How can I trust that the great books are worthwhile if the academia-media-publishing industrial complex is fucking vacuous?

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Anonymous Wed Nov 16 05:59:14 2016 No.8729406 [Reply] [Original]

How can I trust that the great books are worthwhile if the academia-media-publishing industrial complex is fucking vacuous?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 16 06:12:30 2016 No.8729422 >>8729406 Stop being a pretentious prick?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 16 09:10:41 2016 No.8729675 >>8729406 even not all of the classics are good, there are many factors as to way people will call X book good but ultimately you must use your own judgment

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 16 17:38:08 2016 No.8731171 "Trust"? "Worthwhile"? Oh, is your precious time so valuable that you can't risk reading something that isn't the very very best and just as special as you? Just go read something, or don't.

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