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caroline beckenhaupt's avatar

Hello Mr. Pohl, I've been *reading* your gripping book, The Years of Silence.

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Paul's avatar

Dear Men of Leisure:

Books should be outlawed to prevent being educated beyond intelligence ending in embarrassing podcaster failures.

It all started with Cliffs Notes. After that everybody got lazy and it all turned to click bait.

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Dorn, revised 1972 isn't all that bad of a reference. Some might find the suggestion that they don't know how to read a book insulting.

The comment about contempory the number of writers and authors born 1980s having any literary influence on that generation with a despairingly desperate desire to change the world can name few.

As for the po white boy having the Protestant work ethic where hard work has its own reward not getting nickel for every page in a book he has read just might be a reason to live another day. That's something to sort out for each.

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