Twilight, Fifty Shades, or Z-list celebrities autobiographies.
People don’t have to read Tolstoy or Naipaul, but if you’ve only read these type of books, rate them as works of quality, and you’re an adult; I’m afraid It’s not going to work.
Unless they’re really hot and then it’ll work for a little bit, but not for long.
You’ve got 30 days to read it and then you can make a decision, but I’m not sure I’d want to spend the ‘happiest time of the year’ reading it.
It does my head in. I feel like I’m living in a totally different reality to young people who get their language and personal opinions from TikTok and social media. Fuck, the poor things are desperately stressed from plugging themselves into that system.
Brave new world is so well known it’s been used as an ironic idiom for as long as I can remember. It’s definitely as well known in public consciousness as 1984.
Never annotated a book in my life. If I read something that is thought provoking I pause, stare at the wall, think it about until I snap out of it and continue reading. I’ve done my note taking and studying in formal education; sitting there with a pen and a fiction novel would ruin it for me.
Never annotated a book in my life. If I read something that is thought provoking I pause, stare at the wall, think it about until I snap out of it and continue reading. I’ve done my note taking and studying in formal education; sitting there with a pen and a fiction novel would ruin it for me.
Really great books. The writing is so crisp and engaging. I don’t usually don’t go for stories like these, but it was recommended; and I loved it, I read all three in about ten days.
After 7 years of trying perhaps reading books isn’t for you? Have you tried audio books?
A month ago 90% of TikTok users couldn’t point to Isreal or Palastine on a map, and they sure didn’t know fuck all about the history of the conflict.
Remember kids, if your going to keep getting attention on social media you’ve got to go beyond the what everyone else is doing!!
Posting a flag, writing a slogan, thoughts and prayers just doesn’t get the attention like before. You gotta call for a boycott of writers that you never had any intention of ever reading, in fact, until pointed out to you, you had no idea they even wrote, let alone their political leanings.
Gotta get those sweet, sweet, likes!!
I hate this social media activist bullshit, with every fibre of my being: it’s vapid, fake, transitory outrage, solely to signal to others online that you’re ‘one of them’.
This time next year it’ll be ‘stand up for Koalas!’ don’t read books by Dingoes!!!
If I find a spare hour or two, I read. I don’t have time to analyse or input data about the act of reading.
1001 ideas that changed the world is a good start, it gives a good broad strokes view.
What’s going on with this trend of internalised competitive comparison? Where has it come from?
Every few days it’s:
“ I’m not reading as many books as others”
“I’m not reading to target”
“I’m not reading quick enough”
“I’m not reading the right books”
“I’m not reading books that others deem intellectually challenging”
Where is this phenomenon coming from? What’s the cause of this obsession, comparison, competition?
It doesn’t seem healthy to me.
Why do people want listening to audiobooks to be classed as reading?
If I’ve listened to an Audiobook I say ‘ I listened to the audiobook of that’.
When I read a book I say ‘I’ve read that book’, Or when I’ve listened to the Audiobook I say I’ve ‘listened to that book’.
My suspicion is that people who want the definition changed want to be seen in a certain way. That there’s an implication going on. They’re portraying something and want the act to be seen in a certain way.
Perhaps they think Audiobooks are ‘inferior’ as an intellectual exercise, and that reading is more sophisticated? More culturally grandiose? And by changing ‘listened’ to ‘read’ they hope to disguise that fact. And that also works the other way.
But nobody cares. I just have a personal preference for precise use of language. When I read I read, when I listen I listen. Any changes of agreed usage have a driving mechanism that is sometimes hidden.