To discuss about the books, textbooks and papers you are currently reading.
I finished Moby Dic a couple of days ago. Next i’ll pick up Pale Fire by Nabokov. I started reading that book a few months ago and stoped after the poem because i was reading it before sleep and couldn’t focus well. Even though I still remember what happened and took a few notes, I decided to start from the beginning again.
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I've been having trouble figuring out what to do with my life, and especially with my reading time.
I've got 4 broad categories:
A) Books about autism/ADHD so that, in theory, I can flip some mental switches and become master of my mind and be much more productive
B) Books that align with my interests, and people think of as classics, like Stoicism stuff or Ayn Rand, further "rabbit holing" myself into male-coded or center-right stuff
C) Books that anti-align with my interests like Feminism books or Black Marxism (recently recommended by someone who triggered me by saying that everything in the last 300 years of intellectual thought was centered around anti-black racism and slavery, especially enlightenment values, objectivism, empiricism, etc.)
D) Books that are just fun. Like sci-fi. Just give up on knowing stuff or culture war nonsense.
idk, is mid-thirties with kids an appropriate time to just read braindead fiction and go grilling, or do I have an obligation to learn stuff and be cultured, despite almost zero value coming from it.
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If you want to get into more “serious” centre right stuff you should check Allan Bloom’s “the closing of the american mind”. The early Douglas Murray books are also worth it but his later one’s are almost Ben Shapiro tier.
It really depends, do you enjoy reading the western canon classics? I think is worth a try, but if it’s not your thing there is nothing wrong with mindless entertainment. Health and math textbooks are good too if you want to take something that could be applied to real life, at least to detect some bullshit people post on social media.
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