I don't remember ever "getting into" reading. I've always enjoyed it.

>be a kid
>think books are interesting
>read for pleasure for the next 4 decades

the god of chuds woke me one night and instructed me to turn books into a far right hellscape

i hear....and obey...

>>25346617
mom gave me that complete narnia thing when i was like 7 and i was bored so i gave it a try

The Hobbit, the Lemony Snicket series, and me ma.

I wanted to be superior to everyone around me, then I genuinely enjoyed it.

I was really into Blind Guardian in high school

>>25346617
My parents read me the very hungry caterpillar when I was 2 or 3 and I liked it

>>25346626
This p much.

All the media I would’ve consumed instead was systematically subverted and ruined by filthy fucking jews.

I read books as a kid
My mother read books to me before bedtime and then I started reading them myself
She'd drive me to the library and I'd pick out a few books
Then I started reading books like Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Skulduggery Pleasant, Garth Nix, Douglas Adams, Emily Rodda, etc
As a kid I was given strict limits on video games, 1 hour a day only with no buts unless it were a holiday, so I spent a lot of time reading
I tried reading more adult oriented novels but I struggled to get into them
At about 17-18 I found 4chan and /lit/ and I started reading again
The first book I remember reading after discovering /lit/ was 1984 and I've been reading ever since

>>25346772
>I tried reading more adult oriented novels but I struggled to get into them
I started reading adult books at age 12. I was quite the precocious reader.
>The first book I remember reading after discovering /lit/ was 1984 and I've been reading ever since
Bit gay, I had to read 1984 for Grade 12 English.

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My name is Reid

>>25346617
To impress women

>>25346803
In my country we either get assigned contemporary fiction or Shakespeare in high school English class so no George Orwell.
I did use 1984 as a part of one of my Grade 12 English essays though and the teacher loved it

>>25346823
How gay and disappointing.

My boomer grandfather volunteering at the library

>>25346617
>what got you interested in your hobby
Is reading a hobby? Book collecting might be a hobby, but reading just seems like a part of life? Like, reading is part of most other hobbies? You're interested in cars, so you read up on how they work. You like RPGs so you spend a lot of time reading. You play WH40k, more reading. Even practical skills like sewing or electronics has a bunch of books.
Brings to mind that Bill Hicks bit about
>whatcha readin fer?

Anyway, I started when I was a kid and then I didn't stop. Is that how I "got into it"?

>>25346617
What do you think about "you are brown"?

read genreslop when i was very young, also wrote creatively when very young, wasted 5 years grinding camos on CoD, my imagination ceased to function, figured out that artsier fiction books talk about more esoteric topics and character psychology with decent frequency, also that i match the psychological profile of most authors and thus relate with them whereas the concept of "relating to characters" was completely foreign to me before this time. i try to have a very broad art diet these days but i really like modernism shakespeare and manga

My grandfather collected fancy books from the renaissance that are worth like 5 grand each

>>25346879
I think racism is browncoded

I've been reading virtually my entire life. I cannot remember a time when I didn't enjoy reading, back to my earliest childhood.

I've always liked fantasy and sci-fi books the best, but I've read a little bit of almost everything, and since I majored in literature I'm passingly familiar with the western canon, and influential contemporary literature. I still prefer history when it comes to nonfiction, though.

Why can't I do literally anything without being called mediocre, performative, dusty, immature, childish etc?

>>25347012
>Why can't I do literally anything without being mediocre, performative, dusty, immature, childish etc?

This question has haunted /lit/ for years

>>25347012
Men simply existing give women the ick.

>>25347012
Women can’t imagine doing anything without others’ perceptions in mind. They particularly can’t imagine it when it comes to reading. So when they see men reading complex literature or the classics, they genuinely can not imagine that the man would be doing it because he’s actually interested in it or appreciates it. There’s another angle as well, most modern women, being victims of being raised on modern media, perceive themselves as smarter than any and all men their age. Even a man she perceives as smart she will still implicitly assume she is more intelligent than him. So when she sees a young man reading the Iliad or Jung, it gives her cognitive dissonance as she herself can’t approach these texts. “Performative reading” accusations from women seeing the increase in young men reading are a combination of two things: projection, and feeling threatened by well-read men.

I can remember my mom hitting me in the head when i was learning to read as a kid, she really instilled it was important. I loved reading as a kid, i got it beat into me. As i got older i would go to library every saturday and check out a mountain of books.

>>25346617
I was a sperg who refused to learn how to read at my age appropriate level until my parents started offering me a quarter for every book I read. By the time I got to middle school I was reading at a college level and had bought a ps2 with my hard earned wages. Stopped reading for fun in high-school, picked it back up after college.

>>25346617
Unironically, women
I spent a summer reading crime and punishment together with my then oneitis and discussing kierkegaard
Years later when I had slacked off and was doing only some leisure reading with sci-fi pulp one other woman lent me war and piece and I've been falling down the /lit/bro hole ever since
To this day I only ever manage to discuss literature and get good reca exclusively from women. Men seem to only care about vidya these days

>>25346803
is grade 12 not about 17y/o? you fucking larper thats the same age other anon read it at. precocious? insufferable.

Audiobooks.

Listened to them at work and enjoyed them a lot.
Ran into a few times where the continuation of a story didn't have a audiobook version but I still wanted to know what happened so the only way to find out was to find a digital copy and read it. Like there weren't even physical copies for sell anymore except second hand at stupidly high prices.
So each break time, and during my commutes when I was still riding the bus I would read the rest of the series on my phone.

Now as long as I can find a plain text or copy/pastable text version of a book I can dump it into a TTS program and listen to it, which is what I typically do whenever I run into a book that doesn't have a audiobook version, or the audiobook is bad.

For narrative stories I MUCH prefer to listen to them as it's way more immersive to me that way. With reading, and bump, every repositioning, every turn of the page or scroll, every time my eyes leave the line I am reading I am taking out of the story. I don't have lazer focus nor the ability to stay perfectly still for long periods of time to begin with, so reading stories was never all that engaging to me. It wasn't immersive at all.
But listening to a story, I am transported directly into the story. I can put all of my minds efforts into visualizing every detail. It's just the best. Nothing can beat being totally locked in on a really good story.

I know that isn't the case for everyone. Some can't focus or even remember books they listened to.
Some don't consider it "counting" whatever the fuck that means.
But I am old enough to not really care. It's what I enjoy and what is the best way of engaging with fiction for me.
I prefer it to reading. I prefer it to comics. I prefer it to movies. I prefer it to video games.
The only exception I might prefer more is something well animated, but otherwise listening to books is my favorite way of engaging with any story.

>>25346655
me da got me into reading a young age too.

>reading as a "hobby"
absolutely soul draining way to frame reading

>>25346617
As a white male cisgendered heterosexual what got me into reading was liking books.

>>25347846
But, as a fat brown faggot woman, what got me into taking pictures with books was minotaur rape porn.

>>25346626
based unc

>>25346617
I grew up reading, starting with my mom reading books to me.

>>25347835
my hobbies include cultivating romantic relationships, participating in human history, and experiencing the mystery of life

>>25347953
Snob. I enjoy practical hobbies like breathing and consuming nutrients.

I only got interested in books after my teachers stopped shoving them down my throat.

If a person uses "ick" they need to be culled.

>>25346617
>wow this mindrape internet thing surely is not healthy or fulfilling, I should prioritize long form content that requires focus instead
also a tiny little bit of compensation because I'm a retarded midwit

>>25346617
The first time I read a book by myself, I was hooked. I still have it. It's called "I Like Books".

>>25346698
my man.

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>>25347012
They're obsessed with us, lad. Don't worry about it.

a cute girl

>>25347012
notice how all these cringe things are things educated white males do, never something a filthy nigger ape would do

>>25346617
My public education and Scholastic. I dunno if I got good at reading cause I read, or maybe I read cause I'm a reader. But I looked at them as viable forms of entertainment, I didn't discount them for any reason despite having TV and games.

>>25348280
Yet you talk like white trash

>>25346617
Coming from a literate country, everyone simply reads and no one considers it a "hobby".

>>25346617
I was (still am) Into occultism and esoterism, but when I went online like on yt all I would find is New age bullshit (New age just being what an average person would think when you tell them you are spiritual but not religious).
Which forced me to read books. Never stopped since

>>25348047
so all women?

>>25347012
Just rape them, they're overgrown children anyways who can't fight.

>>25346617
Having a specific section for grr martin after everything he's done recuses this woman from having an opinion on what others read.

i am illliterate

>>25346617
I "got out" of reading for a year or two right after high school but I got hooked back on novels because they were more challenging and generally more fulfilling than anime/manga/videogames. Started with SF/fantasy, got on /lit/ to find what books were good, found BOTNS, and from there got into classics and more "literary" stuff.

>>25346617
>book bro
>film bro
>passport bro
Getting real tired of the "bro" suffix.

>>25349108
How else would you know the person is a male and therefore bad.

>>25346617
I was forced to read 1984 in school as a 17 year old dipshit almost 20 years ago and it unlocked something new in my mind

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>>25349108
BRO IS TIRED OF BRO

>>25349108
Bernie bro?

>>25347022
Time to eliminate women, then

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>>25346617
Read some longer books around age ~16 like the Metro series and Roadside picnic, but in the military I had a lot of spare time and phone battery only lasts so long in the forest so I got some books. First ones were non-fiction, one on the Romanovs, Solzhenitsyn’s Letter to leaders of the soviet union, Gorbachov’s August coup, and after that I moved onto novels like Master and Margarita.
After service I decided to keep reading and started with War and Peace (probably a baptism by fire for a newer reader but it’s still one of my favourites).
I’ve managed to keep up a decent pace of 30-40 books a year, mixing longer and shorter ones. It’s gonna take a good few years to get through the books in my library now, even if I don’t buy new ones

> book bros only read straight white male authors
Guess I'm a book bro.

>>25350546
>female author
Not reading.
>female MC
>Not reading.
It's that easy, bros.

>>25346617
Attracting foids, as with every male-thing.