Will reading obscure books make me well read?
no, asking that question means you will never be well read.
>>7508061
>says the anon that has read Infinite Meme and Pynchon
>well read
Can we stop with this?
>>7508064
i haven't read infinite jest, and not any major pynchon. sorry to disappoint, memer.
Who here is well read AND well hung?
>>7508073
reporting in
Reading well makes you well read
>>7508088
Are you sure?
>>7508064
*sez
It will exponentially increase your patrician status. It doesn't matter whether you actually understand or drill anything out of it —after a while you'll be teeming on the breeze of your intellectual ego. Now, isn't that of your fancy?
>>7508059
No, in order to be well-read you're better off reading well known books. Whether or not you're well-read is more about others' social perception of you than it is some arbitrary number of books you've got under your belt. If you can say you've read the 300 or so most well-known books, that people have heard of, that serves you better than having read 600 obscure books that no one will ever ask you about or recognize if you bring them up.
>>7508157
Bane?