Reading thoughts
I am so in concurrence with this:
Reading a book you hate? Stop right now. Life is too short to indulge in things that do not give a great return on your energy, emotion or time.
I was going to say, there is no book shortage, but I suppose there are circumstances in which this might be the case - but I would say, give up on the thing you are not enjoying, and re-read something that gives you pleasure.
Which would probably not be any of the works in this article, but I'm not judging - there are probably people out there for who these books resonated at the time, and maybe, even now, ring a bell?
The cult books that lost their cool What’s certain is that the cult classic inspires passionate devotion among its fans, who frequently weave their own myths around the texts. But another, underexamined, feature of the cult book is this: in contrast to the examples above, it can sometimes age really badly....
We’ve taken a blushing look back at some of the formerly hip tomes now shelved in that spectral section of the bookshop reserved for the irredeemably dated, the hopelessly irrelevant, the plain offensive. Their fate tells us a little something not only about why cult novels fade but also about how they’re made in the first place.
We observe that the list skews heavily bloke...
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