/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12814720]

How old were you when you starting taking reading more seriously? Is there a particular reason why?

[Anonymous No.12814751]

16, after I watched Goodwill Hunting. Unironically.

[Anonymous No.12814757]

How old were you when you realised Asuka is best girl?

[Anonymous No.12814779]

>>12814757
Rei is the /lit/ choice

[Anonymous No.12814782]

6.

I wanted to know more about things. Insatiably.

[Anonymous No.12814812]

/a/ is the most humorless, the most elitist and the least self-aware board on 4chan + 4channel

[Anonymous No.12814823]

>>12814779
All women are NPCs

>>12814812
Yet they still have shit taste

[Anonymous No.12814827]

Tried my entire life to keep it as a serious thing only
>philo books
>essays
>blah blah

Only to realize that the best shit is fiction. Dont fall for the serious meme.

[Anonymous No.12814975]

People didn't before hate women so openly you should leave 4chan oops you can't because meme culture has taken over

[Anonymous No.12814979]

>>12814720
I always have, to my memory.

[Anonymous No.12815006]

>>12814975
What?

[Anonymous No.12815009]

>>12814720
it still hasn't happened for me

[Anonymous No.12815020]

Like 17
I got bored and decided to check out /lit/ and read some books that werent whatever i had to read in school

[Anonymous No.12815021]

>>12814751
This was a silent cringing, felt across the galaxy. To think that Good Will Hunting made someone an intellectual just made my face warp unto itself. I have become a constant cringe, with a remembrance of March 23rd, the day my face cringed away.

[Anonymous No.12815050]

>>12815021
This is more fucking cringe.
>To think that Good Will Hunting made someone an intellectual just made my face warp unto itself.
Reading doesn't make you an intellectual you fucking pretentious fag.

>I have become a constant cringe, with a remembrance of March 23rd, the day my face cringed away.
March 23rd, the day a total pseud admitted he thought reading made you smart and tried to be clever. Holy fuck

[Anonymous No.12815061]

>>12815050
Taking reading seriously makes you an intellectual, dumb butt. The moar you know

[Anonymous No.12815072]

>>12815061
IMAGINE thinking a hobby makes you an intellectual. Doesn't matter how many times you pick up a book, you will never be smart sweetie.

[Anonymous No.12815113]

>>12815072
Wrong

[Anonymous No.12815118]

>>12815113
Okay sweetie

[Anonymous No.12815796]

17
Read lolita and was hooked

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12815843]

Learned to read

[Anonymous No.12815953]

>>12814827
Pretty much this. I read essays and phil texts too, but if someone tells me that they don’t read fiction becuase it’s too boring/ for kids and women then I instantly know that they’re a pleb

[Anonymous No.12816063]

25. Read a book and it was so good I finished it in one sitting. No Longer Human, incidentally. After that I read Dostoevsky's Demons and it was cemented.

[Anonymous No.12816326]

>>12814827
Both are rewarding in different ways. Personally I find philosophy (if that can even be considered non-fiction) more rewarding than fiction.

[Anonymous No.12816332]

>>12814720
21, no friends

[Anonymous No.12816361]

>23
>pewds led me to do it

[Anonymous No.12816364]

>>12814779
the fuck you saying dude? rei is clearly the npc, did you even watched the fucking anime?

[Anonymous No.12816469]

>>12814720
13 because i discovered counterculture books. was a pure bliss to read the shit that's not just "lengthy descriptions of russian life in 18-19th century and all people act overly dramatic"

[Anonymous No.12816983]

Who has bigger tits: Asuka or Rei?

[Anonymous No.12816985]

>>12816983
Rei. What are you, blind?

[Anonymous No.12816998]

>>12814720
15, kicked out of top set in every class and decided to try reading whilst in back of the classes with all the bottom set retards. Read 1984 on a friend's recommendation, then researched and read my own favorite works, Hemingway's 'Men without Women,' 'The Picture of Dorian Grey,' and went from there.

[Anonymous No.12817000]

ever since I learned to read, slowed down sometime in late primary school/middle school cause of video games and anime but got back into it after reading Catch 22 in 9th grade

[Anonymous No.12817053]

25 (last year)
wanted to waste less time on the internet

[Anonymous No.12817105]

>>12816985
Well Asuka's look a little bigger in this scene

[Anonymous No.12817118]

>>12817105
Yeah but she literally feels insecure about her breasts being smaller than Rei's in the last fucking episode watch the fucking show retard

[Anonymous No.12817188]

16,i always liked reading as a kid so i just picked up the pace
Also Rei is best girl

[Anonymous No.12817313]

>>12817188
This more or less, but with Misato

[Anonymous No.12817360]

I used to read when I was a kid.
Then, in my teens, I went in a path of alcohol, drugs and self destruction.
Stopped all that when I was 20 and started studying again (and enjoying it).
Started reading fiction again, more seriously, when I was 23.

[Anonymous No.12817369]

>>12816469
Yeah I'm sure by 12 you'd read enough Tolstoy for three lifetimes right? Jesus christ

[Anonymous No.12817426]

>>12814779
Rei is still a tool, just self-aware.
The only ones who really act are Gendo and Shinji.
Rei and Asuka are the two halves of a person, emotion and reason, inner thought and outward emotion. Both are 'NPCs' and only Gendo and Shinji are what a true person is like in this way.
Of course these are just for the sake of this argument and looking at any other character you will see a range of humanities.

[Anonymous No.12817433]

>>12814720
A friend recommended me Book of the New Sun and after The Stranger and the myth of Sisyphus. After this I wanted more.

[Anonymous No.12817739]

>>12814720
16 because I started getting more into art in general and have gained a greater appreciation for it. Seeing the original Blade Runner's DC back in early 2014 kickstarted it.

[Anonymous No.12818015]

>>12814720
never took reading seriously, it's just a way to pass time I've picked up in middle school because I couldn't sleep

[Anonymous No.12818060]

>>12817313
Misato is the best female character ever created, in any medium. Complete, has flaws, yet still somehow not a male with a skirt. So good.

[Anonymous No.12818296]

>>12814757
She doesn't even have a complete character arc. Gainax ran out of time and more or less wrote her out of the finale.

[Anonymous No.12818645]

>>12818060
absolutely based misato bro

[Anonymous No.12818675]

>>12816361
god knows I need this sauce

[Anonymous No.12818888]

>>12814757
17
That was the age when I first watched EVA and I knew from the very beginning that Asuka was best girl

[Anonymous No.12818901]

>>12818296
She does in the comic.

[Anonymous No.12819157]

>>12814779
If you don't think Misato is best girl I have some bad news for you.

[Anonymous No.12819209]

>>12818060
No, Jessica Edwards is.

[Lamont No.12819217]

Probably very young, but at the same time, that was only me caring about literature that was interesting to me at the time (YA). Ironically, my sense of self worth intellectually has only gone down since I've read more "good" literature.

A part of me wants to just go back to reading YA, actually. Things were a lot more simple then. But, that would be concession to the paradox of recovering childhood / the past, so I guess there's nothing to it but to keep reading the classics. Right?

[Anonymous No.12819242]

>>12819217
>clinging to nostalgia
There's no way in life other than to go ahead, so stop being a bitch.

[Anonymous No.12819347]

My early 20 when I realized life was too short too read garbage books.

[Anonymous No.12819418]

15. I had to read A Clockwork Orange for a class. Later for that same class I had to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The whole concept of reading serious literature for enjoyment suddenly opened up for me.

[Anonymous No.12820599]

As long as I can remember, to be honest. My dad was an English Major and his favorite author was Joyce so I knew the famous lines and plot of Ulysses as a child. He read it for one class, and then signed up for another class where they read it just so he could read and discuss it again. My mother also always had a book she was reading.
They've missed out on a lot of the big ones though. My Dad had never read a Russian novel until I bought him War and Peace for his birthday, since he had always expressed the opinion that great men of history were overrated. When he was reading it it was all he talked about, to the point where my mom even got tired of hearing about it.
Recently got my mom Don Quixote for Christmas, which she's enjoying as much as I did.
It definitely makes a huge difference in life to have parents who value this stuff. Not all your peers as a young person are going to be readers, so you have to be interested in other things to have interesting conversations with them. But whenever I spend time with my parents I have something we both actually care deeply about to talk about. Thank god.

[Anonymous No.12820705]

>>12814720

My grandfather died at the age of 92, just five days after my 24th birthday. This marked a new era in our family due to the centrality of his presence in both my father's and brother's lives: a resented shadow over my father (who was much closer to my grandmother, who died when I was 5 of a surprise brain tumor) and the best friend and confidante of my alcoholic brother.

I had read a lot of fantasy as well as random classic novels in high school and I was very much a gamer. Escapism from childhood bullying. But as things spiraled out of control in my family, I found distraction from the suffering to be anti-cathartic. I'd come back to the issues and feel even worse.

I'm a support workerfor developmentally disabled adults and two of my regulars shop at thrift stores. I started to pick up random classics and works of philosophy for cheap on the weekends. As I've read more substantive literature, I've started to feel less alone and that connectedness has helped me to find my own emotional stability and reserve of gratitude, which has helped me in both my personal and private life.

I've also realized that my family's history and interpersonal dynamics are /lit/ as fuck. Basically New England Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.12820738]

>>12820599

I'm

>>12820705

And I am jelly. My parents are good people and shooting the shit with my rural relatives is always a hilarious time, filled with great oral history. But I'm the one leaf on the tree that really reads and I've had to relearn an ability to speak at length about something that excites me that much, since I picked up the habit in younger years of keeping it to myself to avoid confusing the audience.

[Anonymous No.12820750]

>>12815953

Good novels are like a painting made from the colors of philosophy (and psychology).

[Anonymous No.12821923]

>>12820750
Genuinely based

[Anonymous No.12821924]

>>12814720
Rei a shit

[Anonymous No.12821943]

>>12814720
I read a lot from the 2nd through the 7th grade. I recenelty got back into reading after not reading much since 7th grade (like tops 5 books a year). Though regrettably I'm in the middle of school rn and that really kills my motivation to read outside of class. Something about reading 3 hours worth of class material every day just kills your drive to read you know?

[Anonymous No.12822002]

>>12814779
Based Rei /thread/

[Anonymous No.12822003]

19. I didn't want to listen to many of my professors because they would go off on uncomfortable political tangents and say stupid things, so I started to take pretend scribble notes and read books that I would leave open in my lap. It started with silly "occult shelf" stuff about ghosts and UFOs and stuff like that because I was a big fan of The X-Files and watched it almost daily. I got so engrossed that I would read them between classes. Meeting a girl (now my fiancee) who awakened my latent weeaboo tendencies and got me into manga made me develop an interest in Japanese authors like Junichiro Tanizaki and Osamu Dazai. I started taking philosophy classes for fun and to satisfy GE requirements, and that kind of spun out of control. I think all that needs to be said is that I converted to Christianity from apathetic atheism as a result of depression, sleep deprivation, back-to-back-to-back medieval philosophy classes, and Madoka Magica.

[Anonymous No.12822021]

i used to browse /b/ in middle school and ended up getting onto /g/ and /mu/, as thats what interested me at the time. during high school, i made friends with a guy that had aspergers. one of the first couple of times i saw him i knew we had to be friends. most interesting person ive ever known. its like when youre in a relationship and everything is new and alien and you cant get enough of it. anyways, he read a lot and he would often ask me to review his short stories. slowly, reading became a part of my daily hobbies. in english class we woud always go into a book review (we always had a discussion/argument after finishing the book and paper) with the objective to choose opposite ends of the argument and always had a blast arguing during the discussion, and since we were friends we would usually insert some personal banter into it which people usually saw as a genuine fight. we'd always play it up.

[Anonymous No.12822527]

>>12814720
Around 6 or 7. Probably earlier. Not gonna lie, books were my security blanket. I was an extremely anxious kid and growing up in a multi-faith family led me to doubt faith at a very early age which left me feeling unmoored. Confronting the world felt like I was drowning. So I read a lot.

[Anonymous No.12822560]

>>12817313
Misato is MILF material but Rei is marriage material

[Anonymous No.12822586]

>>12822021
That is genuinely wholesome :)

[Anonymous No.12823898]

My late 20s. I had quit drinking, and just got through a hard spell in my life and was finally ready to start improving as a person.

[Anonymous No.12823899]

18, i was trying to do something useful in my free time

[Anonymous No.12823941]

>>12814720
16-17

[Anonymous No.12824276]

>>12816361
Who is this Jezebel?