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5053383 No.5053383 [Reply] [Original]

Do your parents read?

>> No.5053390
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5053390

>all my dad reads is lame genre fiction
>all my mom reads is lame genre fiction

>> No.5053391

>>5053383
my mum reads theology. My dad liked tom clancy and stuff like that.

>> No.5053398

Both of them enjoy reading, however, the one that reads more and got me into reading was my father.

>> No.5053407

My mom used to read true crime novels when I was growing up but I haven't seen a book around her house in ages.

>> No.5053420

>>5053383
>Dad reads usually whatever he can find around the house
>Finds out how Amazon works
>Starts buying political autobiographies
>niggawhy.jpg
>Buys 100 years of solitude
>Sees my bookshelf and rants about me only reading Russian literature instead of the great English authors
>He's not even English

>> No.5053424
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5053424

My mom reads exclusively Stephen King.

>> No.5053425

My dad read the newspaper front-to-back every day; never books.

Mom would only read books on alternative medicine and other new age stuff.

>> No.5053439

>>5053425
At least a good newspaper?

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5053499

Dad rarely reads, when he does it's usually business books, Palanhuik, pulpy historical novels and George Martin. He also read Hobbit and asked me to recommend fantasy like Hobbit. I don't read much fantasy so I recommended LOTR, but he said it's too long and complicated for him. Now I wish I could recommend First Law trilogy to him, but the translation is absolutely disgusting and he doesn't read in English.

Mom doesn't read. She says she used to read a lot in her youth and she's hoarded a fuckload of books in our house, most of them from top-tier classical authors, but I haven't seen her reading for about 15 years. She says she doesn't want to 'spoil her eyes'. Yet she does a lot of cross-stitching, those embroider-by-numbers sets like picrelated. I just don't understand, how can someone choose to fuck their eyesight up for the sake of this boring and repetitive shit instead of reading. Also she is one of the biggest plebs I know: extremely shallow and bigoted but always smug and eager to be 'in the right' - to the point that it's impossible to have any discussion with her. If you give rational arguments against her point of view she just stops listening and bursts into hysterics. So I guess she's been exaggerating her patrician cred, because a truly educated person, in my experience, has more humility and less insecurity.

She read George Martin too, though.

>> No.5053525
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5053525

>'No anon, we went to the school of life'.

>> No.5053541

Mom reads shitty Nicholas Sparks books pretty much exclusively.

Dad likes to read epic poems.

>> No.5053548

>>5053383
>dad used to read Wheel of Time, Asimov and fantasy comics
>back in the day he read Marx and the likes
>his birthday is coming up
>give him short works by Tolstoy
>''oh wow, thanks, Anon, Wow, Tolstoy, huh, at my old age''
>leaves it on the table for a few days, family visits for his birthday and he shows off that I got it for him
>a week passes, book is still on the table
>ask him if he's ever going to read it, or wether I should just start it, since he's not doing anything with it
>says he's too old to read something as ''heavy as Tolstoy'', and that he doesn't read that much anymore..
>tell him Tolstoy isn't hard to read at all, he still doesn't want it
>feelsbadman

>> No.5053564

>>5053439
Depends on what you consider good. He wasn't reading tabloids or anything like that.

>> No.5053580

My parents are immigrants with little more than an equivalent of high school diplomas that are ingrained material and economic advancementists. I don't know how it happened but I'll be shitting on all their beliefs by becoming a novelist from their perspective

>> No.5053994

Dad likes to buy books (everytime he walks in a library, he cannot help buy something, our home is drowing in books) and reads sparsely, an excerpt it, a chapter there.

My mother is pretty die-hard. She learnt to read in drug prescriptions and there was a time when books were a mandatory side-gifts for her (for instance she had a main birthday gift and the obligatory book-gift, kinda like a tax).

>> No.5053998

>>5053994
*an excerpt here.

>> No.5054018

My mom reads feminist stuff
My dad reads romantic poetry

>> No.5054023

Dad reads sci-fi, thriller and horror books. Mom reads self-help books and Oprah magazine.

>> No.5054026

My dad reads the paper and my mom reads smut.

>> No.5054030

>>5054018
does your mom dominate your dad? tie him up and fuck the shit out of him?

>> No.5054040

>>5054030
I hope that's not something Anon would know about, Anon.

>> No.5054043

>>5054040
are you a fag or something?

this question was rhetorical

>> No.5054049

>>5054043
Tell me about your parents' sex habits, Anon.

>> No.5054059

>>5054040
>not knowing the kinks of your parents and psychoanalyzing the genealogy of your own fetishes
u w0t m8

>> No.5054245

>>5053548
Similar shit has happened to me

Never buying books as gifts again

>> No.5054271

>>5053548
>>5054245
One Christmas, I got everyone in my family books that I specifically chose based on their interests and personalities.

Not one of them, to this day, ever read any of it. Now, I just don't get anyone anything.

>> No.5054275

My dad reads NYT Best Seller crime fiction, self-help books, and amateur horror. He'll read the occasional classic.

My mom reads feelgood stuff written by modern televangelists.

>> No.5054296

Wow, it looks that america is as terrible as it's shown in Lolita.

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no.

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>>5053383
My dad reads every new book that comes out written by Fox News anchors or hosts. It's...at least he's still reading something, right? ...Right?

>> No.5054337

>>5053383
my mother reads extensively and voraciously
mostly nonfiction covering a wide variety of historical and political topics
she is 10x the intellectual I will ever be, plus she's a physician
it's depressing actually

haven't seen my dad in years, but according to my mom he was super patrician

>> No.5054342

My dad reads a ridiculous amount of theology. Like 3 entire bookshelves full of various theologians and Bible commentaries plus piles of other books lying around the house. When not reading those he reads the standards in fantasy (LotR, Drizzt books). He has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of LotR, which is kind of cool.
>mfw I tried to show him Aquinas (somehow he never read him) and he disregarded everything he said because he was Catholic (dad is super Protestant I guess).

My mom reads crime stuff and "helpful ideas for around the house" types of non-fiction. When she was younger I guess she read all the classics because everytime I come home with a new book that is a classic she always tells me she used to own/read it/"that's probably in the garage, you know."

My sister reads YA stuff, primarily but also reads the more entry level literary fiction (The Stranger, Heart of Darkness). She writes YA as well (but won't let me see it).

Family of hardcore readers I guess.

>> No.5054343

>>5054296

do folks in other parts of the world read literary canon way more commonly? can you count on say 8/10 people being capable of discussing the nuances of say, the work of Dostoyevsky?

somehow I doubt it

>> No.5054344

>>5054059
dunno man, my dad was bi and into bdsm shit
whereas I'm super vanilla straight

i suppose I get that from my mom...

>> No.5054350

>>5054344
You get it from your environment.
I went to private catholic schools my whole life.
Now I am super into skirts and panty shots.
Thus the world goes round.

>> No.5054357

>>5054350
i got that from anime

>> No.5054361

>>5054342
>protestants
so glad I got out of that cult scene
im in the warm embrace of mother church now

>> No.5054372

>>5054361
I'm not even sure what label to put on him (all these wacky Christian labels are too much for me to know (or care) about). Almost an entire of the three bookcases he has is filled with John MacArthur if that means anything.

>> No.5054373

>Dad only reads autobiographies
>Mum reads crappy romance novels

>> No.5054378
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5054378

If I picked something randomly from my mother's collection it would probably be something like this.
It's pretty embarrassing actually.

>> No.5054406

>>5054372
hardcore calvinist/baptist/evangelical turbo-protestant cult leader

also lmao at your dad reading all that but not even teaching his own son what a protestant is
>"American parenting"
not even once

>> No.5054417

>>5054350
agreed

i don't actually think i inherited my sexual preferences from my mother
I can remember specific experiences which shaped them
(seeing a movie with a chick jerking off when I was 12 etc...)

>> No.5054436

Mammy reads... 4 books a week, it used to be more but after a brain hemorrhage she had a few years ago and the general slowing down as she gets closer to the brown side of ripe it's down to 4.

Dad reads about a 1 book every 2 years, always football autobiographies.

>> No.5054474
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5054474

I was adopted into a fairly redneck family with little to no value on reading. Luckily my mother had some penchant for reading Nancy Drew books and capitalized on my ability to read at a 3 years old. After her early intervention I picked up books on my own. I've never seen a book in my father's hands in his life, the only thing I've ever seem him read recreational were magazines on game fowl. I still don't know how I managed to graduate Salutatorian from a large high school.

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>>5053383
all my parents read are christian novels and the bible, it's the absolute worst
pic related, they forced me to read this when i was about 17 and i cringed the entire time.

>> No.5054480
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5054480

Dad reads travel stories, war stories but most specificly history books about World War 2. Always fucking World War 2. What the fuck dad, grandpa didn't even fight in that war you didn't have jack shit to do with it.

Mom reads the words on the television

They're happily divorced.

>> No.5054487

my dad mainly reads sci fi
my mum mainly reads detective novels

but they're both pretty well read outside of that, and my mum in general often does more serious books as well. the house was always full of books of all sorts

>> No.5054590

>>5053383
My dad reads anything he can get his hands on and often asks me for recommendations. I got him to recently read I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Blood Meridian, A Confederacy of Dunces, and A Canticle for Leibowitz. He told me a story where a co-worker found an abandoned book at a job site, and he bought it from the co-worker for $10 without even looking inside it. He just loves reading.

My mom rarely reads, and when she does, it's YA stuff. The only thing the both of us have read and enjoyed is 100 Years of Solitude.

My mom taught me how to read but my dad encouraged me read all types of books.

>> No.5054594

>>5054590
*me to read

>> No.5054595

>get virginia woolf's the waves for moms birthday
>says shes excited to read it
>a week later shes given up and is reading the book thief

>> No.5054605

>>5054590
Your dad sounds like a bro. I, Claudius is one of my favorites.

>> No.5054744

>>5053525

fuck iktf

dads a high school drop out who drilled it into my head since I was 7 reading Harry potter that (according to him) reading too much will turn you into an impractical pussy (I'm paraphrasing obviously. he is far less lucid because he's constantly drunk and even in sobriety struggles to put together coherent sentences)

the man also constantly referred to me for help with spelling or basic math since I was around 10. he knew that I was kind of a bookish kid and was really mean to me about it. used to yell at me for not being outside where "all the other kids were" instead of being "pent up in the house all day sitting on your ass reading"

it's funny because his physical abuse hardened me enough for him to kind of achieve his goal of turning me into as much of a bitter antisocial asshole as he is

/diary

>> No.5054804

>>5054310
Better than reading every new book written by MSNBC anchors and hosts.

>> No.5054814

>>5054804
Don't do this, man.

>> No.5054821

>>5054814
>Oy Vey!

>> No.5054827

>>5054744
At least you're conscious of it. Start hanging with people who share your interest and you'll feel better.

>> No.5054858

>>5054827

it took a lot of work but I think I've recovered as much as I ever will

outwardly I'm really polite and friendly to just about everybody. I have a small group of friends and a loving girlfriend but I don't think I'll ever get over that feeling of isolation and general bitterness toward myself and everyone else

i don't know. thanks for replying though

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>>5054378
>mfw your mother is a powerful mage and you mock her for it
>mfw she could magic you into non-existence
>mfw she has seen, heard, and experienced things that you couldn't even approach in your wildest dreams
>mfw her arcane knowledge extends far beyond what any non-initiated person can even imagine

>> No.5054865

>>5054858
> I don't think I'll ever get over that feeling of isolation and general bitterness toward myself and everyone else

If than can reassure you, I often feel the same (though certainly not to the extent as you do), despite having been brought up by loving, socially balanced and curious parents.

>> No.5054888

>>5053383
No, my parents never read, but made me study a lot, and I love reading.

>> No.5054895

My old man reads books like Alex Ferguson's autobiography and Pablo Escobar's biography, while I sit there and stare at him like the cunt that he is. The mark of being a "man": talking about scams and tax-evasion and shit with other "men." Oh, and he pervs out like fuck on my girlfriends.

Mother's a dumbass who reads dumb erotica.

>> No.5054898

>>5053383
My stepdad spends his time sleeping or watching bigfoot/aliens/or duck dynasty
my mother tried to read once...she got like..4 pages into Lovely Bones and gave it up. So now she watches Charmed dvd's, Rizzoli and Isles, NCIS, Duck Dynasty, and reality shit.

>> No.5054906

>>5054895
>The mark of being a "man": talking about scams and tax-evasion and shit with other "men."
Jokes on him though, I defrauded the state like fuck and he has to pay for it or my mother will leave him.

>> No.5054913

>>5054744
Do you always have to bitch and whine?
No one cares, faggot.

>> No.5054920

>>5054906
I'm always coming into the house too with plans of burning out cars and claiming off the insurance and shit and it drives him fucking mental, lol.

>> No.5054921

>>5054804
No it's not.
They are both equally as pathetic.

>> No.5054927

>>5053383
No

>> No.5054928

>>5054921
Fox is 55-45 spin v. real news.

MSNBC is 80-20.

No kidding, Pew did a study.

>> No.5054930

Yes, primarily self-help shit. *sigh*

>> No.5054939

>>5054928
>American media
>news

lol

>> No.5054943

>>5054913
dad?

>> No.5054945

>>5054943
lol

>> No.5054952

>>5054928
Just to set the records straight..when you say "spin" vs. "real news"...you mean that 55% of what Fox News says (and 80% for MSNBC) is factually inaccurate ? Although both are widely watched channels and big parts of the audiovisual landscape ? If that's true, I'm glad I'm not American.

>> No.5054959

>>5053499
>If you give rational arguments against her point of view she just stops listening and bursts into hysterics.

That's precisely how my family life is. I just avoid talking to them about serious topics now.

>> No.5054960

>>5054952
No, anon, it's that the news is presented by those spinning graphics.....like, the words will spin onto the screen, "THIS JUST IN," round and round.

>> No.5054963

>dad was an English major as an ivy league undergrad
>always encouraged me to read, gave me access to his patrician-tier home library
>by the time i was born, he was a workaholic lawyer who spent 90 hr weeks at the office to get away from his alcoholic wife and annoying kids
>few times I hung out with him we'd watch shakespeare or the opera on pbs, occasionally talk about what i was reading
>tfw i bond with my emotionally distant dad via awkward conversations about classic literature the way most guys bond with their emotionally distant dads via awkward conversations about sports
>feels patrician as fuck

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>>5054952
"Commentary/Opinion" in the study. Pic related.

>> No.5054966

I didn't bond with shit. I've been in perpetual war with my dad all my life. Knocked the dude out at Christmas because he bought me a pair of shoes and was all smarmy about it.

>> No.5054973

>>5054030
no but my gf does that to me

>> No.5054978

>>5054943
>>5054945
>those two posts

I don't know if it's sad, funny or absurd in an existentialist way.

>> No.5054981

>>5054966

wevegotabadassoverhere.jpg

>> No.5054985

>>5054981
No, no . . . I'm more just perturbed by all of your "I love my daddy" madness.

>> No.5054987

>>5054965
But that's not the same thing as presenting made-up facts as confirmed evidence.
I was mistaken on the meaning of "spin".
I feel (a bit) better.

>> No.5054988

>>5054978

that's life

>> No.5054991

>>5054985
Sometimes I think the entire world would change in an instant if I could make amends with my father -- like literally the fucking universe would transform, that's how fucking absurd you fuckers are.

>> No.5054996

>>5054991
When he dies I'm going to so be like "Holy fuuuuuuuuu."

>> No.5054997

>>5054985
I feel the same, anon. All those fucking idiots and their friends. Last time a guy tried to call me by my first name I sent him to emergency ward. Should teach him how to behave.

>> No.5054999

>>5054997
Oh shut up you fucking idiot. Everyone else can talk about fucking their dads and I can't offer up a different perspective?

>> No.5055000

>>5054997
Real talk tho, friends are for the intellectually stunted.

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>>5055000

>> No.5055006

>>5055000
Victims, on the other hand...

>> No.5055007

My father reads newspapers, my mother reads cookbooks, I read edgy philosophy. It's the perfect trinity.

>> No.5055008

>>5054991

I tried

it took agreeing with him that I deserved everything he did to me and accepting that he'll never apologize.

we get along now but it's fraudulent and only stoked the inner fire, if u know what I mean

>> No.5055010

>>5054999
You seem to be rather upset, bro. I suggest you invest in a punching ball, should do really good for your heart.

>> No.5055014

>>5055008
I'm never going to try, it's just always going to be out there as like *the* fucking answer to all the world's ills and I'm never going to accept it.

>> No.5055017

>>5055014

you're a stronger man than I

>> No.5055019

>>5053499
>how can someone choose to fuck their eyesight up for the sake of this boring and repetitive shit instead of reading

Jokes on you your mother is actually a Zen master who has achieved enlightenment.

>> No.5055020

>>5055010
You seem like a bitchboi being an internet hardman. Funny how that works, right?

>> No.5055037

>>5054999
I was amused by "you're all idiots, that's not how fathers and sons deal with each other" attitude. Few post itt are actually about loving your father, and is it really surprising if a few are ? I don't think you expect everyone to be punching their dad for a pair of shoes. That's what sparked my comment.

I realize I've been rather means in messing with you. I apologize for that.
However, as someone who had to fight pretty hard psychological abuse (I guess) you should know better than snap at the first faggot on 4chan that makes an ironic comment.

>> No.5055045

>>5053383
My dad has a phd in english from stanford so i hope so
>tfw my dad will always know more about literature than me

>> No.5055058

>>5055008
I know that probably sounds stupid, but why not just tell him to fuck off ? Genuinely curious about this.

>> No.5055070

>>5055058

guilt and fear

I am too weak

>> No.5055095
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>>5054337
>haven't seen my dad in years, but according to my mom he was super patrician
Makes me think your dad might've thought he was too patrician even for her. Or "the lost patrician"

>> No.5055109

>>5055070
Have you tried working away from him and make your own achievment ? It's much easier to face your dad when you've accomplished something on your own.

You're weak, but you could probably become stronger.

>> No.5055121

>>5055109

yeah

I moved out this year so I've been supporting myself for a while and our contact is pretty minimal lately

maybe it's that he's in bad standing in all of his relationships and I'm the only person who will give him the illusion of forgiveness

maybe it's more complicated than that or maybe I'm trying to justify my own inaction. could be.

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5055122

>>5053580

I googled "advancementists" because I liked it and wanted to know if it was a real term.

Your post was the first result.

>> No.5055130

>>5054271

You can lead a horse to water...

... or you can make it into toothpaste.

captcha: reads seofin

>> No.5055150

>>5055037
I didn't suffer any psychological abuse dude, I just don't like my father, lol.

>> No.5055153

My dad is a huge George Saunders and Vonnegut fan. My mom will read any mystery novel– from Jim Butcher to Jonathan Lethem, and James Ellroy.

>> No.5055156

Nor did I call anyone an idiot, I was just looking on that shit as otherwordly, because it is so fucking otherworldly for me.

>> No.5055163

>>5055037
>>5055156

>indirectly calling me a faggot for being hurt by abuse because you don't like someone else's comment

you seem like an awesome person anon

>> No.5055166

>>5055163
I dunno how this post relates to me, nor do I care. I'm gonna go slap my dad around a bit.

>> No.5055167

>>5055150
In that case I wasn't being as mean as I thought.
But why the anger then ? People liking their fathers havsn't much to do with you not liking yours.

>>5055156
You used the terms "love your father" madness in a thread where most people didn't comment on their filial tenderness and at least two were explicitly calling out their fathers on their shit.
It was quite surprising.

To tell the truth, anon, I'm not even sure I love my father. Although I recognize he must be in the top 10% of best fathers.
You also called me an idiot at some point, but that's nitpicking.

>> No.5055169

>>5055167
Yeah, yeah, let's not get too upset about things dude. I'm cool, you?

>> No.5055176

>>5055169
And I'm not angry, it's just expression. Sorry if I was a bit crude and griping.

One time I brought this chick home though, and she was hot, and my old man took a liking to her and got this hur durr idea that he'd start a fight with her to show her my masculinity, holy fuck he's a stupid cunt

>> No.5055180

>>5055176
Srs, the dude is the fucking bane of my existence, not gonna lie.

>> No.5055183

>>5055163
This thread is starting to get really weird. Like some anons answering in the place of other anons and pretending to be them for no reason at all.

The posts you quoted are not from the same person, and none of them was addressed to you (or perhaps they were, who can tell at this point).

>> No.5055187

>>5053383

My dad has read tons of books on the American Civil War, along with quite a bit of other history. He also reads Clive Cussler and John Grisham pulp occasionally. I'm pretty sure he's read a lot of the classics, long ago, but he clearly doesn't remember them that well. He's intelligent and decently well-read, but he acts more intellectual than he is.

My mom reads Nicholas Sparks-type shit and light religious books (e.g. "Heaven Is For Real"). She also does Bible study sometimes, where I think they read the Bible along with some more challenging scholarship (though I don't really know). I guess that's not too bad for someone who didn't go to college.

>> No.5055188

>>5055176
We didn't talk for like 2 fucking months after that.

>> No.5055192

>>5055183

yeah, I'm lost. whatever.

>> No.5055193

I like this thread, it's good to air your shit.

>> No.5055198

>>5055176
Fight with me, obviously

>> No.5055201

>>5055169
>>5055176
No problem bro. I'm prone to make fun of things, and why it's gentl most of the time, being on 4chan for too long can make me a bit cruel. I'm glad I stopped myself quickly enough.
Also, I think some mischievous anon was impersonating you half of the time, and that makes things confusing.

>Srs, the dude is the fucking bane of my existence, not gonna lie.

Why not move away from him ? You're probably old enough, or will soon be.

>> No.5055206

>>5055193

definitely. and it's good to be able to do it in a format like text where you can get your words out without being reduced to a sobbing shaking incoherent mess

and I appreciate that this board, probably unlike any other board, has a minimal amount anons who will shit on you for trying to get things off your chest

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Step three: Fist fight your dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKwMFas9XnY

>> No.5055210

>>5055201

see >>5055198 for the impersonation I was talking about. The >>5055198 dude is trying to posture as me, but it won't work, I'm too sharp (that means bored enough) for that.

>> No.5055212

>>5055201
I dunno. I like home, I guess. Big family, yanno?

>> No.5055216

>>5055210
Nah dude that's me, I make shitton of posts

>> No.5055221

>>5055193
>>5055206
This thread is now a "All you ever wanted to tell your dad but never dared to" thread.

This would seriously bring more relief to people than anything ever written on /lit before.

>> No.5055223

>>5055216
Hey, stop that! I see what you're talking about, anon.

>> No.5055227

>>5055212
>>5055216
That's up to you. But from experience (not mine, but that of close friends) families are generally a short-range kind of nuisance. If you can get so little as 50 miles from them it should considerably ease your pain.

I also have made much more posts itt than reasinable at this hour.

>> No.5055228

>>5055221
thred is gud

>> No.5055229

This board is not your blog you pack of subhumans. Go whinge to each other about pathetic self-inflicted problems on IRC, not here.

>> No.5055231

>>5055223
He's really a cunning bastard. But we exposed him. Time to get him cornered and let in the dogs. Tonight they're having a pretty meal.

>> No.5055234

>>5055227
Eh, life would be boring without them. You know, you get used to sights or whatever, or whatever, or whatever. I'm probably gonna build a house right down the road someday and fight with my old man until one of us is dead.

>> No.5055235

>>5054939
>news
>relevant

in other news, a man farted in india, a tiger has given birth in vietnam, and an american exchange student has been removed from a stone vagina in germany

which one is the news story, and which ones are made-up??????

>> No.5055239

>>5055229
Someone doesn't have a dad

>> No.5055241

>>5055229
"Collective blog for anynomous whinging on pathetic self-inflicted problems" is a good description of /lit.

"Place where you can hide a thread" and "Place where normally intelligent people know when spotting nonrelated posts has become useless" are two others.

>> No.5055247

>>5055235
The tiger one is pretty important has tigers are endangered. The fart one is perhaps the more important of all, as India is overcorwded and a single fart can make sick a good hundred of people.

The vagina one is just a nice metaphor on how the US handle its diplomatic relationships and interventions in other countries.

>> No.5055254

>>5055235
>a man farted in india

Made me think of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peUxE_BKcU&feature=kp

>> No.5055259

my mom reads probably 90% shitty genre fiction and young adult stuff

my dad reads hunting magazines and true crime

Both of them read a national, a state and a local newspaper each day cover to cover. They have this carefully choreographed unspoken routine of dividing up the papers in the morning and passing the sections back and forth between each other when they're finished. It's pretty cute.

>> No.5055671

Dad reads biographies and short stories, mom just reread most of Dostoyevskys books.

>> No.5055719

>>5055208

The relationship between Sam and his mom is exemplary.

>> No.5055736

Dad reads military thrillers, david baldacci, tom clancy

Mom reads romance books really goddamn fast, I gave her Mrs. Dalloway, fingers crossed

Why is it always women that speed read?

>> No.5055737

>>5053383
>Dad mostly watches television
>Mother takes like a month to read a simple nonfiction or romance
>Mother also loves to "talk deeply" about books that are shallow
>She read serious books in college but doesn't read them now

She wants to read The Brothers Karamazov now, but I don't know if she could do it..

>> No.5055739

>>5054943
It's your fault your mother died.

>> No.5055741

I was raised by my grandparents, neither read save for the news and occaisional magazines. My mother gave me Xanth novels when I was 11 and said she used to read them when she was my age, she also at least liked Narnia. I do not believe she reads now. My great-grandmother was poorly educated and a stay-at-home housewife, she is the most well read person besides me in the family. She liked John Grisham, biographies, and books about politics and America's history. I'm your standard /lit/ snob.

>> No.5055751

>>5055736
In my experience women don't read for meaning, they read for a cheap plot that makes them feel

Men just don't read

>> No.5055752

My father has been reading the same collection of Sven Hazel books over and over for the last 30 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Hazel

My mother reads Swedish crime writers just like everybody else here.
This one seems especially popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_L%C3%A4ckberg

Better than not reading at all I suppose but it's hardly what you'd call literature-

>> No.5055755

>>5055737
I should add, my grandmother runs the local bookclub for over thirty years and has read hundreds of books. She actually gave me a copy of War and Peace

>> No.5055773

>>5055755
Is your grandmother russian?

>> No.5055786

>>5055751
Men also work more often

>> No.5055841

>>5055739


dad?

>> No.5055862

My parents are brute Brazilian landlords who sell guaraná through harsh capitalist means.

My father is somewhat kind-hearted and he reads the Bible occasionally. Sometimes he reads popular magazines too. When he is not mad about his decaying business (and he almost always is - I give him 10 more years at most before he dies of a heart attack), he usually is watching popular television, though.

I love my parents, but unfortunately I'll never know what it is to discuss a book with them. When I was 14 I read to my father the final part of The Apology of Socrates. He kinda liked it, but though it was boring. I haven't tried since.

I owe them my habit of reading, though: if they didn't buy a very costly encyclopedia in 1999, I would never have enjoyed reading. It was by reading the articles on prehistoric animals that I started to enjoy reading things.

>> No.5055886

>>5054480
>What the fuck dad, grandpa didn't even fight in that war you didn't have jack shit to do with it.

I'm sorry man, but I laughed very hard at this.

>> No.5055933

>>5053383
My parents fell in love over a Tennyson poem, they still both read anything they can get their hands on.

My one sister is a lawyer, and I just found out her favorite book is The Fountainhead. Never would have guessed.

My other sister reads crappy chick-lit.

My brother wouldn't pick up a novel if you stapled it to his hand, but I've been slowly introducing him to higher and higher concept comic books. I hope to one day have him reading something like Cerebus.

>> No.5055941

My mom doesn't read, my dad reads crime comedy books very ... very .. slowly. He read most of the classics back in the day though and he likes talking about what he's reading as well as asking about what I'm reading whenever I see him.

Couldn't complain, really.

>> No.5055946

>>5055933
This thread is about your parents, not your siblings, retard.

>> No.5055948

My parents are from korea. Dad probably didnt graduate highschool and mom didnt go to college. They dont read at all BUT they like to think of themselves as aristocrats

So yeah, theres that

>> No.5055949

>>5055946
Yeah, but I found out two days ago that my sister is a huge Randian. Couldn't help sharing.

>> No.5055958

>>5055948
>They dont read at all BUT they like to think of themselves as aristocrats

Fucking Korean subhumans always have such high opinions of themselves. It's the same with all Asian immigrant groups, actually. Why are these people so arrogant?

>> No.5055960

My mother reads stuff like Janet Evanovich and John Grisham. My father doesn't read.

>> No.5055968

>>5055958
yea... you can imagine all the deep and prophetic thoughts that came out of there mouths

>> No.5055981

My mother rereads Pride and Prejudice in Persian. She can read english fairly well, but just keeps rereading it over and over again.
My dad watches reruns of Family Guy

>> No.5056079

My mom acts like a genius but couldn't understand INHERENT VICE of all novels

>> No.5056083

>>5056079
To be fair, it's way harder than your average crime novel.

>> No.5056092

My Mother used to read a lot apparently but my old man was never much of a reader. The ook he choose to read on a flight from the UK to New Zealand was The Hobbit. I dont know if he was swept up by going to NZ or if light reading was all he could manage

>> No.5056097

I wonder how much my son will enojy reading. His mother and I both read a book a week on average and we both read to him a lot.

I swear if Roger Hargreaves wasn't already long dead I would beat him to death with that fucking Mr Men collection

>> No.5056108

>>5055773
No but she has read many of the great Russian novels

She's German-English, mostly. I have that WASP northern slave owner thing going.

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5056201

>father was a bit patrician back in the days (read the beats, some English classic and a few russian stuff, this is actually impressive because he never went to school and work in a shitty factory)
>coming home next week and found him reading TCOL49
>"hey bud do you have any other from this guy ? He's pretty good"
>mfw he's becoming a patrician

>> No.5056210

>>5053383
My parents are dead, my father died in 2002 and my mother in 2012. They can't read because of that. But before they died, my father was a writer for television, specifically "days of our lives" and my mother was well versed in both the bible and the quran.

>> No.5056222

>>5056210

So when are you going to become a bat, anon?

>> No.5056295

>>5056108
So she is a poser and faker who could never feel and understand the real greatness and beauty in russian literature. I can only imagine how that bookclub looks like.

>> No.5056564

>>5053383
My dad can't even read

>> No.5056627

My mother reads all kind of books, she reads at leader 15 books/week, I had the chance to grew up in a house full of books thanks to her. Her greatest fear is to become blind so she can not read anymore.
My dad doesn't read that much though, but I and my siblings grew up to love reading (except for my little brother).

>> No.5057341

>>5053383
My father reads a lot of historical fiction and nonfiction as well as scifi of all types.
My mother reads a lot of novels based in reality during different time periods. She's a bit more normal in her tastes and doesn't really like scfi or fantasy. Both of them are pretty well versed in the classics (and my mother is German) but they don't usually read them for pleasure. All of my siblings and I were taught to read at young ages and still read avidly. Books are very common presents in my house

>> No.5057381

My mom reads more than me, but she mostly reads shovelware detective stories. Although she doesn't mind an occasional good piece of fiction.
I've never seen my dad with a book.

>> No.5058016

>>5055259
Sounds pretty cute.

>> No.5058042

>>5055259
>passing the sections back and forth
>sections
How does that work?

>> No.5058071

The last book I remember seeing my mom read was Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald like two or three years back. I know she reads quite a lot of crime writing (no fiction) online.

My dad literally reads nothing. He bought some books on investment and stock options and the like a while back and he's done nothing with them. It does kind of bother me, if only because I'm only starting to realize he's actually kind of a philistine.

>> No.5058087

Dad reads motorcycle magazines from 1973 that he picked up when he was 13 almost exclusively, but he does have a copy of Jaws lying around.

Mum used to read Catherine Cookson weepy crap but now she's too busy to read, although I think she gets Mills and Boon on her iPad.

>> No.5058097

>>5053383
Both my parents are illiterate because they come from third world countries where school was expensive and not compulsory.

You'd think this would make me value education more but it doesn't.

;_;

>> No.5058102

>>5053499
that is a perfect description of my mother. What truly scares me is that I might become like that with age.

>> No.5058110

>>5058042
uhh do newspapers not come in sections where you're from?

>> No.5058115

>>5058102
Judging from all the in this thread who say that their parents used to read a lot ut stopped at some, I'm scared what real life will to do me at some point (marriage, kids, etc).

>> No.5058122

>>5053499
Maybe she never read them and just had them to look like a patrician but was secretly a plebian.

>> No.5058128

>>5058115
I'm a retard who doesn't proofread his posts...
*all the people
**but stopped at some point

>> No.5058139

>>5058115
Just set a goal to read a certain amount of patrician level books a year and stick to it.

>> No.5058153

My dad reads motorsport books mostly. I sometimes borrow one to read and they are prettty interesting.
My Mom however just reads whatever crap she found in the charity shop and twilight.

>> No.5058173

>>5058139
Sounds like nice plan, let's see what happens when I work 9 -5 and have to take care of some little brat afterwards. I really hope, I'll find the time and energy.

>> No.5058204

>>5053383
My dad likes fantasy, science-fiction, historical fiction, and right-wing intellectuals.

My mom is obsessed with Iberian lit.

>> No.5058207

My father reads history books on the French and Indian war and the American revolution. Sometimes he reads stuff like Roman history and popular science, but mostly it's these two topics. I've gotten him to read stuff like Camus and Kerouac before; he appreciated it, Kerouac more so, but it's just not his thing. I'm pretty sure he used to read American classics, I found a bunch in a box years ago.

My mother doesn't read too much. When she does it's stuff like Dan Brown, books my sister gives her, etc. I love her so I don't mind her plebness

>> No.5058240

>>5058110
You mean like News section, Sports, and Entertainment?

I was thinking maybe they split up pages themselves.

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5058263

once i forgot my copy of 'sexus' by miller at my grandma when i visited her
next time i found a bookmark in it
and it wasn't mine
mfw

>> No.5058267

>>5054059
>psychoanalyzing


staypleb why not just read the horrorscopes while you're at it.

>> No.5058272

>>5054337
>she is 10x the intellectual I will ever be

You must be a woman too. Women are not intellectual.

>> No.5058278

>>5054342
>He has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of LotR, which is kind of cool.

No it's not.

>> No.5058291

>>5054343
>can you count on say 8/10 people being capable of discussing the nuances of say, the work of Dostoyevsky?

Just read the superior work of McCarthy instead

>> No.5058293

>>5058115
>marriage, kids, etc
>4channer

chances are, you'll never have these problems, m8

but if you just have to be scared, I knew a female philosophy professor who had 4 kids. So it's clearly not the end. Just don't marry a vegetable without any interests besides TV, shopping and drinking, or someone overly possessive and narcissistic who gets mad unless you're totally subservient and inferior to them and tries to drag you down to their level.

>> No.5058316

>>5054952
>If that's true, I'm glad I'm not American.

You're so pleb you only watch tv news and glad you aren't American?

I'm glad you are not too anon.

>> No.5058325

>>5058293
>someone overly possessive and narcissistic who gets mad unless you're totally subservient and inferior to them and tries to drag you down to their level.

How do you know that until you are there. Also I don't believe in free will so it's not like there is any choice in the matter.

>> No.5058331

>>5058325
>in court for murder
>I don't believe in free will so it's not like there was any choice in the matter.

>> No.5058338

They do once in a while, and when they do it's usually good stuff, my dad told me a bout Blood Meridian the first time. They don't read too much to be honest, they are active and do a lot of things outdoors. Then when they do relax they watch TV. Neither went to university, and I think are really quite smart and probably would have enjoyed it. I think the fact that my mom didn't go is a source of anxiety for her, she wants to have the appearance of a refined intellectual but will never be this. This shows itself in harsh criticisms of others, including her own family.

>> No.5058348

>>5058331

There wasn't a choice, the only thing that can happen does. You still are responsible. We should have more empathy for the murderer.

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>>5058325
>How do you know that until you are there
by closely and attentively observing, preferably for a lengthy period of time, how the person you intend to marry interacts with different people and deals with different situations, and also by not being a fatalist hothead

>> No.5058377

>>5058348
>There wasn't a choice, the only thing that can happen does.
that's a dumb fatalism
only one thing can happen actually but potentially there is always a choice

>> No.5058380

>>5058358

I agree with those things, but many a person has let their imagination run wild against their better judgement.

>> No.5058381

>>5053383
My dad reads for information (stuff about cars and programming.) Occasionally he reads a shitty World of Warcraft book.

My mom never reads unless you count children's books (she's an elementary school teacher.)

>> No.5058383

>>5058377
>>There wasn't a choice, the only thing that can happen does.
>that's a dumb fatalism
>only one thing can happen actually but potentially there is always a choice

That's not fatalism at all. Yes there is a "choice" but the choice made is the only one that could have been made, to suggest otherwise is suggesting the impossible.

>> No.5058407

My dad reads biker books (including hunter s thompsons hells angels.) and war books involving the engineers.

My mum reads Virginia Andrews and soapy shit like A boy named dave

>> No.5058910

My father reads non-fiction about the mafia and crime in general. Was a cop for 30+ years, a CJ professor for 3 years and hated it, and now a security guard. Would not be surprised if he knew more about the mob than anyone actually in organized crime.

My Mom reads feel good stuff like The Kite Runner, and she has a lot of those romancy books with the buff Fabios on the cover.

Sister reads self help, improvement shit:
>7 highly habits 4 people
>healthy eating books
>how to be successful, how to get ahead, etc.
I think she's delusional

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>>5058097
I don't remember visiting this thread before, because this is exactly me

>> No.5058988
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5058988

>tfw father is as patrician as it gets
I wish I was as awesome as you are dad.

>> No.5059068

>>5053383
My dad was an English professor who specialized in SF, so yes. He's mentioned in the "Further Reading" section of Wikipedia's Alternate History article.

My mom also reads a good deal of shit, though she claims she reads fast and retains little.

>> No.5059093

>>5053383
My father watches TV all day.

My mother likes to read YA literature. I think Harry Potter is her favorite thing ever written. She has read Dickens on occasion though.

I have 3 siblings. They either don't read, or read nothing but YA, genre trash (like Stephen King), or manga.

Everyone in my family except for my mom actually gets mad at me for talking about books like like because I (and I'm quoting), "make them feel stupid".

Whatever genes dictated the development of my brain were mutations. I swear to god.

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5059110

>>5059068

It's a side effect of getting old. We can conceptualize better than ever, but can't remember shit.

>> No.5059111

>>5055019
>>5054861
>>5055739
MIDF pls go

>> No.5059140

>>5059068
We've got you now, Chapman/Yoke/Collins/Darius/Cowley/Gevers/Hellekson/Keen/McKnight/Nedelkovh/Rosenfeld.

>> No.5059178

I'll preface this by stating that my parents have no education beyond high school and from what I can gather they were "cool kids," so take that for what you will. My father is an aircraft mechanic and my mother stays at home.

Father--decently smart guy but ignorant and lacking in knowledge:
Main genres:
Self help--50%
Light-core Catholic inspirational stuff--"50 Things Catholics Should Know" kind of books--20%
Conservative Political and Historical (Patriotic) Books--10%
Sports Books--10%
Men's Magazines--10%

About 5-8 books a year

He has almost no copies of books, almost exclusively borrows from the library.

Mother--a very dumb woman. I am grateful to her but I find it increasingly hard to like her and I suspect she feels the same toward me--:
Only the most mainstream books possible. She has read:
Harry Potter
Twilight Series
The occasional Nicolas Sparks book
Fifty Shades Trilogy
Women's Health Magazines
Beyond this I am not aware of her reading anything other than the occasional YA or romance book.

~3 books per year

I feel sorry for my parents. My dad could have been a very intelligent and bright man, but he is too brainwashed by TV and by many years of never reading. My mom is just sad. I hope she is happy on the inside but I really can't see how.

>> No.5059188

>>5054337
You are your own father

>> No.5059194

>>5053383

My mother is a philistine who hasn't read a book in her life.

She told me she was in special ed in middle and high school

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5059200

> read it as "are your parents dead"
Theres a Freudian slip somewhere in there Im sure

>> No.5059202

>>5059194
>she told me she was in special ed
lek

>> No.5059207

>>5059194
>tfw I know that dumb mother feel

Honestly my disappointment and dislike of my mother is the only convincing argument for pandering to girls in school and encouraging them. OR is it an argument against it that shows how futile it is to waste time on females? Who knows.

>> No.5059409

My mom now reads mostly nonfiction on like organic farming and cooking and GMOs and genre fiction (murder/romance/mystery). She's also into some Stephen King and has read a fair amount of American/English classics + at least Anna Karenina and Brothers K. As far as I know. She was also an anthro major in college and was pretty serious about her studies before meeting my dad, so she's got a whole bunch of anthropological research, too. Probably averages about 20-25 books per year.

My dad reads the newspaper daily, graphic arts magazines (that's his career field), nonfiction books on the American revolution, the World Wars, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the French Revolution, just a bunch of war. Which is odd, since he's a huge pacifist. he also reads buddhist texts on occasion and I once saw a book in his car titled, "Living Buddha, Living Christ". He's not overly religious, but he's probably the only one in his family of 6 brothers and a sister that isn't. I'd say an average of ~5 books a year.

>> No.5059451

I doubt they even can read.

>> No.5059593

>>5059140
It's McKnight.

I know I'm breaking pretty much whatever idea of 4chan etiquette there is in admitting that, but I think he deserves the recognition.

RIP

>> No.5059714

>>5059200

stop referring to Freud, it's so passe.

>> No.5059731

No

>> No.5059790

My dad is actually a kind of famous writer in my country

>tfw I don't read
>tfw I haven't read his books

>> No.5059881

>>5059790
Read his books, anon.

Read them for me.

>> No.5060336

>>5059790
John?

It's me, dad.

>> No.5060354

>>5059714

>allowing popular modes to dictate your thought

take your fashionable ass back to /fa/ you poser

>> No.5060413

>>5055259
> tfw you will never be in a relationship similar to anon's parent's

>> No.5060419

no

>> No.5060435

>>5058293
Nah, my gf has read all the russian classics and knows french literature better than I do. Proper wifey-material, I guess.

>> No.5061562

>>5054361
>mother church
> mother

How apt, given your heretical worship of Mary.

>> No.5061676

Dad reads some popular contemporary lit, always translated. Mom usually falls asleep after she's read 2 pages but sometimes manages to finish a book on vacation.

>> No.5061705

who gives a shit

>> No.5061725

My dad loves Dan Brown's stuff.
ughh

>> No.5061734

>>5054963
kill yourself mr. patrician

>> No.5061744

my father reads quite a bit, and he absolutely loved Growth of the Soil by Knut Hansum.

any reccommendations based on that? i think Hunger would be good for him, but im pretty sure he has read that already

>> No.5061966

>>5058910
>The Kite Runner
>rape
>Taliban
>feel good

>>5059881
what if they're shit? He would only feel awkawrd and insecure.

>> No.5062370

>>5059188

Indeed, the child is the father of the man.

>> No.5062603

>>5059188

Then every time I fap, im getting incestually molested

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My mother's a psychoanalyst and university professor and probably has over a thousand books on psychoanalysis and psychology, some philosophy too. She doesn't read much fiction though.

My father graduated in history, but doesn't work in the field anymore. He used to read a lot, he pretty much got me into reading actually, by introducing me to entry-level like Orwell and Huxley. He also introduced me to Pynchon and Bukowski.
But now he doesn't read at all. It's sad actually.

>> No.5062626

My dad reads a lot of literature, likes the Russians, reads a lot of plays for some reason.

My mom also reads a lot, mostly booker prize type English lit.

>> No.5062663

My mom spends her entire day reading free books from the kindle store, It's changed her.

>> No.5062880

My dad reads the Bible, Book of Mormon, and other books that are promoted by the LDS church, as well as biographies on American historic figures. My mom reads self-help books that will supposedly help her in her field of work (sales), and the occasional romance novel.

>> No.5062885

>>5062663

I wish this would happen with one or both of my parents.

>> No.5062897

>>5062624
Maybe he's living his life instead of reading about other people's lives?

>tfw mebe your da pleb son

>> No.5062916

dad reads tons of hist books; just finished one about WWI

>> No.5062961

Has anyone tried turning their parents to more sophisticated literature or philosophy? If so, how successful was it?

>> No.5062995

>>5053383
My father reads quite a bit. He's read Typee, The Pearl, A Song of Ice and Fire, most Stephen King stuff, a ton of Dean Koontz stuff, and more pre-1980's sci-fi than you can shake a stick at, and that's all I know he's read. Sometimes I bring up book I don't think he's read and it it turns out he's read them, but they're basically all entry level.
My mother reads YA shit and romance.
They've both got IQ's in the high 120's if that matters.

>> No.5063001

>>5058910
>I think she's delusional
Wasn't there a study of self-made successful people which revealed they read mostly self-help and biographies?

>> No.5063012

>>5053383
>implying I have parents

>> No.5063017

>>5058122
Not him but same mommy type: never reads and hoards the classics but she also knows the entire canon by heart. It's not useless bullshit knowledge, apparently, since she somehow made it into the top 10 bloggers in my language (which is one of the top 10 languages in the world) while barely knowing how to use the computer.

She used to be a journalist before she got the kids and that also lent her some useful commandments.

@knittingmomguy
Dude, get her an apple computer. She'll love it.

>> No.5063028

>>5063001
You read that in a self-help book?

>> No.5063032

>>5063028
I read that here. Of course there are guys like Clinton who are both well-read and successful but I'm starting to think he's simply a genius.

>> No.5063062

>>5063032
>both well-read and successful
How is that a contradiction?

>> No.5063092

>>5063062
Because reading lots of good shit tends to cut into the time successful people use learning skills or networking or traveling, the only outliers seem to be professors, for whom reading is a job, and lawyers who took English or Lit for their BA. Ask A Fortune 500 CEO what their favorite book is and it'll either be a self-help, a biography, or a periodical, meanwhile Clinton is on television telling people to read the Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses.

>> No.5063110

>>5053383
Yup. My mother reads Stephen King and a lot of new age/paranormal books while my father has a whole bookcase of Crowley/Lovecraft/Stoker/occult reference books and the like, as well as lots of books on martial arts and Bruce Lee from his younger years.

>> No.5063132

>>5063092
tl;dr.

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>>5059593
>Dr. McKnight was a member of the First Baptist Church of Greenville, SC. He is survived by his wife Jean, their two sons Forrest and Will, his sister Lynn McKnight and his father Dr Edgar V. McKnight Sr. A memorial service will be held at First Baptist Church, Greenville, SC, Tuesday, June 25th at 11:00am.

Keep up the legacy, Forrest or Will. May your patrician dad RIP in peace

>> No.5063170

>>5061705
I find it interesting to hear a little about everyone's background, since I spend a lot of time on /lit.

>> No.5063176

>>5063017
post blog

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>>5059068
>My mom also reads a good deal of shit, though she claims she reads fast and retains little.
Shit. I read slow and retain little. I wish I could remember poetry.

>> No.5063192

My father read a lot of sci fi and thrillers. Relatives say he read spy novels and westerns when he was younger. I remember seeing him with books from The Destroyer and Executioner series when I was a kid.

My mother reads romance novels and historical fiction. She will occasionally read books I give her (Beattie, Pancake, Cisneros, Cortazar, etc.).

>> No.5063233

My father is a Mathematician and, aside from his work, reads all the classics.
I found it great that he already read and had in his library almost all books from /lit/'s lists.

My mother read a lot when she was younger, she doesn't read much anymore.

>> No.5063240

>>5063092
underrated post.

>> No.5065240

mom doesn't read at all, dad reads maybe a book a year but isn't really invested in it

they like murder-show porn television mostly

>> No.5066490

both stidied and taught English. Mom likes naturalistic poetry, pretty much anything well written and emotion oriented. Dad likes post modernism, philosophy, emotional disconnect.

I wonder why the marriage didn't work?

>> No.5066496

>>5066490
Read almost any short story featured in The New Yorker and you'll understand.

>> No.5066507

>>5060354

I like you

captcha was funnest recent. this is significant

>> No.5066524

>>5066496
>not understanding a sarcastic rhetorical question

>> No.5066532

Dad reads intense crime novels, and loves Dennis Lehane. Also anything emotionally attaching from any War. Not so bad. Got me into some good writers.

Mom loves Wally Lamb, but she's currently reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, which I think she'll hate but like the fact that she's branching off. Both are hardcore readers so it's cool

>> No.5066585

My dad read a book written by a soccer player once

>> No.5066642

>>5062624
>not titling that image Afraid Hitchcock
>2014

>> No.5066757

>>5063092
>>5063062
>>5063032
I'd like to point out that it is possible to be very well read and still successful. Look into Teddy Roosevelt. The guy was a reading machine and he still managed to do just about every "cool" thing imaginable. I've read somewhere--not sure if this is true--that each day he would read an entire book before breakfast and another after breakfast before starting work in the morning, though the source didn't specify the lengths of the books read.

>> No.5067072

>>5063001
Links to the study?

>> No.5067280

>>5066757
He did it quickly it seems:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/10/18/how-to-speed-read-like-theodore-roosevelt/

Although I have my doubts - it seems a bit too impressive