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Just curious about how some of you anons got started in reading
Because I feel like most people now days find it boring
For me it was a bro who gave me a shitload of books like Moby dick and dune

>> No.15380931

>>15380918
I’ve been reading books since I was a kid

>> No.15380933

>>15380918
had nothing better to do

>> No.15380959

At age 19, I found myself wanting to read after spending like 5 years with nothing but video games and anime. In school I did not appreciate Borges and Dante, and the last "adult" book I had read was The Stranger which sent me down an angsty nihilistic spiral.
Maybe it was my mom who basically called me a weaboo to my face and an ignorant child, so kinda out of spite, I started reading the most mature thing I could think of: Russian literature. And that's how it started. First Anna Karenina, then The Gambler. Haven't stopped since then.

>> No.15380975

I didn’t like real life.

>> No.15381033

>>15380933
This.

>> No.15381930

I don't remember why or how but when I was 12 or 13 I started out with Oscar Wilde. Two years later I read Lolita and after that all I wanted to do was read.

>> No.15381961

I don't know. I guess my parents forced me to learn b/c even in my earliest memories of kindergarten, I knew how to read. In first grade, my teacher would ask me to help other kids read. And since then it's always just been something I do for fun. My degree is in math, so it's not something I pursued academically. It doesn't feel like I have any special devotion to it, though it's clear that I read much more than the average person. Books are fun, what can I say?

>> No.15381977

>>15380918
I would read horror books like Goosebumps in elementary whenever I'd get grounded.

>> No.15381981

>>15380918
I liked reading when I was a kid, got poisoned and told I was smart so I took the easy route and got lazy and retook it up a few years ago because it became a necessity and it's grown on me. If I could read everyday and write I would but I'd need to be on my land

>> No.15381984

Teacher would read books out loud in second grade. They were rather uninteresting books, but I remember that's when the realization dawned on me that books can be about anything and it helped open my imagination.

>> No.15382021

>>15380918
My mom would read to my brother and me when we were young. Just chasing that feeling.

>> No.15382034

>>15380918
initially i was enamored with the image of "guy who reads a lot" but i soon came to enjoy reading for itself. also after college i wasn't ready to just shut my brain off yet (i'd taken a lot of great classes with excellent professors) like all of my peers did and and the books at the library are free

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>>15380918

I didn't.

I only created a map for myself by debunking all fiction, philosophy, and poetry so that I can create a truer, better path for myself than engage with the feces that is the top 100.

In terms of philosophy, Continental is a waste of time. Besides a handful of "the greeks", many philosophers are nothing but shit eaters who regurgitate what they say, shit it out, and eat it again ad infinitum.

Don't try to act smart about it. This is what many philosophers "will" do, of course. Analytics on language, mind, and logic is the way to go. In addition to Math. However, the Sciences assume themselves too much and are best to be avoided.

Fiction is nothing more than pretentious shitheads who write self-induced and self-loathing manifestos of themselves and people who haven't gotten over a bad date. Its no surprise that Hermann Broch hated fiction, especially since that he, along with T.S. Eliot, Farley Mowat, and Borges are some of the few fiction writers whom I can truly tolerate. Especially when this goes to show how mentally dabbled and broken the minds of many authors are.

Let's not even get started on poetry. It peaked in the Renaissance. Or maybe the 11th century with Ferdowsi. That's it.

So overall, for me, it's:

Blanchot
Broch
Quine
Davidson
Godel
Hermann Weyl
Roman Jakobson
Borges
T.S. Eliot

Come at me. I dare you.

>> No.15382095

>>15382041
How much thought have you put into banging trannies? Like what's the non debunked philosophy on that?

>> No.15382103

>>15382095

I don't give a fuck.

Literally.

I'm too pissed off to deal with bullshit like that.

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15382116

>>15382041
>Fiction is nothing more than pretentious shitheads
self awareness, you lack it

>> No.15382127

>>15382095
lol

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>>15382116

What's your point?

>> No.15382141

>>15382041
are you afraid of supermarket clerks? i'm getting that vibe from you.

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15382155

>>15382141

I WORK in a Supermarket. Mainly in the Dairy Aisle. I'm not afraid of anything really (or much of, to be specific). I feel nothing. I can't feel anything. It's too complicated.

Honestly, I figured that I make some right with my life by just getting rid of a lot of bullshit. And that's what those all are: Fiction, poetry, and continental philosophy. All or mostly bullshit.

I know everyone wants to be part of a greater good. But for me, I can't help but say no to that. I'm more inclined to be pragmatic and stern towards situations because between juggling my job and my family life, I can't afford to waste no time whatsoever. So I have to do this for myself.

>> No.15382162

>>15382155
i'm sorry that you can only share these pretentious ideas with gallons of milk and string cheese

>> No.15382164

>>15382162

I don't even eat dairy, dumbfuck.

>> No.15382176

>>15382164
and yet forced to work in their vicinity for multiple hours a day. torturous.

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>>15382155
>I WORK in a Supermarket

>> No.15382178

>>15382162
Things are heating up in the dairy case!

>> No.15382185

>>15382176
>>15382177

Fuck off. I don't need your pity. What point are you trying to make because it sounds like you want to piss me off either way.

>> No.15382188

>>15382178
>explaining to the chobani yogurt cup why continental philosophy is the regurgitation of shit eaters

>> No.15382195

>>15380918
My dad. He started reading books to me and my brothers pretty early on. Highlights were frog+toad and the hobbit.

>> No.15382226

Laugh all you want. In the end, you'll know that I'm right.

>> No.15382381

>>15382041
>>15382162
In the Avatamsaka Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha says: "As I now see all sentient beings everywhere, they're endowed with the Tathagata's wisdom and virtue. But because of deluded thoughts and attachments, they do not realize it."

>> No.15382394

>>15382381
who?

>> No.15382487

>>15382381

Except that all human beings are not all that virtuous or wise. Just a bunch of moronic deadbeats.

Never was into Buddhism. More into Catholicism now. Although I don't have any faith in God, that doesn't mean that I'm an atheist.

>> No.15382491

Unironically read my first book, at the age of 18, by starting browsing /lit/. It's my main hobby now.

>> No.15382523

>>15380918
My mom read to me every night when I was little. Both my parents talked to me as if I had a full and rich vocabulary, even when I was a toddler, preferring to use the precise word they wanted and letting me ask what it meant instead of talking down to me. Furthermore, my mom had a giant bookshelf with all the novels she liked, as well as all the children's novels she thought I ought to read.

My dad made a point of being seen reading, even though he was himself not much of a reader, in order to reinforce to me that it was a positive behavior. By the summer after first grade, I had read the Chronicles of Narnia on my own. My grandparents responded to this news by sending me more books, even though it was neither my birthday or Christmas. From my maternal grandparents I received the The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and from my paternal grandparents the first three Harry Potter books. And then I was hooked on reading, and have spent on about an hour a day reading for the past 20 years.

>> No.15382567

Dad made me and it was fun.

>> No.15384130

>started reading to fit in with /lit/ discussions
>realised books were actually enjoyable

>> No.15384161

>>15380918
My parents read to me every night when I was little and I was always really bored in school and would finish my work early to read, or hide books in the cubby under my desk. My dad would play word rhyming games with me when we were working on stuff or in the car. My parents had a lot of classic books and never told me that I was too young to read them. My older brother was a literature major when I was older and gave me a lot of hand me downs. When I had a YA phase he made fun of me.

>> No.15384164

>>15380918
I always enjoyed it as a kid but stopped at around 12 until I was 22 due to crippling depression. I’ve been catching up on all the stuff I stopped doing, including reading. This whole literature thing is great, there’s still so much to learn and so much to see.

>> No.15384172

Jail...even though it sucked and was boring, it helped me get clean and reignited my love of reading.so in a way I’m grateful

>> No.15384296

>>15382041
>thinks such concept as "continental" is something more than an arbitrary division
>calls other pretentious
There is undeniably more similarities between French and British than French and Russian lines of thought. Nothing divides British people from other Europeans but a thin strait

>> No.15384375

>>15382195
Based

>> No.15384478

burned through alot of music and movies and so felt its time to explore literature

>> No.15384509

>>15380918
no internet and lack of stimulation as a kid

>> No.15384520

My parents made me read because they weren't trailer trash or black

>> No.15384570

>>15380918

When I started primary school, I quickly grasped the alphabet and taught myself to read, while the rest of the class was still doing their ABC's. Our teacher noticed and started giving me books to read while she taught the rest of the class. I started off reading Biff and Chip, and by age 7 I had worked my way up to 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'.

At that point, my teacher encouraged my parents to get me books, and lent me some books from the school. I started reading Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Famous Five Series and Harry Potter. From that point on, I started reading in my own time and choosing my own books.

I was lucky that the teachers in my primary school took the time and effort to give me extra reading tasks and materials. Had I had to keep at a snails pace with the rest of the class, I would have hated reading.

>> No.15384708

>parents rule was that for every hour I read I got half an hour of screen time
>end up marathon reading all my childhood and early teen years to build up screen time
>late teens I stop reading all together
>get my shit together, realize how valuable it was
>start reading again

>> No.15385044

>>15380918
How To Read A Book by Adler, unronicalcy

>> No.15385070

When I was little I had the option to go to bed at 9 or I could stay up and read til 10. So I read for an hour every night and fell in love.

>> No.15385079

>>15380918
>For me it was a bro who gave me a shitload of [...] dick

>> No.15385190

>>15380918
During my early high school years I started reading during recess so that other students and teachers wouldn't feel obligated to talk to me. Can anyone relate?

>> No.15385453

>>15380918
age 25. read dostoevsky's demons. been hooked ever since. now i read 50+ books a year.

>> No.15385457

>>15385070
That's a smart way to get a child to read, honestly.

>> No.15386374

>>15385044
I am jealous of your start, I read that only recently. Kinda feel like my past analytic reading was heavily impaired by an absence of method. Looking at books like a dialog is pretty fun

>> No.15386392

I’ve posted this multiple times in similar threads, but for me, it was Crime and Punishment that got me to start reading again after not reading a single book during college

>> No.15386415

when i was 8 my brother bought "the shadow of the wind" and told me there was a really cool sex scene, so i started reading it when he finished.
came for the sex, stayed because it was a great book. still my favorite.