/lit/ - Literature

>>18900199
i don't

>>18900210
Based

>>18900199
It's fun.

>>18900199
G*D, I would kill for a woman like her in my life.

People think this kind of ramshackle imprecise bookshelf looks good because they're idiots

>>18900199
Don't have anything better to do.

>>18900630
That's my wife. If you can kill me in hand to hand combat, she's yours.

Helps me feel grounded in this ADHD ridden mess of world. Also reclaiming lost time from when I caved to peer pressure halfway through school about studying and trying to be smart is for fags. I liked being smart when I young, I'm an idiot for being persuaded otherwise.

>>18900630
Sonia Rykiel top, vintage trousers, Mango shoes. She's got style.

>>18900669
>looking at clothes
Uh?

>>18900713
I didn't actually look at the clothes. I just searched for the image on Google and found the article it was in, and from there I copy-pasted the description of the clothes.

>>18900199
Better books than this slut

>>18900199

She hasn't read that Red Book, she just got it as a cute, well-placed accent to her outfit. Or else (more likely) the photographer did.

>>18900737
But to be honest she seems the type who would actually read that book

>>18900199
why are all the books so big?

>>18900199
knowing a lot about different topics so I can have interesting coversations and make up for my lack of interests since most of my life is all catered around reaching some very specific goals which comes at the cost of other hobbies.

Also I find politics interesting.

>>18900199
Why do you breathe?

>>18900643
A well-organized bookshelf is a sign of people who don't actually read.

>>18900849
Maybe a color coded bookshelf. If its mess just means your lazy

>>18900199
To learn more about my culture, it's history, and other cultures as well.
It enriches my understanding of the world, myself, and other people.
I also get a lot of pleasure from beautiful language.
And finally, I enjoy stories.

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>>18900199
To check out different things and get to know different people. Basically because I'm bored.

>>18900849
Right and what else, great art only comes from pain? Please

>>18900784

My red books include the following:

Project on the City: Great Leap Forward (1990s Chinese development in and around Hong Kong)
Mao's little red book
Kasparov, My Great Predecessors, Volume I
James R. Smart, Modern Geometries
Heidegger, Basic Writings (sort of orange-red, really)
Vico, New Science
Malleus Maleficarum
KJV Apocrypha
Akira, Volume I
Barron's Dictionary of Mathematics Terms
Haynes Soyuz Guide
Haynes Cassini-Huygens Guide
A small Phaidon overview of Durer, with a garish, modernist bright-red cover.

>>18900922

One of the features of a banality is that it is so obviously true that it usually goes without saying. Banalities are trivially true, and this is what makes them banal.

>>18900795
That’s how books with pictures look like.

did not expect this kind of feels

>>18900199
Because it's great fun. Reading is one of those things that can feel uncomfortable in its moment but in reflection is saturated with tremendous value and glad emotion. Compared to a thing that is never painful or cumbersome to do, that grants effortless entry, that just slides into your life as quickly and easily as it slides out of your life, leaving no lasting impression or nourishment for later reflection; real McDonald's-tier media or experience, like pop music or a generic TV show.

If it feels easy, all-inclusively easy, at first, it's probably not worth doing.

>>18900199
My dad used to read at me when I was a kid, so I guess I got it as a hobby since early on

>>18900199
to escape the life i live

>>18900199
Used to be for a wider variety of reasons. But for the past few years it's been mainly to make sense of, and to mentally prepare for, the coming civil war in the US

>>18900727
based information-sharer

>>18900199
Because what else is there to do, asshole?

>>18901692
Watch the Marvel and Star Wars extended universes. Have sex. Touch grass. Reading is literally the last thing anyone should do lmao

I need to learn more about myself and the world and what I can make of it. I need to immerse myself in ideas so I can create something greater than myself

>>18900199
To figure out why I shouldn't read

>>18900220
buzzword

>>18900199
Is that a photograph of a negro?

I read in hope to find that book which will change my life for the better.

>>18900199
Because there is any emptiness inside me that gnaws at my very existence if I don't feed it, and its appetite is no longer fed by video games and anime.

>>18900199
I've already invested too much time into it and thus have nothing else going for me

>>18900210
We will be getting along famously.

>>18900199
To pass the time

>>18900199
Never read a book in my life lmao, that shit is gay, I just come here to laugh at feminine boys doing woman's hobby

>>18902283
This unironically hit me hard

>>18900199
Beats listening to my own retarded thoughts.

>>18900210
Same

>>18900199
i don't

also you're an idiot for postin a woman to grab attention

The reason I read is to attract women. I know some women might be impressed if I was well read. There's that quote that says "If a man doesn't have books in his house, then don't fuck him." It's that mentality that carries me on.

I know it might be easier to attract a stupid and poor girl who doesn't care about being well read, but I usually find those girl care exclusively for looks and bad boy attitude in their early 20s, and by the time they hit their late 20s they are all used up and don't look as fresh as they once did. But when they're in their late 20s, those poor and stupid women are usually more impressed by intelligence because it's much different from the bad boys of their youth and it signals one as a potential meal ticket. Hopefully one of them shows interest in me and lets me be inside of her.

Because I've got a lot of down time at work and reading a book is better than getting depressed reading this forum.
I've read most of Stephen King's main books, a couple Crichton, and after I finish going through lord of the Rings I'm going to start Dune.

>>18900199
To forget about the shit I did with my life and immerse in whatever fictious world that make me escape for a few moments of the terrible reality of being a 40's incel, working as a garbage man in a third world country and living in a semi favela setting :)

Because I'm anal about controlling the media that gets into me and reading is a good way to consooom media while maintaining some degree of control.
Idk that's my cope LOL

>>18905871
Laughing Out Loud

books

>>18900199
>... just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my thoughts... and my ideas.. the logic stirring. The mind I've lost ... the joy I've lost ... won't stop hurting... It's like they're still there. You feel it too, don't you?

Also the whole conversations with smart people thing
Most people I can interact with are dumb as fuck
Books are the well thought out works of people of intellectual calibres beyond which I could otherwise access
Also something like that.
Plus it's cool to read about different times and places and travel in your mind and escape the hell that is my life.

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So basically it's just one big cope?

18905909
Mass repliers get the cross.

>>18905909
Yes, also enjoy your ban

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No

>>18901353
Based
Did you know that "Der Fragebogen" was the first bestselling book in Germany post WW2?
Also it inspired me to visit small French coastal towns

>>18900904
>stacking books horizontally
Why

>>18900199
I don't, just catch names here and there to impress dumb /lit/ bitches, impregnate them and fleed, not my problem, lmao

>>18905969
What's it like? A friend recommended it to me

>>18906043
I enjoyed reading it. Kind of autobiographical. He sketches his life along the big events of the first half of the 20th century in Germany. I guess you have to be into German history somewhat to enjoy the book.

butt

>>18900199
It's fun, it's escapist, I learn, and I want to appear cultured.

>>18900199
Ignorance is a sin.

>>18900199
Because I love to.

Leaving hidden cumstains in library books is cathartic.

>>18900199
We don't.

>>18904781
Lol, sorry.

>>18906021
I simply have too many. This way I can use all the space in a given shelf. Anyway in most cases that's just the first row, there's 1-2 others (vertical) behind

>>18900938
My little Mao Red Books are not red :( I have two different editions, all in basic old paper, yellow for the age
Some months ago I randomly saw an original Chinese 1st edition, but they wanted 100€ for that, I don't have that kind of money.

>>18909880
This is why I use a Kindle. I really don't see the point in wasting space.

>>18909914
I don't like the idea that if my electronic device breaks I will lose all my books

>>18900199
To feel civilized and get a career.

>>18909960
The books are on the account. If your device breaks just get a new one and download your books.

>>18909995
>If your device breaks just get a new one
You see, it probably all boils down to this. i don't like the "just buy a new one" advice.
In normal conditions, my books simply cannot "break", so I will not need to "just get new ones" (I basically never buy new books btw).
You need to willingly tear them apart, burn them or throw them into water to break them, and I'm not doing any of these things. Electronic device - sooner or later it will reach its life end. For paper, that takes AT LEAST one century, often a multiple of that.

>>18900669
Alright, Bateman

>>18909960
Just store them on a hdd and replace it every five years

>>18910125
I'm poor, my laptop is 10+ years old

>>18910104
You can use Kindle on your phone as well. You don't actually have to buy a kindle. I got my kindle from my mother, who had an old one.

And to make an economic argument. Kindle versions of books are almost always cheaper. Every time you buy a digital copy you save money. Eventually if you did decide to "buy a new one" it would have paid for itself

>>18910143
1tb usb hdd are cheap man

>>18910144
>And to make an economic argument. Kindle versions of books are almost always cheaper. Every time you buy a digital copy you save money.
Basically I never pay more than 3€ for a book, ebooks are often 7-8

>You can use Kindle on your phone as well. You don't actually have to buy a kindle.
Btw, I do have the kindle software on my laptop, years ago I bought a couple of ebooks (no physical version existed). But I don't use it much, definitely not my first choice for reading.


>>18910149
That might be true, but "replace it every 5 years"? See>>18910104

>>18900199
Imagine removing her boots and sucking on her toes haha

>>18911891
Ithat would be crazy

>>18900731
So you're a slut too?