/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20867877]

Do you plan your reading or just read whatever you feel like?

[Anonymous No.20867920]

>>20867877
When I was in college I browsed this board endlessly and read a bunch of the stuff on the recommended reads images. Now I just read whatever I feel like, as opposed to trying to hit a certain standard for a bunch of anonymous people

[Anonymous No.20867937]

>>20867877
It depends

[Anonymous No.20868015]

>>20867877
bill is a nice man but holy shit this world was a mistake

[Anonymous No.20868106]

>>20867877
Read whatever i feel like, will scroll this place for recommendations sometimes when bored and if they look good I'll read them.

[Anonymous No.20868125]

>>20867877
>WHAOOWOAOAW, HE'S READING _HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS_ (a best-selling classic among educated laypeople for generations) BECAUSE HE WANTS TO LIE WITH STATISTICS

[Anonymous No.20868173]

I planned my reading for the next 7 months.
Planning your reading can help you on stop buying books because you've already a backlog list, it makes clear that you're buying something that you can't read in the next months.

[Anonymous No.20868181]

>>20867877
>let's promote evolution and materialism to the public while performing ceremonial magick in underground bases

????????????????????

[Anonymous No.20868937]

>>20868173
This. I need to get back into a schedule. If only this thread wouldn't have opened with a Gates image.

[Anonymous No.20869234]

>>20867877
>how to lie with statistics
>on immunity
It's almost too good.

[Anonymous No.20869548]

>>20867877
I never plan anything

[Anonymous No.20869555]

>>20869234
Literally what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.20870594]

>>20867877
It's 50% planning and 50% feeling. I try to avoid reading two books of the same genre consecutively, so I'll think ahead, but I don't really consider which book I'll actually read.

[Anonymous No.20870620]

>>20867877
A loose plan. I have a list of ~20 books I want to reread in the near future and ~10 books I want to buy and read for the first time. Often I’ll go on a whim if the mood takes me. I just order one book at a time so when I’m a couple days away from finishing a book, I’ll order my next read. You don’t want to make reading a chore by having some year long syllabus set in stone. Ultimately read what you want and don’t be afraid to drop a book if it isn’t doing much for you. Just don’t make a habit of doing it too often. You can always come back to it

[Anonymous No.20871908]

I make list after list of plans but always end up deviating from them.

[Anonymous No.20871910]

>>20868015
>bill is a nice man
he's only nice now because he's old and will die in the next 30 years

[Anonymous No.20871911]

After that last bad book i read i plan on what im about to soend time reading

[Anonymous No.20871914]

>>20868173
>he buys books
heh
Replied from my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite

[Anonymous No.20871920]

>>20867877
It was kind of blackpilling to realise that billionaires are just regular dumbfucks who got lucky. I sort of nurtured the hope that there are epic secret societies that have technologies 5000 years exceeding publicly known ones, that they control the entire flow of history and have colonies on Neptune or something. But you look at dudes like Gates and Musk, and they're about as intelligent as average redditor.

[Anonymous No.20872223]

>>20871920
>But you look at dudes like Gates and Musk, and they're about as intelligent as average redditor.
>average redditor
I think you guys actually miss how unintelligent a typical person is. A brain teaser which filters half of college graduates is:
>you have a chocolate bar and a piece of candy and their total price is $1.10. We know the chocolate bar is $1.00 more, how much do they both cost?
It's not that these folks are average, they are far far far above average, but the average is astoundingly not smart.

[Anonymous No.20872234]

>>20867877
I plan my reading in the sense that I decide I will read a certain book someday in the distant future and I may even buy the book in preparation but that is about it. Most books sit on my self for a few years before I read them but only about a dozen or so have gone unread for over 5 years.

[Anonymous No.20873514]

>>20871910
bill is a legitimately good person. the problem is this world is a sodomy-themed hell dimension cut off from the light of the pleroma

[Anonymous No.20873518]

>>20867877
whatever I feel like, of course.

[Anonymous No.20874120]

A little of both. I tend to have specific things in mind when buying but I keep a stack to freely choose from when it is time to start something new

[Anonymous No.20874393]

>>20872223
It’s a dollar and ten cents.

[Anonymous No.20874497]

>>20874393
it's a nickel my man

[Anonymous No.20876195]

The only restriction I have put on myself is that if I pick up a book, I have to finish it. Doesn't matter what book it is. It is a bit extreme but I used to always start books and never finish them.

[Anonymous No.20876413]

>>20868015
He's a eugenicist. Eugenicists are not "nice" men or women.

[Anonymous No.20876420]

>>20873514
>bill is a legitimately good person.
He's an evil eugenicist.

[Anonymous No.20876443]

>>20876413
>>20876420

bill is a good person. however, this world should not exist. the gnostics are right about everything

[Anonymous No.20876449]

>>20876443
>bill is a good person.
If by "good" you mean "evil", I would have to agree with you.

[Anonymous No.20876469]

>>20876449
dude, the entire ruling class is clinically insane from generations of inbreeding and drug abuse. bill is at least trying to help in his own profoundly incompetent, vaguely islamofascist way

[Anonymous No.20876478]

>>20876469
He's not trying to help. He's trying to reduce the population and make a boatload of money along the way.

[Anonymous No.20876492]

>>20876420
>eugenics is le bad

[Anonymous No.20876494]

>>20876492
Correct.

[Anonymous No.20876498]

>>20876478
>not being Gurdjieff-pilled and realizing 99% of people are flesh automatons animated by neurotransmitters

[Anonymous No.20876505]

>>20876494
>eugenics is bad
>i'm so glad we're all identical gray blobs who need hormone injections to live instead