>Friend is 20 years old >Still exclusively reads young

>>9826767
They could not read at all...

>>9826845

might as well be

>>9826767
Better than comic books.

>>9826767
>Being any age
>reading to distract yourself from your problems instead of using your brain like an adult human
Doesn't matter what you're reading if you're running from yourself

>>9826870
ow

>>9826767
Twenty is still a kid in my eyes.

Why are you still their friend OP?

>>9826923
>t. Oscar Wilde

Do they post on 4chan too? That would be SO embarrassing.

>>9828294
That makes no sense.

>>9826923
I think most adults feel this way.

>>9826767
>Aunt mid-50s
>Still exclusively reads young adult "n o v e l s"

>>9826923

I'm 21 and I agree. Fucking 20 year olds. Literally children.

Now excuse me while I drink room temperature beer and mope (in a literary way) my quarterlife crisis, which is very existential and philosophical, in case you are wondering, fellow adult.

>>9826864

name me a young adult book that has more artistic value than Watchmen or A Contract with God

Processing lines of a YA scary quote unquote "((("'book'")))" isn't reading, it's areading. Areading is not reading but a consumption of nonmaterial in the form of Chinese ink on Chinese rags. Nonmaterial is not a material of any kind or nonkind. It's literally nothing. Your friend isn't consuming, so he'll eventually die from mind starvation.

>>9828322
Dorian Gray is 20 years old, and in Picture of Dorian Gray he is described as a young boy.

>>9826923
adolescences extends into 30 now. mentally

I know this sounds like snark but I mean this with absolute sincerity.

Some people do not have the same level of literacy as others and will be drawn to less difficult and easier reads.

In addition to that, certain genres lend themselves to light reads, E.G. romance or anything pornographic.

>>9826845
It would be more beneficial, intellectually, if they were to watch movies.

>>9828623
they never stated his age in the novel

>>9828307
kek
>hey bruh, could you send me a pic of your favorite books?
>sure, what for?
>hum...eh, no reason, just curious he he

>>9828766

over half of the western canon is about fucking

>>9826864
>Art Spiegelman
>Alan Moore
>Neil Gaiman (his comics are good, his books are meh)
>Daniel Clowes
>David Mazzucchelli
>Charles Burns
C'mon, fight me

>>9826767
And? They're probably reading more than 90% of this board does.

>>9828751
thanks, i was beginning to feel old. since i'm still a kid, maybe I can still turn my life around

>>9828623

and joyce extends the boundaries of adolescence in the dubliners. are you making some kind of value judgement?

>>9831060
I haven't read Dubliners. Besides, the joke was that people who claim that 20 year olds are boys do it because they like to have sex with them and pretend that they're 16 or whatever. (this is legal now btw)
>>9828888
He sais he was in his 20's, and a boy. So he must be 20 because a 25 year old can't be a boy lol.

>>9826767
My only friend can barely read at all. He can struggle through things slowly if he tries. His wife is an English teacher and her favorite books are Harry Potter followed by OMG Shakespeare. My brother reads fantasy books and stuff about submarines.

>>9826923
The brain doesn't even develop the capacity for critical reasoning until around 25.

16-30 young adult
31-65 adult
65+ geriatric

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>>9826767
Why does it matter what other people choose to spend their time with?

Why is this such a reoccurring problem for this board?

>>9831096
>her favorite books are Harry Potter followed by OMG Shakespeare
I find it quite hard to believe that a grown woman can appreciate OMG Shakespeare.

>>9831136
Why is she topless?
Why is she wearing heels, panties, and nothing else?
Why isn't she looking at the magazine?

That picture raises so many questions.

>>9831154

More importantly, I wonder if she'd need help cleaning up after herself, given she can't just drop the magazine around.

>>9831178
EXACTLY!

>>9831140
I wouldn't necessarily call her a grown woman. She's 26.

>>9826767
My friends don't read but my Mother and brother read a lot. With my mother reading like 90% of waking day. She reads a lot of fiction, mostly fantasy and crime novels.

My older brother reads philosophy and such.

I tend to read dominantly history.

>>9826923
I just read in the notes of Purgatorio that Dante considered 25 to be the end of childhood and the beginning of "youth," and was the age wherein we could actually start to independently develop ourselves.

Just an anecdote, but basically I agree with you.

>>9826767
>OP is (probably) 20-ish years old.
>Complaining about friend's literature choices on the internet to stangers to feel more adult.

He should probably get a friend thats not a sperg manchild, you piece of shit. You sound like the kid in middle school who's test scores said he read at a highschool level, and was far too proud of it. I hate you and people like you.

>acquaintance is old enough to post on 4chan
>posts on 4chan

>>9826923
20 is like a toddler to me

>>9829451
*cucking

>girlfriend is 14 years old
>still exclusively reads young adult "novels"
Should I dump her?

>>9831640
IMO peole shouldnt be allowed to vote until they're 25. 18-24 year olds are still too myopic and politically unrefined to take it seriously.