One of the most natural methods of practicing cogent analyses is discussing works with others. I categorize clubs in two types:
Real-life: Ancient, antiquated, poorly resourced, and likely heavy on necessitative social requirements and small talk. In other words, you can't do anything if you're with particularly stupid people with particularly stupid arguments save for leaving the club altogether.
Online: The modern evolution. There are many useless subsets/types in here, and it's very difficult to find the proper clubs that facilitate the type of discussion indicated above. The most desirable would be relatively small member bases (less than 100), agreeable and sane members in general, semi-frequent (at least weekly) discussion with lots of substantive back-and-forth talk. Now if only I could find the C&C equivalent for books, although I'm quite sure there are innumerable amounts of them within this medium, which households smarter people at the end of the spectrum than anime does.
I will need to remind myself to explore this option (particularly Goodreads clubs) in more detail when I have the time. It's safe to say that the reddit r/books and 4chan /lit/ clubs, as well as the most popular Goodreads clubs, have left me very underwhelmed with the amount of intelligent discussion and profuse casual talk.
Real-life: Ancient, antiquated, poorly resourced, and likely heavy on necessitative social requirements and small talk. In other words, you can't do anything if you're with particularly stupid people with particularly stupid arguments save for leaving the club altogether.
Online: The modern evolution. There are many useless subsets/types in here, and it's very difficult to find the proper clubs that facilitate the type of discussion indicated above. The most desirable would be relatively small member bases (less than 100), agreeable and sane members in general, semi-frequent (at least weekly) discussion with lots of substantive back-and-forth talk. Now if only I could find the C&C equivalent for books, although I'm quite sure there are innumerable amounts of them within this medium, which households smarter people at the end of the spectrum than anime does.
I will need to remind myself to explore this option (particularly Goodreads clubs) in more detail when I have the time. It's safe to say that the reddit r/books and 4chan /lit/ clubs, as well as the most popular Goodreads clubs, have left me very underwhelmed with the amount of intelligent discussion and profuse casual talk.