Will reading books actually make me a better person?

That's a pretty poorly formulated question.

No but it will at least destroy your notion of a better person.

>>9827113
No, specifically. Whoever who told you that was lying.

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>>9827113
>meme magic

>>9827113
Depends what you read

Charlie...easy on the bass

>>9827371
how so

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>>9827426
holy shit

>>9828562
Well if you spend your entire adult life reading the Berenstein Bears you are not going to expand your mind or hone your mastery of language.

>>9827113
no it won't.

I read a lot and most people find me insufferable. All three of my long term gfs have said I was a selfish asshole. I've read consistently since I was 12 years old.

>>9827113
The West's greatest writers are subversive of all values, both ours and their own. Scholars who urge us to find the source of our morality and our politics in Plato, or in Isaiah, are out of
touch with the social reality in which we live. If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all. The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves. The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of
Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. Reading deeply in the Canon will
not make one a better or a worse person, a more useful or more harmful citizen. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily
a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form
is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

>>9828889
Cuck!

Probably not.

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>>9827426