Should I read bad books?

>>8658807
You should read well written books. You should read badly written but important books with good, interesting, and insightful arguments (that is, badly written books with good philosophy). You should not read badly written books without good philosophy.

>>8658815
So nothing like John Grisham books or Harry Potter?

>>8658819
If you didn't read Harry Potter when you were a wee tyke, I wouldn't recommend reading it now. It certainly won't cultivate your mind in the shape of the forms of good thought or true beauty.

Your body is what it eats. Your mind is what it reads.

>>8658807
>>8658819
Just read what you want for fuck's sake I cannot believe you people

I read pleb shit here and there, specially after a dense book

No I just read short things in between

>>8658819
John Grisham has some things that are good.

But they are good in sense of pure entertainment, not for any literary reason. It's like a good TV-show in book format.

>>8658807
i don't necessarily know whether a book will strike me as bad until i read it. i thought i'd love bleeding edge but i couldn't stand it. i thought i'd hate pride and prejudice but it was pretty good.


oh, were you suggesting that some books are objectively bad?

>>8658955
Excellent eighth grade insight

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>>8658857
You have no place here.

>>8658807
You have to at least risk it.

>>8658807
>Guy is genuinely immersed in religious dogma and has no escape from it or alternate community
>Finds one

Good for him.