/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading now because
1. It's fun for me
2. I want to mend some of my cognitive deficiencies
3. I have a bunch of books and ebooks lying around, so I might as well

>>10781828

That looks so fucking uncomfortable

>>10781828

To travel where I'm unable to.

>>10781828
I people to know that I'm intellectically superior

I read out of habit, because I love to know what others have to say about different matters while reflecting on my existence.

The underlying truth is that I have achieved nothing in my life, as I'm lazy and cowardly. I read to live, in my mind, though others.

>>10781828
>cheap
>hard plastic, uncomfortable as fuck
>no arm rests
Yea that's the 4chan chair alright

>>10781828
i ask myself this often and i don't really have an answer for it.
why do i spend so much time on something and still don't know really why i do it?

1) For Fun - but what about the difficult books i read, which if i'm honest is not fun at times but istill force my waythrough them.

2) To feel intellectually superior: i hope this isn't an underlying motive, it's such a superficial motive which i hope i'm not acting on.

I have said to myself some times that i read to provide me with a variety of others thoughts and opinions and that will increase the breadth of my thought capacity. Each book and idea i read, is a building block in my mind that i can use to create thought.

Im not sure

I started to read as a child because i was an only child living in the middle of nowhere, just farms and cows around me.

I would go into my dad's office and take his books and read them (the first one was One Dimensional Man - Marcuse, then the next was The Social Contract). I would read those books so that i could have a chat with my dad when he came back from work, so initially it was to impress him.

But overtime it became a habit and a passion of my own

>>10783368
>One Dimensional Man and The Social Contract
How old were you? Did you actually understand and was interested by them?

>>10783394
i was like 12, and i had no idea what i was reading. but i would read it to just to say to my dad i've read it and then he would explain to me the basics of the book as best as he could

I read because I'm a loser and a failure.

>>10781828
>4chan chair
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>>10783494
Good meme reaction

To acquire cultural knowledge as aid in my takeover as dictator. People like culture.

>>10781828
For intellectual superiority. Though I found that you don't even have to read much you can just name drop authors and most people are impressed

>>10781828
>To live vicariously through others
>To engage in emotional empathy
>To explore the great questions of life
>To sound more articulate/enhance my vocabulary
>To have something to do
>To experience another's thoughts in my own mind
And I'm surely forgetting some!