/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20301406]

Why do you read?

[Anonymous No.20301458]

mostly nonfiction

[Anonymous No.20301459]

Videogames started to bore me a few years ago so its either read some fun books or drink myself to death.

[Anonymous No.20301902]

Mostly fiction because I can't be interested or pay attention long enough for most kinds of non-fiction. Probably doesn't help that I try to crack open philosophy well above my reading level, get discouraged, and then stop trying.

[Anonymous No.20301909]

>>20301458
>>20301902
>why
>not what
Apparently neither of you read much at all

[Anonymous No.20301913]

>>20301406
entertainment and bigger vocabulary

[Anonymous No.20301921]

>anon asks why they read
>people answer what they read

Damn, dyslexic degerates now even in /lit/.

[Anonymous No.20301934]

Because I'm trying to remove myself from online entertainment but still like a good story

[Anonymous No.20301996]

>>20301406
Why did he have to go full evil retard bros? Fucking why?

[Anonymous No.20302004]

Because I want to. Any further elaboration would be a cope on my part.

[Anonymous No.20302019]

It's comfy. Especially when it's raining which it does a lot where I live.

[Anonymous No.20302029]

>>20301996
he's a MI6 agent

[Anonymous No.20302626]

some reasons:
1- to get more smarter (I learn new fancy word)
2- Because it inspires me to write my own things (kafka inspired me to write a diary and also to never omit anything)

3- My family respects me moar

that was it thank you bye

[Anonymous No.20302647]

>>20301406
To feel superior to others.

[Anonymous No.20302656]

Escapism, I wish I lived in Novalis's age and was his friend

[Anonymous No.20303003]

>>20301406
To learn and enjoy, of course.

[Anonymous No.20303014]

I want to read more so that I can learn to write better but I'm also a picky shit that hates most books out there.

[Anonymous No.20303021]

>>20301406
To understand myself better, so I can better control myself.

[Anonymous No.20303033]

>>20301406
so i dont kill myself

[Anonymous No.20303041]

>>20301406
To cease the incessant noise in my head for a little while

[Anonymous No.20303058]

>>20301406
It’s interesting

[Anonymous No.20303059]

>>20301459
this kek

[Anonymous No.20303126]

>>20301921
>degerates
poetry.

[Anonymous No.20303783]

uhm...idk lol...

[Anonymous No.20303814]

>>20301406
To take a pause between checking Oryx's tally.

[Anonymous No.20303836]

>>20301996
To cement his legacy and protect his country.

[Anonymous No.20303844]

>>20301459
I kinda feel this. Video games suck nowadays. Only non-lifting hobbies have been making guns and reading.

[Anonymous No.20303847]

>>20301406
Because it seems absurd not to read.

[Anonymous No.20304232]

I read the first few chapters of that Harlod Bloom book "How to Read and Why", and obtained an illogicity that allows me to read unmotivated. Paraphrasing, the why and how of reading are connected. So when I tell myself, " Why do I even bother", it gives way to thinking about the task of reading in technical terms. And to further that effort, I have to read and reflect on the experience of reading, and enough of that eventually leads me to saying "Why do I even bother", and the cycle continues. Its not perfect, but it just has to last long enough until i die.
That, and I believe literacy is a privilege given to my class, and there are forces who wish to weaken literacy and eventually abolish it (for my class). To what end, I do not known. It is a paranoid line of thinking, probably inspires by browsing this website, but it has too much grounding in my mind for me to consider it a trifle or whatever.

The task of reading is too gargantuan for urgency to be anything but harmful.

[Anonymous No.20304900]

>>20301406
Because I have no friends

[Anonymous No.20304904]

>>20301406
Because I'm white

[Anonymous No.20304920]

The great works that make up our literally heritage (sorry if you're not med or white LOL) are essentially a distillation of everything great that conscious humanity has put to tablet, parchment or paper over the past three thousand years. Taking a decade to work through them all is definitely worth your time.

[Anonymous No.20304926]

The great works that make up our literary heritage (sorry if you're not med or white LOL) are essentially a distillation of everything great that conscious humanity has put to tablet, parchment or paper over the past three thousand years. Taking a decade to work through them all is definitely worth your time.

[Anonymous No.20304992]

>>20304926
This

[Anonymous No.20304994]

>>20301406
It's fun, it's a solitary activity and gives me an excuse for lying in bed.

[Anonymous No.20305065]

To see cool pictures in my head

[Anonymous No.20305067]

The alternative is being alone with my thoughts.

[Anonymous No.20305091]

>>20301996
spewing state department propaganda, think for yourself white man

[Anonymous No.20305107]

to be better than everyone else

[Anonymous No.20305311]

>>20301459
Holy shit this.

[Anonymous No.20305330]

>>20301406
I find it entertaining.

[Anonymous No.20305333]

>>20301406
To stave off the sweet temptation of death.

[Anonymous No.20305347]

>>20301406
Because I don't.
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[Anonymous No.20305353]

>>20305091
Fuck right off kremlinbot

[Anonymous No.20305358]

>>20301909
Fucking pseuds

[Anonymous No.20305746]

>>20301406
To understand essentially the human condition and the soul. Also to understand what animates the different peoples on earth, and how to best help and support my own people in regards to their soul in this life.

[Anonymous No.20306261]

>>20301406
Because Guenon makes me feel refreshed and good

[Anonymous No.20306416]

>>20301406
knowledge is nectar

[Anonymous No.20307222]

for fun

[Anonymous No.20307361]

>>20301406
I read philosophy

[Anonymous No.20308500]

>>20307361
why?

[Anonymous No.20308657]

>>20303844
>lifting is a "hobby"
Wow Americans are boring.

[Anonymous No.20308677]

>>20301406
Because other than film, its the only form of "entertainment" that I get anything from these days.

[Anonymous No.20308707]

>>20301459
This except for anime and ecchi LNs instead of vidya, and posting low quality bait threads on /pol/ instead of drinking alcohol.