Re:How To: Read more books
by klipt on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:56PM
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From silly to hardcore stuff, like philosophy, sociology and literature critique. From novels to strictly technical books about management.
I was able to fluently speak about postmodernism, and I was a complete imbecile.
If your idea of hardcore is literary critique and postmodernism, perhaps you were reading the wrong (IMHO) books. Have you ever tried "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman", "Godel, Escher and Bach", or anything by say, Terry* Pratchett?
* whose opinion of literary critique is neatly summed up by this quote:
'I save about twenty drafts -- that's ten meg of disc space -- and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped.'
I was able to fluently speak about postmodernism, and I was a complete imbecile.
If your idea of hardcore is literary critique and postmodernism, perhaps you were reading the wrong (IMHO) books. Have you ever tried "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman", "Godel, Escher and Bach", or anything by say, Terry* Pratchett?
* whose opinion of literary critique is neatly summed up by this quote:
'I save about twenty drafts -- that's ten meg of disc space -- and the last one contains all the final alterations. Once it has been printed out and received by the publishers, there's a cry here of 'Tough shit, literary researchers of the future, try getting a proper job!' and the rest are wiped.'