How do you reconcile your intuitions and personal tastes with

Just read what you like, bro.

>>9100612
>Psychology
>Boring
Psychology is super duper fun.
>Russian Literature
>Boring
Not really.

Life is about impressing people. These people don't want you to read all these long/boring books, they want you to know that they have already read them before you and therefore feel superior to you.

They also want to show you that they enjoy "sophisticated" books, again in order to impress book.

Here's my story about reading:

>be 18
>last time I read a book was in middle school, don't really like it
>drop out of school and start to experience life outside the scholar system
>feel interested in some YA novel (CHERUB), decide to buy the first one
>fucking enjoy it, buy the next ones
>buy some other YA novels
>reading feels good
>buy my first "serious" novel, Le Comte de Monte Cristo
>never enjoyed reading a story that much, it becomes my favourite novel and still is to that day
>buy some stuff about Greek Mythology because I find recent interest in it
>find interest in astronomy, buy some books about basic astronomy/astrophysics
>here I am 5 years later, reading all kind of stuff I enjoy

Fuck people.

>>9100668
Bullshit statement. Though the verdict is right.
Fuck everyone and do whatever you want.
If they don't like what you do it isn't meant to be.

>>9100612
I wonder what it's like to be an effeminate dork like yourself.

Must be hell being such a loser.

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Pretty much any fiction book written in the 1800s in western Europe is a slow and plodding mess.

It is actually pretty astounding how boring some of them were when you look at works like Tom Jones, Mysteries of Udolpho, and Robinson Crusoe written in the century before.

>mooooom, my millennial brain demands tendies and instant gratification!