/lit/ - Literature

>>17186077
If I go to somebody's home and they don't have books, I don't fuck them

>>17186077

I would date somebody who had a cute face, big soft boobies, and an hourglass frame. Also a wet pussy

I’ve found that an highly educated woman is just as bad as an idiotic one. The key is to find someone in between.

My fiancée doesn't read. Better nothing in my opinion than reading the shit that 24 year old girls tend to read. Yeah it'd be cool if she read classics for fun like me but there are more important qualities.

My wife is a book a week and she still fucks me and I only listen to books on tape.

I had one girlfriend who was, until the break up when she revealed her true colors, a good girlfriend and she didn’t read at all.

No, because I couldn't date anyone.

>>17186083
Based

>>17186092
Based. Women are meant to be midwits.

I did. Convinced them to read a few books along the way, but nothing substantial. Sometimes hard to find topics in common to talk about, but was a generally happy relationship

>>17186111
Enjoy it while it lasts, bet she's already fucking some big-dicked Dostoievski-reading chad on the side.

>>17186077
Yes, most people I know don’t read.
I’d actually prefer someone who candidly admits they don’t get around to reading much to someone who “loves books” and only does an annual readthrough of Harry Potter

>>17186135
Sad if true; Brothers K is her favorite book. So far I’ve done Jane Eyre and 5/6 of Jane Austen on tape for her. Have to admit, considering her love of Fyodor D, I thought more Russians would be on her list for me. Nope, all British. Go figure.

>>17186246
Jokes asides, Brothers K is an amazing book, you should check it out. At least read Notes from the Underground or some shit.

the goal

>>17186077
I don't read.

>>17186077
If she was really nice and pretty!!

>>17186323
is she transgender?

>>17186323
Too flat, too smug, shit hair, poor posture, shit fashion sense. 2/10

>>17186080
Does a phone book count?

>>17186092
Ding ding ding we have a winner

>>17186092
>>17186094
>>17186218
This.
Your wife doesn't have to enjoy your goddamn Hitler books for you to love and support each other. Stop looking at superficial characteristics that are basically the equivalent of "does she like my favorite anime?" and start thinking about shared values and your goals for the future.

How do you find friends that read?

>>17186077
Yes, I could. But I would prefer that they have at least in interest in reading, or at least are capable of meaningful conversation.

>>17186645
Screw that, how do you find friends?

She doesn't read, a few times she's tried because I like it so much and we've read a few books together but she often gets sidetracked or just loses interest. Reading doesn't have to be everyones thing and at least she tried!

>>17186666
this

>>17186092
this

>>17186077
I married someone who doesn't read. It's okay, because we have other interests and he gives me great blowjobs.

>>17186077
My wife and I laugh at the same things, find peace in each other, respect each other, and understand the workings of each other. I don't care if she doesn't want to read.
Most women who read just turn communist anyway since it's the ideology for retards.

>>17187077
This is literally all that matters. I wish I could find someone that I can tolerate, respect, and love. Happy for you anon.

>>17187174
>>17187077
Doesn't exist for us incels. Happy that fortune favoured u

She reads every now and then but not enough to consider it a 'hobby'. Mainly Bronte sistes and that jazz.

Only room for one insufferable /lit/diot in a relationship.

>>17187205
I'm not incel bro, just havent found the right one yet. I believe you will too. Good luck anon.

>>17186323
Seems to be smelly underneath the clothes. No tx wtf is wrong with these bitches.

>>17186080
if they have books, you also don't fuck them, because they won't let you.

>>17186218
Yeah I’d rather it be a hobby I enjoy alone than to have to humor some fucking pleb for 60 years

>>17186077
>Could you date somebody
Of course not, that's disgusting.

>Could you date somebody that doesn't read?
Anon, I only date women, so of course my romantic partners don't read.

>>17187077
Did you imply that if your wife read she would turn Communist also implying that she is retarded?
Looks like a pretty healthy relationship.

My wife is kind of autistic. She only reads WW2 history books and cookbooks.

My wife doesn't really read but I bring stuff up to her that I find interesting in books from time to time and we have interesting discussions about it.

>>17186323
I really like how her hair always looks slightly damp. I like to imagine she takes two showers per day. It would be really awesum to date her becuz she'd always smell like strawberries and lavender and would want to talk books on top of that

>>17186077
I never have, all the girls I've dated were into literature/roleplay, mostly in Fiction and stuff like that

>>17186680
this. is there a /lit/ discord or some discord server for meeting people that read?

>>17186077
>Could you date somebody
:(

>>17187738
>discord
Go outside.

>>17187736
it's amazing how many girls want to relive sexual fantasies that they read in erotica or erotic literary scenes
>>17187738
yes, there is a /lit/ discord. It's literally filled with sudacas.

>>17186077
Tbh more than reading I would like someone that knows about stuff that I and is willing to share it. Also the other way around, willing to learn new stuff from me. I wouldn’t mind someone talking about clothing or makeup if she has enough passion for it.
My ex reads entry level stuff and has the shittiest takes on books, she reads as if it was a garment rather than out of enjoyment or as a goal to get more knowledge.

>>17187756
my whole city is in lockdown

>>17186077
I met a girl once reading the same book as me in my college (Ficciones). We found out we had friends in common and became friends. I was quite interested in her at first, until I found out she had a boyfriend. Anyway, she was one of the few people I knew who read actually good books (a lot of them), so we kept in touch. I met her again this year and found out she hadn't read almost anything for months, basically since the beginning of quarantine, when she broke up with her boyfriend. later I found her goodreads account and noticed that she was reading that well for just about 3 to 4 years, before that, one or two good books, but mostly shit. then I found her ex-boyfriend account and 90% of what she read he had already read prior.
she was the only woman yunger then 50 I knew with good taste for books, and this "good taste" wasn't even hers...

I also lost a girl once when I couldn't avoid a disdain face when she showed me "the a-ma-zing book" she was reading: the alchemist, by paulo coelho.

>>17186092
keyed

>>17186077
>date
The fact that people speak of "date" rather than "marry" is pretty upsetting

>>17186083
why did this thread continue after it was ended?

>>17186323
I disagree.

>>17187766
>it's amazing how many girls want to relive sexual fantasies that they read in erotica or erotic literary scenes
Yeah, or explore more hardcore themes like rape, BDSM and stuff like that

>>17186077
>Could you date somebody that doesn't read?
I have
Do you now?
No
What's it like?
Very boring, the sex was fun but that was about it. I prefer my current GF with whom I can spend 8 hours thinking about characters, setting, world building..etc and for both of us it feels like 5 minutes passed

>>17186077
I have before. Twice. Both times they claimed to read, and at most read sci-fi trash. They both bought books to look smart and then never read them. Both turned out to be BPD. Both thought that if they threw a tantrum and dumped me that I would come running back. Both times I'd been waiting for that opportunity because it's much easier and cleaner than the option where you dump them and find out they staged a suicide attempt and put you as next of kin on their admission form. Neither was any good in bed. So much for crazy pussy.

>>17187792
>He reads "to get more knowledge"
Pleb

>>17187703
Same

>>17186077
Gf reads more than I do, but no non-fiction

>>17187294
I wont be able to handle happiness

>>17188088
Why. I imagine marrying early increases domestic abuse

I literally don't care if someone reads or not.

>>17186077
I don't care what they're into as long as they're passionate and knowledgeable about it.

>>17186077
I read to my gf, but she doesn't read herself, she likes the sound of my voice.

>>17186077
>Could you date somebody that doesn't read?
No because I only meet women on apps.

>>17186077
My wife reads YA. We don't talk lit or anything. Relationship is still fulfilling. Finding someone you have common interests with is movie shit, youre a man and shouldnt have the same hobbies as your woman. Find someone with a skillset that compliments yours.

>>17186627
And where do you get values? Reading ...

Unless they go to church together, then they can get their values there.

>>17191186
The only girls I talk to on tinder are the ones who read.

>>17190229
Women shouldn't be allowed to post on /lit/

I fell in mutual love with a very beautiful and articulate and well read lass but unfortunately she was a bit promiscuous and shameless about it so even though we had tender feelings for each other it couldn't work. I then married a girl who didn't read but was very modest and traditional however within a few months she said I was too controlling and got a lawyer and is demanding a divorce. Imo the problem is the west

>>17191414
Sounds like the problem is you chose a lying whore over an honest one.

>>17191411
Want me to post my cock for you faggot?

>>17187294
>i'm not an incel
>post anime child pic with «our women» filename
yeah...

>>17191431
Interesting

>>17186092
Being educated beyond one's intelligence is always unattractive.

>>17186077
>"Stop thinking that you need your woman to align with you completely. Cause you know who's gonna align with you completely? A man. A man with aspergers."

>>17186080
Alright, John Waters

>>17186077
My wife mostly reads YA trash but her favorite book is also East of Eden. Good balance I guess.

>>17186246
is this her?

I would need a partner who has some degree of intellectual curiosity and eccentricity. Lucky for me, I already do.

>>17187294
You post on 4chan and have anime saved on your computer. I'm sorry, but there's no "one".
>>17191414
Things that never happened

>>17191574
It literally did happen and it's very confusing for me and somewhat of a disillusionment.

>>17191584
No it didn't lad

>>17191591
Yes it did

>>17191603
Then post more details faggot. Did she take your money? Was it a visa thing? Why would it go so well for you two to marry yet lawyer up within months. It sounds like you got scammed if it happened.

>>17188088
We're not cut out for marriage because we don't have arranged marriages. Aranged marriages are happier precisely because they are not founded on a Western romantic ideal of love, but rather, on family duty. We first worlders are more or less doomed to the endless carousel of romance, attraction, disappointment, a possible affair, and divorce, because no real person can live up to what we collectively imagine the romantic other must be.

>>17186080
based

>>17186083
extremely based

>>17186092
based

>>17186119
based

>>17186323
not based

>>17187538
based wife

>>17190154
not based

>>17186627
Wouldn't love of books be shared values?

>>17188723
>world building
I filter people who say this online and irl. Disgusting genre faggots, go back to your fucking containment thread

>>17190154
You're based anon don't listen to this meanie head here >>17191702
But I agree about the booktube retard

>>17186077
I dated this girl who would buy books from overpriced book stores, put a picture of it on her Instagram, read 25 pages and never touch it again. I was with her for a year and she must have done this 10 times. She never once finished a book the whole time I was with her. She was also about 2 grand in debt, which shows her finance management ability.

>>17191676
She took some yeah and then refused to pay back when I asked for it when she wanted a divorce. I think she is planning on charging me with something I'm not sure what because she won't talk to me and referred me to her lawyer who is procrastinating talking to me. She wasn't what I expected before I married....

>>17191782
You got scammed mate, it was just a long con. Be more careful in the future.

>>17186077
I'd like whoever I end up dating to be read in ways that I'm not. There's plenty of books/movies/music/art/life in general I have no clue about, and I think one of the most beautiful parts, ideally, about any relationship is the idea that the two of you can meet on mutual grounds of wanting to share what you have with the other person, whether that's love or ideas or a home etc.

I think too one of the most important qualities I look for is someone with a genuinely good sense of humor, and even if they're really passionate about art or literature or whatever, they know not to take it all too seriously, because that's a route to stunted growth and a banal absurdity of spirit.

>>17191726
No wonder why you don't have a girlfriend you bitter faggot

>>17191757
Ten unread books isn't that bad, she's doing better than me.

>>17191726
>I filter people
Seems like an excuse for your loneliness, more likely that you don't have any chances to filter people.

>>17192003
>>17192079
samefagot
Great artist cannot be saddled with a whiny child who has booba and vay. true story, look it up. There hasnt been a great writer in last 70 years who was married to womeme.
>inb4 corncob tortiyas
cope harder fantasy fags. your genre will never be respected by literati, will never even be read by us. the greatest sci-fi story of all time is by Asimov and has no "worldbuilding" aka "imaginative crutches"

>>17192134
With all those memes you're flingin' around I doubt you'll be accepted by the literati, either.

>>17192171
already have, friendo =^)
look for my book in 3 year
it is an autobiographical, vignettic sketch of my oppression by the plebiscites and normals

>>17192183
>autobiographical

>>17191704
No, that’s not a value lol

>>17192183
good luck autist

>>17192134
Asimov isn't a genre writer?

>>17192033
I bet you've read more books than you've bought though, she never read any book she bought, total waste. They were always like £22 hardbacks too.

>>17192134
>>17192183
Holy shit what an absolutely colossal cope. Your existence is fascinating, in the way that it's fascism to look at a car crash. One ought to put you in a zoo for everyone's amusement

>>17193099
>fascism
Rent free

>>17191392
I've been reading all my life, and the value I got from it was racism.
The specific book was Catcher in the Rye. Don't know why, I just got racist afterwards.

>>17191726
What's wrong with world building?

>>17186077
That's why I liked J so much. She was so much smarter than most of you. You couldn't get even a page into the Tao te Ching nor take anything from it. I do want friends of some kind but it is very hard for people woth Asperger's.

Honestly I'm not sure if I could. Same goes for NPC-tier music taste, maybe I just have too high standards, and that's why I've been single all my life.

>>17186077
I honestly prefer bimbos. Maybe I'm jaded, but a good relationship doesn't have to be with a girl who's your intellectual equal, whose beautiful and oh-so-poetic soul complements your own. Just find a ditzy, submissive chick who's mostly not annoying, and won't get fat or turn into a huge bitch

>>17186077
>Could you date somebody
No.

>>17196011
I would prefer smart girls to bimbos if actual smart girls existed. Instead what you get is plenty of bimbos, and then a relatively scarce but still plentiful number of solid B-average women who think they're A+'s. God forbid find a B+ or even an A-, because holy fuck she will radiate her expectations that everyone worship her for being a midwit.

Better a humble bimbo than an undeservedly arrogant cunt. Men are the same way, but the distributions are different. Most midwit men know that it's shameful to be arrogant. Most male geniuses are humble, even. Women see everything through the lens of "how much attention can I get for this, how much can I shit test the world so Genghis Khan will come impregnate me?"

>>17193099
>taking the bait
worldbuilder detected

I've only dated 3 men, and I've told every single one of them that Ulysses is the best book ever written. They all purchased Ulysses but never got past Telemachus. I don't blame them as it's challenging for those who don't read a lot, but I'm a bit confounded as to how they could spend 3+ hours a day watching garbo netflix shows and not dedicate any time to works of literature that are so esteemed. Do they want to die without having experienced great art? It almost makes me wonder if their priorities are fucked.

>>17196018
based

>>17196819
post feet or adams apple
either is equally good
please

>>17186077
Yeah I could. No I dont. Have a nice day

>>17186077
>even the dumbest girl I ever met could read

Is it even possible to find someone who is illiterate in 2021?

>>17197106
you've clearly never met a car mechanic.

>>17197125
I've met more than a few. It always occurred to me that they could read the receipts that they printed.

>>17197146
>>17197125
I don't know what the fuck you guys are on about. I am a motorcycle mechanic and I read.

>>17191522
Yep. My girl doesn't read. The women I've known who read were mostly chicks I knew in college. They were English majors who had never read any Russian authors and I mocked them for it.

>>17197125
Mechanic here.
To equate literacy with intelligence is dumb. The people who believe every word of the NYT are much dumber than most of my colleagues.

>>17186246
>gf reads russian chad
>makes her twink bf read western european female writers
either she's cucking you or she somehow thinks dostoevsky is difficult to read

>>17197125
>t. takes his car to a first generation black or hispanic because he doesnt like spending money on his car he doesnt like
sounds like a fun life.

>>17186083
spbp

>>17186077
Depends on how many books she reads in a year? Could you lads compete with 52 books?

>>17197959
Depends on what she reads. I also read 52 books last year, but this year the number will be much lower because I'm planning on reading Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>17197959
proof that this pewdiepie read many books meme is outdated and nothing without a critical sense. you don't have to read books to see the world, and if you do, the amount amounts to nothing.

>>17187810
Go. Outside.

Girlfriend or not, it’s truly remarkable that there are people who don’t own a single book (not mentioning people who have an e-reader). I know people like this, and it’s truly scary. And I’m not talking about poor people either. They are more dull than older people I’ve met who never got a chance to learn how to read.

Yes because she does other shit that I wish I could do

>>17186080
>>17191531

>anon 1
>posts relavent quote
>anon 2
>ahem... if you would all please... yes... i have something to announce... I TOO HAVE READ JOHN WATERS' WIKIPEDIA PAGE ... that is all

>>17191676
Its a bunkerchan tranny larping as 'le dumb nahzee who found a trad girl'

>>17191704
>>17191392
You don't get your values from books. You get them from your upbringing, your surroundings, and your environment. And by values, I mean things like,
- What are your views on childrearing?
- How many children do you want?
- How important is faith to you?
- How should men and women relate to each other?
- What is the role of sex in relationships between men and women?
- How do you define infidelity, and what should be the consequences for engaging in it?
- How important is honesty to you?
- How do you deal with problems? Do you sit down and discuss them frankly, or do you pretend they are not there until you eventually blow up?
- What are your beliefs regarding divorce? Under what circumstances is divorce acceptable?
- In what social environment would you like to live?
And so on. "Reading books" is not, in and of itself, a value. Reading books can be an expression of values, though, e.g. reading the Bible together every Sunday night can be an expression of the importance of faith in one's life.

Imagine forming dating preferences around having read obtuse literature no one knows and/or cares about.

>>17200315
yeah no one has heard of classic literature...

>>17186077
how can i date someone that dont read books, dont read manga and vn and dont watch anime, what would we talk about?? i dont listen music, dont watch films a lot and dont have normie culture

>>17202057
Surely you can talk about something other than media you consume

girlfriends are for degenerates, get a cute, honest and happy wife and live a happy life

>>17186666
checked

>>17198594
good post.

my gf reads horror books; I'll take it over no reading

Tbh we're both engineering nerds. She made an automatic feeder for her pet turtle and that unironically turned me on despite the fact she's a 4. Also we kind of like the same music, which is great