How long has it been since you last read a book?

[Hulu]

Fall of 2017. I have about 20 new quality paperbooks that I bought and I want to read but neither time no attention span.

[Bobby Martnen]

Do e-books count?

Yes.

[Bobby Martnen]

Do e-books count?

Yes.

[TEUTORIGOS]

For me, almost 4 years. I read my last book in August 2014.

I don't ever do my assigned readings for school, I either use SparkNotes or just bullshit my way through it. No one has ever caught on.

I finished an entire book, for understanding, about a month ago and I dipped and dived in about at least 7 books for information the past month.

The prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life--updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies.

The searing cultural history of the last half-century, The Age of American Unreason In A Culture of Lies focuses on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; the triumph of internet over print culture; and America's toxic addition to infotainment. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation and sparing neither the right nor the left, Susan Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced "junk thought" that makes almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.

At today's critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the crisis described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flights from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.

One of the most characteristic inventions of modern French culture is the “intellectual.”

Intellectuals in France are not just experts in their particular fields, such as literature, art, philosophy and history. They also speak in universal terms, and are expected to provide moral guidance about general social and political issues. Indeed, the most eminent French intellectuals are almost sacred figures, who became global symbols of the causes they championed — thus Voltaire’s powerful denunciation of religious intolerance, Rousseau’s rousing defense of republican freedom, Victor Hugo’s eloquent tirade against Napoleonic despotism, Émile Zola’s passionate plea for justice during the Dreyfus Affair, and Simone de Beauvoir’s bold advocacy of women’s emancipation.

Above all, intellectuals have provided the French with a comforting sense of national pride. As the progressive thinker Edgar Quinet put it, with a big dollop of Gallic self-satisfaction: “France’s vocation is to consume herself for the glory of the world, for others as much as for herself, for an ideal which is yet to be attained of humanity and world civilization.”

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[Oneeye]

Just last night before bed, and on my lunches.

[Heather Duval]

The only book I was interested in reading was the biography of Madonna.

[Heather Duval]

And I want to read this one by Paris Hilton

[calxpal]

I last read an actual book at all 3 years ago from what I remember .

[idioteque]

Educated people reed.

[TEUTORIGOS]

For me, almost 4 years. I read my last book in August 2014.

I don't ever do my assigned readings for school, I either use SparkNotes or just bullshit my way through it. No one has ever caught on.

Tais-toi ! Je déteste la culture américaine. je pense vous êtes stupide !

I read all the time but in the past week I have been spendng too much time on theparicity which is a statistical anomaly for me. I currently have 77 books on my Kobo Aura ONE :