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Reading for lazy intellects? 2017-09-06 06:39:06 Post No. 9986072
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I am smart but lazy, but I want to start reading more. I just don't have the motivation to read big books with big words. Any good authors that write things ~100 pages. Don't really care what language it's in as long as it's not written by some assclown trying to use big words to dazzle his audience and impress the brainlets. Give me something short and sweet /lit/. Maybe even some books on tape or good talks. Lately I've just been listening to pic related talking to Krishnamurti. Don't really care for fantasy or mystery or any of that crap.
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>I am smart
>but lazy
Pick one.
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I just read "The Lay of the Love and Death of Christoph Cornet Rilke" it was short and simple and pretty good.
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Aphorisms. Just finished some by Wittgenstein, they were super interesting. Borges wrote short essays (and stories). Many people write essays. Nietzsche is also good for aphorisms & packing a lot of content into a small space. Chesterton, Montaigne (tha oG essay man)... who am I forgetting (of my own scarce knowledge). G.K. Lichtenberg a famous german aphorist... Kafka's blue octavo notebooks are interesting...
Chesterton also wrote a lot of things in essay form, and he really doesn't fuck around. Like he gets straight to the point.
Schopenhauer's many essays are good, too. Guy had a genius for metaphor.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Chekhov
Also, other Russians (Gogol, Turgenev...)
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