>be reading book >enjoying it >browse /lit/ >book

What book

>enjoy books
>start browsing /lit/
>do not enjoy books anymore
>keep reading anyway in order to be able to argue about them

What book

>be a teenager during the first years of /lit/
>think /lit/ matters and read with new fervor
>Pynchon, DFW, etc.
>unironically hate on plebs, i.e. ppl who don't read /lit/core
>fastforward to late 20s
>become a reactionary pseud with no friends or soul
>not as intelligent as DFW and DFW was no genius
>wonder at how hard I fell for the memes—all of them—and what am I still doing here
>the-ride-never-ends.png
>oh well
>meme a new generation into reading DFW and thus complete the cycle

>>7526552
Thanks for the enlightenment

>enjoy books
>read lit
>find even more books to enjoy and study them with even greater rigor

and everything went better than expected

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>be reading book
>enjoying it
>browse /lit/
>book gets shat on
>remember 90% of posters here are pretentious tryhard college freshmen and the other 10% are trolls feeding them
>keep enjoying book

>>7526552
this seems like the track i am on

>be reading book
>enjoying it
>browse /lit/
>book gets shat on
>remember that 1% of the people shitting on it have read it
>remember that only 1% on the board have ever read
>Keep reading it

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>read good books
>see them shat upon in /lit/
>anon is always angry
>be happy with my books anyway
>pretty sure i just won the game

>read book
>like it
>/lit/ never talks about it
>see someone ask question about book
>all replies are memes
>answer question

life sure is hard

>Reading for enjoyement

Sure is reddit in here

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All the plebs in this thread. Goddamn.

>book gets shat on
>evaluate and agree with some of the criticism
>finish reading book and enjoy it anyway because i enjoy reading

>>7526469
Why? I've read extremely bad books in past while knowing before that will be awful

>>7526469
It's for your own good.

>>7527334
Reading for any other purpose is perverse and outright stupid.

If gaining knowledge doesn't cause you pleasure, you will never gain true understanding of the subject and you will never utilize whatever you read in any meaningful way.

Now go back to hating yourself you pleb.

>>7527402
>implying you can gain knowledge from unintelligent books

You're out of your league, kiddo.

>>7527407
No one even said what book were they reading in this thread.

Your pretentiousness consumed any semblance of intelligence you had, my friend.

>>7527410
>pretentiousness

o i am laffin

Go back to reading Game of Thrones you field-tilling commoner.

I hate new /lit/

Used to think the board was pretty bad..didn't realize how good we had it until it was gone RIP

>See interesting /lit/ thread
>First 20 replies are pretentious one liners, memes, or needless flame
>One random post will actually be helpful
>Read it, evacuate immediately

>browse /lit/
>smuggly shitpost about how shit it is now, and how it's just full of memes