what Matthew Cambion’s been reading

   opinions on books I read for recreation

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     "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
     possession of literacy, must be in want of a woman to tell him he
     should read more literary fiction."

   a parody of the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, with apologies
   to Jane Austen

   I might have written the above in jest, and in all respectful affection
   toward the OG of Regency romance, but the joke is also one made in ire.
   I may be one of the few men in the United States who reads entirely for
   pleasure, rather than for self-improvement. I care nothing for the
   arguments that reading fiction makes readers more empathetic. Nor do I
   spare more than scant tolerance for those who would tell me what I
   should read.

   For me, reading requires no justification. That I enjoy it is reason
   enough; reason is merely the slave of the passions, as David Hume
   observed. Any logic I might weave to justify my pleasure is a mere
   post-hoc rationalization, and I am sufficiently well-read to know it.

   Moreover, I have lived sufficiently long to have gained this modicum of
   wisdom: if my pleasures harm none save myself, then I am under no
   obligation to justify them to anybody; it’s my funeral, and I’ll die if
   I want to. Therefore I shall read as I please, and sometimes write
   about what I’ve read here.

opinions on books I read for recreation

     * The Will of the Many by James Islington

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