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Reasons to agree : The books on the "Modern Library's 100 best novels" list are good Reasons to agree : #13 on the list: " 1984 ," by George Orwell is a good book Reasons to agree : Art imitates real life, and real life imitates art. People form the 1950s soviet union say that is what it was like, only 1984 was a little worse. 1984 is an accurate warning. You can't ask much more than a book's main point to be based in an important truth.  Number 31 on the list, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, is good.  Reasons to agree : Truth is beauty and beauty is truth. If a book is not truthful it is not beautiful. However, obvious truths are often ignored, because people would rather be unique than diligent. A good book can vividly explain obvious truths in such a way that people would feel stupid to ignore. It is an obvious truth that w orkers' revolution tend to go wrong. However people keep ignoring this fact, because the motiva...

Reasons to agree : Works of literature should not be measured by how much work went into them. Sure a lot of work went into writing Ulysses. But writing shouldn't just be a game where someone says, look at all this fancy work I can do, and people pat themselves on the back for being able to notice the fancy work.  Ulysses is tiresome Ulysses is tedious Joyce is a pseudo-intellectual. Scientist are intellects. They propose a hypothesis  Make it as clear as possible, and gather evidence to support or weaken the hypothesis. If Joyce believes things, he should state them clearly, make a list of logical reasons to support those conclusion, and encourage other people to submit their reasons to agree or disagree with his conclusion. We can do that now. Lets advance the science of thinking. Lets be clear. Lets be organized. If you believe your ideas are important you owe it to your readers to be clear, comprehensible, a...

Reasons to agree : There is no reason Gatsby should love Daisy. Yes we all get it. People fall in love for bad reasons, and this ends in tragedy. You should fall in love with real people, not your allusion of what you think these people are like. But you shouldn't waste your time reading stupid stories about stupid people that do stupid things. From an  Amazon review : "But unhappy endings need not be the same thing as nihilism. Gatsby's universe is a highly nihilistic one, a world so far gone that even the saddest ideals seem priceless simply for being ideals. Perhaps it's the kind of cynicism the book represents--it's not "grumpy old man" cynicism like Vonnegut or Twain, which at least feels earned and honest".

Reasons to agree : +2 They are free, if you have a computer or MP3 player. Librivox has good books. The following books are good: The Grapes of Wrath A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling The Tragedy Of Macbeth By William Shakespeare   Howards End By EM Forster Poetics By Aristotle Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson The Awful German Language By Mark Twain The Sayings Of Confucius By Confucius Anna Karenina Book By Leo Tolstoy Les Miserables Volume By Victor Hugo Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen   The Autobigraphy Of Benjamin Franklin Ed By Frank Woodworth Pine The Return Of Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Great Expectations By Charles Dickens The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett Reasons to disagree : -2 Each Chapter has the "This is a librivox recording..." thing Listening to a book on tape may be more distracting than listening to music Websites that agree : +1 http://l...

Score: 2 + 2 +1 +3 = 8 Reasons to agree : Good books should be relevant to you. The Grapes of Wrath is not very relevant today  Reasons to agree : + 2 Poverty in America has drastically changed from the time of the Great Depression Reasons to agree : + 3 We have food stamps. We now have disability  Kids are not starving to death in America in more.  Yes we all know that things were tough. The great depression was hard. Life sucked. But life has always sucked. Why should I read about it now? People live like that overseas.  Tragedies with no hope are great at pointing out how wonderful the author is, but there is often little reason to read them. Reasons to agree : + 1 Why waste your time learning about depressing stuff? Life is short. Write about your own problems. Better yet, try to fix your problems. But why read about other people's problems? Why read about fake other people's problems? If you want to read about other people's pr...