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>mom only reads romance novels and murder mysteries

>> No.10495140

>murder mysteries
Why are these so popular anyways? I never got the appeal, the emphasis on the plot is just too strong for me.

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>mom only reads novels about child abuse and abductions

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>>10495005
>mom only reads 50 Shades of Grey

>> No.10495171

>Mom doesn't read
>Father doesn't read
>Sister doesn't read
I'm okay with this.
shit thread btw

>> No.10495182

>>10495171
>shit thread btw
Thank You :)

>> No.10495193

By romance do you mean softcore porn from newsstand?

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>Dad only reads dad-tier historical novels

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>>10495198
>dad only read newspapers

>> No.10495202

>>10495193
I do

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>pa only reads beer bottles

>> No.10495210

>>10495202
Then you know she is also fapping while reading it.

>> No.10495227

>>10495140
The tweeeest? I stopped reading thrillers after reading one where the asylum escapee schizophrenic who seriously busts a nut on a dead animal he runs across turns out to be the good guy, and the villain is actually the "too-perfect" hubby.

>>10495005
Fyi James Patterson books are confirmed for the most lowbrow fiction out there
>in prison
>half the inmates clamoring for James Patterson books because they require no thought
>other half can't even read
Kek

>> No.10495246

>Dad tells you Steinbeck is the best author ever, and tries to get you to read East of Eden.

>> No.10495260

>>10495227
>busts a nut on a dead animal he runs across
He did literally nothing wrong.

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>Dad reads classic sci-fi

>> No.10495295

>>10495005
>mom is a women
shig

>> No.10495304

>Dad and I got each other typee for Christmas

>Mom got me a Gaddis for Christmas, I got her a Calvino

family life is still fucked but at least we read

>> No.10495355

>>10495209
He READS the bottles? What a faggot.

>> No.10495360

>>10495005
>give parents books for christmas each year
>they never read any of them
>they keep listening to audio books
hmm

>> No.10497051

Dad unironically began IJ.
Mom read a lot and is patrician but her brain got mashed by tv and facebook.

>> No.10497066

>>10497051
Sorry for your loss.
I hope your mom is okay too

>> No.10497115

>>10497051
Should also add grandma majored German literature in 60s and grandpa read the entire Churchill's World War II few times.
All grandparents + mom and uncle had a college degree.

>tfw i'm the only brainlet in my family

>> No.10497134

>>10497115
Don’t worry, anon, they know

>> No.10497140

>mom only reads those clickbait-y leadership and managements books like Good to Great
>dad only reads sheet music
I'm okay with this.

>> No.10497143

literally thousands of books in my parents house. mainly classics, sciences and otherwise decent stuff. leatherbound tolstoy, chekov, paperback nabokov.
the colin dexter collection is probably the most embarrassing thing there but that was a gift from someone, they don't want it there.

>> No.10497151

>mom read Nietzsche once