I think no one has read Manufacturing Consent beyond the first chapter.
I swear I had all the best intentions, but that book literally taunts me from it's place on the bookshelf where it's been sitting for the past 2 years. Not sure I even made it to chapter 2....
Well the first chapter is very good and reading it will explain why this book is so influential. It's also not very long. You can do it 💪
Atlas Shrugged
Gravity's rainbow
A lot of hipsters have Bukowski or Hunter Thompson on their shelves that they haven't read. They place them strategically on the corner of their $8,000 coffee table or bookshelf.
Probably meditations or some popular philosophy book.
Among my friend group it's House of Leaves.
"Wow, it's such an eerie unsettling journey. I really love it." "you started it last year, did you finish it?" "well ..."
I saw another lemmy user claim they had to take a 17 year break from it.
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