Thread 24483195

Be honest.
When was the last time you read a book? When did you start? How many have you read? What's your credit card number?
I'm starting to suspect that very few people here actually read regularly

I have never read a book.
I will never read a book.

>>24483195 (OP)
>What's your credit card number?
>t.

>>24483195 (OP)
I usually read one book a week. Lately I’ve started 4 different books but don’t feel the motivation to finish any of them.

14 hours ago. About to start a new one.
I read metric tons of books, but they are all non-fiction and revolve around my autistic interests. I read basically nothing else.

>>24483195 (OP)
I've been reading Piers Anthony's Xanth series for an hour or so before going to sleep for a while now. I'm up to the fifteenth volume now.

>>24483195 (OP)
I spent the last two months getting filtered by Ulysses. Currently 200 pages in. It's not going well, bro's.

No one here reads. If you try to talk about a book, there only a few other people on the board that could barely engage in a surface level discussion. If someone asks for a book recommendation, there is a 50% chance someone recommends the bible and, if not, there is a 100% chance that they will recommend a canonical book. I have very rarely seen books discussed outside a very narrow canon, and while I love the canon, that is not a good thing.

This is ignoring the fact that a lot of discussion is off topic. Right now in the catalog I see threads about:
>Jordan Peterson's youtube debate
>asking what videogames people play
>"is /lit/ the most christian board"
>tattoos
>Alex O'Connor (again from youtube)
This isn't even counting the posts that are just a personal rant ticked off with "books for this feel" or threads that originate from xitter screenshots.
This board needs a purge.

>>24483195 (OP)
I read regularly but I get frequent nervous attacks during which I doubt my own beliefs, causing me to halt my reads, discontinue some, pick up another, and so on. It's tiresome desu and I wonder if others here experience similar disruptions

>>24483254
What the hell are you reading that causes this reaction? I felt like I was going insane during a deep dive on metaphysics, but I have never been afraid of having my views changed. On the contrary, I wanted them to be changed, even though the process of doing that was extremely mentally chaotic.

>>24483195 (OP)
>When was the last time you read a book?
When did I last read part of a book, last night. When did I last finish a book, Tuesday.
>When did you start?
The book I finished? A couple weeks ago maybe? Reading in general, I was onto kids' chapter books by age 5
>How many have you read?
In total, no idea. This year, only up to 9 or 10 so far. But I took a long break from reading for leisure and only got back to it in November

>>24483254
>I get frequent nervous attacks during which I doubt my own beliefs
nigga wat
that's called learning; if your beliefs aren't changing over time you're stagnating

>>24483254
Just don't put too much stock or attach your identity to ideas. A good book for this is Freedom from the Known by Krishnamurti

>>24483195 (OP)
>When was the last time you read a book?
i read while posting
>When did you start?
my mom played audiobooks of the greeks for me in the womb
>How many have you read?
more than harold bloom
>What's your credit card number?
3855-8231-7149-2481, 10/25 exp, 845 sec code

I started like 2 years ago and read a dozen books or more, probably. I'm slow and take a lot of breaks. I drop most short ones I start because they feel shallow. I'm almost halfway done with a book I started a week and a half ago (which is pretty fast by my standards and for its length)
By the way a trick for ADHD retards: whisper the words when you read -- it's a life saver.

>>24483277
I disagree and you're mistaken for believing reading = learning, as if all books were non-fiction or learning was just a passive intake of knowledge

>>24483195 (OP)
Finished a book? Fear & Loathing about three weeks ago. I've started on and off on my reading journey many times in the past decade and rarely read more than 4 in a year when I begin. 449- wait a minute.

I'm new to this board though, coming to sort of surround myself with literary types because I'm a shut-in IRL. If I indulge in the atmosphere even in a place like this, I'll inevitably think about reading and want to read a lot more.

>>24483195 (OP)
I try to read the bible daily

>>24483195 (OP)

Last few things I've read have been Silence and the Samurai by Shusaku Endo, and now I'm working through Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. Despite having been written by a foid it's unironically breddy gud. Follows a couple generations of a retainer family in 14th century Norway.

I'm also doing my yearly re-read of Creation by Gore Vidal. Probably my favourite novel. Always brings me back. The conceit is that if someone happened to live at just the right time, they could have lived long enough to meet Socrates, Zoroaster, the Buddha and Confucius, all of whom were contemporaries ofc. Plot concerns a fictional Persian ambassador who goes from one side of the world to the other. It's very good fun.

>>24483254
lmao this is what normie brains have to live with, tell me where do you get your beliefs, the person who tells you what to think and in which deviation risks you being outed from the normie herd

Я ceйчac читaю "Baмпиp Лecтaт". Haдeюcь хвaтит cил пpoчитaть вcю cepию "Baмпиpcкиe хpoники".
Хз кoгдa нaчaлa, мeня в дeтcтвe зacтaвляли читaть

I've read all the basic shit that everyone shillled: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Don Quixote, Dumas, Dickens etc

I quit, because it was all just copium in the end

>>24484453
>normie
Don't out yourself.
You completely misread my post too, though I don't care. I got laughs from reading a fat retard larping as a nonchalant cynic while complaining about normal people online kek

>>24483195 (OP)
Reading is literally my one and only hobby

>>24483195 (OP)
anons on /lit/ read only a small handful of books and a lot of Wikipedia articles and meme infographs.

>>24483195 (OP)
Started Gravity’s Rainbow on 1 June, about to start part 3 of the novel. I just finished the personal memoirs of Ulysses S Grant, as I like to read one fiction and one nonfiction at a time

>>24483195 (OP)
Currently slowly reading through Pilgrim's Progress. Have lots of yard work and other catching up to do after dealing with a swiss cheese brained dementia riddled FIL insanity, so haven't read as much this year as I would have liked. The dementia demon inside of him did get upset while I was listening to Book of Enoch audio on Easter Sunday, so that was weird.

>When's the last time you read a book?
Couple of days ago I finished Poetics by Aristotle and I'm currently reading Helena by Euripedes.
>When did you start
I started to read by my own volition at 17 years old.
>What's your creddit card number?
1234- Wait a minute, you're trying to trick me again!

>>24483195 (OP)
>When was the last time you read a book?
Today. Last finished was earlier this week.
>When did you start?
Started the current book on tuesday. Started reading autonomously with children books at 6 or 7 I guess
>How many have you read?
Less than 200 all time, 37 this year. Actually counting all my books and seeing how few of them I had read kicked me in the butt. You get nowhere reading 6 books a year like I used to. Now it's a habit. My mind is well watered.

>>24483250
>This board needs a purge
More than that, it needs good posters to come in and do good threads and posts.
Which will never happen.

>>24483288
Woah woah buddy, he didn't ask for the expiration date or the security code. Keep your pants on

>>24483195 (OP)
>When was the last time you read a book?
I finished Trout Fishing In America about 15 minutes ago
>When did you start?
I started that one last weekend, put it down for the workweek, and finished it today
>How many have you read?
Including nonfiction, a few hundred
>What's your credit card number?
Here's an old one: 4403 9317 3881 6817

>>24485123
i didn't want to use difficult language lest i risk you melting your smooth brain

>>24483195 (OP)
sffg fuckers probably read the most on this entire board

>>24483195 (OP)
>When was the last time you read a book?
Frankenstein about an hour ago.
>When did you start?
Was a big reader as a kid but stopped when I was 13. Started reading again about two and a half years ago.
>How many have you read?
20 so far this year, 75 since I started reading again.

I'm reading the Complete Chronicles of Conan bit by bit every day. Nearly done.

I don't read

>>24483195 (OP)
>>24483250
>and while I love the canon, that is not a good thing.
Why. Most books are masturbatory bullshit.

>>24483195 (OP)
What is this word read that you keep repeating?

>>24483195 (OP)
I read a lot in school, mainly fantasy and sci-fi, stuff for teenagers. I had a really good English teacher who helped me a lot when I got into poetry and had a big influence on me. I stopped reading when I started uni and studied Comp Sci. Got a job and burned out after two years turning me into a NEET. I had always been into the idea of reading and had developed a large backlog, which I started working through a year after being unemployed. In order to change my life I stopped browsing social media, playing videogames and smoking dope at which point I found myself with nothing to do for most of the day every day. At this point is when I started reading, and I'd say it's my main hobby now.
Shoutout to this board for shilling Infinite Jest. It really piqued my interest in reading and finishing it felt like a real accomplishment, because it took me so long.
I've probably read about 50-60 books in my life, but most of it was garbage or beginner lit. It's not worth having my credit card number because there's no money on it.
Last book I read was No Longer Human by Dazai. Short book, easy read.
>>24485279
People who love reading don't want to waste time browsing 4chan, they'd rather just read.

>>24485648
It's a sign that people are talking about books they've heard of, not books they've read. If someone is actually a dedicated reader, they would find a couple of books outside the canon that they can champion.