/lit/ - Literature

>>11129073
Just buy a kindle

>>11129073
>being concerned about people thinking you're pretentious
you're obviously reading garbage books anyway if you're genuinely that infantile about what people think about you

>>11129073
download pdf verions of the books on your smartphone, and read from it
you will look like an average normie that checks his social media or something

>>11129073
idk depends how swole you are. Carrying War & Peace in public and doing bicep curls with it all day might get you something.

>>11129221
I unironically do this, I go to the park and read on my phone undisturbed.

The absolute state of /lit/

>>11129099
I'm reading Joseph and His Brothers but it's 1500 pages so I might look like a turbodork carrying a book that thicc

Never thought about it. I don't care much what other brainlets think about me. You will be the same when you pass 25.

I don't go outside.

>>11129073
I usually take something small and pocketable (if at all). No point lugging around a fat tome if all you want to do is read a couple pages between bus stops.

>>11129073
I go with books that fit in my coat pocket, but that's convenience. Nobody cares what size book I'm reading.

>>11129099
I know I shouldnt give three shits, but it's a subconscious thing more than anything. Being the only dude with a book on the train, when everyone's on their phones and I dont check mine at all, I cant help but think I'm being judged.

currently reading a thick ass paperback

take the bus every day and desu it is no more cumbersome than a normal sized book to others around me, so i don't think i'm "inconveniencing" people

>>11129073
There is absolutely no point in doing this nowadays. People can just get a kindle but instead they carry a big book around, thinking their book would somehow compensate for how much of a loser they actually look like.

>>11129099
You sound like a pseud

>public
Who gives le fuck about the public.
The only reason I'm not reading The Tale of Genji in public because I don't have room to carry the damn thing in my bag.

>>11129337

This although I never cared. I have noticed people in public looking extremely nervous when reading though. It's a shame they're so timid because even taking away the book you'll never get anywhere being scared of others - they're just people with hopes and dreams who poop and pee.

>>11129073
Who cares about others? I just don't carry big books because it's a problem to me. But I usualy carry pocket editions or even regular ones.
Who cares about other people? God. Be yourself, people don't pay your taxes, when they aren't the ones who actualy take it from you in social programs and other welfare programs

>>11129073

>>11129073
If the book is too big to fit in a jacket pocket, it's too big to be carrying around with you. Unless you have a purse or something. Fag.

>>11129073
David Foster Wallace editing Infinite Jest circa 1996

>>11129073
I only read in public when I am 1/2-3/4 done a book so that way if someone sees me they know for sure that I have been reading.

>>11130211
Eh it's not in terms of me inconveniencing people, because I'm walking not bussing, I'm just self-conscious about carrying a 1500 page book-
>then bring another book
-when I only read one book at a time

>>11129073
>bottom's dream
Drivel that should be burned.
Fiction that tries to preach non-fictional revision about Edgar Allan Poe.

Make no mistake, Zettels Traum, is thickly veiled erotic fantasy of some verbose fool that has no place in the canon of great German literature.

The guy in the picture is trying to look pretentious and pseudo-intellectual. The only good that book is for is actual kindle for setting a fire ablaze.
This applies to every work of Arno Schmidt.

The only reason why he is even relevant is because classical Germans literature (eg Goethe), was seen as "nationalistic" post WWII and consequently, new shit-tier authors were artificially promoted in West Germany.

>>11129081
Fpbp

>>11131377
is this the most patrician image ever captured?

>>11131597
>Make no mistake, Zettels Traum, is thickly veiled erotic fantasy
I don't think anyone who has read it refutes that. Good book, just lengthy and is only worth reading 2 or 3 of the contained books for most people.

>>11130195
You're not, they're too busy looking at their phones

>>11129073
i dont care about hurting people feelings

>>11129073
I actually like looking pretentious desu

>>11131627
>.Good book
Erotic fantasy is not true artistic expression and can hardly be regarded as literature.
The whole thing is downright shit.

>>11129073
The only thing that should concern you is the practicality of how big a book you're carrying.

People smirked at me when I took a collection of wilde just to read dorian gray on the tube (underground train in london) and the worst tjing about it was carrying a thick/heavy book in my work bag.