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Cold, hard truth: Reading GOOD LITERATURE is counterproductive

if your goal is to live a happy, productive life, you are fa...
blue gaping community account
  12/17/13
Right.. But honestly fuck those piece of shit strivers. T...
razzle bat shit crazy marketing idea
  12/17/13
I see literature reading has destroyed your life brother
blue gaping community account
  12/17/13
98546
flesh lodge
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Crystalline hissy fit
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insanely creepy whorehouse
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Judgmental persian
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Fragrant Nowag Rigor
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histrionic box office
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wonderful base
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Adventurous Really Tough Guy
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Lavender submissive pozpig sound barrier
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curious circlehead
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aphrodisiac splenetic chad state
  12/17/13
can't forsake a good opera though
cracking opaque hospital
  12/17/13
BUT THE OPERA
blue gaping community account
  12/17/13
i'm reading a book about bill taft right now. credited?
Racy Olive University Toilet Seat
  12/17/13
any 180 anecdotes about his life before he was president?
Titillating twinkling uncleanness
  12/17/13
seems like he'd be a 180 posted. cracked jokes about himself...
Racy Olive University Toilet Seat
  12/17/13
LOL. What a homo.
multi-colored electric furnace therapy
  12/17/13
it's assumed that only the leisure class will be literary. t...
Plum Personal Credit Line
  12/17/13
if you can read edith wharton you can tell 50 yr old middle ...
Smoky home ratface
  12/17/13
that's the claim, but is it credible
Plum Personal Credit Line
  12/17/13
not literature by itself but somebody who's a classics major...
Smoky home ratface
  12/17/13
cr
Plum Personal Credit Line
  12/17/13
but some bitch you majored in american lit at central arkans...
Smoky home ratface
  12/17/13
Why UChi? You got a crush on... DAT SHADI?
Self-absorbed sooty wrinkle pit
  12/17/13
Link to popularity of English major?
wonderful base
  12/18/13
lol at not reading don quixote or middlemarch while listenin...
Smoky home ratface
  12/17/13
um, reading biographies about famous people will teach you t...
poppy goal in life site
  12/17/13
who's your titslime inspiration?
Smoky home ratface
  12/17/13
Not really. Depends on the person obviously. But a lot of bi...
blue gaping community account
  12/17/13
, he lisped
Judgmental persian
  12/17/13
(prole reading malcolm gladwell on the shitter)
unhinged indirect expression patrolman
  12/17/13
(Chloe Moretz's hazelnut-scented cunt)
Self-absorbed sooty wrinkle pit
  12/17/13
Nah more like I just got done reading a biography and felt s...
blue gaping community account
  12/17/13
(azn)
primrose abusive selfie
  12/17/13
(actual azn bitter about his UC Berkelai ding)
unhinged indirect expression patrolman
  12/17/13
(the matrix)
Red spectacular gay wizard
  12/17/13
Actually all reading a counterproductive because TV exists.
jade friendly grandma
  12/17/13
Useful arts are prole, hth
medicated ceo
  07/03/14
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Adventurous Really Tough Guy
  07/03/14
Forget literature. Write your own story. Write your own bi...
mewling school cafeteria ladyboy
  09/02/14
Good boomer.
wonderful base
  09/02/14
You're best off reading history, biography and a very, very ...
Motley point
  09/02/14


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Date: December 17th, 2013 8:53 PM
Author: blue gaping community account

if your goal is to live a happy, productive life, you are far better off reading biographies of famous men to motivate yourself to become a striver, give your failures perspective.

Literature OTOH is just depressing as fuck and generally mocks productive uses of time, criticizes everything as pointless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662869)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:01 PM
Author: razzle bat shit crazy marketing idea

Right..

But honestly fuck those piece of shit strivers. They waste their lives rushing about like little bumblebee cunts, never stopping to sit listless in their underwear on a Wednesday morning, Cheetos in one hand, whiskey in the other, racked by fear and rage, poasting furiously.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662929)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:08 PM
Author: blue gaping community account

I see literature reading has destroyed your life brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662976)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:09 PM
Author: flesh lodge

98546

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662984)



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Date: December 18th, 2013 12:31 AM
Author: Crystalline hissy fit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24664641)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:15 PM
Author: insanely creepy whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663034)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:32 PM
Author: Judgmental persian



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663165)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:33 PM
Author: Fragrant Nowag Rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663173)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:47 PM
Author: histrionic box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663834)



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Date: December 18th, 2013 12:31 AM
Author: wonderful base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24664633)



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Date: July 3rd, 2014 7:43 PM
Author: Clear boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#25866199)



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Date: July 3rd, 2014 9:40 PM
Author: Adventurous Really Tough Guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#25866827)



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Date: July 3rd, 2014 9:42 PM
Author: slap-happy charcoal karate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#25866836)



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Date: September 1st, 2014 1:26 PM
Author: Lavender submissive pozpig sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#26247450)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 7:59 AM
Author: curious circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#26252239)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:16 PM
Author: aphrodisiac splenetic chad state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663042)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:01 PM
Author: cracking opaque hospital

can't forsake a good opera though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662933)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:11 PM
Author: blue gaping community account

BUT THE OPERA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24662998)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:12 PM
Author: Racy Olive University Toilet Seat

i'm reading a book about bill taft right now. credited?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663009)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:14 PM
Author: Titillating twinkling uncleanness

any 180 anecdotes about his life before he was president?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663026)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:20 PM
Author: Racy Olive University Toilet Seat

seems like he'd be a 180 posted. cracked jokes about himself being a fatass. was a bit of an aspie, it seems like. preferred the secluded life of a circuit judge. had a shrew wife.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663070)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:12 PM
Author: multi-colored electric furnace therapy

LOL. What a homo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663013)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:16 PM
Author: Plum Personal Credit Line

it's assumed that only the leisure class will be literary. this is why the popularity of the "English major" in America is so pathetic.

kids taking out six-figure loans to read and analyze The House of Mirth or whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663047)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:21 PM
Author: Smoky home ratface

if you can read edith wharton you can tell 50 yr old middle managers how to better run their business.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663078)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:24 PM
Author: Plum Personal Credit Line

that's the claim, but is it credible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663104)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:26 PM
Author: Smoky home ratface

not literature by itself but somebody who's a classics major at uchi or history of science at princeton PLUS literature could have enough to overcome pure philosophy or mathematics if they're rigorous and smart both.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663114)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:27 PM
Author: Plum Personal Credit Line

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663128)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:29 PM
Author: Smoky home ratface

but some bitch you majored in american lit at central arkansas or loyola should be working at hertz or a nice hotel, honestly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663139)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:31 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sooty wrinkle pit

Why UChi? You got a crush on... DAT SHADI?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663155)



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Date: December 18th, 2013 12:31 AM
Author: wonderful base

Link to popularity of English major?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24664640)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:18 PM
Author: Smoky home ratface

lol at not reading don quixote or middlemarch while listening to don giovanni. sometimes you need some well-crafted stories between the principia or lubachevsky vs euclid...whether they're fiction or history with a keen objective autobiographer, who cares? a story is story.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663054)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:22 PM
Author: poppy goal in life site

um, reading biographies about famous people will teach you that you'll be unhappy even if you do succeed. Chances are you'll still be fucked over, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663084)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:22 PM
Author: Smoky home ratface

who's your titslime inspiration?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663089)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:01 PM
Author: blue gaping community account

Not really. Depends on the person obviously. But a lot of biographers turn their subjects into legends and make their striving/life outcome seem better than it was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663389)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:33 PM
Author: Judgmental persian

, he lisped

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663170)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:52 PM
Author: unhinged indirect expression patrolman

(prole reading malcolm gladwell on the shitter)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663317)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 9:56 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sooty wrinkle pit

(Chloe Moretz's hazelnut-scented cunt)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663348)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:02 PM
Author: blue gaping community account

Nah more like I just got done reading a biography and felt sorta striverish after and then started reading a work of literature and immediately feel depressed again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663394)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:02 PM
Author: primrose abusive selfie

(azn)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663402)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:04 PM
Author: unhinged indirect expression patrolman

(actual azn bitter about his UC Berkelai ding)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663411)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:04 PM
Author: Red spectacular gay wizard

(the matrix)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663414)



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Date: December 17th, 2013 10:18 PM
Author: jade friendly grandma

Actually all reading a counterproductive because TV exists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#24663548)



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Date: July 3rd, 2014 7:44 PM
Author: medicated ceo

Useful arts are prole, hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#25866204)



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Date: July 3rd, 2014 9:40 PM
Author: Adventurous Really Tough Guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#25866826)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 7:42 AM
Author: mewling school cafeteria ladyboy

Forget literature.

Write your own story.

Write your own biography.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#26252221)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 8:03 AM
Author: wonderful base

Good boomer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#26252246)



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Date: September 2nd, 2014 8:20 AM
Author: Motley point

You're best off reading history, biography and a very, very select few philosophers. I think there's some decent fiction out there but you're basically correct; for whatever reason it tends to be overly broody and depressing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2445116&forum_id=2#26252259)