/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23163038]

>there are people on this board forcing themselves to read just to appear sophisticated even though they don't enjoy it

[Anonymous No.23163040]

>>23163038
he's taking about me

[Anonymous No.23163041]

I like to think that no matter who you are, there are many books for you which you'd enjoy reading

[Anonymous No.23163066]

>>23163038
Phew, good thing I'm forcing myself to read just to appear sophisticated and I DO enjoy it then!

[Anonymous No.23163071]

>>23163038
Nobody can voluntarily do something consistently for long periods if they don't enjoy it at some level.

[Anonymous No.23163109]

>>23163040
self-aware

>>23163071
deluded, go touch grass

[Anonymous No.23163111]

>>23163038
It distracts me from the oppressive loneliness and lack of mental stimulation. My life is basically a 24/7 stay in solitary confinement.

[Anonymous No.23163112]

no one forces themself to read to appear sophisticated. you just pretend to have read books.

[Anonymous No.23163129]

>>23163038
I used to read classics without enjoying them much, then a switch flipped and suddenly they're almost all great and I regard most modern novels as slop.

Keep going! Our bent of taste can be improved by force!

[Anonymous No.23163138]

>>23163038
I feel like you have to acquire a taste for art the same way you do for certain food. I think that’s why so many WASP’s are obsessed with the classics, because it shows they have a bunch of time and money to sit around all day reading.

[Anonymous No.23163141]

>>23163038
I look forward to reading my wh40k slop every evening and I wouldn't want it any other way

[gr No.23163153]

>>23163138
i think the more you get educated and involved with an art form the more you become open, its actually really beautiful because the love and will to explore makes you appreciate even the 'ugly' stuff, for example in music, the fields of noise, metal, etc. i believe it actually makes people more understanding

[Anonymous No.23163154]

>>23163111
Based honest anon.
But seriously, why not just play vidya and watch anime?

>>23163129
>>23163138
So you're saying that reading is a Stockholm syndrome activity you delude yourself into enjoying like some kind of cattle?
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.23163158]

>>23163154
>why not just play vidya and watch anime?
Maybe because they're not underage or a pathetic manchild? Anon clearly said it distracts him from lack of mental stimulation. Video games and Japanese cartoons are just brainrot.

[Anonymous No.23163167]

>>23163158
>Fun is for children, adults are supposed to suffer
You're a textbook example of the clown depicted in the OP.

[Anonymous No.23163179]

>>23163154
If this is your honest opinion I’m genuinely baffled at how you’re using a computer because your iq must be sub 40. Have you ever learnt anything? A new topic, a piece of music? It sucks and is hard at first until it starts to click and becomes easier. The experience of reading great literature can be profound, but you’ll probably need to struggle through it at times. Everyone bangs on about Ulysses but most people need whole other explainer books to even get what the fuck is going on.

[Anonymous No.23163180]

>>23163038
Couldn't be me. I have my own reasons for reading what I do, but looking cultured in front of others certainly isn't one of them.

[Anonymous No.23163237]

>>23163071
The average person works a soul-sucking 9-5 job for 50 years straight

[Anonymous No.23163238]

>>23163179
>le suffering is good in itself
Why?

[Anonymous No.23163245]

>>23163038
Reading is like taking a bath or meditating or exercising for me. I feel great when I do it but still I have to force myself to start it.

[Anonymous No.23163286]

>>23163038
if you aren’t used to read, it can be a bit painful at first.
Some people force themselves to read despite not enjoying it because they hope they’ll enjoy it eventually and be able to take pleasure in discovering the world of literature.

[Anonymous No.23163289]

>>23163245
OP can not conceive that some activities require discipline and are enjoyable at the same time. I wonder what he thinks of sports.

[Anonymous No.23163313]

>>23163038
I think most people are here out of genuine curiosity. Reading is the best attempt to understand how the world work.

Let’s be honest the chance that you run into someone ‘in the wild’ who likes reading or learning is very rare. Perhaps if you’re in a graduate program or university you might meet real people like this. For the rest of us - we are completely derived of intellectual stimulation in this shithole pseudo capitalistic world. That’s a bigger motivation than impressing people.

[Anonymous No.23163330]

>>23163237
The average person is passively suicidal and/or retarded, ergo they want to engage in soul sucking meaningless labor.

[Anonymous No.23163352]

>read a book
>get emotionally invested
>book ends
>spend the next week wanting to kill myself

[Anonymous No.23163358]

>>23163167
Adults have fun, it's called having hobbies, sex, alcohol, etc. You're an illiterate manchild playing video games and watching Japanese cartoons.

[Anonymous No.23163379]

>>23163358
>meaningless hookups and getting shitfaced
>adult
ok manchild

[Anonymous No.23163380]

>>23163358
>alcohol good, vidya bad
Degenerate detected, opinion discarded.

[Anonymous No.23163383]

>>23163289
I actually read and lift and like mathematics.
But I like baiting /lit/ and getting that dopamine from (You)s. I run like 5 threads at all times.

[Anonymous No.23163385]

>>23163038
>>23163112
Buy the books, don't read the books, donate the books to the thrift. Keeping the shelves of the thrift stocked with unread books. Thanks.

>>23163245
>>23163289
Simply This

[Anonymous No.23163392]

>>23163379
You have a real problem with reading comprehension. Nowhere in my original post did I say "fun bad", and nowhere in my second post did I say "sex and alcohol = random hookups and getting shitfaced".
>>23163380
See above. Replace alcohol with smoking, cooking, whatever, I was just counting things that adults do for fun, as opposed to playing video games and watching Japanese cartoons, which is for children.

[Anonymous No.23163393]

>>23163392
>adults do things I approve of
>if you do anything else ur not a real adult
nobody cares about your approval

[Anonymous No.23163399]

>>23163393
You seem to care a lot, you're extremely flustered by some facts of life. You're wasting time here. Why don't you go ahead and play your silly little video games and masturbate to your chink cartoons?

[Anonymous No.23163401]

>>23163392
>smoking
You're just digging your hole deeper, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.23163403]

>You seem to care a lot, you're extremely flustered by some facts of life. You're wasting time here. Why don't you go ahead and play your silly little video games and masturbate to your chink cartoons?

[Anonymous No.23163409]

>>23163038
>newsflash: people in the world are driven by motives that OP finds impure

[Anonymous No.23163410]

>>23163401
These are simple facts of life, not even activities I necessarily engage in, but you're clearly flustered because I'm dismissing your childish hobbies, and obviously have trouble reading and understanding, which is ironic because this is a literature board. Maybe you should read some books instead of playing video games and watching pornographic cartoons 24/7.

[Anonymous No.23163418]

>>23163410
It's more like you have a teenager's understanding of what adults do, but hopefully you'll grow out of it eventually.

[Anonymous No.23163426]

>>23163418
Adults have hobbies, they go outside, engage in sports, they cook, they take care of the house and garden, etc. They also have sex and they drink or smoke for fun. On the other hand, manchildren play video games and masturbate to Japanese cartoons all their lives. They also get extremely pissy when somebody tells them that's not a substitute for a personality. It's an addiction, stoners are similar. Guess that's what you'll do.

[Anonymous No.23163436]

>>23163245
>>23163289
everything that requires discipline is unnatural. reading is like eating.

Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

[Anonymous No.23163440]

>>23163426
do adults flame people on 4chan

[Anonymous No.23163441]

>>23163426
>He said, having spent the past 30 throwing a tantrum on /lit/ and furiously monitoring for replies

[Anonymous No.23163452]

>>23163038
I'm illiterate though

[Anonymous No.23163463]

>>23163358
A hobby can be video games, though I think a better hobby mightbe something that could prove to be more useful later in your life, like carpentry, drawing, playingguitar, etc. You have to have the desire to learn those things though, to will yourself to do them.

[Anonymous No.23163464]

>>23163426
video games and tv shows are hobbies

[Anonymous No.23163470]

>>23163237
>an average person is an NPC

[Anonymous No.23163475]

I want a pizza. :/

[Anonymous No.23163476]

>>23163330
>implying the average person isn't passively suicidal BECAUSE they have to work 9-5 for 50 years

[Anonymous No.23163477]

>>23163038
Hope about you stop worrying about everyone else and go read a book?

[Anonymous No.23163487]

>>23163475
I had pizza two hours ago. :D

[Anonymous No.23163503]

>>23163477
How about you stop worring about everyone else worrying about everyone else and go read a book?

[Anonymous No.23163574]

>>23163503
how about you etc

[Anonymous No.23163584]

Pizza has saved the day!

[Anonymous No.23164078]

>>23163574
how bout u