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>when you read a book and it references another classic and spoils the ending for it
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>>7601587
>reading for plot
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>>7601589
>not equally enjoying plot, prose and message
ISHYGDDT
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>>7601595
>reading for enjoyment
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I prefer books on the second go better anyhow, I've learned spoilers only make me enjoy the book more and now am either indifferent to spoiling or spoil the book for myself best as I can on Google before I start
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>>7601598
I read for escapism, ego, knowledge and procrastination
Enjoyment is a product of the fulfilment of the above
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>>7601598
>reading
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>>7601598
>enjoying things
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>read book
>get to deliberately boring and repetitive part because the character is doing something boring and repetitive
>tfw force yourself to read every single word of it
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>>7602178
Reading Blood Meridian now because I'm a newborn to lit

I find something simultaneously annoying and beautiful about the constant descriptions of the sun and sky and plains and of course "They rode on"
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>>7602185
Are you even reading?
>spits
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>not reading the entire canon in chronological order, thus avoiding these issues

max pleb
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