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Imagine a guy who has played chess with his family and a few friends all his life, and always wins, versus an amateur chess player who plays online and in tournaments. The former knows his family aren't great at chess, but often he thinks he's above average. The latter knows that he is really awful in the grand scheme of amateurs chess, but he can still beat the first guy 9 times out of 10. If they meet, and agree to play chess, watch out!
In reading books there is no real goal, but there is a similar dynamic. Let's say I'm doing a college interview and the applicant says he loves reading, reading is really important to him. Okay, good, this is a chance for me to learn something about how he thinks, his preparation for university-level work, the richness of his ideas - so I ask him what books have affected him the most. He saysMaximum Ride, because he really wishes he could fly. This is a potentially embarrassing moment - from his perspective he's the biggest bookworm he knows, but from my perspective he's not reading at grade level. To me, he comes across as somewhat pretentious. I don't think he's objectively pretentious - it's just an unavoidable clash of worldviews.
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nice blog.
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>not realising the profundity of man's will to fly
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>>9703142
Indeed, and it can be found as far back as the Greeks
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Are you saying Maximum Ride is not a great book? baka at these summerfags and underage kiddies on /lit/ today
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>>9703101
t. Post-flight Icarus, still nursing the bruises from his crash
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>>9703225
>abusing "comfy" this way
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>>9703101
Aight. What exactly is your point? Are you a professional snob or something?
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>>9703158
Sell me on this book mate
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>>9704794
No, but I'm the snobbiest person I know.
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>>9704794
>just tell me what to think about things waaaaaah
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>>9704975
ayy
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>>9703101
>Experience is relative
>Intelligence is relative
>Skill is relative
Wooooowwww, OP ur so smart. But I see your point. In the eyes of people who posted before me, your post is very good. Perhaps they're pubescent wannabe-ideologues, but to grown ups, it is just a regurgitated vomit of maxims known to man since... Forever? I don't really know. hence "maxims". If this irony was intended, well done, DFW would be proud. Alas, I think not, I think this was a serious attempt at dropping some "KNAWLEDGE" on your part, and it's rather arrogant.
I am the smartest man alive, because I am objectively smart. My name is John Green.
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