How do I bother to read all those big boring pretentious books

>>9114068
Find the good ones, duh.

Just don't bother, brainlet.

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Kill yourself

>dostoevsky
>boring
he has at least 2 very short, easy and enjoyable works which are also considered his most popular and most Dostoevsky dostoevsky works respectively.

> and almost anything written before 1900.
AKA economics before Irving Fisher and John Keynes made it all a big math equation

But no, seriously, J.S. Mill and Ricardo were the shit.

>>9114068
>Dickens
He wrote serialised sentimental novels - Victorian equivalents of soap dramas.
>Dostoevsky
A mentally ill (Geschwind syndrome) degenerate (compulsive gambler, possibly paedophile).
>Tolstoy
Raped his slaves and then wrote treatises on morality.
>the Greeks
Pedos, all of them.
So don't bother, OP.

>>9114068
More like, how do I read almost anything that was written after 1900?
desu you're supposed to read these things because you identify with the ideas or the movement they belong to, if you can't function like that then sorry to say you're a brainless HS student who plays too many video games.
I didn't even fucken go to school, my interest in this shit is purely organic. I suggest developing a real fucking world-view and not being a passive agnostic consumer retard, maybe then you'll actually give a shit and genuinely want to read literature that helps you put together a picture of reality that you can believe in.

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just despook yourself of the pleb/patrician dichotomy

you do not need to prove anything

If thw insufferable shitposting hadnt lasted so long I'd say we were being raided, but this thread has been resurrected weekly for months now.

To anyone who genuinely wonders questions like these: get a different hobby. There are worst things than being a pleb... such as being a dedicated troll of /lit/.

>>9114200
behavioral economics the best

>>9114068
consign yourself to 200-300 page Modernism and work backwards so you can get the references

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Right now you probably haven't read many books, it's hard to judge the entire medium when you hardly know what it is. It's like someone who played 4 videogame series, hated them all, then said he doesn't like videogames. Books stretch back to the dawn of civilization and if you take the time to explore you might find a period or genre or some authors you genuinely enjoy.

It doesn't have to be fun, it's about enriching yourself. Eventually you may find yourself enjoying books, but even if you never do that doesn't mean you should reject the entire medium. There are plenty of things that are good for you that aren't fun, like exercise, errands and chores, eating healthily, maintaining a good sleep schedule, studying. Same as with most hobbies if you never challenge yourself you'll always be stuck at a basic level consuming entry level stuff.