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?
Angel Hall
don't read books and didn't read your thread
Parker Hughes
Jokes on you. I'm semi-fucking illiterate
Juan Brooks
How fat are you
Nicholas Anderson
12
Jeremiah Ross
the current state of Veeky Forums
Brody Cox
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.
Cameron Sullivan
Qouting everyone but op
Thomas Morales
>Qouting
Julian Ortiz
You must be fun at parties, pal.
Ethan Clark
ITT: Funny ways to say "penis"
pesis
Nathaniel Diaz
PIANIST
Isaiah Jackson
...And yet there's no mention of YouTube celeb posting. Someone break this pleb on the wheel.
Joseph Powell
senpi mio!
Eli Brown
A few more >you "believe in" democracy >you're a naive liberal positivist >you're an egalitarian >you're not a reactionary
Carter Martin
>youtubers are the future >tfw the "gutenberg mind" died before you were born.
the internet is a failed experiment....utter cancer.
fuck off nigger
Anthony Ward
I'm reading Ubik a science fiction book :*)
Ayden Lewis
That leaves, like, five people. Also how would you be able to get away with being so smug?
Ethan Mitchell
don't worry I'm paying attention. I've seen a scanner darkly but haven't read any of his books.
Camden Adams
who cares dude its just books
Benjamin Green
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?
Jack Ramirez
Think it leaves 0. Those five read for enjoyment at the very least.
Blake Powell
Peanus
Josiah Powell
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?
Sebastian Jenkins
...
Isaiah Morales
I want to marry her
Oliver Ortiz
What a cute boy that Novalis
Jaxson Lewis
How does one get a solid grounding in philosophy?
Nathaniel Wilson
Define "solid grounding".
Nathan Jones
>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
Matthew Perry
Ah. 2: Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance (a Whitehead primer for P&R) and Greene's Travels with my Aunt.
Aiden Wilson
that's my cousin, and if you know me, then you know not to fuck with me
Adam Cook
What are you going to do about it, outread me?
Jose Gonzalez
May I challenge you to her hand in marriage?
Hunter Torres
You forgot >you are not Catholic
Josiah Lopez
:)
Andrew Nguyen
>you barely know your classics
But I didn't even write one yet how the hell am I supposed to know it?
Jack Lee
peno
Angel Green
>not knowing the difference between obsession and interest
Parker Wilson
...
Christopher Price
I wonder how many of history's great authors would be able to stay on this board if they followed your dicta.
Asher Cruz
The last one is pretty silly, I only read for 40-50 minutes at a time then break, every time
Austin Stewart
If I had a private tutor I could easily do all sorts of things, but public school in the states set me back decades.