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I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life (/showthread.php?tid=49730)I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 06-05-2026
Bear in mind I'm 63 and majority of these were required reading
From order of oldest to most recent
Where the red fern grows
Call of the wild
Tom sawyer
Flowers for algernon
A separate peace
Lord of the flies
Romeo and juliet
Catcher in the rye
The crucible
Macbeth
Hamlet
Henry 5th
Pit and pendulum
A tale of two cities
The chocolate war
Fahrenheit 451
Wuthering heights
Brave new world
Read voluntarily:
Do androids dream
Neuromancer
Metamorphosis
Attempted to read/skimmed:
Don quioxte
Dorian gray
1984
Notes from the underground(reminded me of mvp)
Swanns way
Odyssey
Illiad
Beowulf
Fineegans wake
Ulysses
Starship troopers
Faust
I often make references to works I've never read like 1984 or animal farm to bolster my arguments or make allusions to difficult works by joyce and faulkner to pretend like I'm well read. I can do this because I have deep understanding of literature through passive cultural osmosis. I feel like I know more about these works than people who have read them multiple times. I will often notice puns in Shakespeare that websites made by academics get wrong.
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - B00X - 06-05-2026
whats your favourite
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 06-05-2026
The Shakespeare plays. I can still remember stanzas from it from almost 5 decades ago. I remember nothing from the rest
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 06-05-2026
Crucible was pure commie apologism propaganda they let us choose if we wanted to read maya angelo and some Jewish lesbian civil rights slop ie to kill a mockingbird bird or dystopian sci fi i chose the latter with no hesitation lol
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 06-05-2026
You can condense entire high school English course into a week of film adaptations plus teacher commentary and anonymized discussion(to encourage free thought) leaving way more room for older more deserving content like the Greek plays, roman, medieval and Renaissance literature adaptations instead of post WW2 propaganda. I bet kids would be more into learning about the first road rager(oedipus) or mass shooter(Odysseus) than some loser lynch victim
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - bluerose - 06-05-2026
63
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - hitlersblackedwaifu - 06-05-2026
I've read blade runner too, but never watched the movies.
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 06-05-2026
The movie blew the book away TBH lol
Lol at philip k dock claiming the movie was exactly what he envisioned
If they made it like the book it would have looked like a 70s b movie haha
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 22-05-2026
If you have a brain that is adapted to an environment where indecision gets you killed, you cannot sit around and read, you must know truth at the snap of a twig. I have such a brain. I am a throwback to ancient greeks. The greeks have a concept called noesis where you basically know everything without needing to learn. This is something that has been selected out of civilization by increased safety and leisure. If you think about it, humans have everything they need to thrive directly out of the womb, it's all encoded into the dna. Any information outside of dna almost certainly superfluous
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - B00X - 23-05-2026
what book would you recommend for someone who doesn't read
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - Ropium - 23-05-2026
(23-05-2026, 12:29 AM)B00X Wrote: what book would you recommend for someone who doesn't read
I would encourage them not to begin. Id recommend Google search ai or wikipedia instead of they're really curious about something they can know essentially everything about it using wikipedia(use alt right web resources like twitter, Odyssee if it's a controversial subject). Generally you want to use time efficiently and books just aren't effecient end of story.
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - eldajaal1488 - 23-05-2026
(23-05-2026, 09:41 AM)Ropium Wrote: I would encourage them not to begin. Id recommend Google search ai or wikipedia instead of they're really curious about something they can know essentially everything about it using wikipedia(use alt right web resources like twitter, Odyssee if it's a controversial subject). Generally you want to use time efficiently and books just aren't effecient end of story.
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - eldajaal1488 - 23-05-2026
(23-05-2026, 12:29 AM)B00X Wrote: what book would you recommend for someone who doesn't readwhat he said is legit as fuck, read or listen to fiction if u want to for fun
everything else is brainrot or not fun, no point listening to ,,useful'' books when ai exists
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - eldajaal1488 - 23-05-2026
(06-05-2026, 02:03 AM)Ropium Wrote: Brave new worldis this where whole alpha sigma rare type of male came from? i feel like it is
also op was dorian grey good? oscar wilde seems like cool 1 or its david lynch 2.0 and his persona is cool instead of work
RE: I've read less than 2 dozen books my whole life - B00X - 23-05-2026
(23-05-2026, 11:21 AM)eldajaal1488 Wrote: what he said is legit as fuck, read or listen to fiction if u want to for fun
everything else is brainrot or not fun, no point listening to ,,useful'' books when ai exists
chadvice, I will keep it in mind.