Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

What book are you reading user?

don't read books and didn't read your thread

Jokes on you. I'm semi-fucking illiterate

How fat are you

12

the current state of Veeky Forums

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.

Qouting everyone but op

>Qouting

You must be fun at parties, pal.

ITT: Funny ways to say "penis"

pesis

PIANIST

...And yet there's no mention of YouTube celeb posting. Someone break this pleb on the wheel.

senpi mio!

A few more
>you "believe in" democracy
>you're a naive liberal positivist
>you're an egalitarian
>you're not a reactionary

>youtubers are the future
>tfw the "gutenberg mind" died before you were born.

the internet is a failed experiment....utter cancer.

fuck off nigger

I'm reading Ubik
a science fiction book :*)

That leaves, like, five people. Also how would you be able to get away with being so smug?

don't worry I'm paying attention. I've seen a scanner darkly but haven't read any of his books.

who cares dude its just books

Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

What book are you reading user?

Think it leaves 0. Those five read for enjoyment at the very least.

Peanus

Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

What book are you reading user?

...

I want to marry her

What a cute boy that Novalis

How does one get a solid grounding in philosophy?

Define "solid grounding".

>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities

WHICH ONE IS IT?

Also sage

Ah. 2: Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance (a Whitehead primer for P&R) and Greene's Travels with my Aunt.

that's my cousin, and if you know me, then you know not to fuck with me

What are you going to do about it, outread me?

May I challenge you to her hand in marriage?

You forgot
>you are not Catholic

:)

>you barely know your classics

But I didn't even write one yet how the hell am I supposed to know it?

peno

>not knowing the difference between obsession and interest

...

I wonder how many of history's great authors would be able to stay on this board if they followed your dicta.

The last one is pretty silly, I only read for 40-50 minutes at a time then break, every time

If I had a private tutor I could easily do all sorts of things, but public school in the states set me back decades.

what's genre fiction?

...

Campbell Biology - 10th Edition

good thread