Books!

My problem with books is that 95% are crap.

Even if you have access to a large library it can still take a lot of precious time to find something that connects.

A bit like searching for new music.

There is good stuff out there but you do have to wade through a lot of derivative dross.

Even worse for movies.

I guess almost everyone is chasing the dollar and following the formula.

Thankfully not everyone though.

I will correct you on this one...

I taught reading analysis all my life... 😁😊

If you discover a great book and a deep one, it is like pulling on a thin wire attached to a thin cord which itself is connected to a thicker cable and so on...

In any very great books there are notes and citations from other great books that this genius writer we have discovered will himself present to us by inviting us in his own commented bibliography in footer notes... ( one of the most unrecognized important part of a book is footer notes)

It is the way very young i discovered many hundreds geniuses known or not so well known by myself...

Generally though bad or not very great writer or philosopher dont have great or very original references ...

A tip : look especially not well known author also in any bibliography...

If you discover only ONE great book ,you will discover many other great one...

For sure my observations is more apt to be used in science, philosophy, and other non fictional books...

My problem with books is that 95% are crap.

Even if you have access to a large library it can still take a lot of precious time to find something that connects.

A bit like searching for new music.

There is good stuff out there but you do have to wade through a lot of derivative dross.

Even worse for movies.

I guess almost everyone is chasing the dollar and following the formula.

Thankfully not everyone though.

Books are 95% crap? With all due respect, that might win the prize for the most absurd blanket statement about anything that I've ever heard. 

Here i will defend cd318... 😁😊

If you are about to die, because life is short, almost all books are not so much important... Save very few one....

My greatest endeavour when i was young was discovering illuminating books in any field at all cost...I lived like my life was depending of ONE book i did not know yet....

For example i bought a book in 1975 that sell in french 125 dollars of today...guess the actual inflated price to have an idea of this very high cost for one book only?

In this book reading all my view of the world change... It was a book about Egyptology but the book change in one second all my understanding of the meaning of mathematics...

Then one book can change your life in a way 95 % of the book could never do ...

Reading is very important yes,but picking the RIGHT book is a question of life or death sometimes... Especially if we are young....Old people dont remember that....

We can think sometime that we are predestined to encounter a woman who we love...I think that it is the same for some predestined for us books...

Imagine now that you had never read some important book...Do you feel the huge impact?

If not i am sorry it only means that you have never encounter a life changing book...

Books are 95% crap? With all due respect, that might win the prize for the most absurd blanket statement about anything that I’ve ever heard.

anybody read that David Byrne book yet ?