Reading is probably at this point a top 3 form of entertainment.

[ViShawn]

You brehs reading fiction ?

I'm trying to read more fiction. I lean more social/philosophical but fiction is great for empathy, imagination and simply relaxing.

I'm glad reading is having a resurgence. Every man should have a library of curated books in his home

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

A nikka tired of hiding my Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy and Xenogenesis when people come over

 

[Blackgate]

reading and kendrick lamar are the entertainment highlights of 2024 for me

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Do y’all pick up books just to see what the argument is against your belief?

 

[inndaskKy]

Reading is one of the best things in life.

Yup. Reading and when you got an itch on your back and you can't reach it but your boy scratches it for you.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

A nikka tired of hiding my Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy and Xenogenesis when people come over

scared to let people know you know how to read?

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

scared to let people know you know how to read?

I’m supposed to be a scumbag

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

The joy and benefits of reading are hard to explain to people because it's very much a locus of control thing

Reading is a skill and it's hard to develop because there are definitely levels of reading effectiveness but if you develop that skillreading skill has compound interest too

This is also why I shill fiction to men. Reading fiction is literal imagination training and a strong imagination will improve every aspect of your life

Yeah I'm big into non-fiction/history stuff but definitely want to read more fiction next year. gon hop on a sci-fi wave

some dudes fall into that neoliberal trap of thinking reading is only beneficial if it helps you conquer the world, manipulate people and make a bunch of money. 48 Laws of Power, the Slight Edge, No More Mr. Nice Guy, think and grow rich type books which are all very good but brehs gotta expand they mind cuz you can feel the lack of imagination in our modern culture.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Do y’all pick up books just to see what the argument is against your belief?

The best way to argue against a viewpoint is to be able to steel man it.

When you show that you understand your opponents perspective and can give the best possible faith interpretation on it,

Your counter argument is far stronger and more persuasive if you can then dismantle all the strongest points your opponent has.

 

[WavyHair ChippedTeeth]

Yep, reading is entertainment. I love it. That URGE to complete your daily tasks so you can sit down and read is different dawg.

All my books are named and dated like how my dad does. Reading his books from before I was born >>>

Currently reading The Good Earth.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Millions of books to choose from

When you buy the book, it's yours. No monthly subscription.

Doesn't require electricity

No ads

Can be used anywhere as long as you have a light source.

Unsurprisingly people are buying more of them.


Before ADHD gang comes in here, if books of all kinds are boring to you that's a skill issue and nobody else's problem but yours. Maybe get some meds, stay in your lane or kill yourself

Currently enjoying this masterpiece

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

This excerpt from Gerald Horne demonstrates how the Revolution reinvigorated the slave trade and subsequently bore a counter-revolution of slavery.

www.amrevmuseum.org

Gerald Horne is a great man

 

[ObsidianDev]

I read "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway for the first time last week.

It dragged on a bit in the beginning, but later on towards the halfway point it reeled me in (no pun intended)

 

[Wildin]

Was in a waiting room this week, everyone on their phones and I have a book.

You definitely are an outlier now as opposed the the pre-smart phone era where books and magazines would have been the only entertainment to pass the time

You under estimate the amount of people that read books on their phone. I was at a wedding and the guy sitting in front of me like this the whole time scrolling

we stood up to pray or something, homie wasnt scrolling the gram or tiktok, homie was reading something deep.

I have a hundreds of digital books, I download them and convert them to PDF so I can annotate and access them in all my devices.

You can tell when someone is well read.

They speak with a calm confidence, rarely searching for words, or stumbling over their next word.

That's not entirely true. Speaking is a skill, you actually have to speak to speak well. There's a lot of people that can speak but don't read, throw a rock and find some of these podcast talking mfs.

Even more of an outlier being a black man (depending on location). Whenever I'm in a book store I mostly see women and a few white men. Rarely see other brothas

You gotta go to a black bookstore. You do have some in your area right?

 

[Fill Collins]

Seeing LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow made me like books even more

The day I discovered libgen, I was happier than a cac in shīt

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

Reading takes effort.....and they don't want to put it in.

They are the Ozempic of bookreading

Audio Books...... folks always bragging they "read this book"... then they slip up and say they were "listening to it while at work"..