Read all the books or know 25 of the absolute greatest by heart?

>>9256090
Read all the books

Just buy the 25 greatest and put them on your bookshelf instead. The only benefit I see of knowing the 25 greatest by heart is if you want to write. You'll have a lot of easily accessible structure and narration to reference, but with some hard work, you can achieve the same knowledge by thorough study.

Just the option to have enough free time to read all books no matter how shitty I consider a luxury, I rarely have enough time to read more than 2 books a month, plus reading o many books will take years and it guarantees some form of longevity. SO i believe it to be the better option.

>>9256145
>Read every single chuck tingle novel

25 greatest. I want to be smart like Abbé Faria

The problem is that the 25 greatest aren't that great.

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>>9256090
Know all of them by heart.

>>9258018
Why? What's the point?

>>9258024
Why not?

>>9258024
He meant all as in not all 25 but all as in all the books there is

25 obviously.
Reading all the books would mean that I waded through oceans of shit for a couple of pearls

>>9258024
That's what I'm trying to find out.