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Hey IQfy, are your parents serfs and ignorant peasants or do they read any kind of literature ?
How did they influence you growing up ?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus Christ, I want to kiss and frick her.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kind of, there's a lot of books in my home, including Oblomov, Confederacy of the Dunces, Das Kapital, Don Quijote and De Sade, but I never saw them reading any. The books just chill in the basement.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nope. My Dad read Sven Hassell and James Clavell, that's about your lot.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    dreadful childhood

    god i wish id never been born

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Me on the left.
    My father read a novel by Murakami and another by King, he said they were utter trash. That makes him based.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My dad didn't read much and my mum only read business books and 50 shades of grey, and the occasional novel on holiday

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    my dad read shit ton of thriller novels, but I don't read

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      > I don't read
      Wtf are you doing here then?

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The people who haven't had an interest in literature from a young age are most certainly compensating by posting pictures of books on instagram.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My grandpa used to read Jung, Freud, Karen Horney.. and I'm pretty sure he had an orgy with other women, trans mtfs and oldgays. Also I think he sucked my wee wiener when I was baby but I've never told anyone this. I think he is a "freemason".

    Should I be warned here ? ..

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not really, we had like 100 books at home, but I'm not sure they even read them. They grew up in communism, so it was expected to have some books in your living room. I've only seen my mother reading a book (some romance novel for middle-aged women) several times, I don't think I've seen my father reading something other than shitty newspapers.
    When I was a kid I was mostly taking books from the library in my town or my grandparents' (who also didn't read) village library.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My mother read, always had a book in hand. She studies classics at university, but read anything afterwards. She worked long hours in an officer often home after we were in bed, so she didn't help or encourage reading much

    My father was a functioning illiterate most of his life until we came along. He would borrow my kids dictionary to write letters to his estranged daughter from another marriage. He was the kind of boomer who needed a diagram and everything in inches because anything more than that would confuse him. He retired after I was born to be a house husband, he fixed the house, tended garden, built a reputation he'd looked after me.

    Guess which one helped me be the reader I am today? My father was a real 'I haven't got much, but you can have it'

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I grew up thinking I did and read a great deal growing up. Turns out they just bought books so there would be books in the house when I great up and now we have nothing in common and they are incapable to talking to people who are not essentially exactly like they are and I am almost at the point of saying "lets just exchange monthly post cards and call it good."

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are you me?

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My great grandparents got me into reading. My mother did read some but she has stopped altogether now that she has a smartphone. Father never cared for it.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    my mother was a librarian and my dad a stem uni teacher. i guess i was never in my life really perplexed to read college-level language though they are tasteless degenerate drunks who could never have taught me anything of social value

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    my parents hated seeing me read anything other than academic books. As a teenager i never read any novel when my dad was at home. mom used to scold me when i asked her money to buy novels.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Terrible, there's much more to be learned from fiction, especially when you're young.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think I would have ever picked up non-fiction as an adult if I didn't have any memories of having fun with reading fiction as a young

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My parents had walls full of books and I always just kinda accepted that that's how it is and I was quite old when I realized that it's just moms book collection and dad just watches football and drinks beer.

    Now I live abroad and she sends me Murakami and Grisham books and I read them and I pretend to like them.

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My parents never read and I very much grew up in a community where reading was effeminate, gay, or nerdy.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My dad was an autistic English professor. We had many shelves of classic literature, sci-fi and Marxist theory around the house. My mom was a professional and had lots of books related to her profession. I am extremely well-read, at least in English, as I am a pathetic monoglot. I coasted through highschool and graduated top of my class, went to a top-tier college, but have zero ambition or moral consistency, and since I started heavily consuming marijuana my sophomore year have been something of a failure.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Start writing, you dunce. So many people would kill to have grown up immersed in literature and gone to a top school. Personally, I was in my mid-twenties before I became even a daily reader. I went to a shitty public state school and grew up in a family that didn’t care at all about reading.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >That story

      What *do* you want, anon? Figure that out. You'll thank me later down the line when some random anon sent you on the path of self-discovery. Remember this moment.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is good advice but inadequate advice. In the end, it might be necessary not only to figure out what you want, but also to have a sense of urgency in pursuing it.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Pursuit is implied in desire.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Or to make it more succinct:
            >Desire implies pursuit.

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My dad collected popular political books to put on his shelves and never read any of them. He got a degree in English and admitted the other day he hasn’t read fiction in like 40 years. Mother was a teacher and doesn’t read either. Completely boomer tier incuriousness about everything and no impulse to exercise their minds (or bodies).

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I imagine that only a few decades ago, getting an English degree was a bit like getting an Economics degree. The universities didn’t focus on all this technical stuff so much and neither did their students. The range of available majors would’ve been about half what it is today.

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My mother so much so that I can never partake in those weird "what got you into literature threads" because I've always read and been around books.
    I don't know about my father. He once told me he's got a triple 4k monitor setup that allows him to watch movies with the sound muted while he does coding. I didn't ask what he reads- if he reads, after that.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My mum reads books about incest in attics and kids called dave that were diddled.

    My dad us to read war stuff.

    I grew up reading though, my parents use to really promote reading in my household despite not being big readers themselves, they use to buy me books all the time. I remember one christmas getting a Goosebumps boxset of 10 books and a hardback that came with a torch.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw mom sends candy and a new book about cats
    Thanks mom.

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