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6999070 No.6999070 [Reply] [Original]

>I read for the prose

>> No.6999151

Is this a bad thing?

>> No.6999159

>>6999151
OP is a shitposting faggot
Report and hide.

>> No.6999173

>>6999151
Yes you superficial pleb.

>> No.6999178

>>6999151
not bad so much as just a really really stupid thing to say

a book is a lot more than "prose", so if you're reading exclusively for prose you're wasting everyone's time

plus saying it practically guarantees you're in high school

>> No.6999252

>I don't care about plot

>> No.6999639

>>6999252
is it a bad thing to care about the plot? plot and a desire to feel company is the reason why i read books tbh

>> No.6999647

>>6999178
>plot faggot tries to argue with real taste: the post

>> No.6999663

>>6999151
>muh words

just read poetry then

>> No.6999708

I read for plot and prose. What do you faggots read for?

>> No.7000799

>>6999708
Meaning, doofus

>> No.7000839

>>6999663
/lit/ is too pleb for poetry

>> No.7001306

>>6999178
I feel like "I read for the prose" is less highschooler and more the highschooler's tryhard middle aged jewess art/writing teacher.

"The beautiful language!" *bracelets jangle*

>> No.7001313

>>7001306
I want to marry a woman like that :/

>> No.7001340

>>6999151
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. A book can survive on great prose alone while the same can't be said for plot.

Prose comes first.

>> No.7002012

>>6999647
literal hoi polloi hasn't read aristotle

>> No.7002048

>>7001340
things plebs say for 100 alex

>> No.7002248 [DELETED] 

>implying a shitty spook meme could ever censure thousand years of literary tradition

mademereply/10

>> No.7002257 [DELETED] 

What was the 7 millionth post???

>> No.7002265

>implying a shitty spook meme could ever censor thousand years of literary tradition

mademereply/10

>> No.7002286

Reading a book "for" something means that you tolerate the bad aspects of the book in order to appreciate the aspects you "read it for". It's not an attitude you take towards reading as a whole. If you can't appreciate a book as an aesthetic whole, you're an idiot.

>> No.7003662

>>7000799
Meaning as in what? Meaning of the book, deeper meaning pertaining to life?

>> No.7003820

>>7001340
>literally style over substance

I bet you think poetry has more depth than philosophy

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7003829

People who bash prose are simply too dumb to understand it. Full stop.

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7003903

>>7003820

>> No.7004259

>>7003829
I've found that prose plebs are the ones too dumb to understand it. Literally all they can say is "the prose was good" or "the prose was bad", that is the intelligence of prose plebs on /lit/. Full stop.