Can someone recommend me books that will make me amazed?
I started talking about the worthlessness of philosophy and pseud trends surrounding old boring books years ago and now that I actually read them my theories are being proven correct. I'm impressed that my Veeky Forums philosophising was better than most actual philosophers.
Some books I've read this year
The Republic: Ok but ultimately pointless assertions and arbitrary definitions with zero predictive value
The Politics: Fucking boring and ultimately pointless assertions and arbitrary definitions with zero predictive value
The Brothers Karamazov: Fucking boring half assed story sprinkled with even more half assed conversations about theology, philosophy, and society. Had a 10 year old socialist strawman which was laughable and I'm not even a socialist.
A Hero of our time: It started off great as some sort of parody of hero tales but it becomes a fucking boring romance at the half way point and turns in to the usual boring constipated crap.
Bartleby: New Yorker style fagginess that leaves me hesitating to start moby dick
The Fountainhead: The best book I've read for a long time.
Nicholas Nickleby: Unbelievably boring paid by the word pointless shit. Peak pseud loved trash. There's no way anything could be worse...
Great Expectations:... Holy fuck, it's even worse and more pointless than Nicholas Nickleby.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: I won't criticise the book but it is clear that many non fiction books, including this one, are written as references first and as something to be read, a distant second.
If I even had an OUNCE of backbone I would have given up all these books except the fountainhead, Bartleby, and the republic after 20 pages. Outwardly I am smug with the pseud cred but I am ashamed deep down.
