https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/18h6ndp/please_read_more
OP posts a longpost but it basically says "you should read books if you want to write".
Post is fairly new, but 9/10 of top-level comments are YOU DONT NEED TO READ TO WRITE WHAT IF SOMEONE CANT AFFORD BOOKS
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the library is free if you're too r-slurred to pirate it
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If you're too poor to afford books, nobody wants to read whatever you're going to write.
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Poor stories are fantastic what are you talking about? Spend one night in a homeless shelter and i guarantee you'll have something worth telling.
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I don't like driving next to poors, why would i voluntarily seek out the ones who can't even do that
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Yeah, but none of them could tell it effectively.
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Harry potter mommy was poor af.
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But she had that TERF privilege going for her
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I have never not been able to find a book on libgen
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Sounds like you read only normie books then.
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Yeah I can never find any of the esoteric tomes and manuscripts I wanna read on there. They also don't have archived copies of Soldier of Fortune Magazine so why bother?
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That place helped get me my last job thanks to its listing of ISO standards.
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i'm gonna assume that if someone asks that type of questions they're probably too r-slurred to know what libgen is
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