Does anyone actually read on here?

Come to think of it the thai food I just ate was rather shallow and pedantic.

babby's first impermanence

This is me desu. It's why I never write reviews on goodreads. I just rate books and sometimes I go back and change my rating for a book if I've changed my mind about it.

Of course I read. In fact, I have nearly 1000 books and write essays on each one.

But I shitpost instead and call people plebs. Why? Because I don't want to share my knowledge, for fear that it may one day be published under a name that isn't mine. Also, I don't wish to spoonfeed plebs who don't realize all their questions are answerable from a Wikipedia link.

That's amore.

what's the best way to cut thru the trees to get into the inner essence or original thoughts or impulses the author was intending me to come out of the book with? any idea?

That's always how my brain has worked, are you saying I'm a perma-babby?

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autism

maple tap

Sure, mate

We read, we just come from a generation with no idea how to read.

did i actually read the holy bible twice. ya it took me 400 hours did you

you just have a surface level perception of the content on Veeky Forums. it's not your fault you have the analytical skills of a pleb.

>Veeky Forums is something to graduate from.
Where do you graduate to?

I hope you have a VPN handy

Why?

Give me an example of one of your deep analyses of any text.

I read, but the problem is that I can hardly remember anything. My memory is completely shot due to nearly two decades of poor decisions and, and uh.. other reasons. What little
I do remember is nearly impossible to form into a coherent thought. People might call it being permafried. I do not.

I am sorry for my own failings, the failings of this board, and the world in general. I am being serious btw..

Yes, we get it, you did drugs.

>People might call it being permafried. I do not.
What do you call it?

post your deepest insights Veeky Forums

>sex is an attempt by men to re-enter the safety of the womb.
>and by women to capture the power of holding life within them.

Great counter-arguments.

If no one is around, I just call it being stupid.

Smart comment.

Which smart? I'll take it as a compliment for now.

I read a lot but I'm too dumb for deep insight

The good kind, boss. Smart question.

Thanks user

Whoa...really made me think.

This place doesn't exactly lend itself to thorough analysis.

I read but I don't think critically about anything. I probably don't even remember what happens in any given book.

ITT mad plebs in denial

whats the point then. escapism?

I read books, but I don't seriously discuss them. To me they're mostly just good stories/pretty writing tbph

Yeah honestly I'm even skeptical of discussions about which I do not know much. It may seem insightful to the uninitiated but every other discussion barely scrapes by as undergraduate-tier.

I don't think people are interested in long-form discussion. This is a site for memes, including meme opinions. It's a shame that Veeky Forums is one of the better boards too.

When it's fun here, it's fun. Most of the time it's pretty tedious.

There's not much to discuss about books beyond how people discuss TV or film. There's no real merit to lit crit unless you're willing to apply certain theories, with which many here are either unfamiliar or outright hostile (due to unfamiliarity).

Yeah, that's broadly how I feel. English Literature was my best subject at school- I was really good at identifying metaphors, discussing themes, characters etc. But I didn't go on to do it at university because I never understood -why- we did those things. It felt like an essentially pointless game.

>with which many here are either unfamiliar or outright hostile (due to unfamiliarity).

This is what he actually believes

I do read but I don't spend much time over my posts here. It seems wasteful to do so when the next post after it is likely to be a picture of a cartoon frog.

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Reading is for cucks and degenerates. Take the redpill my friend

haha yeah man, trump for president luluuul -frogpost-

I don't read a lot, but the stuff i read i really think about. I'm reading crime and punishment now, i will make a thread when i'm finished.

Just read the fall from Camus, really liked it a lot.

Yes.

nobody believes you

>Even the most serious of discussions are all surface level insights with no individual opinion.

This is true.

It's also true that this is the board with the smartest population on average.

Reading some Bloom, god damn this guy has consumed more books than the fire at Alexandria. What I wouldn't give for his ability for quick reading and comprehension

what do you base that on? Veeky Forums seems like it has quite a few really intelligent people. A lot of them are of course retarded /pol/ crossposters, but the smarter individuals on Veeky Forums seem more well-read than the smarter ones here on Veeky Forums