We live in a time of mental laziness.
Ever faster videos and other media have shaped our mental capacities in a way that requires us to think less. Our critical thinking skills have suffered as a result.
So we should occasionally challenge ourselves by reading from a book that is difficult to read. Many excellent books require focus and concentration.
In the video below we are challenged to read a few!
Ten More Hard Books I Want to Read (But It’s Fine If You Don’t)
Video from To Readers It May Concern
Why Reading Difficult Books is Good for Our Minds
"Chapters ---------------------- 00:00 On Hard Books 01:37 Book 1 (Fiction) 03:45 Bonus Books that Distend Time 06:12 Final Thoughts on Book 1 06:52 Book 2 (Fiction) 10:38 Book 3 (History & Journalism) 14:24 Book 4 (Fiction) 16:31 Book 5 (Fiction) 21:09 Book 6 (Fiction) 23:38 Book 7 (Fiction) 26:01 Book 8 (Essays & Poetry) 27:58 Book 9 (Science History) 30:01 Book 10 (Philosophy) 33:32 Outro ---------------------- Books Featured (With Amazon Links) ---------------------- Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young: https://amzn.to/4cgF5Bb The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker: https://amzn.to/3VDo52J Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: https://amzn.to/3KFznNx Anniversaries 1 & 2 by Uwe Johnson: https://amzn.to/3z0ysEY Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec: https://amzn.to/3VCgilE The Christine Brooke-Rose Omnibus: https://amzn.to/4eoMtfZ Xorandor/Verbivore by Christine Brooke-Rose: https://amzn.to/4eidEZN Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West: https://amzn.to/3Xt47ZE The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: https://amzn.to/45ptsWt Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann: https://amzn.to/4emZl6k The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein: https://amzn.to/4cfAoYv Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek: https://amzn.to/3KE6voW The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek: https://amzn.to/3z3Drow The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader: https://amzn.to/45p5g6P The Poems of Laura Riding: https://amzn.to/3KFLkCP Objectivity by Lorraine Daston & Peter L. Galison: https://amzn.to/3xmUQru Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: https://amzn.to/3Rm0m4D Human Life, Action, and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3RrPlPj Logic, Truth and Meaning by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3RpFc5G From Plato to Wittgenstein by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3z7ZfPy Faith in a Hard Ground by G.E.M. Anscombe: https://amzn.to/3xi11Nz " from the video introduction
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