What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?
What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?
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A Brief History of Time - a fair number of people do read it but there's a pretty big chunk of people that just want bookshelf clout.
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I prefer the album "A Brief History of Rhyme" by MC Hawking.
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I was looking for this. 15 years ago this would have been top of the list.
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People don't read popular science books? 🤨🤨
Okay, I admit, I am deeply perplexed by everything everyone is saying in this thread. Do people seriously keep books on bookshelves not for reading, but for decoration or to pretend they're well-read? Why wouldn't they just read the books?
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Yes they do just buy them for decoration. If you are intellectually curious you're in an extreme minority of people.
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Which I find strange. Usually anti-intellectualism is open, up-front, and honest about what it is. People buying books and not reading them just to pretend they're smart doesn't seem like a thing that actually happens in real life, just a straw intellectual the willfully ignorant like to beat up.
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