How do I stop caring about what the pseuds think and start reading

>>9909054
read the chronicles of narnia

>>9909054
Study hellenistic cynicism, and disregard the judgment of others.

Have a "one for me, one for you" mentality, if it makes you feel so bad. "Pseud" literature -- that is, the Canon -- is good/necessary because it gives a society a common set of touch points to talk about. Completely ignoring that isn't good and leads to those touch points being shit like Harry Potter or Game of Thrones (specifically, the TV show, not the books).

While to an extent I believe that reading should be done out of one's own sense of enjoyment, it is important to set that enjoyment aside from time to time and at least attempt to "join the wider literary conversation."

>>9909569

I kind of agree but 99 % of the people who go on about essential canon stuff know nothing about maths, physics, science etc. It really is utter fucking pseuds, not intellectual gods. If Einstein told me to read the Greeks I'd take his advice intellectually seriously. Not some NYU academic who praises the canon one second and write critical theory bs the next

>>9909585
Man shut the fuck up and stop making these threads you limey cunt