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>be 12 and read shakespeare
>be 22 and read conan the barbarian

>> No.10957760

>12 read Goosebumps
>22 read IJ

>> No.10957793

>be 13 read the Count of Monte Cristo and the Silmarillion
>be 27 read Konosuba and other light novels

>> No.10957802

>be 13 and read 4chan
>be 23 and read 4chan

>> No.10957807

>be 15 and read the interpretation of dreams
>be 20 and read 4chan

>> No.10957817

>>10957802
Motherfucker 4chin ain’t even ten ye-
>current year
Good god.

>> No.10958007 [DELETED] 

>Be 18 at try to read Plotinus's Enneads
>Be 23 and read Brandon Sanderson
Wtf is going on

>> No.10958014

>Be 18 and try to read Plotinus's Enneads
>Be 23 and read Brandon Sanderson
Wtf is going on

>> No.10958821

>>10957817
>[curent year] was 3 years ago

>> No.10958859

>>10957735
>be 12 and read borges
>be 22 and read dōkyūsei

>> No.10958983

>>10957735
>be 1 hour ago and read a real book
>be now and shitposting on /lit/

>> No.10959412
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10959412

>be 11
>read crime and punishment, faukner, the list can go on
>be 26
>read comics and shitty manga

>> No.10959415

>>10957735
>be 12 and read gamefaqs
>be 22 and read 4chan

>> No.10959416

>>10959412
be 26 and misspell Faulkner

>> No.10959420

>>10959416
Precisely my point. I can't be bothered anymore. I don't even care dude. I don't like this.

>> No.10959634

>>10957817
>current year
you mean 2011?

>> No.10959640

>>10959416
Oh fauk

>> No.10959720
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>>10957802
literally me

i also haven't read a single book in that time, until now

>> No.10959733

>be 15 and read Hegel
>be 20 and watch Family Guy

>> No.10959739

>>10957735
>be 12 and read the metin2 chat
>be 18 and read the aoe2 chat

>> No.10959756
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10959756

>be 15 and read Neechee
>be 23 and read Evola

>> No.10959766

>be 5 read the aenid and the bible
>be 9 read jules verne and alexander dumas
>be 15 read lord of the rings and harry potter
>be 21 read warhammer fantasy novels
>be 28 read japanese manga
>be 32 stopped reading all together

why did i go backwards?

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>>10959420
>be 15, have hope that you will one day make use of your talents and potential
>be 35, see what your talent and potential has wrought

>> No.10959783

>>10959756
Based

>> No.10959796

>>10959777
Trips of truth and wasted potential. Doubt I had any in the first place.

>> No.10959807

>>10957735
>be 17 and read Robert Anton Wilson
>be 22 read Lovecraft and Crowley
>be 23 and read Nick Land
>be 25 and start with the Greeks

>> No.10959867
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10959867

>be 12 and boy read The Silmarillion
>be 26 and "girl" read The Goldfinch

>> No.10960095

>be 12 and read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
>think of it as a masterpiece
>be 18 and read Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground
>think of it as the incoherent ramblings of a madman who will never find happiness in life
>strongly relate to it, despite dismissing its writing style, as well as the mental sanity of its protagonist

>> No.10960102

> be 11 want to read the bible but doesn't
> be 23 still hasn't and still wants to

>> No.10960593
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10960593

>be 1 and read critique of pure reason
>be 25 and is barely able to read anymore
The flame that burns twice as bright bla bla bla

>> No.10960829

>>10959867

owO ?

L-London

>> No.10960897

>>10960829
other side of the Atlantic, senpai ._.

>> No.10960904

>>10960897
aw schucks, kid. Anyway how was the Goldfinch? I found it for cheap at a garage sale in perfect condition, it was THICC and I like stories about art.

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>be 12 read Dostoyevsky
>be 19 read light novels

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>>10960904
It's too early to make a judgement about a book that size, I just listed it because it's my current read. More recently I finished A Cat, A Man, and Two Women by Tanizaki, which I found odd and hilarious, and enjoyed some the sentences in the translation enough that I made note of their structure for my current writing project. I'd say Tanizaki and Bolaño have both been influencing me. But I like Donna Tartt so far, too.

Off to work now. Might get some more reading accomplished.

>> No.10960943

>>10959777
>uses wrought wrong

>> No.10961226

>>10960921
Not surprising since there are no better novels than his. And at that point, why bother, right
whose novels are you reading?

>> No.10961261

>>10960943
Such overwrought writing.

>> No.10961271

>be 33 read Harry Potter
>be 43 read Harry Potter
there are people like this
>>10957802
DELETE THIS

>> No.10961276

>at 14, read The Idiot
>at 24, I've become the idiot

>> No.10961280

>14 watch vanilla porn
>18 watch slime girls

>> No.10961282

>14, read Gravity's Rainbow
>24, read the first 100 pages of a 250 page book and give up

>> No.10961505

>>10960929
Kudos on Bolaño, one of my faves.

>> No.10961589

>>10957735
>9
read the communist manifesto, the wealth of nations, the illiad and the odyssey, the bible, war and peace and jung and freud's collective works
>21
literally can't be arsed to read even the first 5 pages of a hentai doujin now what the FUCK lads

>> No.10961810

>12
read 9gag
>18
read 4chan

>> No.10961842

>>10961280
you are like little babby
>11 watch vanilla porn
>14 read my little pony incest erotica
>18 be borderline impotent

>> No.10961889

>>10959756
Contrendianism

>> No.10962297

>>10961226
My Teen Romantic Comedy
Spice and Wolf
and the Monogatari series.
I want to read re;zero but I am super hesitant because it's isekai and I get the sense that the conclusion of the story is going to be a let down.

>> No.10962309

>>10961810
I was
>12 ifunny
>18 4chan

>> No.10962361

>>10962309
>22 be 12 year old
>33 crawl back up my mom's vagina

>> No.10962594
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10962594

>be 17 and read Hegel
>be 19 and read Azumanga Daioh

>> No.10962878

>be
>read

>> No.10962885

>be 14 read Huxley
>be 21 read Fortnite announcements

Where the fuck did I go wrong? I used to love to read.

>> No.10962965

>>10961271
At least they read stuff other than 4chan

>> No.10962991

>>10957735
>be 12 and read newgrounds
>be 26 and read 4chan

>> No.10963242
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10963242

>be 16, read Hegel
>be 22, read anonymous manifestos

>> No.10963411

>>10957802
This is LITCHERALLY me, to the year.

>> No.10963424

>be 12 read adult sex stories of incestual rape

>be 22 read saint john of the cross
Hmmm makes you think...

>> No.10963446

>be 14 and read exclusively spy novels
>be 25 and grow out of reading

When did you grow out of reading /lit/?

>> No.10963525

>>10963446
>growing out of reading
Shiggy diggy

>> No.10963818

> be 12 and read tolkien
> be 33 and read gene wolfe

>> No.10964538

>>10961842
this but unironically
also
>8 read Verne, Tolkien
>12 read Star Wars novels and some capeshit
>16 read manga and My Little Pony fanfictions
>18 don't read (except textbooks)

Thank fucking god I got a job in a bookstore and I slowly start to read normal books again.

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>>10964538
good for you anon, i too returned to reading normal books only recently

also tfw i wasn't being ironic at all

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>>10961810
>13
read 4chan
>23
read 4chan
fuck

>> No.10964685

>>10964538
I feel sorry for your parents

>> No.10964705

>be 12 and read phenomenology of spirit
>be 22 and read phenomenology of spirit

>> No.10965820

>>10964685
normieslime retard

>> No.10965860

>be 12, pretend to read textbooks
>be 18, read like 10 books at a time

>> No.10966812

>>10959766
You didn't go backwards. You just read Harry Potter. It trained you to read Stephen King. There was no hope once you cracked open a JK Rowling.

>> No.10966895
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10966895

>be 12 and read shakespeare
>be 22 and read fanfiction

>> No.10966906

Be 12
Read Tartuff.

Be 22
Watch Impractical Jokers on TruTV.

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>>10957802
Well, 4chan posts are more illuminating in the current zeitgeist than any book you will ever read right now(especially /lit/ posts and buzzfeed articles combined).

>> No.10967327

>Be 14
>Read Plato, Nietszche, Martin Luther, Voltaire, Jean Paul Sartre, John Locke, etc.
>Be 24
>Read Tolkien and 4 other books again and again
I was just being a tryhard kid

>> No.10967348

>>10967327
>rereading Tolkien
patrish desu, a healthy peaceful mind doesn't need anything else

what are the other 4?

>> No.10969319

>>10959416
Be underage b& and misspell mispell

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>be 15 and read
>be 25 and don't

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Bugs...

>> No.10970279

>be 16 read Nietzsche and Marx
>be 29 read Gontscharow and Nabokov

>> No.10970845

>>10969319
uhh...

>> No.10970857

no-one cares you absolute faggots

>> No.10970880

>>10957760
underrated

>> No.10972421

>>10957802
fuck
you got me

>> No.10972435

>16 Kafka, Sarte, Camus
>24 Eliot, Bible, de Man

>> No.10972545

>14: Eckhardt, Hegel, Heidegger
>24: Peterson

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>>10957817
>2011+1+1+1+1+1+1+1
>ishygddt

>> No.10972566

>>10959867
Whoever added Diogenes to the bottom of this image ruined the meme.

>> No.10972653

>>10957735
>be 12 read hindu and greek epics
>be 14 read dune and foundation
>be 16 read harry potter and dresden files
>be 18 read onanie master kurosawa
>be 20 read 4chan posts

>> No.10972679

>>10957735
>be 12 and read tolkien
>be 22 and read gene wolfe

>> No.10973637

>>10957735
>be 12 and read the bible
>be 19 and read antidepressant warning labels

>> No.10974415

>be 14
>read what teachers tell me to read
>be 24
>read what /lit/ tells me to read

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>>10974415
>be 14
>never read what teachers tell me to read
>be 24
>never read what /lit/ tells me to read

>> No.10975894

>>10972566
Pretty fitting for Diogenes then, isn't it?

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>be 7 and read Harry Potter
>be 27 and read Stephen King

>> No.10976035

>>10973637
kek

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>>10972566
He sort of encapsulates my current feelings on the matter. Intellectualizing just gets in the way of busting a nut. So I'm grateful for whoever "ruined" it.

>> No.10976378

>>10957735

>be 12 and read literature
>be 27 and can't stop reading shitty Warhammer 40k books

Fucking KILL ME

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10976462

>>10961505
Do you have a Goodreads, London man?

>> No.10976706

>>10957735
>Conan
pop-patrician

>> No.10976834

>>10959867
>who giveth a fuck

cringe