I pity the fool who learned nothing from “1984”, or “Animal Farm”, or “Atlas Shrugged”, or “Frankenstein; or, The Modetn Prometheus”, or…
Read all those, too, And Solzhenytsin. That was then, in youth.
Read all those, too, And Solzhenytsin. That was then, in youth.
Reading good, classic, timeless fiction literature is one of the best educations you can get. It’s not meant to teach you simple, banal skills, as so many on this thread want, i.e. how to replace the latch on a tailgate, or whatever.
Good fiction literature helps you to understand people, places, and times beyond your own, to see inside the minds of other people, to see how other people faced the fear of death, to see what other people are driven to by love, anger, fear, passion, to see patterns in human behavior across cultures and history, and to understand your own place in the world. And so much more.
There is a lot of crap fiction written today (and in the past too). But there is so much good literature out there that you can spend your whole life reading and not get through it all. Life is too short to read bad fiction, and life is also too short to not read good fiction.