To: C19fan
I read a lot but not fiction. I read history and historical biographies. Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something.
2 posted on
08/05/2025 4:05:47 AM PDT by
arthurus
(| covfefe | q.p)
To: arthurus
Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something.I pity the fool who learned nothing from “1984”, or “Animal Farm”, or “Atlas Shrugged”, or “Frankenstein; or, The Modetn Prometheus”, or…
4 posted on
08/05/2025 4:12:32 AM PDT by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
To: arthurus
John Ross’ Unintended Consequences is an off the charts educational fiction book.
Also, Louis L’Amour westerns are packed full of outdoor survival tips.
7 posted on
08/05/2025 4:25:59 AM PDT by
SisterK
(to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
To: arthurus
Women have long read more fiction, men more nonfiction.
To: arthurus
Are “Compiler Design Theory”, “Database Internals”, or “Compact Numerical Methods in C” considered sexy?
28 posted on
08/05/2025 6:15:35 AM PDT by
GingisK
To: arthurus
I read a lot but not fiction. I read history and historical biographies. Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something. You will learn a lot from my fiction book.
Seriously.
31 posted on
08/05/2025 6:27:14 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
To: arthurus
Just started the second volume of Rick Atkinsons trilogy on the Revolutionary War, if it is half as good as the first volume I'll be in Heaven.
33 posted on
08/05/2025 6:37:17 AM PDT by
ABN 505
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To: arthurus
“”””I read history and historical biographies. Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something.””””
Exactly, while women are reading basically the same meaningless fluff that 12 year old girls read, 100 of those books convey almost zero information.
I sometimes doubt my own analysis that I just described, when I ponder relationships, romance, and marriage, and the effortless transfer of hard earned wealth and cultural power from the male sex to the female sex.
36 posted on
08/05/2025 7:14:49 AM PDT by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: arthurus
“I read a lot but not fiction. I read history and historical biographies. Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something.”
Do you mean to imply that reading fiction is a waste of time? Incredible.
To: arthurus
Reading is a waste of time if one doesn’t learn something.
An intelligent man can learn things from Shakespeare, Dante, Austen, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Cervantes, that he cannot learn from history books.
Many history professors recommend Dickens' "A Take of Two Cities" as an excellent overview for the atmosphere of the French Revolution.
49 posted on
08/05/2025 8:39:34 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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