Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck

[Green Kool Aid]

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fiction is a diversion: there is nothing to be learned politically, ethically, or otherwise.

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Maybe you could change that sentence to, "I have learned nothing politcally or ethically from fiction."

OR

"I don't value the concepts that one can learn from fiction."

As it stands, the statement you made was false.

[Dids]

Veen,

You're a sharp guy, but that's a really [censored] silly post.

We can learn from most anything.

[amplify]

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I think TS Eliot is not only the best poet of the 20th century, but so clearly the best poet of the 20th century that it's silly to say otherwise.

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Hart Crane is better. I can prove it, but the proof will not fit in this margin.

[Quanah Parker]

I really dug Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf but thought Siddhartha was weak.
I was under the impression Siddhartha was his most respected work.
Then again, I'm more psuedo than intellectual.

[Shaddux]

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for me it is Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .

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Probably one of the greatest books I've ever read. I read a lot too.

[oneeye13]

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anyone who proudly proclaims they've enjoyed or 'identified with the central thesis' of pretty much any book mentioned in this thread immediately qualifies as irredeemably stupid and hopelessly affected. fiction is a diversion: there is nothing to be learned politically, ethically, or otherwise. i've never met anyone i consider smart who didn't consider the preceding sentences trivially true and almost unworthy of articulation. note that i used the word proudly, please.

there are very few books that are 'pseudo-intellectual' on their own: it depends more on how idiots use the work to justify their own self-confidence and condescension. the works most often abused in this fashion are obv shakespeare's, pynchon's, freud's, marx's, and countless pop sci books from the last two decades.

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does your circle of mega-geniuses communicate at all, or do they know the truth of every statement and consider all statements, true or false, unworthy of articulation?