/lit/ - Literature

>reading newspapers is better than reading harry potter

midwits need to perish

>>12039896
It doesn't happen.
I leave the house only for go to work or buy food and in both cases with my car.

>>12039908
>has a job
>has a car
>has a driver's license
>successfully drives to work without having a car accident
>successfully buys food without causing a scene

fuck off normie NPC

>>12039942
It doesn't take much to get a driver's license. I literally argued with my test guy and I still won.

>>12039908
I literally saw a girl on the tube reading it (I was reading no longer human like the patrican I am)

Try to smash if female and within my prey demographic, smirk smugly and make mental note to shitpost here about it later if not.

>>12039896
Harry Potter and the newspapers are both fiction so I don't understand what her problem is.

>>12039942
after so many years of neetdoom be an NPC is amazing, spending the holidays at home with anime (yury yuri s3) games (dragon quest 11) books (the wisdom of father brown) you (4chan) but without the sense of guilt.

>>12039896
Wonder why 2007 was here again

>>12039974
This. She’s retarded.

>>12039974
At least HP admits the existence of magick

>>12039896
palm strike right to the solar plexus

Cry for the children

Leave him be and mind my own business.

>>12039897
>>12039974
This. Her “argument” is literally just
>Barry Bobbter bis bad because abulbts sbhould obnly bread non-briction )))):<

>>12040148
are you unironically high

>>12040150
shut the fuck up retard

>>12040148
Her argument is people try to escape reality more than engage it, which is true and a valid point. If she wasn't a stupid fucking woman she would have said something witty instead.

OP used it to make a Harry Potter hate thread which is always welcome on Lit

>print book sales are soaring
>newspapers are dead
People want to read literary fiction, not lies. Get dabbed on, bitch.

>>12040173
To be fair, if people wanted to engage with reality, reading a newspaper should be the last item on their list of priorities (even below Harry Potter).

>>12039908
>>12039977
comfy

>>12039942
normie 'npc' may be bluepilled mindless and whatever other buzzword you have, yet he has a fun life worth living.
Learning to not take out your frustration on innocents will greatly help you coping with who you are

>>12039908
where do you work anon

>>12040262
Sounds like you are projecting, dumb frog poster, commoners don't like fun they like security.

>>12039896
Stop enjoying things!!!Ironic how real adults don't let others dictate their lives nor expect others to live like them,perhaps she should grow up.

>>12039908
Sounds depressing af. I love taking random drives around town. That's half the point of having a car for fucks sake you boring pos

>>12040277
Hating everyone and telling yourself they're inferior to you won't get you anywhere

>>12039896
Ask what part they're at and how they're enjoying the book

>>12040295
pls go you don't belong here

>>12040262
this anon does not understand satire

>>12039966
N I C E

cause she looks very average and like an arrogant bitch

>>12039896
Keep walking.
>increasingly
Have been. Welfare state. She's a kike, literally who?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrie_Moore
>is a children's fiction author

>>12039896
Nothing. Harry Potter is precisely what it is: Children's Literature. It's sad that they never moved on, but if they want to spend their time reading Harry Potter that's their prerogative.

>>12040272
In between the slaughterhouse and the butcher shop.
We cut the beef in smaller pieces.

Comfy work if you ask me.

>>12040148
based and redpilled

>>12040148
Talking like your retarded to mock people is the gayest shit anyone has ever done. I mean, I'm on your side of this argument, but god damn you are a faggot.

>>12041616

>>12041710
Imagine my shock when the homo responds by giggling like a girl.

>>12039896
If I approached a grown adult reading a book Harry Potter, here's what I would do. I would tell him/her to stop reading one of the worst book franchises in history. Seriously, each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Lord of the Rings series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>12041748
man that's some weapons grade toxic masculinity hiding latent and repressed homosexual tendencies. Who touched you, anon?

>>12042607
>reading
>muh Spielberg should have directed it
>>>/tv/

>>12039896

What does it matter which piece of propaganda for the status quo trash they read?

>>12040262
yet you feel the need to explain why arent a NPC

I'm an adult, so I really do not give a fuck about what other people choose to read. Check and mate mentally immature twats!!

>>12042607
>9kb

>>12040230
I'm trying to translate a woman's words into something logical, don't hold me to the examples she gave.

>>12040137
this

Yes, newpaper companies are going out of business because because people are reading Harry Potter instead. It had nothing to do with the internet

>>12043792
I still read newspapers because I'd rather not get food grease all over my phone when I have brekky or smoko

>>12043796
1. Are you Australian?
2. Do you recycle?

>>12043799
Yes
Kinda.. why?

>>12043796
3. You should probably quit smoking
>>12043803
Idk man I've just been thinking about environmentalism lately I'm a fag hahaha fucking tree hugger jk I drive a big truck that fucker is really bad for the earth hahaha

>>12042607
nice pasta

>>12043809
beer bottles go in yellow bin
everything else in red

>>12044004
and we all go in the ground.

>>12044009
And my dick goes in your mom

>>12044113
unbased and rudepilled

>>12040148
t. faggot insecure because an autist made fun of him for only reading fiction

>>12039942
>he thinks he's special because he's to retarded to drive a car
Massive cope there

>>12039966
Get on my level

>>12039896
Strange how many people still believe things written in newspapers. It's like they forgot we are living in a society with fake reviews, social conditioning, no neutral attitude or apolitical information and constant brainwashing to follow some slave lifescript. These days to get any kind of understanding without the censor and contamination of ideas is to go to websites and do research while being interested in politics, economics, history and psychology or else you risk you are being led by someone.

>>12044142
>we live in a society

>>12044139

>>12044159
Are we doing this now? You can't handle my autism

>>12044169
based and redpilled

>>12039966
this pic makes me moist

>>12044169
I yield, got no more fitting screenshots on this new phone and can't be fucked retrieving the rest, but holy shit that pic is delicious secondhand cringe lmao, gj lad

>>12044179
hmu bby

Not defending Harry Potter, but I've got not a single reason to read newspapers. They only make me depressed and anxious. There is never a good news. Only bad stuff happening everywhere.

Then there's the usual propaganda, which is mostly "russia is going to attack europe", "russia bad, eu good", "we must join nato", "all your hobbies are toxic masculity", "all your opinions that don't support eu are toxic masculity", "kys if you are white straight male". All just to crush your self-confidence and to make you obedient slave to eu.

I haven't read newspapers for years, and now I'm less depressed. You don't gain anything by knowing that whole world is shit and by filling your head with lies, you only lose by doing so. I do read fiction though, because it actually entertains me and brings out positive feelings instead of negative ones.

>>12039896
shake my head in dread

>>12044139
>>12039966
>>12044159
>>12044169
Absolute degeneracy, I hope you all die soon.

But before you do tell me how to get matches on tinder.

>>12044363
in my case, being somewhat /fit/ without seeming like a tryhard homo and sounding moderately wealthy in your bio (my job title gives the illusion that I'm a bigboi at my firm but I just make 22k/yr after taxes lol)

>>12044312
Haha, imagine being this much of a faggot

If I had such a weak will that newspapers made me anxious and depressed I’d literally kill myself

>>12042656
>toxic masculinity
No it isn't faggot. I'm speaking the language of the forum. I don't need to go into detail about what a piece of shit you are when this community already has a word for it.

>>12044377
lmao burgerflipper wagie

>>12046185
no I'm actually CCO of a tech startup (hence job title = pulling mad pussy), it's just that for now we're a retarded niche product which barely nets 100k a year split among the five of us lmao

>>12039896
I approach him and ask him if he's a Harry Potter fun. I he says "yes" i buy him a premium 4chan account.

>>12039896
Hey it's good to see people still reading books then continue on my way.

>>12044150
that meme doesn't even apply here idiot, if anything it applies to OP's image better

>>12039942
>n*rmie
>NPC
God fuck off back to redit and twitter

>>12039896
News papers today are more fictional than Harry Potter.

>>12046457
based+redpilled
shadilay dude

>>12044159
>>12044139
>intentionally affecting that niggerish intonation in texts which actually requires more effort to type
Seek help.

>>12046485
not as much effort as literally caring about what kind of shitposting a stranger on the internet used in jest to get laid years ago

>>12039977
>you (4chan)
>not 4chan (you)

(you) had one job, Anon.

>>12039896
the backlash against harry potter and the whole obnoxius kidult thing is many magnitudes more annoying than people who say stupid bullshit like adulting 2 b q h

>>12046508
Maybe, but the purpose of things like dropping the g at the end of words is in theory to make them easier or quicker to say. The idea of going out of your way to sound as ignorant as possible is deeply perverse.

>>12039896
>newspapers
>real

lmao, dumb broad

>>12046571
>the purpose of things like dropping the g at the end of words is in theory to make them easier or quicker to say.
In your theory. In reality droppin the g doesn't drop the entire second syllable and it still requires as much effort to say as it did before.

>>12040148
Based and redpilled individual right here

>>12046635
So "based and redpilled" is just pic related?

>>12046644
Why did you have a picture of a boy so readily available on your hard drive, anon?

>>12046656
It's me.

>>12046621
The fact of the matter is you're going out of your way to sound unthinking, it's artificial and requires thought/effort.

>>12040262
Fun isn't the only thing that makes life worth living

>>12046689
Speaking a different dialect isn't "unthinking", Grandpa.

>>12046721
>speaking improperly is a dialect
No.

>>12044169
>first thing I see is a meme arrow
wew, didn't even had to read it to make my sides leave the atmosphere

>>12046756
Yah.

>>12046656
>>12046664
actually, it's me

>>12044169
I chuckled at your work but the greentexting makes me want to kill myself

>>12040262
>yet he has a fun life worth living.
so do many dogs, sure

>>12042607
>worst
>not dullest
go back

>>12039896
wow... so true

>>12040148

>>12046265
anon literally said we live in a society

>>12039966
>"dont worry, you aren't" he typed after a few tries, his grease-stained fingers muddying the phone screen
>slowly, with an exhale of equal parts satisfaction and exhaustion, he hit "send"
>"feh...," he thought. "This roastie femoid won't know what hit her. Cant wait to post this on /lit/ for 6 replies."

>>12041603
*based and bedpilled

Anyone have any more bashing harry potter quotes?
I have a special need.

I fuck her

>>12040262
>filename starts with '15'
Stopped reading there.

>>12040173
>Her argument is people try to escape reality more than engage it, which is true and a valid point
No, her argument is that it's wrong. Which is both subjective and untrue, because if it were true she wouldn't need to read the newspaper.

>>12047963
admit it, you typed "on r/tinder for 6 upvotes" first and luckily noticed where you are when the captcha appeared so you could correct it

>>12047963
refer to
>>12046508

>>12039942
This but unironically

>>12046514
>Anon
>not anon
Get out