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Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:55:57 2014 No.5922382 [Reply] [Original]

Why is /lit/ obsessed with disparaging entry-level stuff when most people here are obviously not that well read themselves. I doubt the average poster here has read more than 100~ books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:57:25 2014 No.5922386 Are you retarded? It's never been about the amount of books you read, especially if the only thing you read is philosophy or fiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:57:57 2014 No.5922389 OP stop projecting and go read a book. Stop getting butthurt over shitposting, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:59:19 2014 No.5922391 >>5922389 >tells someone to stop shitposting as he shitposts in response to a shitpost

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 08:00:27 2014 No.5922395 I've published six papers, have three patents and have read over 2000 books. Who are you calling entry-level?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 08:01:06 2014 No.5922399 >>5922382 >camus image sick

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 08:01:40 2014 No.5922403 >>5922395 The average poster. Not rare exceptions like yourself obviously patrician-san.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 08:02:39 2014 No.5922405 >>5922391 I never told him to stop shitposting you shitposting retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 09:36:31 2014 No.5922714 Why does the number of books read have any bearing on how well-read a person is? Shouldn't the quality of the texts selected be more relevant than the range? Also, >>5922391 >>5922405 guis pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 09:48:56 2014 No.5922744 >>5922714 It's expected that after 100 or 200 books some sort of quality criteria appears, otherwise you're worse than the people who didn't read shit.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:07:46 2014 No.5922790

no idea.
it is good to read entry level stuff
you get a feel for what is entry level, you know the basics before reading more obscure stuff, it is a good way to find out what you like, other people may have actually read it that you know and you can chat about the books with them.

lit should e more positive. I think I'll swap back and forth between entry level and hard books this year

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:13:02 2014 No.5922801 File: 14 KB, 236x355, c7963dfcbdc232c9eb08e6c139f01154.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Don't know, I was quite impressed with everyone's 2014 read books lists, some may have been fake but there was a lot of off -the -grid stuff there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:19:59 2014 No.5922821 >>5922382 We should add harry potter read alongs to /lit/ >>5922801 sauce plz google search and nothing.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:23:59 2014 No.5922830

>>5922744
That's the most retarded post I've ever seen in my life.

What if the only books someone's read are non-fiction? Are they still well read?

For me, I have a couple authors from fiction I enjoy, like Bradbury and Pynchon and Hemingway, but mostly I think my fiction days are over. These days, if it isn't non-fiction, I feel like I'm wasting time reading fairy tales.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:25:47 2014 No.5922832 >>5922744 the people who read the most books in the world just plow through romance novels. they read like 1 a day pretty much. source: i've seen the kindle data. nobody else comes close.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 11:10:01 2014 No.5922925 >>5922382 Because elitism. Because people want to feel superior. Every board is like this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 11:20:50 2014 No.5922964 >>5922821 I think it's Thylane Blondeau.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 11:22:31 2014 No.5922969 >>5922964 >>5922821 She's 13.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 11:31:42 2014 No.5923005 >>5922714 >Shouldn't the quality of the texts selected be more relevant than the range? Still more important is the extent to which you engage critically with the text.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 12:32:35 2014 No.5923263

>>5922714
>>5923005
>Reading "On Authorship and Style" by Schopie
>Take a break
>Come across this thread
Co-incidence or fate? Schopenhauer is saying the same thing.

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter1.html

heres it for free if you want to read it, theres other essays too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:46:53 2014 No.5923767 >>5922969 even better

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:56:32 2014 No.5923800 how does someone reach adulthood without having read 100 books? jesus, i average more than that a year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 15:55:59 2014 No.5924021 >>5923800 You read 2 books a week? I did that when I was in college, and it was basically my job to. Now, even if I'd like to, can't, unless I dedicate all of my free time to it, and spend no time with my wife or my friends or shitposting on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 15:56:42 2014 No.5924024 >>5924021 I know this feel

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 15:57:50 2014 No.5924029 >>5923263 Nice, thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 16:50:32 2014 No.5924243 >>5924024 >>5924021 You are not alone. I also have lived through this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:16:51 2014 No.5924353 >>5922382 I'll start taking that autistic attention whoring seriously when they have a Nobel prize for literature. That is to say, never.

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