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8. Alan Jacobs: How to Get More Pleasure Out of Your Reading
The Reader's Journey
I Don't Like to Read, but I Like to Have Read
In your book, you also advise people to not turn reading into this intellectual equivalent of only eating vegetables or accounting pages. What I tell people is like, follow your curiosity because people have spent the past like 20 years in school where they've been constantly assigned books and they didn't get to like choose the book themselves. So I tell people, you know, see where it leads you and you'll stumble across like great books sooner or later. If you're reading masterpieces every day and that's all you're reading, I can guarantee you that you're not reading them well.
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