/ot/ - Off-topic

With the right book I can really appreciate the art in an author's prose, and that can blend well with the pleasure of unfolding a world in my mind. I suppose you could accomplish the same with an audiobook, but going at my own pace is my personal taste if I really want to get into a work.
Last time I lost power, when a hurricane knocked it out for a few days, I read the Hobbit. It was a wonderful journey, and I've been trying to read more since.

>Everyone I don't understand is lying prove me wrong
>Here's an absurd unfalsifiable proposition about other people's subjective experience, prove me wrong or it's correct
>But if you're the evidence I'm wrong then your opinion is invalid
I like to read. People enjoy different things anon, you don't have to get it you just have to not be a dick about it. Personally books are my favourite form of media because my imagination is generally more satisfying to me than other people's drawings and voice acting. If you think more in words than sensations or you just don't have much imagination then you'll likely appreciate other artforms more, that's okay.

>>21090
Going along with books because you want to keep your own pace is perfectly valid, I still think that's a minority though.

>>21091
>I like to read.
Reported for trolling

What the fuck why can't I just enjoy my media?
>The people I met who claim they love to read are usually annoying morons who just want to pose as smart or interesting people.
These are the type of people who only read to feel smart and enlightened. They carry around their buzzword books in public and absolutely disgust me.

>>21092
>Reported for trolling
You're annoying anon, but also a little bit based.

>>21098
Do you think she knows there aren't any words in that book?

>>21103
It doesn't matter if there are or not.

I like the freedom of imagination that books give compared to other mediums. It's not possible to capture the horror of Lovecraft ancient gods in a painting, a movie, or animation. It's something born from your very own fears as you picture that. The same applies to any other thing, which need not necessarily be related to horror.

Humans love stories. Books are just one of the most efficient mediums to build a story with great depth. It boils down to the efficiency of the author as a writer and how engaged you feel when reading their work. It's also a great way to practice language, or even old variations of your language. Being able to read things written over a thousand years ago in a country far away from yours gives a lot of insight into how things were back then. This is something that no other medium will ever give you fully, because there are many things lost in translation (in mediums and also to your modern language).

Yes, perhaps it's a minority, but there's definitely degenerates out there who enjoy it.

>>21089
>Prove me wrong.
Nope, you have to prove yourself right. Onus of proof is on the accuser.

>Prove me wrong. If you reply with "I like to read" your opinion is instantly invalid.
Now you're just assuming the conclusion.

>>21089
thats true, when i read its because it shows a topic or idea i enjoy, people who read for the sake of reading arent going to get much pleasure out of it

>>21089
>No one actually likes to read
What solipism…

>>26922
Why did you dig up a thread with a premise this legitimately awful

>>26923
Because you sound like a faggot

trolling is a art

>>26925
an art*

>>26926
>>26925
>>26924
You will never be back in 2010.

>>21089
Not a single functioning dopamine receptor left in this guy's brain. What a shame.

>>26927
Didn't know it had to be 2010 to troll people.