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>yfw you come home from a long day of work, excited to open up a book and begin reading

I pity those who choose not to read or cannot enjoy it. Movies are great and video games are great, but nothing is as personal, satisfying, rewarding and enriching as soaking in all those delicious words. Nothing challenges your imagination like books do. Why is it that people don't read again?

Books are just swell

>> No.1850654
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>mfw I work the night shift as a CNA

I read before work, before bed, and at work.
OP confirmed for not a faggot

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I read at work...

>Mr. Sherlock, whatcha doin'?
>Reading.
>Oh. What's that?
>It's my notes.
>Oh. What does it say?
>Information about the book
>Oh. What's "information"?

KINDERGARTENERS.

>> No.1850742

>>1850694

I'm a bartender, so it's not always easy fitting in time to read, but sometimes I can do it. I also work for a bar at a hotel, so I do a lot of events/weddings, and sometimes they are painfully slow. Before I got my Kindle I just sat on my phone for 8 hours, making 3 - 5 drinks an hour, so I'm definitely loving my E-Reader right about now. Although, my experience isn't far from yours:

>Hey man what are you reading?
>(Book name)
>Is it any good?
>Yeah, I like it
>You must be bored
>Haha naw, I'm ok
>HEY GUYS COME GET A DRINK THE BARTENDER IS BORED LOOK AT HIM HE'S READING
>(Nobody comes to get a drink)
>I don't know what's wrong with these pussies, but I want a shot
>(Make shot)
>So, what are you reading?

Damn drunks, just leave me alone. You're at a wedding/company party, don't you have anybody else to talk to?

>> No.1850765

>reading for enjoyment
only plebs do this.

>> No.1850770

Of course, reading isn't the same as critical appreciation. Just so everyone doesn't forgot. You could be the best reader on the planet and still not know a single thing about the critical appreciation of a work.

>> No.1850831

>>1850770
>critical appreciation
Every post is worse than the previous one. How do you do it?

>> No.1851964

I am always reading on my lunches at work and then reading as soon as I get home. I love the anticipation of opening up a good book.

>>1850765
As opposed to elitist fags who read to have something 'interesting' and 'intelligent' to talk about?

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Just got off work. It's time to read and have a glass of wine.

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>>1850831
He is pathetic creature, best left to his own devices. He feeds on attention, so if we ignore him he will go away to a book club somewhere.

>> No.1852171

>>1851964
Well, yeah. I'm not who you were talking to, but I read because I like to discuss books with friends, and to expose myself to interesting ideas and ways of writing because I'm a writer.

All of which is fun; I just don't read "for a good time."

>> No.1852183

Yeah it makes me kinda sad because most people my age do not read at all. I remember being assigned small books to read for English in High school and almost everyone would complain.

>> No.1852192

>>1850652
Books are certainly swell. People just forgot how swell they actually are. Someday they will remember. Until then we can take up the charge.