Is anyone else really fucking bored by books? I only read so that people don't think that I'm a pleb, though I don't have any social life whatsoever outside of 4chan.
I'm bored by the process of reading but I love the exploration of stories and ideas and the playing with language. I'm STEM by trade and I've never been a very good reader but I do love it, reading Moby Dick has been a highlight of my adult life.
>>8269359
Honestly, reading is kind of a chore for me sometimes, I don't think that's bad. I exclusively read philosophical texts though. I enjoy the content, but you can't expect every second to be entertaining, but when you reach a particular pretty passage or something that makes it all click for you, it's all worth it.
I can't be bored because I have strong will like the Green Lantern.
>>8269359
I'm more tired of the process of searching for books I want to read. They're really hard to find. I'm very picky.
Reading is only boring if the writer is.
>>8269400
you're not allowed to say that about the ten trillion western canon worthy worshiped writers
>>8269405
I am, but I didnt say they were boring.
>>8269406
I was describing my predicament. I wasn't force read all of dickens and austen etc when I was young and time passed quickly so now I have to do it in my 20s and it's agonising
I'm bored by my own mindless thoughts. I read to escape myself.
>>8269359
Read more fun books then.
Protip: dfw isn't one
Only boring people are bored.
I never really "feel" like reading but I'm always glad I did afterward
>>8269374
love u
>>8269359
as the buddhists say, if you do something boring, do it to more minutes. if it's still boring, do it 4 more minutes. rinse and repeat until you realize that it's not boring. what do you expect to happen in the end anyway?
>>8269506
>mindless thoughts
>>8269624
its called shitposting
>>8269359
I wouldn't think many people who find it boring would come to a board dedicated to talking about it.
I've found some books boring, but all I did was stop reading them and read the ones I didn't find boring. Reading itself isn't at all boring to me.
>>8269359
>I only read so that people don't think that I'm a pleb
there's your problem
>>8269359
The truth is that I haven't picked up a book in months or finished one in over a year. I just shitpost on /lit/ and read wikipedia every now and then to become knowledgeable of literature.
Books sucks
>>8269359
fuck op, learn to save images correctly.
Not boring but the Internet has definitely eroded my attention span a lot and I don't really know what to do about it.
I hopped trains around Europe for 4months without Internet and read an absolute shit tonne, it was very freeing desu.
>>8270465
You don't know what to do about it?
>>8269620
as the buddhists say, "is it hot in here or is it just me?"
>>8269369
Same. If I read anything more information dense than light novels my attention gets pulled away very easily.
I like what I'm reading. I'm learning new things, getting ideas, and finding different perspectives to look at things from but if there's anything remotely more entertaining that I could be doing, I feel compelled to do that instead. Even if it's just shitposting on 4chan. Which is a problem when most of what's on my bookshelf is nonfiction books in ecology or conservation philosophy.
I'll end up in a rut where I read 150 pages of a book over the course of 3 months. Then, tear through the last half in a few days and start the process over on a new book.
>>8270470
Trust me I'm trying to cut down but when nothing is forcing you to stop it's quite hard.
