Re:On Unread Books
by floofyfloofer on Saturday November 04, 2017 @08:20PM
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Any book worth reading should be worth reading because of that insight. Which might be a way to say that most words aren't writing, and especially these.
A con isn't "pretentious".
People who have actually read a book can be much more pretentious about it -- in the sense of acting as if this gave them some unique insight over other mere mortals who haven't read it.