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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have a confession: I sort of knew what you meant. I just don't subscribe to the idea that growth can only be achieved through books that bore me to tears.
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But if you stare at the book until your eyes bleed, you will finally be able to see the emperor's new clothes!
There is no end of books that can help you with mental growth. If one book is a slog, then you can always pick up another book that you actually will enjoy reading. Don Quixote is one of my favorite books, but for others it might be a slog.
I am slowly slogging my way through Moby Dick, now and then I will read a chapter. I think there is great stuff in there, but I think he desperately needed an editor. "The whiteness of the white"? Someone published an edited version "Moby Dick in Half the Time", with a lot of the really extraneous parts removed. In response, someone published "; or, The Whale", which only had the parts that were cut out of the other book.