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Doomscrolling appears to have totally replaced reading on the commute. I’m not sure it’s that much more virtuous to read a few Dan Browns or John Grisham per y
by benjaminwootton 2y ago
Doomscrolling appears to have totally replaced reading on the commute.
I’m not sure it’s that much more virtuous to read a few Dan Browns or John Grisham per year though?
- josefrichter 2y agoTons of people listen to podcasts, that's a massive genre. That's probably better than doom-scrolling, although most podcasts are fluff anyway. It's often just entertainment masked as something intellectual.
- Ekaros 2y agoOther place I can think is in bed before sleep. I would guess that lot of reading happened at that time before too. But ease of smartphones replaced it.
- Aeolun 2y agoDan Brown far beats doomscrolling. No idea who Grisham is.
- SwiftyBug 2y agoDefinitely. It's not like prime literature, but it's good, entertaining reads. I was 12 when I read his books and I got in contact with so many concepts previously unknown. Things about art, the Catholic church, places in Europe, the CERN, the LHC. The first contact I had with the concept of cryptography was reading Digital Fortress. The first time I heard about the NSA was reading Digital Fortress. It definitely expanded my view of the world.
- chneu 2y agoI'll see your 32 James Patterson books and raise you 11 Alastair Reynolds books.