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Topic: Most Americans never read a book!

Anonymous A started this discussion 9 years ago #62,745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/07/the-long-steady-decline-of-literary-reading/?utm_term=.c3662228b779


LMAO this explains lots!

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 4 minutes later[^] [v] #788,165

LMAO!

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,166

Best selling book in America...the Bible..
Most powerful nation on the planet...America..


coincidence...I think not..

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,167

Lower your tone.

Meta joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,168

Reading is for fags ?

???

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 5 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,170

@788,166 (C)
Not the most powerful LOL

Anonymous C replied with this 9 years ago, 4 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,171

@previous (A)
pffffft..

who is badder...this ought to be good..

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 7 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,173

@previous (C)
Shut up fagbert..you were kicked out of the navy..the weakest armed forces ever..

The more you know..

Rat..a..tat..tat..

Anonymous C replied with this 9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,174

@previous (F)

> the navy..the weakest armed forces ever


I will take...what would a complete dumbass say when asked about the military...for 1000...Alex..

Anonymous C double-posted this 9 years ago, 49 seconds later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #788,175

@788,170 (A)
I am waiting..

chili dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 54 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #788,197

- when in post-secondary education you have little time for pleasure-reading. i never got to read a book for fun during the last academic year.

- i don't understand why long-form articles don't count as a form of literature? most are the length of short stories

- as the article acknowledges, there is more competition with non-print media

- americans in general are working more than they used to and not being paid accordingly, leading to people having little time or energy for pleasure

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,231

@previous (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
> americans in general are working more than they used to and not being paid accordingly, leading to people having little time or energy for pleasure

Except Bert, he no work but will work4 handout. He have plenty o tyme for energy n pleasure, but he remains2 lazy to find employment.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,234

@788,197 (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
Lame excuses. Intelligent, educated, civilised people read books, and they find the time to do it.

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,235

Racist much?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 46 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,241

@previous (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
How does this have anything to do with race?

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,242

@previous (A)
You know

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 37 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,243

@previous (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)
I really do not.

Meta replied with this 9 years ago, 17 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,247

@788,197 (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
> - i don't understand why long-form articles don't count as a form of literature? most are the length of short stories
This. If I read several >1000 word articles per day why shouldn't it be counted the same as reading several chapters of a book?

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 24 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,260

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 14 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,264

@788,241 (A)
Shut up Matt your anon text voice makes me want to tear your pretentious fat ass up with a tall boy bottle.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 9 years ago, 45 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,270

@previous (K)
I'll bet you do not read much, if at all.

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 11 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,271

Is our children learning?

Anonymous K replied with this 9 years ago, 12 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,272

@788,270 (A)
I read ten to twenty thousand words a day during the week, more if I have more leisure time. Why do you cling to books and reading as a status symbol?

Svet !jzYkdX7lIw joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,281

@OP

The decline probably matches migration from Mexico and Africa

Sheila LaBoof replied with this 9 years ago, 50 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,282

BLACKS

chili dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 9 years ago, 59 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,283

@788,234 (A)
yeah, no. if you read enough for school or work, you don't want to read for pleasure. source: read... multiple books a week for school and not a single book for fun this semester. it kinda sucked.

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,296

@previous (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
Source: Triptych

Meta replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,301

@788,283 (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
Just read the Cliff Notes and/or watch the movie ?

The secret is to just make the first and last paragraphs really good. The teacher has like a million papers to grade so they just skim.

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 9 years ago, 40 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,306

@788,243 (A)
Youre discriminating against blacks

brie !kGoudaMCFA joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 6 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,342

The title is ambiguous. Is it that most Americans HAVE never READ (red) a book? Or, perhaps, is it that most Americans have read a book but they never read (reed) anymore?

I would click the link to find out but it's fake news.

Anonymous P joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 9 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,344

The only books I need are the Bible, the McDonalds menu, and President Trump's Twitter. Yee-haw!

Meta replied with this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,346

Whoops forgot to put my name in.

Anonymous C replied with this 9 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #788,406

@788,264 (K)
Where I come from tall boys are cans and not bottles.

Anonymous J replied with this 9 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #788,629

Would you prefer to read "arse" ?

Anonymous Q joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #788,640

@previous (J)
Buttshits

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 45 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #788,641

"Reading" is for fucking losers. Prove me wrong.

Becky joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #788,648

@788,231 (H)
ooga booga he no work ogg for handhout ook

Anonymous J replied with this 9 years ago, 17 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #788,820

@788,641 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)

one giant eyeball

(Edited 25 seconds later.)

Anonymous T joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 day later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,049

dead medium

Meta replied with this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,050

@previous (T)
Actually a really good point.
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