Thread 214066431

/tv/ vs /lit/

Damn really makes you think

Im literally reading this right now and the fsb on /pol/ is very angry at me for it

if you read fiction then you aren't a real bookworm

>>214066431 (OP)
you should replace the book case for a wikipedia page instead.

>>214066491
Why /pol/ is angry at you?

>>214066431 (OP)
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately

>smartphones
>fill you with love
>books
>make you old and crippled

Most books are actually garbage and they don't make you think at all, you just end up regurgitating quotes and canned ideas you read. Every Rory Gilmore type of "uhhhhhhhh I don't even have a TV" ass whore I ever knew ended up working some menial job, just like everyone else only with less to talk about

>>214066721
can confirm this is a good read

>>214066431 (OP)
shoving a bookcase into your skull doesn't sound particularly useful

>>214066431 (OP)
Anyone on /lit/ should be taken out and shot.

I listen to audiobooks, which one am I?

>>214066606
Its a mystery, we may never know

>>214066485
like a brilliant?

>>214066491
how is it? I just finished Ivan Denisovich and August 1914 recently and loved em both

>>214066431 (OP)
Girlies what's the spice level of this book?

>>214068399
listen to Filth by Irvine Welsh

>>214066431 (OP)
>Implying anyone on /lit/ reads books

>>214068503
Only booktok reads at this point.

>>214068447
Havent read but based on the Gulag Archipelago I want to. Its really really good but its the thoughts of a prisoner in prison who happens to be knowledgable at an important point in history.

>>214068482
Why? Pitch me, I've been mostly listening to nonfiction because I find it easier to listen to passively

>>214066491
The ramblings of a lunatic lol

>>214068565
it's about a bipolar drug-addicted Scottish murder detective, a real bastard as he tackles the murder of some nigger that takes a backseat to him trying to navigate various challenges with his sanity and health and colleagues. there's a very interesting secondary perspective character written into it that's weird and original I won't spoil. great twists near the end. it's the same guy who wrote Trainspotting if you liked that film/novel

audiobookbay.lu

Someone recommend me some books. Fiction/no-nonfiction, doesn't matter

>>214070295
What have you read that you liked?

>>214070344
Recently?
Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
Never let me go
the two full Sherlock Holmes novels plus some of the short stories
The Shining
Old man and the Sea was alright

>>214066721
Biy precious metal before 9/17 yall

>>214066431 (OP)
at least she looks happy and isn't a bitter cripple

>>214066491
/pol/ are a bunch of wigger embarassments

>>214068399
>Audibook
You did not beat the book

>>214070295
Flashman series

Just read man in the high castle and it’s pretty kino. Watching the show right now and its kinda disappointing, juliana and frank are so lame and take up so much screen time. based childan should be the main character.

>>214066431 (OP)
Reading isn't natural. None of the brain evolved for it, it just repurposes visual processing among other functionalities in an ad hoc way. We developed it as a crude, but convenient and cheap solution for long term information storage. This is exactly why the average person doesn't really like to read, because that shit is quite literally not what they evolved for. We evolved to learn through observation and experience, not assigning abstract meaning to abstract little symbols in very long sequences. You learn more efficently through watching and solving problems than reading and that's a fact. Reading is only glorified because for the longest time it was the only way to access valueable data from the past or remote regions in the world, but that is no longer the case. We still use writing for communication because it's still cheap and convenient, like right now for example, but we have alternatives now, and they're vastly preferable if available.

Reading ain't shit. Glorifying it is pretentious as fuck. I read a lot by necessity and don't like it one bit.

>>214066485
Who wants a woman that reads high IQ shit? I can't imagine wanting that.

>>214068255
>"uhhhhhhhh I don't even have a TV"
Well i don't have one either and i barely read. Who the fuck has a TV in current year? I have a big ass screen that connects to a PC which i then can use for watching or doing whatever. No one watches cable anymore because it's shit, so what's the point of a TV?

>>214066721
Good read about kikery and its history, but shilling for "le good" fiat is peak retardation and economic illiteracy.

>>214071323
What color is your Bugatti?

>>214071483
Don't make the mistake of associating me with retards that are simply too dumb to read. As I've already stated, i read a lot by necessity, but unlike pretentious midwits i don't invest my ego in it, which allows me to realize it's a crude way to absorb information, to be used only in the absence of better ways. If i could get an audiobook or movie version of all the textbooks i read, I would, but there's only textbooks, so i gotta read.

>>214071563
Out of mere curiosity, you don't enjoy using your own imagination at times with reading? This isn't meant to be an insulting question.
I read entirely for work or pleasure, either technical manuals or genreshit. Sometimes I do enjoy a novel more than other forms of entertainment simply from getting to use my own imagination. Text can be as descriptive or vague as the author wants.
I do not disrespect your position, I just don't really agree with it entirely.

>>214071563
>If i could get an audiobook or movie version of all the textbooks i read, I would, but there's only textbooks, so i gotta read.

If the information conveyed is the same, whether the format is text, an audiobook, or a movie makes no difference. They are all equally crude.