/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9295042]

Do you listen to music while reading?

[Anonymous No.9295050]

Almost never, though sometimes it's nice to do when I read a light, genre novel to create some atmosphere. Blood Meridian (though not really too light) with American primitivism is a great example, dark ambient at 3 am while reading Lovecraft slightly stoned is another.

[Anonymous No.9295063]

Music is degenerate.

So, no.

[Anonymous No.9295064]

>>9295042
I only listen to Beethoven (not St. Vincent!!!)

[Anonymous No.9295071]

Only to Merzbow

[Anonymous No.9295086]

>>9295042
Usually something ambient if I'm dead-set on listening to music while I read, otherwise no - I've always found it incredibly distracting.

[Anonymous No.9295118]

Only this, because I know it's rooms like my childhood home. It's no distraction. I can't read fiction without this album because I'm too distracted by reality, hate to sound pretentious but a silent room is hell to me.

[Anonymous No.9295127]

>>9295064
>not St. Vincent!!
But why not?

[Anonymous No.9295135]

>>9295042
Is that the love-child of Sartre and another child?

[Anonymous No.9295147]

>>9295042
I can't listen to anything that has singing on it. It's very distracting. I usually play some Vivaldi or post-rock when huddled up with a nice book.

[Anonymous No.9295223]

No, I can't avoid paying attention to the music, is like trying to read while being in the cinema. I don't really understand how the "listening to classical while reading" meme started, I could understand some ambient music, like saw II by aphex twin.

[Anonymous No.9295277]

>>9295042

Yes.

[Anonymous No.9295314]

>>9295042
I typically only do 1 thing at a time, at all times. So, no.

[Anonymous No.9295420]

>>9295042
I used to, but I think multi-tasking like that may not be that ideal for your brain

[Anonymous No.9295562]

>>9295147
this. this is the best way to read.