r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/abdojo 8h ago

All this over some books?

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u/Njorls_Saga 8h ago

Goddamn authors running amok again.

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u/minus_minus 6h ago

That’s the Writing Festival. This is the Reading Festival. 

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u/yes_to_the_dress 2h ago

I bet the arithmetic festival goes hard 🤘

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u/phblue 1h ago

I got such a genuine chuckle out of these comments, thank you.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 7h ago

No wonder Texas is trying to ban them all

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u/Fauster 7h ago

Bad idea to make the lineup Lord of The Flies, Heart of Darkness, and the Iliad back-to-back time. The horror!

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u/MartyvH 6h ago

American Authors

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u/vr512 7h ago

Lmao. I was thinking man these are some crazy readers. They need to calm down.

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u/alexdelicious 5h ago

The sound of millions of pages turning in total silence 

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u/Nothos927 7h ago

And this is why the Reading subreddit gets a good amount of posts from people asking about book recommendations

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u/Its_Froggin_Bullfish 7h ago

Dungeon Crawler Carl is the correct answer next time they ask. 

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u/Aegi 4h ago

People fucking love this book/series.

I had it recommended to me, but now that I've had the premise explained to me there's really no reason to read it until I'm through other stuff on my reading list.

To me that's a massive spoiler because I don't read blurbs I basically just randomly pick a book if I something I haven't heard of or take recommendations but I do not like to read the blurb or anything.

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u/twiz___twat 2h ago

its overrated but also very easy to read. younger me would have finished it in a day.

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u/ElvisDumbledore 3h ago

Thank you! I need another book for this weekend. :)

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u/whathappened2america 7h ago

I legit spent a few seconds wondering if a tornado hit an outdoor book festival or something.

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u/babysharkdoodoodoo 8h ago

Reading as in the town. It’s an annual three-day music festival held in Richfield Avenue, Reading, England

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u/FragDenWayne 8h ago

Aaaah... Now it makes sense. I was confused... First about what a "reading festival" even would look like, when it's the "book reading" kind of reading, and second... I was confused on "book-people" being like that, didn't fit.

But a music festival, yeah that makes sense.

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u/Valendr0s 7h ago

BOOKS! FUCK YEAH!

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u/Ok_Inflation_8628 6h ago

"Alright this next one's about your mom. I want everyone out there to PUT THEIR FUCKING BOOKS UP!"

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u/Hammerjaws 6h ago

NOW, LET US INTRODUCE: THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

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u/Mr_Industrial 5h ago

YEAHHHH!

Tears off shirt and shits in a box

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u/FlametopFred 1h ago

mosh pit can be dangerous for paper cuts

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u/Nago_Jolokio 5h ago

Headbanging to Shakespeare 🤣

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u/secacc 5h ago

Single best form of entertainment humans have invented so far.

Like, what do you mean I can get 12 hours of exciting entertainment in my head, almost playing like a movie with my imagination as the director of photography, and I can just borrow this for free? And there are millions of these bundles of paper and ink to choose from?!?

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u/Its_Froggin_Bullfish 7h ago

I fuck with books. 

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u/New-Shake7638 5h ago

I 100% thought we were literally talking about a festival for reading until this very moment 😆

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u/pchlster 5h ago

"This years headline act: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! With warmup by Everyone Poops!"

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u/Kaballis 5h ago

To confuse you further, the name is pronounced ‘redding’.

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u/FeyrisMeow 5h ago

For real, I was confused too. I thought drugs and book reading?? Interesting combo

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u/linzellewashington 5m ago

I scrolled way too far for this explanation 🫡

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u/RedOneBaron 7h ago

So how many books did they read this year?

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u/Christovski 1h ago

At least one

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u/Aegi 4h ago

So it would be the Reading music festival because surely that town could host other festivals also just like how there's multiple different festivals that my town hosts?

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u/kateverygoodbush 8h ago

Whoosh?

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u/travel_ali 7h ago

Probably not. Most people on here are going to be unfamiliar with Reading or the festival. Even if the top comment was a joke it is useful context for the many others who wouldn't know what was going on.

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u/drfeelsgoood 7h ago

Oh wow I was thinking this was a festival in America. I guess trash people are everywhere.

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u/vr512 6h ago

Is it bad I also thought it was US based?

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u/VibraniumQueen 2h ago

I mean, taylor swift is from Reading, PA. So I thought it was a festival in that town. Was kind of confused about why a big festival would be held in a small town, but then remembered my mom's hometown was small but held a big music festival each year.

But apparently this is in England

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u/JustLikeWhateverHuh 8h ago

Get the joke Sherlock

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u/jayuhl14 7h ago

Is this a UK thing? Been to several camping festivals in the US and canada and never seen anything like this

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u/WpgMBNews 6h ago

i wonder if there is an actual festival for reading....probably not very festive

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u/Than_Or_Then_ 5h ago

I had to scroll way too far down for this.

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u/babysharkdoodoodoo 5h ago

Context matters 😁

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u/Hita-san-chan 3h ago

Ohhhhh, Reading England. I was like "yeah, this tracks for that area of PA"

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u/babysharkdoodoodoo 3h ago

Laughed out loud because I know exactly how you meant.

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u/RedditMcBurger 1h ago

I feel like this needs to be in the title somehow, like "Reading Music Festival"

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u/JohannesVanDerWhales 32m ago

Out of curiosity is it pronounced "redding"? That's how Reading in PA is pronounced.

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u/KoalaTHerb 7h ago

Okay, thank you. I was like "wow people who love reading are real assholes". So it's just the British. Got it. /s

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u/MrManniken 7h ago

Bibliophiles are wild man

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u/mSummmm 6h ago

I blame LeVar Burton

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u/leaky_wand 2h ago

Redding Railroad

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u/barelycrediblelies 7h ago

There's an old joke in the UK that this is the easiest festival to get your grandma to pay for...

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u/rust-e-apples1 6h ago

Hence the video. Just like when I was in elementary school reading was after math.

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u/mrv_wants_xtra_cheez 6h ago

I blame LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow, without them, NONE of this would have happened.

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u/Hour_Seaworthiness24 6h ago

Pronounced 'Redding'. And if you expect the inhabitants of either Reading, PA or Reading in England to care that you know the proper pronunciation well they do not give a shit. So maybe just mispronounce it.

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u/CitizenCue 7h ago

I was genuinely confused. Had to look it up.

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u/insanetheta 5h ago

People who did this probably couldn’t read.

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u/rabblerabble2000 5h ago

Scholastic book fair days are a lot different these days!

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u/KwisatzSazerac 5h ago

That Levar Burton guy. It’s all his fault!

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u/Copper_Nanotubes 3h ago

This why I dont read

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u/ElvisDumbledore 3h ago

"...I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” -- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

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u/Say_Echelon 1h ago

Turns out (I’m stupid) this was in fact not about reading books in tents in the baking heat but instead a run of the mill music festival

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u/blah_blah_70 31m ago

I thought this was a festival for readers and a natural disaster occurred. Then I realized what it was. But now I want an actual reading festival where we all get together to sit outside and read. We can discuss books, exchange books, meet like minded readers. And we would all clean up after ourselves like the responsible readers we are.

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u/The_BK14 7h ago

Congratulations, you have won the internet for today.

SHUT IT GUYS, WE'LL START AGAIN TOMORROW