[AyanamiKaine]

While I do agree that reading is really important especially when it comes to good books. BUT simply consuming something for the sake of consumption is rarely a good idea.

I know of people that read books and consome them like food everyday, and wont learn anything thing from them. Their content becoming a distant memory as time passes. What is the point of reading something if you forget it 2 weeks later?

You may read something but the katharsis is still missing. I recommend when reading something. Take your time with it. You dont need to fetish saying you read 500 books in the last 5 years. I read "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and "Negative Dialectics" and it will take many many more months maybe years to full graps them.

I read them from beginning to end but still have so much to learn from them! Disregarding a good book for another might be a grave mistake.

[cubefox]

Schopenhauer made a similar point in his essay "On Reading and Books".

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Books_and_Reading

https://fs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Arthur-Schopenhau...

[dredmorbius]

Huge fan as well of Schopenhauer's "On Authorship":

<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Literature/On_Auth...>

[ctchocula]

A fascinating read. Thank you for sharing!

[telxosis]

No offense, but you are just aren't that well read if you are mentioning Godel, Escher, Bach as proof of how much you are going to learn.

This post is irony at a base level.

You ultimately have to sift through a lot of books to get past popular books like Godel, Escher, Bach and on to something like Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.

[marliechiller]

I dont understand the point your comment is making. Are you being facetious or genuine?