Read Books That Stab You
I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?… we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
-Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
Boom. Guy’s got a point. But don’t you read something for pure fun from time to time, just to clear the palate?
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