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How come when I was a wee babe of 10-15 I devoured novel after novel and wrote page after page of unreadable "fiction", but as a 20-something all I do is buy books internet retards have told me are good without ever reading them?

>> No.18715202
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>>18715179

>> No.18715206

>>18715179
The books kids read are baby food. And when you lack self-awareness and have more creativity as kids do, you write more easily. It's just not good. But maybe it has soul. You should read those books you bought.

>> No.18715217

How come I have autistisized reading to the point that if I reading Faulkner I feel as if I wasting my time and making a mistake because I haven't finished all the texts of antiquity yet? I just want to be able to read without feeling as if I have to kill myself just because I haven't read Virgil yet. Someone help I just want to read what I want to read not stuff that I think I need to read.

>> No.18715228
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>>18715206
I used to read horribly outdated books on history and science just because they were lying around—some of them were from the fucking Victorian era mind you.
I wonder how I would have turned out if I read books from more modern times, or at least more books about eternal subjects like philosophy, logic, mathematics, or language instead.

>> No.18715239

>>18715228
I forgot to mention that I did this as a kid (my parents had antique books), I'm 19 now.

>> No.18715246

>>18715217
Virgil got me into a good university after he saved my grades by blessing me with a 100% exam on the Aeneid. Read him anon.

>> No.18715278

>>18715228
Our top-set English class had a book box of random shit so when I was 13 and 14 I just read a load of stuff from there. Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London. Maybe my teacher was a communist.

>> No.18715309

>>18715228
With the exception of very academic history monographs, and formal science textbooks, reading history and science is kind of baby mode. As in, I read the history and science books lying around in my house as well as a little kid, it's not that tough. They don't compare to the textbooks I've had to deal with in university. There's probably a reason they were lying around. And Victorian era increases the chances that they're easier to read, if anything.

>> No.18715918

>>18715179
something definitely changed man. maybe life got to you. maybe you're dumb as fuck all the sudden? maybe you have adhd and need pills to feel better.

good luck out there bro

>> No.18715969

>>18715179
Because when you're young it's easier to take in content without thinking. Once you get older it becomes harder to read a lot because there's more chatter in the mind.