Anonymous #4 10w

It was horrible and I loved it. I genuinely love chuck tingle. I am having the time of my life.

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Anonymous #7 10w

It’s anti intellectual to read books that are purely for fun?

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Anonymous OP 10w

consuming slop and calling anything better "pretentious" is anti-intellectual enjoy it like mcdonald's, maybe fine as a treat but objectively worse than real food

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Anonymous #7 10w

I’m saying people who claim they’re better because they only read classics are pretentious. Sounds like I found one!

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Anonymous OP 10w

womp womp enjoy your coho

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Anonymous #7 10w

Life is so much more fun when you stop putting others down for annoying things

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Anonymous OP 10w

i said enjoy your slop

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Anonymous #7 10w

we will thanks 💖

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Anonymous #9 10w

Yes! Like, do I read a ton of classics, yes! Am I a slut for poetry? Yes! Do I also read monsterfucker stuff, absolutely!

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Anonymous #7 10w

I feel like this is the girl equivalent of dude bros who only consume “self-help” and alpha male podcasts. Like they’ll just keel over and die if they consume something that isn’t productive in some way

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Anonymous #7 10w

Also it’s not the classics that are pretentious, it’s the people like you who get on a high horse and say it’s debasing to enjoy a recreational activity purely for recreation. I love classics. I also love slop. It’s not mutually exclusive and it literally doesn’t matter because I read for my own enjoyment and nothing else

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Anonymous #10 10w

imo you should balance the slop with classics *AND* vice versa! i’ve i’ve read classic after classic i require a shitty romance novel to cleanse my palate

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Anonymous #8 10w

a shitty romance novel OR 6- who am i kidding myself

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Anonymous #8 10w

exactly! i read ice breaker and little women in the same week and enjoyed BOTH of them

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Anonymous #7 10w

Are you a man per chance. Who gets no bitches?

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Anonymous #5 10w

I tried reading some of her books because they're so recommended. Every time I do, I find myself staring into an invisible camera like I'm in the office or something. I don't judge, but I do recoil.

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Anonymous #11 10w

nah im judging. i can look past mediocre writering for a good plot…. but shes just got bad plots and worse writing…

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Anonymous #5 10w

Yeah, I tried reading them in high school, so that might be why. Some stories are crazy, though. And not just her, but what is up with some of these “dark romances?” I swear some of the ideas come from a Criminal Minds episode.

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Anonymous #5 10w

If I were making that money, I would probably write like her, too, just in more morally sound ways. lol

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Anonymous #11 10w

Heyheyhey let me read my horrible books where I can explore dark fantasies I’ve had in a safe way tyvm

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Anonymous OP 10w

I'm not dogging on all of them lol. Just the ones that are disturbing and stuff

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Anonymous #11 10w

Yes even the disturbing ones are a way to explore unsafe desires in a safe setting

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Anonymous OP 10w

No, I mean like, BAD. Like the ones that have been banned and stuff. Not hating on you if you like that either, it just scares me a bit.

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Anonymous #11 10w

Depends on the bad, like I just read one about a necrophiliac who called the fmc ‘little corpse’ (pitch black erotica, not dark romance) and it was *fucked up* but like it was kinda fun to read. I like being spooked.

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Anonymous OP 10w

Hmmm, I think I underestimated what you consider dark. But hey, as long as you're not acting on it!

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Anonymous #11 10w

Oh I never would that was a spooky read. I read them for the same reasons people watch horror movies.

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Anonymous OP 10w

Yeah makes sense

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Anonymous #11 10w

i'm a woman lmao, women aren't a hivemind. is there anything objectively incorrect about the mcdonald's anology, or did i just strike a big sensitive nerve?

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Anonymous #7 10w

*analogy

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Anonymous #7 10w

Yes actually, saying that books that are just for fun are bad for you is a shitty take.

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Anonymous OP 10w

hyperbolic comic but

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Anonymous #7 10w

So my favorite book is a “for fun” book. It’s called society of irregular witches. It’s not smut, it’s not really romance, it’s just a fun book. You think that that is what that is? Really dude? Yeah let people enjoy things. You’re pushing people away from reading as a whole which is a bad thing to do. You suck lmao.

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Anonymous #7 10w

Um no. Stop comparing fiction to porn and drugs. This is tired and stupid and judgmental for no purpose.

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Anonymous #7 10w

I didn’t even read the McDonald’s analogy. I didn’t get that far. It was just the tone of the words and their placement that seemed like that.

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Anonymous #6 10w

ME. i was taking a class on shakespeare and in goodreads i have smut next to shakespeare’s plays

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Anonymous #6 10w

Having an English BA, I love to read for fun, but I do get critical of some of the fun books 😪 But good fun books slap—I just finished Project Hail Mary and omg that was amazing. What’s your research interest for your MA? I want to pursue an MA and PhD eventually, but I don’t have the funds for it rn

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Anonymous #15 10w

Funding is hard but you should def look into your school’s grad assistantship programs! I’m a writing tutor GA and it pays my tuition. My focus is mainly writing studies/ comp rhet, but aside from writing classes and portfolio, my special interest (and what I’ll take into my PhD) is literature in video games! Just wrote a big essay about Inferno’s influence on misc horror games :)

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Anonymous #7 10w

sooo this post is def about u!! i hope you find comfort in shaming others for things they find joy in because that is your personality and it’s gross

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Anonymous #7 10w

insufferable is what you are. it seems that all those classics you are reading aren’t helping you at all but only making you a worse person. maybe you should try some slop, it might make you a little less of a stick in the mud

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Anonymous #7 10w

You are digging a deeper hole for yourself and it shows

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