/lit/ - Literature

reading phenomenology of spirit rn ama that appears up to paragraph 110.

>>11207828
I just buy them. I don’t really read them.

>>11207828
Books are not worth reading.

>>11207849
what translation?

>>11207828

Just remember 80-20 rule. 80% of the reading on /lit/ is done by 20% of the people.

Except that since it's 4chan. To quote Gibson, it's like some crazed experiment in social Darwinism run by a bored researcher with one finger permanently on the fast-forward button. So it's not an 80:20 rule, it's a 95 - 5 rule.

>>11207828
>tfw you made it in the 10%

>>11207828
Reading is for nerds.

>>11208569
>tfw youre the 1%

>>11208539
>translation

>>11207828
4chan is the den of superficial knowledge. You don't come here to discuss books, or history, or whatever. You come to feel like you are invested in a subject without an ounce of competence in it.

>>11207828
great literature thread
thankgod someone's fighting all the meta shit

>>11208519
Literally me

Socrates said reading is shit so I don't read

>>11209656

This is mostly, but not entirely, true. There are some intelligent, well-read people on /lit/. It's not many, though. I would guess a dozen at most.

>>11207849

yo if its the newer cambridge edition, tell me if its worth the price. cambridge's (di giovanni) science of logic apparently was a massive step forward in scholarship

Meh, I'm sure 90% actually read, it's just that they only read what they're told is good and have no actual functional knowledge of what they're reading, or why it's good.

i like writing more than reading so all my favorite books are references and syntactic guides to idiom and sociolect. I'm mostly vulnerable when it comes to reading circles because people enjoy reading more than anything else.

Novels are fun, but only if I can read them intensely and not just to get the story.

Just finished rendezvous with rama and fifth head of cerberus, reading crime and punishment right now

Finally part of the 10%

If you don't remind us every two days it's no longer true.

>>11207828
Do people not realize this was a meme to keep out outsiders

>>11209681
> the price
> THE PRICE
> AUTHOR DEAD FOR CENTURIES
> KEK STILL PAYS

>>11208519
I-I'll eventually read them, I am just too busy.
t. Neet

lol i just ordered a couple ten packs of monster energy zero ultra from walmart (worked out to about $1.50 a can, not bad) and got free two day shipping even tho its heavy as shit

>>11207828
You’re mostly right. I used to buy a lot of books and barely read them, but I realized I was doing that and I actually want to be a writer, so I stopped buying books and started renting them from the library. I am much more likely to read them if I get them from the library because I don’t get the little dopamine high from a purchase. I’ve read 18 books so far in 2018, trying to get 52 for the year but I may be slightly under.

>>11209656
completely false, you have no idea what kind of creatures are roaming beneath and orthogonal to your rote pathways of behavior

>>11207828
90% of the people on /lit/ cant even read

>>11207828
I visit here only occasionally exactly because of it - to get inspired to read.