The Benefits of Reading Great Books

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In this video we look at the benefits of great books on our growth and development, and examine how the modern university humanities are corrupting students.
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Become a Supporting Member and gain access to exclusive videos and courses): academyofideas.com/members/ Join through PayPal or Credit Card (payments processed by Stripe) ==== Recommended Readings: Why Read? - Mark Edmundson - amzn.to/2HMjLJH ==== Find the transcript (and a gallery of the art work) here: academyofideas.com/2019/03/benefits-reading-great-books/

[@Viriyascybin]

Where can we find the images/paintings you use, in your videos? found it: academyofideas.com/2019/03/benefits-reading-great-books/! :D

[@thevishalyagik]

Please can you make a video on book recommendation referring to subjects that you've showed in this video i.e philosophy ,fiction and biographies. Also how can I learn language in a way that it become easier to express my thoughts and observation of this world? Thank you.

[@TaunellE]

Thank You so much!

[@user-bd1bl8ue9g]

Please please please make a video of one or more of the following topics: 1. Success driven people's psychology (like Jordan Belfort). 2. Do ego and self image help pass difficult situations. 3. Psychological Relationship between being moral and being successful acdemically/career wise. Also, huge respect to the person(s) running this channel. You guys are doing a great job. ❤️❤️❤️

[@jamesharbaugh5732]

Thank you for codifying what must be said.

[@130598st]

Books are basically maps of other peoples minds and the questions and ideas which posses them

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where can i find people like you

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​@@srgkzy1294 im here lol lets be a group

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@@halukgul6408 where?

[@NodakBro]

Srg kzy r/ClassicalEducation

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[@academyofideas]

A lot of people are asking for book recommendations. These are 5 of my favourite non-fiction: Restoring Pride, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The World as Will and Representation, Letters from a Stoic, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. Although if you're just starting with Nietzsche I wouldn't recommend Zarathustra, it can be cryptic.

[@satnamo]

1. Meditation by Marcus Aurelius. 2. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. 3. Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer.

[@scottkraft1062]

Ernest Becker's Denial of Death

[@sunyata150]

For whatever reason I've always had a hard time reading Nietzche but appreciated those who wrote about him. I think others are correct to suggest that Nietzsche never quite lived up to his own ideals, which were a tad theoretical. I'd recommend Matthew Crawford for anyone - especially Shop Class as Soulcraft, and The World Outside Your Head. Both easy to understand but psychologically deep. I loved his critical analysis of David Foster Wallace. I think both his books are in line with Academy of Ideas philosophy - that psychological maturity and manhood come from acceptance of internal negativity as part of life, and the choice to engage with the world anyway.

[@josephbowditch9160]

Anna karenina - leo tolstoy

[@paulelliott3361]

I’m pretty new to you and the subject of psychology in general (only took a semester long psychology class in HS) but I’ve been going through your videos like crazy over the past few weeks. I’d also like to note, if no one else has, that I think there are some RPG video games that have stories worth being called great in your definition. I actually got turned onto psychology by two game series in particular, the Final Fantasy series and the Persona series. The Persona series in particular draws heavily from Carl Jung’s ideas, to the point where the narrative is based around them.

[@deepbrar9750]

Please make a video of your favorite books

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

It would be quite awesome if he did that!!! :)

[@justiniwanski9381]

On their website they have a page with all their books they enjoy or recommend reading

[@mananbanga4700]

Yess please!

[@bemobvio]

Hanan go to www.academyofideas.com/store

[@korbindallas8224]

U should really read the book of his favorite books, simpleton

[@corystereo]

To anyone interested in learning how to read critically, without utilizing a University, I recommend reading "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler. It was written back when colleges were a lot tougher to get into, so not every adult had the best critical reading skills. It's not a "step by step" list, but an actual book. I first read it 15 years ago, and I still re-read it today. It has helped me tremendously not just with reading, but overall critical thinking--and most importantly, that allowed me to identify and bypass the liberal arts indoctrination when I was a student. I highly recommend it to you all!

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

Thank you so much! I’ll have to check it out!

[@madhoetterness8609]

Thank you!

[@sg5sd]

Thank you!

[@KwonSori]

thanks- let me check it out

[@Viriyascybin]

The benefits of watching Academy of Ideas :D

[@AstheaTV]

:D

[@LostSoulAscension]

:D

[@dreadpirateroberts7647]

The book equivalent of a spare tire. XD

[@postmodpen1169]

:D

[@lukakapanadze6179]

:D

[@philipmason5547]

That final quote rings especially true, in my experience: “People who have taught themselves how to live - what to be, what to do - from reading great works will not be overly susceptible to the culture industry’s latest wares. They’ll be able to sample them, or turn completely away - they’ll have better things on their minds.”

[@satnamo]

Reading is like thinking with another person’s head. Writing is like thinking with my head. Reading is the most basic intellectual activity that mankind has cultivated thus far. Writing is the most sophisticated activity that mankind has cultivated thus far. Reading and writing: sowing and reaping.

[@io-rj6sk]

can typing be a substitute? or it has to be pencil on paper for the true benefits?

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

@@io-rj6sk as a writer myself, I would like to believe that both are equally beneficial. It’s in the act of stringing words together to create something that is beneficial, not the format one uses in order to accomplish this act. That is my personal opinion.

[@io-rj6sk]

do you have one format you personally prefer over the other?

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

@@io-rj6sk I actually like to type on a computer and print it out into paper. It’s quite satisfying to see my words in physical print.

[@lancelotdufrane]

Absolutely love books. The smell, feel, print,... they are an entrance to another world. Old book stores are heaven.

[@Zayindjejfj]

They really do feel like the physical embodiment of recorded knowledge. Even when reading on my phone, it doesn't feel the same. An old and well kept book not only relays information, it stimulates all of your other senses.

[@ArturoCabello]

Love this! :)

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

Lancelot Dufrane I couldn't agree more!!! :)

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

@@Zayindjejfj Reading on either computer or phone takes away that sensory aspect, the smell, the feel, just the simplicity of owning a physical manifestation of knowledge makes it more sacred then any text online can ever be

[@idanas3557]

Agreed!

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

I watched countless documentaries, read lot of books, and it was the books that gave me the most precise and general ideas and info, i even re-read some books only to find out that i have became better at reading and understand not only the book but the Autor and finally, myself at some point.

[@hikari9433]

What I remember is that School made me totally hate reading. There, we are almost forced to read books which are sometimes long, complex and most of the time don't match the very diverse interests we all have. Reading these books were often long and exhausting. Add to that the pressure of the homeworks and tests, the educational system made reading books feel like a chore. Now that I finished school, I'm reading way more. The difference is, this time I can choose the books I read based on what interest me at the moment and the internet is useful to know exactly what are the best works on the subjects I want to dig in and to have them delivered at your door in a pretty short time. Today I find myself reading science books, business and marketing books, biographies of great leaders and thinkers etc. I red more books in one single year than during my whole High School life.

[@Fireblaze15]

The books they force are so gadamn basic... my middle school days had a lot of diversity but high school was full of shit along with college.

[@phillipjordan3013]

The only valuable we learn in school is how to deal and cope with being forced to be around shitty people that we hate on a daily basis.

[@elierreyes9287]

Phillip Jordan really? That what you got out of 4 years of your life?

[@elierreyes9287]

Don’t even answer, it’s sad

[@elierreyes9287]

I knoww we don’t need no education as Pink Floyd once said, what the fuck is wrong with the system it forces us to become one. We should rise up against school we are better than it. We must Fahrenheit 451 the entire school system and tear it apart. People like you and me are the freethinkers of our generations 😫🥺😀🧐😍 xoxo comrade

[@jc-wx5oo]

I'm a grade A bibliophile. Working on building our private library. This is one of the very few channels on KZbin I enjoy anymore.

[@ThinkingWest]

I highly recommend trying to get your hands on the Great Books of Western World set (try ebay). It will be the greatest investment you make.

[@OneMan-wl1wj]

A warning I would of appreciated when I began to read extensively: Most of the people around you are not reading diligently, and the further you progress, the more estranged others will inevitably become as they simply cannot begin to appreciate/nor do most even care to/ the mental cultivation you have been experiencing. Conversations will grow increasingly superficial and given most people's total inability to truly listen, utterly disappointing. Another said it thus: "For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases in knowledge increases in sorrow." Proceed with caution...you cannot unlearn things..

[@Dan-daley]

@Sondre Sandøy learning and memorizing is two different things in this case

[@paulelliott3361]

Most people don’t have the wherewithal to read through a comment/reply thread to make sure what they’re about to say hasn’t already been said, let alone actually try to listen to or read something for the purpose of learning

[@SupaMang25]

Hi author, I like your change to white text over black background. The font and overall look is clean and pleasant to my eye. Cheers, A fan

[@phiswe]

2:04 "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - Henry David Thoreau

[@titlespree]

The man who reads lives many lives, the man who doesn't lives only once! 📖

[@cainandabel7059]

and the one who reads to much lives none.

[@SeanTheDon17]

OverThatHill this is good

[@Autojones]

"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read." ~ Mark Twain

[@utaarianne4531]

George R. R. Martin

[@ryanwilhelm38]

I love the insight these videos give. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been prompted to dig deeper into things myself after watching one of these videos. Keep up the good work

[@satnamo]

Without thought, there is no thinker. Thought is the thinker my self; Reading is like thinking with another person's head.

[@theMRsome12]

Yes and no. We can both read the same book but experience it differently. It's more the writer giving tools to the person to create a new world.

[@t0x1cliverpool]

I've noticed this is a wrong way of seeing books for a lot of people. You will interpret it in your own way and you can either use what is from the book and adapt it or build upon it. What you claim is engineering or science is not for thinkers because they use formulas and things discovered because of people before them.

[@theMRsome12]

@@t0x1cliverpool there's a huge difference between engineering and science. Only engineers say otherwise. But the difference is basically what you said. One creates science and the other uses science as a tool.

[@3self]

@@theMRsome12 yup, you can do both tho.

[@x15Lovex]

If books are the doors to wisdom, then Academy of Ideas is the light that guide us to such doors. Brilliant work as always, AoI never ceases to amaze.

[@raiyanharris1188]

Notification squad. One of my most favourite channel.

[@mauricioa-g3916]

I love the new format for the quotes! Your channel has many impressive qualities, but I love watching the small experiments play out for slide layout, image choice, textual formatting. I'm also impressed with the throwbacks you're making to previous videos and concepts. The "Self-Deception" image you threw in at 3:00 is a minor and insignificant pleasure for new followers and a major sign of respect for long-time fans who can recognize its previous use. This channel has developed a rich interwoven conversation across videos and authors that unparalleled by other content-creators right now. Please keep it up.

[@nyc88s]

Beautiful video. Thank you so much! Your channel is wonderful. Time to become a member.

[@nataliabrasil931]

You've just put in words what I was never able to describe. I've always loved reading but some years ago I started feeling that it was more than entertainment to me. This might explain why college drains people so much - when you want to be a good student, you don't really have time to pursue any different readings. This also explains why I just couldn't finish any of Kafka books... They're so suffocating, they seem to show me something about human nature that I think I'm just not mature enough to see. Keep up this amazing work!

[@JakopAxx]

Always love your videos. Great source of wisdom.

[@Sir_Basil]

I'm a long time fan of your channel, and this video was one of the most thought provoking and relevant ones in a long stream this year! You should (if you aren't already working on) a corpus of the great books in video form, offering all the genres and flavors you would consider worth investigating. Your videos so far have already directed my reading to Nietzsche, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and John Taylor Gatto, and all of them have fascinated me so far. Keep up your hard work, these videos reflect a diverse wisdom that has taken time and intention to build.

[@thelibrarian1086]

your videos are full of wisdom . keep it up

[@collinholloway1929]

One of the best videos I think you have ever put out. Fantastic articulation of an essential part of life!

[@binboda]

I’m so happy I’ve found your channel! Amazing content💖💖💖

[@petera.9362]

One of your best-and most important-videos yet. Very well done!

[@misvenus7321]

I would just like to thank you for making meaningful content like this and your website is amazing. I cannot wait to purchase some of the books on your recommended book list.

[@michaelgrimes5588]

Awesome work by this channel. Much appreciated!

[@seanp.kilroy6833]

This is a beautiful video-eloquently delivered.

[@JLeppert]

Dude, that was so great it bordered on poetic. Just found your channel. I'm jobless and couch serfing ro avoid sleeping in my car but once i have that straightened out I'll become a supporter. Thanks for this.

[@smokydogy]

That was a powerful message at the end that connected with me, thanks

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

Same here!

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excellent , i love your channel. thanks for sticking with it

[@ciphermedic]

Absolutely amazing effort. Bravo!!!

[@ck88777]

Amazing! A pleasant synchronicity that I was just thinking about this exact topic yesterday. While on a walk I wrote in my notebook: "The value of literature is not simply to display a theme or message, but to induce its realisation in full. The themes of literature can often be simply and explicitly summarised, but it is one thing to know and another to realise. The ability to live through a character's experiences as if they are one's own allows the reader to personally come to full realisations as though it was through their own life's experience."

[@benjaminkuti2009]

@academy of ideas omg this is an awesome topic! Obviously all of us here must read to a substantial degree but, a video on this is strongly commended. Brilliant content ✨

[@vladan95n]

Very good job as always. This channel never disappoints.

[@brinleymccully2123]

These video essays are brilliant. Thank you.

[@kahwigulum]

Make Great Books Great Again

[@anonymousforever]

kahwigulum great books were great, are great and will always be great. They do not need to be "made great again". Paraphrasing a Trump slogan which has no relevance to the subject does not make you clever.

[@mr.marmot39]

@@anonymousforever bruh

[@imdeexpert5828]

@@anonymousforever u have a poor soul

[@NodakBro]

That’s the goal of r/ClassicalEducation

[@dammbleth2]

This channel is sooooo much better than School of Life.

[@eugenemurray2940]

They compliment each other... Never read just one newspaper....😊

[@damonbrice]

Like that!!

[@Synthminator]

That quote from Mark Edmundsen is a home run, knocked it right out of the park. So true and vivid description in such few words

[@Emirates1598]

This was great! Thank you so much!

[@ramonbril]

Sir, this is your best. I am amazed by the narration, depth and choice of subject matter.

[@theherron]

Like the new font. Great video as always!

[@sandyguma2010]

By far the best video on the benefits of reading. Thanks for the insight, your videos are always great.

[@dinag.7636]

Superb as always! Merci !

[@sprezzatura8755]

Thank you for posting this at a time of profound confusion at our institutions of Higher Learning.

[@marsiennacelebi739]

Wow! Mind enchanting! A free mind is indeed the beacon of wisdom

[@araucaria5173]

Your channel is very wonderful,thanks.

[@ZikoHendrix]

This channel is GOLD !

[@wilsonstone935]

You do an Excellent job!! Thank You!

[@dharini09]

The content is amazing. I appreciate how much research goes into each video. I prefer your regular voice--it seems like you're using a lower register and it's noticeable.

[@livelaughlove4202]

Keep up the great work, folks ! I'm a student but I'll definitely start supporting this channel when I start earning

[@Obilio222]

You do important work here - thank you!

[@gaylewilliams4805]

A wonderful, inspiring piece of work.

[@user-ep4jo1ev3j]

It's a shame to find those who only read non fiction. Beautiful prose can make one cry and teach you so much about the delicate fabrics of life. I like to imagine myself in the world and become part of it. I feel what the characters feel. It's wonderful.

[@HMALDANA]

Great video! I didn't know anything about Mark Edmundson. I've just watched a couple of his talks. What a profound thinker he is.

[@minoxamine6045]

each of video of yours is a splendid journey through the depths of the human mind.

[@johndoey2192]

Thanks to your Channel i started reading great books, be It Goethe, Dostoiévski, Schopenhauer or Etienne de La Boetie, and to that i own you, whoever It is that is behind this yt Channel. Thanks to your vídeos i've started to see, to really see and listen with the whole of my heart. Life IS something trully amazing, deserving of the most profound tought and i myself feel ashamed for being the only one i know that can see that. Thanks again

[@sekops100]

Bravo, and love the art

[@Mr56412]

Thank you I really needed it

[@noomah4790]

Noomah loves seeing the great books of your world!

[@zach11590]

Reading books is staring at a dead tree and hallucinating

[@nueythepyasuwan]

Not reading books is not staring at a dread tree and hallucinating. So what do you stare at?

[@brigadierharsh1948]

Sounds like something Joe Rogan would say

[@SammyCee23]

LOL

[@daisyphreekshow2197]

Best time of my life! 😆

[@propertyofjesus1720]

LOL!! absolutely brilliant!!

[@edwina.364]

Your videos are very helpful. Could you make some on socializing?

[@annym.8170]

This channel is pure gold.

[@efleishermedia]

Funny, I watch your videos while taking breaks from writing a book. And your take on books is superb. No piece of art has affected my life more than Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. The moment I was done I was transformed. Man I love this channel

[@nexusvoid314]

So many people have given up on reading in favor of basic novelties like their smart phones. This has had a serious negative effect on our attention spans and impulsivity. Reading can be difficult to get back into but I personally recommend audiobooks if you have difficulty staying focused while reading like I do due to ADHD. I even deleted most of the music on my phone to make room for audiobooks. In particular I recommend a collection of 11 essays by Carl Jung called Modern Man in Search of a Soul which is just completely brilliant as well as a book called The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind which made me think completely differently about the mind, religion, and consciousness.

[@nexusvoid314]

@Jon Goat Well that's good news and something I didn't know about

[@anab0lic]

the purchase of said ebooks doesnt actually mean they are being read though.... the trouble with a smartphone is its very easy to get distracted by other things it has to offer, which require less effort than reading and tend to be what people default to when using such devices. Id love to see the stats on how many of those ebooks actually got read. There is something very intimate about reading a physical book that just doesn't translate so well to digital devices and I think when you have it there on your shelf and can see it in three dimensional space you tend to value its worth a lot more and it will be less likely to go ignored like it does when its tucked away as a digital file on a memory stick.

[@kayaeki]

Reading books changed my life, I'm forever grateful to them

[@cameronsmith8242]

So glad I found this channel.

[@acidicjello1962]

I'm not sure I understand. The point of reading and analyzing books in university is to learn both from them and about them. Since times change so drastically, old works need to be put in their historical context to be understood. Sure, if the point of reading is solely for inspiration, then it is different because you are trying to get something else out of it. However, saying that only using the critical thinking techniques practiced in modern universities leads to life becoming "a meaningless void between two eternities of darkness lived in slavish devotion to pleasure or the single-minded pursuit of money or power" doesn't resonate with me. Maybe if the premise of that statement were true, that critical thinking for its own sake only involves tearing things down and leaving yourself without any solid convictions, but isn't it impossible to think critically without having first built up your own convictions? I love this channel and it has helped me a lot. I like this video too. I don't go to university for liberal arts, and I only took one statement out of the context of the whole video, so this isn't a full on counterargument. I'm just debating out loud in the spirit of philosophy because I feel like it and I have the time.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

I think what he meant was that university professors are teaching their students to discount the messages that older books contain because those books, as well as their authors, might not gel with current socio/political schools of thought. I don't go to school for liberal arts either, (though I greatly appreciate them!), and I think that might be why I can see that that is kinda true. As an example, John McCain often cited Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls as a book that shaped his character, as he strove to model himself after the main character, trying to emulate the bravery, courage, and stalwartness that Robert Jordan demonstrates in the narrative. However, current politics have rendered Hemingway in a rather unflattering light, with many pointing out the apparent misogyny in his works. Therefore, though Hemingway is still studied, many professors might want their students to view novels like For Whom the Bell Tolls more as products of their time, and disregard whatever it is that the book is trying to say. Just my thoughts. :)

[@davidsoael615]

There are certainly people who criticize just for the sake of being right, gaining power, showing off etc., not everyone has their own proper set of ideas (and even if some of us do, we often overestimate the extent to which they're actually ours and we've thought them through), but everyone likes to undermine ideas just for the sake of it - not because they're countering them with a substance of meaning, but because they want to expose the lack thereof in them.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

@@davidsoael615 Then I suppose great works of literature will always receive criticism, whether warranted or not, just because some people resent the fact that someone out there was able to create something that articulated a certain idea or concept which they, the criticizer, was unable to. If you look at Russian literature, however, you'll see that they had an unusual practice of putting whatever criticisms they made of a work into a new work of their own creation. Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground was written as a critique of, and rebuttal to, the novel What is to be Done? This way, whatever criticisms they made of a certain work or idea were able to stand on their own as an individual work.

[@sprezzatura8755]

The great books are considered Classics because they are timeless. Their message was relevant when they were written and are equally relevant today. This applies to music and art as well. Trends come and go, but Bach, Michelangelo and Virgil will still be relevant 500 years from now. With very few exceptions, today's books, music and art will be rightfully forgotten. Try this experiment: For 30 days, listen only to classical music, look at classical art and read Milton. No TV, no social media, no movies, no nightclubs, no sports. See if you can pull it off. Then write your findings down in your journal, only for yourself, or share with others as you like. You are the author of yourself, always free to choose what you read, listen to and look at. Just like the food you eat, you decide.

[@vuyolwethuninah3312]

i swear it's like you read my mind!!! i wish there could be a dialogue between us and the people who made this video so we could further discuss that point.

[@AvadoNMod]

Excellent video!

[@Joefest99]

Wow! What a great video!

[@Lorenzo-sr7yp]

The second part of the video is... Wow. May be because I'm trapped in critical thinking, but I find this incredibly profound and interesting. I can try to say nothing but something simple to express my appreciation. Wow... Thank you guys, cheers from Italy.

[@facfortiaetpatere4287]

Awesome video !

[@ruslanuchan8880]

EDIT: Thank you for the video! One of the reason why I try to read books now is because I was inspired by your videos too. Cheers :) Currently reading The Rebel from Albert Camus and somehow I could relate some ideas presented here with what Camus wrote. What terrified me as already stated is, the danger of being unable to create our own convictions after reading so many books already.

[@bradrandel1408]

So good you guys are amazing

[@stefangebhard7074]

Books are the one thing that broadens perceptions, provides a worldview to understanding ideas through and deepens insight into the intuitive mind. Books gives a person depth, width and height to conceptual understanding.

[@guthixkid13]

I’ve just read “Peak” by Anders Ericson. Truly inspiring to know that one can become better at a skill or ability if only one tried, and one need not become a world class expert either.

[@nacious420]

From personal experience I completely agree with everything said here and have come to similar conclusions on my own accord.

[@jasonparsons2307]

Great way to say what needed to be said

[@grndragon7777777]

Just listen to sphere and I loved it. Funny to find this after finishing the book

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

That last bit is so true. I've always been an avid reader, not caring for the technological trends my peers always liked to latch onto. I don't have a Facebook page, an Instagram, a Twitter, a Vine, or any other insipid tech-fad. What allure does the act of browsing endless kissy-face selfies or mind-numbing, idiotic Tweets hold when I could engage myself rather with the musings of Shelley's outcast monster, or Dostoyevsky's self-loathing Underground Man? Each medium of art touches us in a different way. A great painting or piece of music can stir us deeply, but books have a way of sticking with us longer, the words on the page echoing within us, however faintly.

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

You seem to have a good grasp on classic novels. Do you have any recommendations? I’m an Austen and Bronte fan, and I loved Frankenstein.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

@@booksboundnoveljourneys1122 Oh wow, well, I'm not really an expert or anything, but if you're looking for "food for thought" you might give some of Dostoevsky's work a try. And while it's not really a novel, Paradise Lost is pretty stirring, if you're looking for great characterization. And if you're looking for more "modern classics", I might recommend Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Or Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes. That one will rip your heart right out. Hope this helps. :)

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

@@TH3F4LC0Nx thank you! I’ve read parts of Paradise Lost and I’m living Brave New World right now! It’s so chilling and eye opening, which is why I love it! I’ve been wanting to read something by Dostoevsky. Is there a specific work of his you’d recommend?

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

@@booksboundnoveljourneys1122 I would recommend Notes from Underground to begin with. Short and sweet and offers some of his most piercing insights into human nature. Crime and Punishment is also really good. Also, I'm not really a big Dickens fan, but if you haven't read A Tale of Two Cities, you might wanna give that book a read. I remember that book being pretty powerful. :)

[@booksboundnoveljourneys1122]

@@TH3F4LC0Nx perfect! I’ll make sure to check those out. Thank you!

[@TheMrGamp]

Over criticism is what I am caught up at the moment. Is all true, we become shallow with no motivation to strive for better, because, theoretically, "there is no better". Thanks for breaking down what I felt but couldn't explain. I will read more.

[@bookswithbenjamin8902]

I refuse to date women who prefer TVs to books. Yes I am lonely. Edit: I am not lonely in the physical sense but in the mental. I have many friends who do not enjoy to read and we have always have a great time together. I am not pretentious, I just know what I want for when I do settle down. I want my future wife to understand how much books mean to me. I want her to understand how I can get lost in a library for hours at a time. How whenever I travel, I always find myself in a used book store looking for gems. And how I dream about building a huge home library one day that holds hundreds of my favorite books. I know what type of person that I am and I look for that same type of energy in people that I want to be close with. I want someone who appreciates the same things that I do and someone that gets that same glint in their eyes when they read something particularly special.

[@briansmith5391]

Dude, I dated nothing but chain smoking bar flies in different jobs I worked in over the years, I'm actually happy and it's a necessity for me to be alone at this point. And YES I live a lonley life as well; it's better than wasting your time with bad company.

[@lorenzoeldude]

From The Westside With Love edgelord

[@PathOfAvraham]

Move.

[@FunkyNozy]

r/iamverysmart

[@Beaver_Monday]

Pretty bad idea to judge a person based on something as shallow as that; of course you're lonely dumbass. Don't flaunt that like you're proud of it lol.

[@willemesterhuizen4422]

The best channel on KZbin!

[@thelibrarian1086]

thank you .

[@bobcat2938]

Lovely. Thank you.

[@greypilgrim1649]

Love the works of art

[@playalot86]

Requesting a list of the Great Books. I love this channel.

[@SH-hl3ce]

Look up the Great Books Curriculum from Saint John's College. Its western only but everything in there is worth reading

[@jonacacarr3839]

"they will have better things on their minds". This video illustrates why I support this channel on Patreon

[@TrustTheShooters]

Been reading 1984 for a month now. Perfect timing

[@lalalallulal]

After that read "the brave new world" and "farenheit 451"

[@TrustTheShooters]

@@lalalallulal Brave New World is on the radar for sure. Huxley was brilliant too, and I heard about 451 a decent bit.

[@larryjeremiah4321]

I read it a month ago, be ready for the end

[@kayaeki]

451 hit me if this actually exists right now

[@CreativeCat333]

Thanks sir!

[@sirmeowthelibrarycat]

👏 I fully concur with this sentiment. Books have been essential in my life from the time I found I could read at the age of 4. That achievement enabled me to become a teacher of English Language and Literature to young and mature people throughout my career. I possess a library of hundreds of books on various subjects, which I regard as my community of inspiring friends. You may be aware of the late Mortimer J Adler and his lifelong pursuit of a liberal arts curriculum derived from just this principle of involvement with great literature. Whether the titles he proposes for his scheme are the best or could be replaced over time does not invalidate the principle of his project. Unfortunately, most people today appear to be time constrained and unable to set aside room for such an intellectual commitment.

[@TaunellE]

Thank You So Much! Books, the written word to me is sacred.

[@milpoolvanhouten1260]

Audio books are the best things ever. The great books on audio are accessible to absolutely everyone. Not everyone can read Ulysses, but we all can listen to it.

[@rakash4118]

Personally I can't stand them

[@maxfrank13]

The greatest and most important KZbin video of all time.

[@Life_moreabundantly]

This Channel Itself Is Like A Great Book 📚

[@denzels.5505]

Love the new look