PeoPLe SHouLd ReAd MoRe BoOkS
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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Yeah, people should. Don't make it sound like every book on the market currently is just bullshit self-help books. Go buy a copy of any novel of George Orwell/Stefan Zweig/Franz Kafka, or, The Handmaid's Tale, Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, etc etc etc...
There are so many great world classics on the market that you can probably buy for dirt cheap if you live in the west.
Or better yet, go on Standard E-books and browse a huge, copyright-free collection of old books, of the writers being Shakespeare, Nietzche, Homer, Oscar Wilde and much, much more.
Don't let a post from fucking 4chan of all places to dissuade you from reading.
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Then the books are like: 👆
Ya don’t have to read those books, y’know.
This is how our retail bookstores are except half the items in the shop aren't even books.
Cue “am I out of touch” meme.
OP, it's OK to no longer be up-to-date with the literature scene.
Is TikTok popular because it's actually good? No, it is the children who are wrong.
This greentext is literally just right-wingers convincing each other their already-held stereotypes are true.
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