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ITT: Detail why you read books

>> No.16792205

>>16792190
I enjoy it and sometimes I learn something

>> No.16792210

A strange game.
The only winning move is not to play

COVID-19™

-Your Beloved Government

>> No.16792211

>>16792205
Which book(s) got you into reading? can you remember back?

>> No.16792225

>>16792211
The Hobbit was a big one for me, I liked a lot of fantasy stuff as a kid. When I was like 13 I got really into Vonnegut and that sealed the deal.

>> No.16792239

>>16792210
Deep, bro

>> No.16792250

I want to be a writer
I want to learn stuff
Betterment of my language ( I found out recently that I love learning them)

>> No.16792263

>>16792190
>>16792210
I saw WarGames yesterday. It was aight. David Lightman felt like a poor man's Marty McFly.

>> No.16792291
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>>16792190
I am a logophile and enjoy reading words from minds far greater than my own. It's also nice to at times have a reason to disconnect from the utter horror show that is modernity, too; when I read I leave all technology behind and just sit with whichever book I'm reading. I write down words I don't know the definitions of (or can't infer) and look them up later. In the Summer I typically go to a nice park and read in the sun, and in Winter I have a nice corner of my room with a comfy chair and a stack of books to choose from.

>> No.16793096

To cope.

>> No.16793519

I'm depressed and books help me forget I'm depressed.

>> No.16793550

>>16792190
Words am going into my brainum. I feelum knowledge biggening my brain get bigum. Me am know words that enhaceum mine insight. Make me feel goodum cerebrally. I sayum more words in my brainum makeum me brightum. Moreum I knowum, Moreum I growum.

>> No.16794694

Like music, since books are easier to make than audiovisual media, as a result there's so many of them and from different cultures. The most worthwhile vidya and television shows are almost entirely either made by the US or Japan, but with books you've got noteworthy literature from Russia, Hungary, India, the middle east and even obscure old books from fucking african countries or myanmar.

I also like the format. I have nothing against video, but if i want to learn about something and had to pick between either a text article from a web 1.0 looking website or a youtuber making an obnoxious 10 minute long video about it for ad revenue, i would rather read the article. The same goes for novels vs film adaptations sometimes

>> No.16794706

reading and writing are the only things that give my life meaning. so basically what this anon>>16793096 said

>> No.16794726

>>16792211
The big three

>Goosebumps
>Magic Tree House
>Archie Comics

>> No.16794804

>>16792190
so i can sound pretentious when talking to other people

>> No.16794867

Because I miss her more than ever, so I'm trying my best to find other thoughts to occupy my mind

>> No.16794899

>>16793096
/thread

>> No.16795482

>>16792190
Because I hate every other medium.

>> No.16795500

>>16792190
What is this from?

>> No.16795511

>>16795500
War Games I think

>> No.16795513

>>16793096
Based

>> No.16795516

>>16792190
no

>> No.16795520

>>16792190
I like knowing more stuff