Alaskanopolis
WKR
"Triggered" by the great Donald Trump Jr.
"Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump Sr.
"Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku.
"Art of the Deal" by Donald Trump Sr.
"Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku.
Team bad decision by Travis greenwood
I came here to see what people read, I guess. I don’t think I have ever read a book. The closest I have come is clan of the cave bear, and I don’t think I made it half way. Oh I do remember reading death in the long grass. And I believe that is truly the only book I started and finished.
I read a book or two in high school and didn't read a single book through college. I hated it. Now that I read my own topics at my own pace - and there is not test after it, I really enjoy it. It took a decade after college to get me to willingly open a book.
A lot of this is because you have to read what is considered the “classics” in school. Most written decades or centuries ago in another time for a different set of people and they often don’t resonate well with today’s culture. Some are just shitty books that somehow have become great works of literature; for example Moby Dick was a monumental disaster when published, but a movie came out and made the story popular and unfortunately is taught in many schools, while the book is still horrific. Same for Shakespeare, no body understands Victorian English any more and it’s only good for Jeopardy but it’s all crammed down our throats.
A lot of this is because you have to read what is considered the “classics” in school. Most written decades or centuries ago in another time for a different set of people and they often don’t resonate well with today’s culture. Some are just shitty books that somehow have become great works of literature; for example Moby Dick was a monumental disaster when published, but a movie came out and made the story popular and unfortunately is taught in many schools, while the book is still horrific. Same for Shakespeare, no body understands Victorian English any more and it’s only good for Jeopardy but it’s all crammed down our throats.