/lit/ - Literature

>>16726513
Twitter feeds or TV commercials.

>>16726513

They dont read dude
MAYBE comic books and graphic novels

>>16726513
How to Win Friends and Influence People.

>>16726527
>>16726528
You people are so naïve.

>>16726534
Most people don't read, at all, after their school days. Even boomers, who would claim that America's youth is fucked because they don't read in their spare, don't read in their spare time. Mass literacy was a mistake, because despite being literate most people don't read.

>>16726676
Most people sure know enough words to argue like filthy charlatans. That is enough, I guess.

>>16726716
>t. somehow knows more words but can't argue like a filthy charlatan

>>16726513
Geoffrey Hill and the NFPA 70.

>>16726513
netflix subtitles and twitter

Should I become a wagie full time teacher or keep on cultivating my skills and reading all day? I’m kinda sick of not having any of my own money to spend bros.

I exclusively read sci-fi, fantasy, romance, etc. I haven't touched poetry since college and I've never liked poetry
My job isn't that bad but Covid has made it a living hell. It quadrupled the workload and stress level. My life is kinda shit and I don't ask for much, but I seriously hope it all goes away if Biden wins. Nutty as it sounds, I'd be so relieved if it was a conspiracy. I just want my life to be a bit less miserable.

>>16726513
>The champagne is animated
Random. As a wagie I can tell you we love history because it takes absolutely no training to develop a shit opinion about it.

>>16726676
I am at a top 20 American uni right now and most of my friends never read

>>16726513
is this asking what people with jobs read?

>>16727257
Become a ”wagie” so you can be self sufficient and actually gain real life experience. If you continue on your path you’ll only have a life filled with enjoying the experiences of others and none of your own.

>>16726513
how to win friends and influence people
eat pray love
nora roberts
tom clancy
oprah
anime books
stephen king
political autobiography if they are boomer and above
"wisdom"/"quotes" from children's media such as Winnie the Pooh or Calvin and Hobbes
literally random novels that I guess ended up on the table at the bookstore and that is the first thing they saw when they walked in
whatever books their parents own
ayn rand if autistic

>>16727454
Bloom said that post 1990s, most of his students (at Yale) were extremely unread and lacked the ability to do close readings, let alone write well. I can only imagine how zoomers at ivys are doing now.

>>16726513
Condition of the Working Class in England 1844
Lenin in England

>>16727523
People stopped reading, the black anthers may have been able to get illiterate blacks to read lenin but now were all brain scrambled zoomers from the elite all the way down to the most miserable of the poor

>>16727537
black panthers*

>>16727537
>>16727546
I'm about to start a reading club at my work, and am being forced into setting up a workers inquiry commission by comrades. Pity poor Oedipus.

>>16726513
they read capeshit comics, game of thrones, and harry potter.

>>16727467
>uses "money"
>self sufficient
lel

>>16726513
Growth of the soil

>>16726513
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

>>16727498
How do I know if I'm capable of "close reading"
From memory i think i had around a 1400 lexile level in middle school (we were tested on that shit)
Need to find my certificationz

>>16726513
>wagies
>reading

>>16726513
nothing they are to busy bringing me my uber eats while i learn languages and read the greeks

>>16726513
I hope it's the Holy Bible.

>>16726513
I read pic rel, Homer, and other classics. General rule: I won't read a book by an author who has color photographs.

>>16726513
they don't time lmao

>>16729147
Uber is not a wage job, you get to choose when and for how long you work

>>16726513
not trying to come off like i'm some exclusive literati nigga, but does anyone actually know wagies/normies who read? i didn't even know people in college who read for pleasure. and i went to a well ranked liberal arts school. there are people who have not read a single book since high school. how common is this?

>>16729496
>t. uber driver

>>16727467
own experiences = overrated

>>16727498
Most Ivy League students are legitimate morons, albeit extremely wealthy. I was sleeping with this chick who graduated from Harvard for undergrad and Yale Law School. Despite clerking for a judge, she was probably the most braindead person I’ve talked to in my life.

>>16726513
when the devil saw this old man, he sent for the girl and the fryin' pannnnn

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

Literature is for the poor. It inspires dread, hope, conviction, and a semblance of insight where otherwise unafforded owing either to lack of opportunity or higher education. The affluent, well-off and satisfied have no need of literature. It is nourishment to those kindred souls whom by circumstance exist alongside society's lowest. Everybody in this thread is either a neet or wagie in denial.

>>16726513
Men don't read and women only read crappy romance and mistery novels, e.g. nothing of worth.

>>16729131
Close reading is a critical technique. You should have gone over this in your first year as an English major. . . you ARE an English major, aren't you anon?

>>16730089
Cope
Anyway obviously the women are just there to become prestigious wives.
Also Robin Hanson is posting about prestige and elite schools on overcoming bias blog. Very interesting. Almost quantifies prestige. And the university you get into is clearly #1

>>16726513
the latest NYT best seller wow you must read this new thrilling debut of this author who will change the modern literary landscape (but who is never heard of again afterwards)

>>16730162
i don't go to university, it's filled with retards.

>>16730166
>Cope
I don’t think you understand what that word means, but I’m very proud of you for getting out of your comfort zone and trying something new by not being afraid of looking like a retarded faggot

>>16726513
Personally, the Greeks and the Bible with a few other classics mixed in

>>16730173
Well close reading is more or less useless if you aren't writing about books.

>>16730174
State school cope

>>16727281
Stop working so hard man, learn about island time.

>>16730166
Get a dictionary and read up on prestige, etymology and such.

>>16730220
>t. insecure Ivyfag or an insecure potential Ivyfag
o I am lauffin

>>16726513
48 laws of power
How to win friends and influence people
The art of war
Sapiens
John Grisham
etc

>>16726513
I work for a wage. I am reading Livy atm.

>>16730273
In latin, I hope

>>16726513
I asked my dad, an honest wagie, and he replied the Bible

>>16730286
Oh yes of course. Down on the shop floor me and the rest of the fellas regularly declaim and discourse in Latin and Greek. It's a regular symposium.

>>16726513
ant book from Time's bestsellers

>>16726513
personally im about to start frankenstein 1818 edition