>Girl says she loves reading and loves books >She only

>>34947388
Coincidentally, I stopped reading at the age when I was supposed to be reading YA. Now I spend my time shitposting on /r9k/

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>>34947434

Here, read this

It's about a 60 year old robot who has a young japanese girl fall for him and he gets to do all sorts of fucked up things to her

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>tfw no literary gf

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>>34947918
This hurt more than I expected

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>>34947388
>reading

wtf is YA anyway?

>>34948101

Young Adult

Shit like Hunger Games, Harry Potter, etc.

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>>34947918
>women
>appreciating literature

>>34948115
oh cool i'm glad there's a stigma for that because I always find it weird when gen Xers talk about those books

I know this feel. When I first met my gf she told me she was an avid reader. This greatly excited me. Go into her room one day and she shows me her collection of Nicholas Sparks novels, mystery romance novels, demon hunter and vampire books, and her Stephanie Plum series. I'm still with her to this day, but her taste in books is complete shit. I just want a girl to discuss serious literature with. REEEE

>>34947388

>Omg i LOVE harry potter its so deep and beautiful.

Its always sad when adults latch on to something meant for kids.

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>>34948145

There are some

>>34947388
>tfw used to read some pretty okay books
>stopped reading and just spend time fucking around on the internet

I hate myself. My Name is Red must have been the last serious book I read

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>>34947388
Time for some /lit/ memes, you say?

>>34947918
The "your's" and "her's" hurt more than anything else in that post.

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>>34948299

>Torolf entered her like she was a lottery

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>>34948299
there's no way this isn't satire

>>34947388
anyone else read based magical realism?

>>34948552

Magic Realism a Spic genre for Spic writers trying to make their Spic writing seem like Literature

>>34948255
>implying that's not harry potter

>>34949133

It's probably not harry potter

>>34948459
you'll be surprised what women will pay for

what the fuck is YA? explain someone

>>34949823

see >>34948115

Read the thread nigger

>>34947388
YA is pretty good if you're like 9 but by that point I was already on Discworld, then someone handed me a copy of Dune and that was that.

That's what I'd do. Point them at old Terry.

>>34947388
>girl genuinely enjoys reading as a hobby and not just because it makes her look smart to other pretentious brainlets
>robot rees

>>34949935

>I love food and cooking!
>Only eats McDonalds and Burger King

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>>34948299
>dick parkinson's

>tfw can't fucking read books any more

I used to be able to sit down and read for hours when I was younger.

Years of video games and multi-tabbed internet browsing have completely ruined my attention span.
I read a couple of lines and I find myself thinking about other shit, realising I've just read half a page without paying attention and have to read it again.

>>34950022
Helps if you don't read when you're tired.

If I mess with my sleep so I get patches where I have to fight to keep my eyes open, even if I play a videogame my mind goes off on a tangent instantly, my eyes shut because I'm not paying attention to the game, and I jerk awake 4 seconds later thinking I've been asleep for ten minutes.

It's like super ADD.

>>34947388
That's a great starting point, but yeah YA fiction is literally always split into 5 things: Zombies, Romance, Post Apocalypse, Dystopia, Supernatural.

The real shitty ones manage to cram all of those into one and pass it off as original.

>>34947918
That made me unreasonably angry. FUCK. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fucking fucker WHY CAN'T I JUST NOT BE FUCKING AUTISTIC

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>read acclaimed book
>too dumb to understand it beyond basic surface level analysis

being a brainlet is suffering

>>34950260

Who the fuck cares man, did you enjoy it? That's all that fucking matters, did you fucking enjoy it?

>>34947388
>chick I graduated with
>English major
>3.8 gpa, now in grad school
>favourite book is Harry Potter
I want off this ride

>>34950569
>In grad school

Marry her, live the rest of life as NEET living off wife money

>>34950132
>Helps if you don't read when you're tired.

But I'm always tired...

>>34949935

She only reads the YA novels for the sex scenes you mongoloid.

>>34951418

Fucking get your life together then first, why are you worried about reading?

>>34951758
Because I need something to do that isn't 4chan and video games.

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>>34951747

>YA
>Sex Scenes

>>34951085
>English degree
>money

>>34949133
I'm reasonably sure it says "a tale of two cities" on the back.

>>34947918
Jesus Christ I gotta go read some David Foster Wallace short stories or I'm gonna start crying

>>34952936

Might as well run your head into a cement wall

It'll have the same effect on your brain

>>34947388
I'd be down with someone that only reads manga and light novels

>not into pulp
Dont even talk to me

>>34953901

>Into pulp

Why would you enjoy reading the same three stories over and over again?

>>34950260
One of the most useless things you learn in high school is how to deeply analyze a book. Trying to find every single little symbol and hidden theme that the author probably didn't even make on purpose. And why?, no reason other then conditioning American youth to believe reading is an unpleasant chore so they won't even consider reading when they don't have to. Another Jewish conspiracy if you ask me. I read because I enjoy it, to further my reading skills, and to learn. I don't give a single rat's ass what this or that character's cock represents.

>most women are posers when it comes to hobbies
Wow, I'm so surprised

>>34953920
>same 3 stories
You're not serious, right?

>>34954369

>Manly dude kills Manly Dude
>Manly dude saves Feminine Girl
>Manly dude gets fucked over by Feminine Girl

>>34954494
>Man vs. Man
>Man vs. Nature
>Man vs. Society
>Man vs. Self
>Man vs. Technology
Pulp deals in all 5 conflicts across practically every genre.

>>34950260
Most modern "good" books are literally about nothing but pretentious wank and trying to make people feel as miserable as the Author.

Go a couple hundred years back and focus on the classics instead of whatever jewy postmodern bullshit people are parroting interest in for social points nowadays

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>read most of dostoyevsky works in junior high
>got really into shakespeare in highschool, read every single play
>covered most of western canon and literature from more specific regions
>it never mattered in any contact with men in my life

Don't delude yourself- you want a cute gf, reading is just a bonus.
Even among my more "cultured" male friends, they all dated girls who never got being harry potter or 50 shades of grey.
Men never cared about those things in women and in case you actually start dating- I can assure that you wont care too.

>>34955045
*never got beyond

>>34955045
Lies. This post is lies and you're a liar.

>>34955104
How so? Everything I said is true.
Comes from my personal experience, which is biased, but thats about it.

>>34955137
If you're a well read gal and no lit nerd isnt breaking his ass to gf you, then there must be more dealbreakers that outweigh "also like books alot" as a quality

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>>34948299
>galloping abs

>>34955161
You really think "also likes books alot" is a quality most men trip over to date? It really isnt, especially compared to looks, how well you can flirt or even how well you dance.

I have no chance of dating /lit/ nerds since hardly any live in my country.

I know many men and although its nice to talk about literature with some of them, they really dont see it as an important quality (even avid readers).

>>34947388
>only reads YA
Get """"""her"""""" to read other stuff, OP.

>>34955161
It doesnt work this way man

>>34955137
>>34955104
>>34955045
I'd say it's true but if he read Dostoyevsky and thinks he understood it in junior high he is clearly just prideful

me and my gf read kino together such as kafka and faulkner, even though we also read some gay shit like murakami too, both of us read a lot which is a plus but having a "gf" is a meme, i am a cyborg and she is basically a normie with good taste.. REEEEEE

>>34955692
kino are movies

>>34955474
Tell me how it is then?

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>>34955700
nothing gets passed you

>>34955682
I dont claim I understood it back then. Doesnt change the fact that I loved it even on surface level.

>>34955783
Yeah it has a great aesthetic and mood, have you looked into Orthodox Christianity at all? The parts of it you liked are very strong in it as Dostoevsky was very Christian.
Unlike most of the people grappling with nihilistic ideas he actually had knowledge of what the Truth and solution was.
Here is a book you might be able to appreciate http://docdro.id/SlxAMji it's pretty short but I really would highly recommend you look at it, gives a very different perspective from what most people are exposed too.

>>34955823
Well I major in Eastern European studies (partly because my interest in Russia started with Dostoyevsky), so yeah I know about that and more but thanks for book link.

>>34948299
>her body was like a beautiful flower that was opening and somebody was pushing their dick inside it

>>34947388
you are the exact kind of fedora tipping fucking fag that give false validation to autists who read stupid books just to look smart

you read

what you fucking want to read

fuckig nerd hater fuck u

>>34955885
This is why I like reading pulp. Something about the inherent campiness prevents me from being a smug, pretentious twat.

>>34948806

Where were you in my HS AP Lit class bro?

>Having lunch at work
>Woman comes in, mentions how shit the magazines because they have horrible sentence structure
>We start talking about reading. She says she is reading The Silmarillion
>Question her
>Gives correct answer
Most do only read quite plebby stuff though

>>34947388
>YA
Young adult?

>>34955700
You can read screenplays, bro

>>34947918
this has got to be some of the gayest shit ive ever seen.

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>>34956247
Yaoi Anal

>>34950210
What's wrong with that? Do you only watch high brow movies?

Many people read and watch for the purpose of enjoying the story. Being transported into a different reality and seeing the plot turn out.

Not everything has to be thought-provoking and Freudian.