I've wasted so much time reading. All these years. All because

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>I read one fucking Phillip K Dick, followed by a little Vonnegut, now I'm on Cormac, and holy shit I've never enjoyed reading so much in my life. I'm reading all the time.

>I read one fucking Phillip K Dick, followed by a little Vonnegut, now I'm on Cormac, and holy shit I've never enjoyed reading so much in my life. I'm reading all the time.

DROPPED.

I genuinely wonder why Vonnegut and McCarthy are among the first authors people who want to get 'serious' about literature start with. Not berating you OP, just curious why it is so, so common

The worst part is I wasn't even reading them to try and understand these big classics. I was doing it for social status. Literally so I could impress people. What an asshole. I read Anna Karenina you know how long that fuckin shit is? I lost track so many god damn times in that book. I had to keep reading just so if someone asked me how it ended I could prove I read it.

Youth is stupid. If you see a kid walking around with fucking Finnegans wake or something go slap it out of his/her hand and give them some David Mitchell or something for gods sake.

>>8755541
Bump bump bump

>>8755534
>enjoying Corn-Tortilla YeCarthy
pleb

>>8755541
Help please.

>>8755546
I'm not sure. I'd always heard Vonnegut praised so much, and I felt like I should have read his stuff when I was in my late teens like a lot of other people did, especially Slaughterhouse 5. So when I decided I was going to try and have fun with books his name was at the top of the list.

No idea on McCarthy though, I didn't know people started with him. I read a long time ago that the villain in Blood Meridian was one of the most evil antagonists that ever existed and so I've always wanted to read it. I'm reading it now, haven't read anything else by him.

So in both of my cases it was just word of mouth. So that's one hypothesis. Young readers talk about those two a lot.

>>8755541
Is this a meme? It's brains and effort in any case. Not a very good sentence btw

>>8755559
But is it right?

>>8755559
Possibly an attempted forced meme in the making. He posted it today here too: http://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/17789457/

Or maybe he just genuinely wants help.

It's not a pleasant sentence.

>>8755546

I was one of those kids who started on McCarthy, I chose BM because I seen someone post the passage about the legion of horribles on /b/ in like 2011, not sure if they had such meme status back then but there's my experience anyway.

>>8755549
FW is fun to read because it's silly. Stop projecting your joyless attitude about life and your former shallow reverence of classics for the sake of snobbery unto others who might be enjoying themselves. I understand what you mean though about youth being stupid. Note that youth are stubborn too, so you telling them might help or might not. BTW you can also use this social status stuff when you're done being butthurt about it to motivate you to finish stuff you actually care about. Now have some fun.

Kids use to read dickens at a very young age and move into other heavy classics in their teen years, shut up op You've not changed one bit you still are an idiot.

>>8755591
This put a big wide smile on me. I will go have some fun. Thank you.