Why doesn't /r9k/ read? And why hasn't /r9k/ realized

>>37074895
makes my neck hurt

>>37074895
>And why hasn't /r9k/ realized the reason they don't get staceys is because they don't read?
>Implying

Also, I haven't seen a Quentin comic posted in years. It's like 2011 again or something.

>>37074895
there's reading in video games you twat.

also, the Great Gatsby was shit.

can't maintain interest long enough to get past a paragraph at a time

>>37074895
Why cant I play video games and also read?

I read an average of two books a week (would do more but Im a wageslave so time is limited) and Ive been a big reader my whole life. I can absolutely confirm that reading does not help you to overcome anxiety and the general awkwardness that arises from being in public and/or socialising. Some of us simply werent meant for this world Im afraid...

>>37074895
While we're on this topic, what are some good robot-tier books?

>>37074895
Quentin always makes me laugh
he's not only a pretentious fag, he's a pretentious fag who pretended to not be a part of a community he clearly was

>>37074920
>reading in video games
OPs post is obnoxious but you seriously can't think this is the same thing...

>>37074895
>read a lot
>nobody even wants to talk about books with me

solid meme

>have conversation with qt about book she's reading a few days ago
>comes up to me today
>hey anon I finished that book we were talking about, do you want to read it?
>yeah you can keep it as long as you need, if you finish it over summer just text me and you can bring it back

What the fuck guys.

Captcha: biblioteca

>>37074895
Gatsby is the only book you need to read to get into "literary" chicks' pants, at least in America.

>>37074895
So at 24, I can talk to celebrities about books I read in high school?
>Every time I read Catcher in the Rye, it's like a completely new book!
>1984 is, like, so relevant, guys!

>>37074990
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Notes from Underground

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OP isn't lying, when I started reading I got tons of roastee stacey pussy to the point where I just got bored af as pussy and now i'm gay again

>tfw no intellectual reading bf

>>37075178
It's kinda funny that a book about empty vanity and hedonism has been turned into a fashion icon for stacies who want to affect some hobby to make it seem like they aren't empty, vain and hedonistic.

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>>37074990

here is the official r9k reading list

>>37074990
Confederacy of dunces desu

>>37075327
This. The funny part is they're all Daisies who would choose Tom (asshole alpha Chad) over Gatsby (sensitive/romantic but slightly autistic beta)

Since r9k has a better music taste than /mu/, maybe there's also a better literary taste than /lit/, and with less pretentiousness.

Any recommendations on where to steal books? One Russian download site that avoided the mid 00's DMCA crackdowns can provide me obscure music in high qualities, but I can't find free ebooks to save my life.

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>>37075078
Where these serious? I thought they were satire.

>>37075390
i also always thought he was playing up the persona for laughs

People on here call my favprite books pleb so i just dont even talk about it

>>37075377
>Gatsby (sensitive/romantic but slightly autistic beta)
Someone misinterpreted the book

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>>37074895
When I am 19 and going through that 18 year old phase. You think that 24 year old phase is going to come? I'm scared.

>>37075377
So, uh, nobody has ever brought up the Great Gatsby for the last 5 years of my life. What do Stacies actually say when they talk about the book?

>>37075418
Yes, you obviously did. Read it again, anon, it's really short

>>37074895
>enjoy videogames
>enjoy reading
>still no friends
>give zero shits

>>37075351
>Camus
>Nietzsche
>Kafka

We /existentialism/ nao. Are the rest of them along those lines? Stranger is a personal favorite of mine

>>37075427
Well*

orignianal cum

>>37075454
They typically pretend like they want a man like Gatsby to seem caring and deep/"not like other girls"

>>37074990
Nabokov's Lolita is ridiculously robot. The MC thinks himself a suave, strong gentleman, but his awkwardness shines through every once in a while.
Pretty good book imo.

>>37075178
what the fuck are you talking about
what imaginary world do you live in where "literary" women are impressed by the fact that you have read a book assigned in every 11th grade english class in america

inb4 what do you know, you're a brainlet NEET etc
>ivy league school
>stuck around for a graduate program
most of the women i know at school are the kind of erudite bibliophiles you are talking about

the concept of someone appearing at one of these awful hipstery grad school parties and slyly bragging about reading the great gatsby would be hilarious

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>>37075486
>erudite bibliophiles
Pic related is the only response you deserve/are getting

>>37075351
>>37074990
Why isn't the idiot on here?

>>37075486
>ivy leagues chool
>doesn't read high brow lit like gatsby

lmfao, stop LARPing.

Is the Silmarillion widely regarded as good or not? Im reading it for the second time, the language is really archaic and kind of hard to decipher but the stories are pretty ebig

>>37075514
this is literally how they would describe themselves, anon

the true path to grad school success in the humanities, btw, comes from reading the introduction to whatever book you need to read and then reading reviews of said book in relevant academic journals

it never matters what you know, it just matters what you can say

>>37074895
But I do read. /lit/ is my main board. Problem is, the books roasties are into are Harry potter, YA, basic bitch shit you have to read for high school like the great Gatsby and brave new world.

>>37075544
the silmarillion is widely regarded as a book exclusively for the most autistic neckbeards who know how to speak fluent elvish

all of tolkien's books are incredibly autistic and devoid of true literary ability but the silmarillion is basically at nonverbal levels of autism

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>>37074895
I read a lot, no women surrounding me.

Failed meme oppie.

Granted the books I read aren't ones that women are into:
>Dante's Inferno
>Paradise Lost
>Orpheus and Eurydice
>Homers Odyssey
Not really books that I've ever heard women mention.

>>37075478
It sounds like they're honest about what they want.

Daisy was a stupid, shallow woman that was happily married to a stupid, shallow man. Gatsby only wanted Daisy because he put her on a pedestal and because she represented old money. The true robot in the novel was George Wilson, and no one was lining up for his poor soul.

In essence, the women are saying they wouldn't mind what background a guy came from as long as he was loaded and maybe ten years older than them.

How the do you read only one or two books at a time? I'm currently reading six books in rotation.

>>37075416
What's your favorite book pleb?

>>37075725
Personally, I have very little self control, so once I start reading a book, I can't stop until I'm done with it. Same with programming, same with eating. I don't think it's a habit worth getting rid of.

>>37075427
chances are, a girl liked you and you did not notice or you are aiming for Stacy. be happy you did not notice though because it will drain your sanity, but then you can turn into the 24 y/o bitter virgin in OP's pic because you will think you never had a single chance.
also don't be a dumbass about oneitis, it is better to risk being rejected than never try to ask her out.
i was half rejected mostly because i asked her to go to a party with a shitty singer by irony (going there is the act of irony in this case), the singer was famous among actual cuckolds.
it is like asking a friend to ironically watch boku no pico to get a laugh out of it.

>>37075743
The Silmarillion, the Dark Tower, Enders Game, the Forever War, LOTR

>>37075902
my congoid companion

>>37075615
>devoid of true literary ability
LOTR and the hobbit are full of archetypes that have been repeated throughout history

>>37075902
>Enders Game
That book is torture, monotone as all hell, it is like the author took a small story and tried to extrude it into 200 pages (or was it in the 100? i dont remember)

>>37076350
I never notice the monotony of books like that, The Road and Ender's Game for example. Am I just so autistic and monotonous myself that it doesn't register?

>>37076350
Its an entire longass series not just one book lol. I love that kind of thing, those books about space travel and time dilation and alien confrontations and shit.

>>37074895

>Quentin threads outside of /v/

Fuck youuuuuuuu

>>37074895
I only really like fantasy and some non-fiction but most fantasy is unimaginative, word heavy, shit where the author projects on a gargantuan scale, shoehorns in their political/religious beliefs and basically steals real life events, changes a few names by adding superfluous letters and gay pronunciation to cover up the millionth rehashing of the norman invasion of England or the crusades or the war of the roses.

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Let's post some books women read.

>>37076558
What book did you read that was a fantasy style rehashing of the war of the roses? Im interested

>>37076436
it starts with a psychopathic older brother and a loving, over empathetic sister always defending ender. he goes into a space program or some shit and a commander manipulating situations a bit to isolate him in order to develop the personality of a leader.

that is the gist of the first half of the book i read, shrinking it to let out as little spoiler as possible. is that enough to have an idea of which book i am talking about? too lazy to check it.

>>37075351
The Stranger is /pol/ now since it deals with a frog who dies for killing an arab. /r9k/ is the plague anyways. We're living in that reality. The reality where we are closed off from the world and die a slow death from stagnation and malaise.

>>37076621
Yeah so thats just the first book then i think, the first book was an assigned reading in high school but theres lilke 7 more or something. Its been years

>>37076660
Not to spoil but they need that lil nigga ender for something BIG involving aliens

>>37076611
not that guy but i thought game of thrones (which i've never read) was supposed to draw heavily from the wars of the roses

>ah yes that book was my favourite, please use my pussy as you like and let me be your girlfriend

how delusional

>>37075327
I hate gatsby for this exact reason

>>37074895
> this
has to be the dumbest thing i have seen on this god damn screen all day