

>>3661025
because harold bloom likes it and he is pleb obviously hehehehee (wonder if my ruse worked ehehe)