/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19578146]

What percentage of this board actually reads books?

[Anonymous No.19578158]

>>19578146
That picture, kek

[Anonymous No.19578162]

>>19578146
Nobody and we're all pol rejects who have never done anything besides watch yt. The world is exactly like you (and how you think it is). There are literally no professors or small publishers or authors or eccentrics. We're all just retarded perverts like you.

[Anonymous No.19578166]

>>19578146
I finished 2 books this year which is pretty low

[Anonymous No.19578178]

>>19578146
that picture is proof that shitposters have always existed and will always exist

[Anonymous No.19578185]

>>19578146
he just like me fr fr

[Anonymous No.19578188]

I have bought stacks and read about the books.

[Anonymous No.19578310]

>>19578146
that kekking pic. sauce?

[Anonymous No.19578329]

>>19578146
The ones that say "/lit/ doesn't read" are shameless liars. That's really all you need to know. Funny pic though.

[Anonymous No.19578522]

>>19578146
Maybe 10% read avidly. Most of the posters are the "too smart for pol/r9k" types who post shit like
>books for this feel
or twitter screencaps.
A decent number of posters have read a handful of memebooks like Nietzsche and DFW.

[Anonymous No.19578527]

I do but only pulpy escapist fiction like James Bond and Conan the Barbarian. I've absorbed a decent amount of the canon from browsing /lit/ for years.

[Anonymous No.19578532]

>>19578146
The only thing I read is this board

[Anonymous No.19578548]

>>19578527
I thought you an heroed david

[Anonymous No.19578557]

>>19578146
I've had a book on the go without interruption since I was about 16. I don't read every single day, but most days.

[Anonymous No.19578571]

>>19578527
Conan is canon

[Anonymous No.19578581]

About 95% of this board consider themselves readers, but only about 10% read on a daily basis. They rarely post because they are usually off reading. The rest are kind of lazy dilettantes who can't wait for the next /lit/ discord to be made.

[Anonymous No.19578609]

>>19578146
I read /lit/ charts about famous writers and then i buy the books so people think i'm smart when they see my library, but really i can't focus for more than 2 pages. Reading is a thing of the past. I read wikipedia articles about the books though, so whenever someone questions me about a certain book i know what to say. Most people are easily impressionable these days because they don't read themselves so they will trust you anyway. Work smarter not harder.

[Anonymous No.19578615]

>>19578146
At read at least 52 books a year.
This year might finally be the exception. I wrote a lot, but read much less. Only some 36 books so far, I'll try to read one a day until the end of the year to see if I can catch up.

[Anonymous No.19578626]

>>19578146
>What percentage of this board actually reads books?
0%

[Anonymous No.19578630]

>>19578615
>I read
Fix'd.

>>19578581
Total nonsense. You can read, write, post, masturbate, drink, do many things. A day is 16 hours long.

[Anonymous No.19578645]

>>19578609
Literally this.

[Anonymous No.19578648]

How many posters read something outside of the top 50 most shilled classics?

[Anonymous No.19578917]

>>19578648
That image isn't real.

[Laura Numeroff !BmHtx5LcGM No.19578926]

>>19578146
reading 100 years of solitude rn,
it's okay i guess...

[Anonymous No.19579583]

>>19578917
Is it really not? It horrified me because it reminded me of how far we've fallen but in a way, it also gave me hope because if that creature sprang from those fine men, their genes live on and perhaps regeneration is possible. This possibility would then extend to all of the other victims of our degenerate society you see walking about.

[Anonymous No.19579602]

>>19578917
Anon... I'm so sorry

[Anonymous No.19579626]

>>19578146

[Anonymous No.19579660]

>>19578146
At any given time, approximately 1.5 posters on /lit/ read books. I believe I've seen 24-hour blocks of time in which as many as five or seven posters who read books were active simultaneously

Normally, people who have read the books being talked about silently watch the wikipedia skimmers and youtube migrants and fester in their own impotent hatred, but as long as someone is wrong and noisy about it for long enough, the odds are good that 1-2 other people who know what they're talking about will find the thread, and they can have fun furiously insulting each other

[Anonymous No.19579663]

>>19578146
I go in turns. I'll read 10 books in a month then not read for 5 months, read another 10 books then not read for 8 months, etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.19579677]

>>19578648
Even if it’s not the message no doubt rings true. Judging by the fashion of the two gentlemen though, they would probably have to be that guys great-grandfather at the very least, since 70 or 80 years ago people already wore modern ties, and the style of the top guy’s facial hair is distinctly 19th century. Also needless to say when taking their picture back then, they would have meticulously done their hair beforehand, put on their absolute best outfit, and had the photographer pose them. By comparison the modern guy looks like he just rolled out of bed and snapped a selfie with a cheap phone camera. We’ve really commodified the portrait and photograph haven’t we? Even the richest people used to really only have a handful of portraits done over the course of their entire lives, and of course they would have been of such a quality as to commonly make a present of one to your significant other

[Anonymous No.19579734]

>>19578146
Do you go to /tv/ and ask what percentage of the board actually watches films? Of course not. You don't see watching films as some kind of chore requiring self-discipline. But evidently you see reading books as some kind of chore requiring self-discipline. Why is that?

[Anonymous No.19579759]

>>19579734
>You don't see watching films as some kind of chore requiring self-discipline.
try watching obscure eastern european movies and some b&w french stuff

[Anonymous No.19579796]

>>19578581
i read 2 hours a day and whenever i'm finished reading i open /lit/ and post about reading

[Anonymous No.19580048]

>>19579759
OP asked "What percentage of this board actually reads books?" not "What percentage of this board actually reads [insert obscure intelligentsia books here]?"

[Anonymous No.19580085]

>>19579734
/tv/ doesn't watch movies tho

[Anonymous No.19580087]

>>19580048
YA's and visual novels don't count as reading, unless you're a pseud

[Anonymous No.19580104]

According to good reads i have read 132 books. (129 of those are comics, the other 3 are 2 sci fi novels and a novella about an autist who mums death caused him to kill a muzzie).

[Anonymous No.19580109]

>>19580104
So in reality you read only 3 books.

[Anonymous No.19580135]

>>19578146
I kneel.

[Anonymous No.19580141]

>>19578146
no
what percentage of us are shitposting to the death over books we will never read?

[Anonymous No.19580158]

The tradition lives on

[Anonymous No.19580164]

>>19580158
and on

[Anonymous No.19580181]

>>19580109
Im currently midway through my 4th.
Thats one book per season.
this is the first month i started reading prose again, i havent read an actual book since 2018

[Anonymous No.19580221]

>>19578146
ohhhh god I'm gonna reeeeeeeeeaaaaaad

[Anonymous No.19580227]

>>19580181
Have fun then

[Anonymous No.19580534]

>>19578146
Some read, but most are posting about which books can they get away with not reading and still look like a literary person to the people inside their heads.

[Anonymous No.19580581]

>>19578146
My ancestor :)

[Anonymous No.19580631]

>>19578146
I read daily. Read half of Pedro Paramo tonight, will finish it in the morning before work. It is quite good so far and will likely be one of my best reads of the year. Think I will dig into Donso next but I don't know, been enjoying shorter works that can be read in a sitting or two and I might knock out a few more of those before digging into something longer.

[Anonymous No.19580639]

>>19580164

[Anonymous No.19580645]

>>19580085
And /lit/ doesn’t read books.

[Anonymous No.19580646]

>>19580639
Shit, wrong image.

[Anonymous No.19581253]

>>19578146
A /lit/izen before his time.

[Anonymous No.19581508]

>>19578146
>books
I read narrative every single day. Sometimes literature, more often trashy shit, but every single day. I end up reading dozen of novels every year.
I have to read non-fiction for work, and I have to admit that turns me off big time from reading it in my own time, so I rarely managed more than a couple non-fiction books in a year. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've gone more than a year without reading any (aside from work related ones).
Mind you, 99% of the shit I read is digitalized, if we only count paper books I'm barely a reader. I feel like I should feel bad about it, but it's so much more convenient I can't bring myself to crack a book open unless there's no digital edition available.

[Anonymous No.19581537]

>>19578648
On one hand the guy is fat, unhealthy and has a badly unkempt beard, but on the other his eyes, nose and lips fit neither grandpa's pheno.
I guess one or both of them might have nutted in an uggo, but it's more likely that the pic is fake.
Also the photos look too old compared to the guy.

[Anonymous No.19581560]

>>19578522
Something like this is a good best guess. I'm probably somewhere in the low thousands across multiple subjects and a good amount of fiction and that sounds about right as far as anons who can add any depth or breadth to a discussion through multiple references, modes of thought, and models for interpreting it. I usually stick to my specialties but I find the level of critical thought and intellectual honesty lacking in even general topics.

>>19581508
There's a certain horror when I realized I was reading at least 12 books at once, every semester, in college. Sometimes I have to tap back into that to make it through.

[Anonymous No.19581575]

>>19578648
>>19578917
>>19579583
>>19579677
>>19581537

The photos on the right aren't his real grandparents. The image has been altered and you've been rused.