I have only read >50 books cover to cover in my lifetime (24 years). AM I retarded?

I have only read >50 books cover to cover in my lifetime (24 years). AM I retarded?

Nah you're fine. If you see it as an issue just pick up some more books.

thanks user. but I don't know where to start and thus get turned off from reading. I know that I should start with my own interests, obviously, but my interests are pretty far and wide; science, philosophy, esoteric occult BS, porn star diaries, harry potter

I'd be more worried about your need to be validated by a bunch of strangers who watch Ching Chong cartoons on a Malaysian manga board

Start with the Greeks.

it's not really validation that I seek. maybe just a few suggestions for stuff to read. I would assume Veeky Forums would be more favorable than asking /b/ or Veeky Forums or /tv/ no?

I like this meme. Did anything that Diogenes actually write survive antiquity or is it all just passing tales of his antics?

Your interests suck. Start with the Greeks and then delve into philosophy. I'm sure there's a chart somewhere in the sticky.

>Your interests suck
that was meant to be a bit of a joke, sorry you didn't find it amusing

>start with the greeks
I like that as a meme. but if you are suggesting that unironically then just "no"

>philosophy
>chart
I got your back, bruh. Have some recommends!

Are you the same guy who has been spamming this chart all over Veeky Forums? If so, thanks, this is actually a pretty good chart.

You should unironically start with the Greeks.

4 threads is hardly all over Veeky Forums... But you're welcome. Let the chart change your life, user.

Did you make it or what

Nah, it's been around for years - since before I got my double doctorate in philosophy, anyway.

>starting with Nietzsche without having read the Greeks
How to breed a pseudo. You will only end up reading him without understanding him. That's what 95% of people do, they want to "become intellectual", start reading a book or two on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant etc. without understanding anything.

That's like saying "learning to drive a car without first driving a ford model T is a sure way to breed a bad driver." The greeks are obsolete. That's why they don't appear on the chart.

I OP have essentially read to the four corners of that entire chart (minus the german idealists nietzsche, schopenhauer etc.) I have never really studied them but taken some of their works into broad consideration

Some people read much less or don't read at all. A friend of mine openly admits he only read about five books since college, and he's in his mid-thirties now. And those five were either Dan Brown or 50 Shades.

Why though

Is reading uncommon among millennials? Why?

>Is reading uncommon among millennials? Why?
what planet do you live on, user-kun? painfully being added to the milennial shitgroup myself, OP here, has read "like 50 books" in my lifetime. And I would consider myself on the more educated side of things.

Kids these days are playing with ipads in kindergarten. Expect to see paper texts go extinct soon

>tfw use kindle to read

The only time I read form physical copies is if I'm reading large books with many footnotes, like IJ.

And that is sad to hear, user. The good news is that by reading we separate ourselves from the plebs.

I don't know, user. He studied economics, if that explains anything. More interested in making quick material gains than in long term personal improvement, I guess.

>reading for personal improvement

What are you, a poo in the loo shitter who only reads self-help books?

you always seek validation when you communicate with another human

>you can only improve by reading self-help crap recommended by Oprah