Am I the only one with an increasing anxiety caused by the fact

>>7655113
It is possible that you've read the best books for people of your age, but ten years from now, the chances of you still admiring the same authors are very low.

>>7655122
Last line of this is moronic. Either phrase it better or be less wrong.

>>7655113
I don't feel anxiety at all

>>7655125
It's an ephemeral imageboard, I'm not exactly honing prose for the ages here.

>>7655113
yes, at different ages in your life you will find yourself drawn towards different literature. What is good now you may think rubbish in 20 years, read a book at 20 and 40 and you are reading two different books as you bring a different brain to the table. Philosophy is a good example, at 20 you cannot understand it, it relates to living life as an adult and some retrospect is needed to fully comprehend it. So reading it at 20 gives you ideas but they are based on guesses, reading it at 40 lets you relate it to what has happened to you.

You know you can reread them, right?

>>7655113

No, on the contrary, that would mean those books have already started doing their work on me.

all you do is wait a few years, forget them, and read them basically like new with a few moments of deja vu.

i get anxiety about all the great books i'll never read. i need to stop treating reading like a race to see how many books i can finish as quickly as i can

>>7655113
Until you have read The Tunnel, you have nothing to worry about.