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Who got you in to reading?

>> No.7138530

Him.

Made me realise reading a book is easy. I've read 2000 so far this month.

>> No.7138532

Ayn Rand. I was 12 and really into science fiction when I ran across an extant copy of Anthem in my private Christian school's library and thought it was the best thing I had ever read. I've been hooked ever since (not on Rand so much anymore)

>> No.7138534

>>7138528
This guy I had a crush on when I was 13. He recommended me some books and I fell in love.

>> No.7138535

>>7138534
anon that's gay.

>> No.7138537

>>7138535
NO GIRLS ON /LIT/

>> No.7138554

>>7138535
>>7138537
>>7138534
Most obvious samefag that I've ever seen on this board full of intellectuals.

Please leave at haste.

>> No.7138555

>>7138554
What the fuck are you talking about.

Can you not see how many posters there are in this thread?

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>>7138554
>board full of intellectuals

>> No.7138586

Nobody. I was friendless for most of my life, I fell into all kinds of trouble at school, at home or with kids in my hood.
Only solace was lying to my parents that I'm going out with friends so I could be alone and only thing I could do was read books I borrowed from the local library.
Escapism grew into a hobby.

>> No.7138602

this guy is really smart, did you know he can read an entire book in 10 minutes?

>> No.7138610

>>7138528
The desire to improve myself. I wasn't interested in literature at all until I found out about the Stoics from this board. Then I read Discourses and Meditations and then just gradually moved on to reading fiction.

>> No.7138627

>>7138602
Yeah he just picks it up off the shelf, takes it over to the counter and hands over his credit card.
Before watching his videos I never knew reading could be that easy

>> No.7138628

>>7138528
I'd fuck that guy. He looks like he'd have an awkward body. Probably hairy too.

>> No.7139426

Heart of Darkness started to like literature more then hemingway was when i really started reading a lot

>> No.7139428

My Mother

>> No.7139454

>>7138564
Joosten posting in /lit/ what is going on

>> No.7139472

My mom, apparently I learned how to read when I was two years old

>> No.7139565

>>7138528
My friend.

>> No.7139567

WEED NIGGA

>> No.7139571

>>7138528
What's the significance of this picture? I see it everywhere

>> No.7139574

The 47 bookshelves in my bookshelf account

>> No.7139577

>>7138528
/lit/
youve all been an inspiration to me

>> No.7139582
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>>7139571
It's some random self-help cuck on youtube who unironically 'reads' books by reading the contents page. His name is Tai Lopez and the pic is mostly used to make meme pics like pic related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulfujUrrWA8

>> No.7139583

>>7139571
There's a faggot online who claims he's able to read any book in 10 minutes, which led him to fame, munnies, etc. So a hack, pathological liar and a trust fund faggot.

>> No.7139617

>>7139571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KnwTepKdU

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>>7139582
>tfw only 2 Lamborghini's in my Lamborghini account

>> No.7139904

harry potter tbh

>> No.7140005

Some situationist fucker.

>> No.7140072

/lit/ tbh

>> No.7140142

That Sun-Tzu book Art of War. I was surprised that I could read it without getting bored and so I thought that I might as well check out what people considered great literature

>> No.7140434

>>7138530
when you define reading a book as only the table of contents and index, then ya, it is easy as hell

>> No.7140480

Sadness. Started with the existentialists.

>> No.7140484

>>7138586
Likewise.

I never really had a childhood because I never had friends. While the kids would go to the beach or have holidays with their parents, both of mine were constantly at work and I had no friends. I liked it that way, when the library was my second home.

>> No.7140497

The girl I loved, when she turned me down

>> No.7140498

>>7138530
Are you some kind of fucking pleb? Do you really expect to get a Lamborghini in your garage by reading only 2000 books a month?

>> No.7140641

>>7140484
Holy shit, me too. My parents lived with my piece of shit abusive relatives so I always stayed at the library until it closed because I didn't want to go home. Is everyone on /lit/ like this? I thought I was the only one

>> No.7140842

>>7138528
adderall

>> No.7140878

>>7138528
My parents. They're not lit patricians but they knew the importance of reading in the development of a young person and wanted me to appreciate it.

>> No.7140898

>bored at home over christmas
>see crime and punishment on bookshelf
>well, I may as well see what the fuss is about
>Holy shit
>Haven't been able to stop since

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JUST

>> No.7140909

>>7138528
/lit/

thanks, fellows

>> No.7140911

My mommy. :3

>> No.7140921

>>7138528

What's /lit/'s opinion on self-development shit?

>> No.7140922

I just randomly picked up Looking for Alaska, loved it when i first read it. and it just went on from there.

>> No.7140930

KNOWLEDGE

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7140955

When I was 14 I followed the blog posts of a gay Columbia MFA. His own writing was artful and hilarious, and he posted short stories that gave me a taste for literature. Learned about most of my favorite authors through him and then went from there

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>>7139617

>> No.7141694

>>7139582

What a bunch of shit tier books.

>> No.7141699

>>7139582
>literally comparing chugging liquids to learning

How can this guy be for real?

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>> No.7141788

Uncle was a literate person who almost died in 2008 from liver complications. I started to look up to him after that and we started to play tennis again. He is currently 55 I think and is reading Ulysses and I am 18 and I am reading a portrait of the Artist

>> No.7141795

>>7138528
boredom

>> No.7141835

>>7138532
My first book was a hardcover edition of The Hobbit with a really cool cover featuring some sort of emblem.

I couldn't for the life of me tell you what the emblem looked like, just that it was enough to convince me to read the book.

Been hooked since.

>> No.7141838

>>7138528
HERE IN MY GARAGE

>> No.7141844

>>7140641
>>7140641
My parents rape me every ten minutes. They've done it 2000 times this month.

>> No.7141886

>>7140434
No, you're skimming, not *smart* skimming

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Weed got me into reading. I never tried it until I was 23, but also read maybe 10 books in my life at that point. I went through a brief stoner phase during where I engaged in cliche stoner philosophy, had profound thoughts (I thought) and trying to pursue them eventually led to me reading actual philosophy and literature

>> No.7142021

>>7141901
man weed has gotten me out of reading if anything

>> No.7142105

My parents were buying me books

>> No.7142189

Salinger and Camus on a time where I was feeling lost and just plain weird

>> No.7142199

My 10th grade English teacher. Thanks Mr. Ross, you're a good dude.

>> No.7142216

i briefly lived with my lesbian aunts when i was a kid cuz my mom was in the hospital and my dad spilt

they're both avid readers and teachers and really got me into it

that and no friends lol

>> No.7142378

>>7140930
>>7140480
This is definitely part of it.

It's also something I was good at as a kid. Still have yet to keep up a consistent habit for more than a few months at a time.

>> No.7142385

>>7138528
my lifelong dream of wanting to buy 47 lamborghinis, i believe knowledge is the only way of attaining such a dream

no but seriously it's because i'm lonely and sad and it's the only way i can feel better

>> No.7142389

>>7138528
hooked on phonics

>> No.7142394

Clive Barker, Thief of Always.