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Do you like reading?

>> No.11844171

quite, you?

>> No.11844178

>>11844163
it's okay

>> No.11844190

>>11844163
More than I like being alive.

>> No.11844196

the internet is killing my attention span one day at a time

>> No.11844344

>>11844196
mine is completely gone, i cant read more than 20 pages without drifting to another activity.

>> No.11844359

Nah /lit/ is cool though

>> No.11844405

>>11844163
Slowly getting back to liking it, yeah.
School made me hate reading. If we read a story or book that stunk we had to continue reading it and analyzing it and rereading and answer questions and discuss it and blah blah blah. I find if I read for my own personal enjoyment and strictly read what I want to read I enjoy it tons more.
Can anyone else relate?

>> No.11844429

>>11844163
yes immensely but i don't like sitting on my ass neglecting my bodily needs

>> No.11844431

>>11844405
Yeah I read a lot when I was a kid but bideo games took over somewhere down the line and I didn't start reading again for my own pleasure until I was about 17. It didn't take me long to start enjoying it again.

>> No.11845148

I hate it. That's why I only listen to audiobooks and ocasionally masturbate when the narrator has a deep and soft voice.

>> No.11845167

>>11845148
wat did he mean by this?

>> No.11845174

I'm learning to again. Years of college in a major I wasn't passionate about trapped me into the guilt of if I were reading anything it should be studying for my classes, which I didn't want to do so I just read nothing. Ended up graduating and now I'm relearning how to motivate myself to read only for myself.

>> No.11845204

>>11844163
yes, i do love reading even tho there's a ton of people that know more about literature and read more than me.

>> No.11845210

If I had someone to talk about it outside of /lit/ I think I would enjoy it more

>> No.11845214

>>11844344
20 pages a sitting isn’t bad at all, just do it 3-4 time’s a day

>> No.11845269

>>11844344
Well, that's ok, just read the way that you enjoy reading, take your time. People here are always wanting to read everything at once but don't remember shit or don't feel shit, enjoy your time with the book as you enjoy your time with friends, actually, just enjoy time without worrying to rush things, people these days are always thinking that we need to do everything fast like an urgence, reading isn't like that (not always). So, don't be so anxious as everybody else in XXI century.
I also like reading 20 pages and doing others things like embroidering, cooking, watching the animals in the garden, watching the time passing in front of my eyes, etc. I usually read at least 50 pages of my main book of the week in one day + more pages of other books, short stories, poems, etc. But if i don't want to read one day, fine, i just do whatever i want to do and i read in the next day. Let's keep our hobbies healthy and ACTUALLY ENJOY QUALITY TIME over quantity.
My advice is just chill, bro. Peace.

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>>11845148

>> No.11845414

>>11844163
No.
But the only way I can distinguish myself from the other people around me is by being well read and well spoken. Other than that, I am the lowest, worst person I know.

>> No.11845457

>>11845414
Same desu.

>> No.11845465

>>11844190
>b is contained in a
>I like b more than i like the capcity to take part in things within a
shoo shoo retard poster

>> No.11845489

>>11845414
Too close to home

>> No.11845524

I've always felt /lit/ read shit for the sake of fulfilling some pretentious hole rather than for the sake of fun

>> No.11845525

>>11845465
Mfw i saw 'b' 'a' and 'contained' and was confused why you thought /a/ was a containment board for /b/

>> No.11845529

>>11845524
You were right anon

>> No.11845532

>>11845524
Well yeah that’s what /lit/ does mostly

>> No.11845552

>>11844163
I enjoy a good audiobook while driving to and from work but it has to have a good reader.I'm able to read an additional 3 to 4 books a month that way. I tend to listen to lighter books while driving. For instance I tried listening to Dante's Inferno but would frequently loose focus due to the dense writing. Nothing tops reading a good book in the afternoon or later morning. Fuck niggers.

>> No.11845563

>>11845414
Yep

>> No.11846462

>>11844163
When I find the right book, yeah.

>> No.11846468

>>11844405
100%. I hated almost all of the crap I had to slog through (or rather, pretended to slog through) in college. A few months later, I bought a book on a whim, read it in days and loved every second.

>> No.11846498

>>11844163
Fuck no

>> No.11848075

I'm new to reading for pleasure and I can't not have a book to read. It's getting pretty bad because I buy every book I read. I don't go to the library. I'm about to get a second book shelf.

>> No.11848376

>>11844163
I like what books contain, but the act of reading is difficult with the infinite distractions we have now

>> No.11848389

I hate it but am cucked by likely misguided responsibility

>> No.11848400

>>11845524
How about this, you addlepated fuckwit: your comment is so astoundingly ignorant that even if we presume satirical intention, it's still indicative of an individual whose moral compass is irrevocably broken. You are an irredeemable piece of sub-human detritus.

>> No.11848503

no i only listen to windows narrator generated audiobooks

>> No.11848528

>>11848376
I read in bed right before sleeping.

>> No.11848561
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11848561

I tell myself that I do, but the most that I read are 4chan threads. The last book I started to read I stopped with a little under a hundred pages left, and the book before that I stopped with fifty pages left. I haven't tried reading either book for two months now. I also tell myself that I like writing, but I haven't written anything for even more months. looking back I tell myself that I enjoy reading and writing, even listing them as my favorite things to do, but in the moment I don't get anything from it. It just saps any motivation I have to start once I've stopped.

>> No.11848567

>>11844359
this lmao

>> No.11848571

>>11845414
holy shit I can’t imagine what your life is like, I mean I can, but I don’t understand it. I enjoy reading but don’t tell anyone that I do

>> No.11848577

>>11844163
Yeah, but i find it difficult to be consistent about it.

>> No.11848593

>>11848561
hey want to be friends

>> No.11849342

Nah, I just like to fit in with /lit/ cucks

>> No.11851051

>>11844163
This is an important question. I love everyone being honest about attention spans, and hate the "I don't read" faggots. Our generation is going through a change in how we absorb information; This combines with a broken education system and easy accsess to digital information to give us a situation where we have to learn to read again. Thank you /lit/ bros (even the worst of you) for doing your best.

>> No.11851108

>>11844163
Does audiobooks get shit on here? I used to read all the time, but lost time. Now since I started using audible during work, school, driving I have gotten about 675 hours since January.

>> No.11851116

>>11851051
just imagine a chad reading. lmao

Moreover, when i start to read i can go on for 30 pages easily, but i just can't find the time nor the will to start reading. Binging 200 pages in the weekend isn't fun either.

>> No.11851137

>>11851108
Only by the elitists. Do what you like, honestly. You do lose something in that format but it's better than nothing. If you want to develop memories, then don't use audiobooks either

>> No.11851139

>>11851116
Reading can be chad

Watching tv shows, for example, can’t be chad (unless in a netflix and chill setting)

>> No.11851896

>>11851139
I disagree with you, my image of chads is like some dumb dude with muscles and no brain, that can't read for shit, and watches TV like every normie does instead.

>> No.11852187

>>11848400
lmao

>> No.11852488

>>11844163
lmao reading is for nerds

>> No.11852560

Leave this board if you thought to yourself "no".

>> No.11852567

sometime wish become words on sheet, some text

>> No.11852652

>>11844163
Yes, but I like thinking even more, because thinking prevents faggots from making shitty threads.

>> No.11852677

I think I did at some point. I don't really enjoy anything now. I used to be able to get so into certain books. Now I just can't relate to the joy, sadness, relief, etc. being expressed in a book. I think it's because I've become so used to not looking forward to anything.

>> No.11852827

>>11851896
A chad is someone who can strike a conversation with anyone and keep them invested in his words through his own charisma. A chad would be able to charm anyone, from a devoted literate to a meathead who only cares about getting drunk and laid every night. Chad would have no issue inviting the loner of the class to his party because he likes everyone, and he tries to make them all happy.
Your definition of chad is corrupted.

>> No.11854490

>>11852827
Can confirm, t. IRL chad

>> No.11855139

>>11852827
>my arbitrary definition is better than yours

>> No.11855144

Yeah but not as much as I like drinking gallons of hot as fuck tea until my stomach is bloated and I have to piss every 20 minutes.

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11855149

>>11844163
When abstinent, yes. I love reading. It comes naturally, as was the case before puberty.
When unchaste, no it's a chore that requires discipline to keep going and is never done for recreation.

>> No.11855322

I enjoy reading but for the last couple months I have not touched a book and only played video games. Very strange because 2015-2017 I read more books total than in my entire life.

>> No.11855564

>>11855139
Yeah, it is.

>> No.11855567

no

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>>11844163
BLONDIE.... HIJO DE UNA GRAN PUTA

>> No.11855632

>>11844163
If you don't, why are you here? I genuinely don't understand this.

>> No.11855664

>>11855139
it really is anon

>> No.11855672

>>11855632
oh you do, i know you know sweetie

>> No.11855765

>>11845524
basically

>> No.11855797

when i'm drunk

>> No.11856380

>>11845465
I like getting paid more than I like my job

>> No.11856467

ya

>> No.11857204

>>11845524
>Implying /lit/'s ever rec'd you anything that wasn't porn
Read a book nigger they're full of shit you're going to need two hands for and some dexterous flexibility.

>> No.11857209

no it's boring af

>> No.11857257

no i hate it that's why i visit this board regularly

>> No.11858452

>>11844163
is there a book like the one Pepe is reading?

>> No.11859373

I mainly just like the slight dopamine rush when I finish a book

>> No.11859401

Only reason I read is because I got tired of communist subversives trying to gaslight me.

>> No.11859879

Yes, but only if I can be a pretentious asshole about it and rib it on other people's faces

>> No.11860079

>>11844344
I did when I enjoyed things.
Now it's just intellectually stimulating enough not to be boring. Maybe if I join the gym I'll enjoy things again.