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Excellent quote: "If I'm reading a truly, actively bad book, I'll throw it out," he says. His wife will protest, but he points out that he's doing a public serv
by TheSOB88 17y ago
Excellent quote: "If I'm reading a truly, actively bad book, I'll throw it out," he says. His wife will protest, but he points out that he's doing a public service: "If I don't throw it out, someone else might read it."
I think people should do stuff like this more often. Like YAGNI with real-life objects. You just ain't gonna need most of the crap in your house.
- mahmud 17y ago"Bad" in what sense and according to whom? Chernyshevsky's "What's To Be Done" is easily one of the worst pieces of literature in history, but that didn't stop Lenin from being inspired by it. The book's major claim to fame is the infamous list of influential people who loved it, and not in that ironic "so bad it's good" way either.
- TheSOB88 17y agoAccording to the reader. People seem to feel guilty if they don't want to read some book. They shouldn't.