/lit/ - Literature

>>17320273
She probably reads for fun rather than for brownie points from pseuds on the internet

>>17320273
Women and men are different, anon. You just have to accept it. My wife is relatively intelligent too, but she reads probably 3 or 4 YA/genre books to every literary work she reads.

>>17320273
YA, especially YA aimed at women (most of it), should be retitled "women in their 20s and 30s fiction".

>>17320278
you're stupid

>>17320273
because it's easy as fuck

I also work in law. A lot of attorneys are dumb as fuck, dude.

>>17320278
>everyone who reads great literature is just posturing

Thanks for playing.

>>17320672
True.

Also, the good attorneys are rarely the truly intelligent ones, they're just the ones who followed the path without questioning.
Intelligent people in Law tend to have some other career or passion that they follow in their free time. No one is truly passionate about law.

>>17320672
The majority of people are very ignorant about any discipline outside theirs. Lawyers probably don't know much about medicine, doctors don't know much about finance, economists don't know much about music theory, etc. They just know a lot about what's relevant to their jobs. Sometimes their jobs can require complex knowledge so we assume they must be very cultured and intelligent but not really.

>>17320731
It's worse than just that. People think getting into law school means you're some wise being. That may be true for the top 14 law schools, but it's not true for the retards who go to some school ranked 80+ who literally takes anyone no matter what their LSAT score was.

>>17320283
>My wife is relatively intelligent
I can't believe people like you get married

>>17320273
What's wrong with reading YA for enjoyment and relaxation anyway? I have an elitist taste in books but I listen to the most low-brow pop music imaginable. I don't see the issue.

>>17320896
I never said I found anything wrong with it, I acknowledge in my Original Post™ that I have this underserved elitist view and made the topic to discuss this phenomenon.

>>17320698
>Also, the good attorneys are rarely the truly intelligent ones, they're just the ones who followed the path without questioning.
This happens in a lot of professions. But what you probably see as big picture grasping is really a dangerous deviation. Better to have your drive operating inside the structure than try to reinvent the wheel outside.

>>17320812
Seethe and/or dilate, friendo.

>>17320278
What a brave soul. Tellin the truf

>>17320896
Garbage in, garbage out.

this is a weird thing with a lot of smart girls, they'll go from reading Lord Byron to some trashy romance novel and back

>>17321259
I've seen a Borges - 50 shades of gray transition

>>17321251
What is coming "out" in this instance?

>>17321259
>from reading Lord Byron to some trashy romance novel and back

Not a whole lot of range there, buddy.

>>17321284
Your vapid personality.

>>17321347
Is she wrong though?

>>17321290
hohoho

>>17320273
>intelligent
>women

>>17321347
Those all sound good.

>>17320679

>everyone who goes on /lit/ to talk about reading great literature is just posturing

fixed that for ya Anon

>>17320273
Well, she probably doesn't browse 4chan, anon. So it is not like she needs to read anything to make up for reading the immense amount of shitposting.

>>17321347
>>17321381
>>17321421
She is a comedian.

>>17321347
Thats actually pretty funny

Women reach their intellectual and emotional maturity at 15-16. They read YA fiction because they are stuck at that mental level forever.

4 ur bud,bud.

>>17320812
Being like him is the only way to get married.

>>17320273
>She's such an intelligent women too, works in law.
Too stupid to work in STEM yet just as soulless.

>>17321290
based, fuck lord byron and the effeminate pseuds who worship him.

>>17320278
First post, best post.

She’s a good woman OP. You need to marry her if possible

>>17321290
True

>>17320278
This. Leave people alone with their books

>>17320278
Based. Me too :)
I LOVE SANDERSON

>>17320790
>tfw go to a t14, have a grad degree in philosophy, and read fiction in my spare time

>>17320273
There's TV then there is Kubrick. You are used to reading Kubrick, dr strangelove, etc etc. To meet someone who only watches sitcoms but watches TV as much as you must be jarring.

>>17320273
>trivial
Works shape opinions shape actions. Her actions are being shaped by fictional encyclopedias of excuses and ways to gain plausible deniability, all pushing for greater exercise of sexual misconduct.

>>17320273
She reads to relax, that's all. Nothing wrong with that.

>Why do I have an elitist view on something as trivial as books?
Probably some leftover resentment or self-esteem issues from middle school.

>>17324722
>She reads to relax, that's all. Nothing wrong with that.
Bullshit thrives in the relaxed mind.

>>17320896
I have a nonexistent taste in books because I'm a newfag to this specific board, but I mostly listen to prog rock and exclusively use Linux on my computers. You have to be straight autistic to care about every single facet of your life like that.

>>17320273
I've found that is really, really hard these days to find young women who have a real diverse taste in literature that isn't just different genres of YA.
I'm always surprised when I find some youtube channel where a girl talks about the classics or has more than just YA on their shelves.

>>17320273
> intelligent women
Oxymoron, literally

>>17320273
>works in law
Paralegals don't count.

>>17325080
>exclusively use Linux on my computers.
>not autistic

>>17320273
>>>80% of her books are YA
>>17320273
>>She's such an intelligent women too, works in law.


lol law is for NPC who want to feel smart because they talk nice

>>17325214
When did I ever say I wasn't autistic anon

>>17320273
Really depends on the other 20%. Nothing is wrong with reading easy stuff to relax. Especially if you have an intellectually challenging job. If she also reads good stuff on the side she's a keeper.

I am studying law, have a test in a few hours.
Reading Rashomon and seventeen other stories by Akutagawa. Wonder why they picked Rashomon.

Also; people in law are fucking retards. I cry for the judicial system and the cows that it is run by.

>>17321347
>I don't want to exist 4
kek

I wish i had a /lit/ gf

>>17320273
>Elite
Spooked. There is no difference between the Odyssey and The Wimpy Kid except in how much I appreciate both, for they are both nothing without I.

>>17323681
And yet you still browse 4chan (:

>>17320790
The smartest people are physics PhDs, nothing comes even close

>>17320278
You triggered the incels that think reading books makes them smart kek

>>17326695
KEK I'm leaving, I unironically thought about destroying this board, but all things considered people (both anons and non-anons) are unironically better contained in here.

>>17326849
>Not muh nonwhite greeks, das it mane

>>17320273
>Why do I have an elitist view on something as trivial as books?
Because you're an elitist, most of us here are or we wouldn't be here.

Popcorn lit is fine OP, take a deep breath. w

>>17320273
Yeah OP, I'm gonna replicate some of the sentiments in this thread, women and men are just different creatures. Both my dad and sister are into film, but when my dad sits down to watch a movie, he only watches kino, whereas my sister will watch both kino and schlock, she just "likes it." On the other hand, my dad can't stomach to watch the schlock. The same can be said with me and my reading--I've tried to read sci-fi/fantasy after I got more into "serious" literature, but I just can't enjoy it anymore. It's vulgar and deadening to the faculties. Same can even be said of music. My aunt and her son are both pianists, and while my aunt often intersperses some of the more canonical music with popular favorites, my cousin almost only plays more serious avant-garde stuff, or at least Bach and Beethoven. In some ways being a woman is a blessing and being a man is a curse--women are much less sensitive when it comes to the aesthetic faculties, and therefore are able to enjoy a wider range of art. But I wouldn't give up being a man for this reason: to know that I'm sharpening my faculties whenever I sit down to read a book, and that I'll always disregard something if it disagrees with my sensibilities. Men are more visual creatures than women are, it's baked into our DNA. During sex, men are about the image, while women are more about the feeling of security. Not to say that this is always the case, it's just a general heuristic.

No one got ever laid for reading a book that is on a /lit/cel chart

>>17321347

>>17326866
Stick to your /lit/ containment board.

>>17320273
Newb here tf is YA?

>>17327116
Young Adult, and you are probably browsing somewhere else. Unless you feel like being an incel.

>>17320698
>No one is truly passionate about law.
some people are, but they're Professors, not lawyers

>>17320812
Kek

>>17326695
prove it

>>17326835
physics phd student here, in fact the smartest people are pretty much anyone who doesn't decide to go to grad school

>>17320273
it's all about what you're trying to get out of the activity. my wife watches nothing but the most crass australian reality tv shows when she's by herself. i can't hack it because i feel like im turning into a vegetable when i do it, but i think that's what she actually likes about it.

>>17320278
Based
>>17320679
Cope

>>17320273
the majority of men that work in law probably don't read for leisure at all. you are making the mistake of assuming that just because someone is educated or successful that they will "excel" in all aspects of life, including matters of taste or discernment. There is no correlation. There are excellent audio engineers that listen to almost exclusively top 40 pop music. There are extremely successful actors that have shit taste in film. There are doctors that are fat.

>>17321290
byron is unironically a high-tier poet anon

Any advice on how to get a gf or even have sex? I am unfortunately
ready to pay money at this point.

>>17329569
>Paying money to put your penis in a hole
That will change nothing, anon.

>>17329569
Quit porn, anon. And masturbation. Definitely 4chan too. You won't get this kind of advice from anons, will you?

>>17320278
fpbp

>>17326835
Lol sure, physicists need another 100 trillion dollar toy to detect antimatter waves or gluons or whatever else that is probably just background noise

>>17320273
>intelligent women

>>17330640
lol

>>17320278
Based

>>17320812
found the kissless virgin lol. you have nothing going on in your life buddy, better of killing your self now.

>>17320273
>is woman
>reads YA
Nothing strange to me desu.

>>17320812
Really, it's obvious to me that they pre-whipped themselves to avoid feeling pussy whipped directly. They just don't deserve any sympathy or justice.

>>17326845
ok incel

>>17326811
nice dubs. who cares that I browse /lit/ before bedtime once in a while? my live-in gf doesn’t :)

>>17329569
Paying for a date is the same as paying for sex directly. Either way you will pay for it.

>>17326845
have standards, chudslut.

>>17321312
KEK

>>17320278
>Leave her alone bigot, she eats shit for fun

>>17320273
why does she waste her money (and space) on buying that much ya physically? I like to read for relaxation as well, but I could never get myself to pay for that many books when I'm only reading them for consumption and don't need to reread them/use them often for info.

>>17332082
I hope you had a good sleep and comfy dreams fren (:

>>17321381
she pwned us boys, no denying it

>>17329569
wait for coronaworld to end, then just be yourself

>>17334451
LOL

Modern YA fiction is also rigorously gatekept and screened for wrong-think so maybe she just likes reading the anaemic prose of frustrated authoritarians.

>>17334713
Trump lost

>>17334719
Pedojoe cheated

>>17334319
same to you, anon :)

>>17334723
back to /pol/, retard!

>>17334736
>calls me retard
>supports creepy uncle joe
How ironic, kek.

>>17320278
Lotta copers here, you did good

Womyn be fookin dumb mate

>>17334793
>disliking Trump means that you support Biden
no wonder this board is a shithole

Taste in books is the furthest thing from trivial

>>17320278
based