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> I don't know if this is true, but I do struggle with finding recent interesting books. Sturgeons law definitely applies. Reading (or watching, or whatever)
by ska 5y ago
> I don't know if this is true, but I do struggle with finding recent interesting books.
Sturgeons law definitely applies.
Reading (or watching, or whatever) only older stuff is basically using survivor-ship as a curation filter. It's a viable approach, although will definitely miss good stuff.
If you don't do this, you need some other way to discard most of the crap.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoAbsolutely. Popularity and taste rarely coincide because most people have no taste. (Me covets a The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell first edition.) The other thing is to read books that are important, not just ones that are preferred or pleasant for a wider perspective: - Mein Kampf - Capital (Das Kapital) - Technological Slavery - The International Jew - A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-6. - (ones by ideological opposites) - America: The Farewell Tour - Sorrows of Empire Also, people who don't own any books, paper or Kindle... that's a big "nope."