/lit/ - Literature

>>17852024
My mom seemed quite impressed when I read tje Bible

>>17852024
How do you know she's impressed? What did she say?

>>17852085
She approached me while I was reading it at a café and basically said that she couldn't believe that I was reading it and that she loved it.

She wasn't that good looking but the point was that the book broke the ice.

>>17852024
Omnicide, an analysis of mania in middle eastern poetry. I don't even read 90% of the books I mention to women, I just like to practice my ability to bullshit them, it always works

You have to be a bit tactical with your book of choice. If you claim that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is your favorite or something like that they will see right through that shit.

>>17852024
Augustine's Confessions. She asked if I was in seminary.

>>17852024
any or all of the bible

>>17852024
The Awakening and The Little Prince have both led to positive conversations.

bitches be loving a man who gardens ya dig. This got me fucked when I was doing plant biology as a major.

Little Women. Every other girl I know has read it, and the rest have seen the movie. It's not a very interesting read but they obsess with the characters.

>>17852201
>>17852217
>>17852222
Nice recs, keep em coming

Catholic girls are surprised I know theology and the Bible better than them. For some reason a girl considered me "smart" for having read Meditations on First Philosophy even if I felt like a complete idiot after reading it.

told a bitch i read war and peace in two sittings. at a party,
shame i only lasted 40 seconds with her

>>17852325
One would think that you would have god-tier stamina

>>17852024
reading is my personal thing. i'd never share it with harlots

>>17852472
Gotta bust quick so you can get back to reading.

>>17852547
yeah this, she was a slumpbuster anyway

Haruki Murakami

Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu

>>17852581
For sure, he's like the Tame Imapala of books (mainstream but art hoes like to think it makes them special)

Lolita. Trust me.

kierkegaard, p.b. shelley, whitehead, etc
she was a neuroscience/philosophy double major and the only woman i could discuss books with

>>17852581
This or Jane Austen

I read Deleuze and now I've got art hoe pussy everywhere I turn.

>>17852024
Jane Eyre is everything you need to impress ladies.

>>17852024
Nobody reads books. Never seen it.

>>17852024
This is going to sound so retarded but for me it was Kokoro. I talked about how depressed and melancholic the ending made me feel and for some reason she got so impressed.
I still end up laughing unbearably to this day whenever I think about this event.

the bible, assuming you are at least a thad

>>17852024
There was kinda a low-key party going on at my apartment when I was in college. A girl who was previously just barely acquaintance asked me what the book I was reading was about (it was sitting out). I said, "It's about how life keeps going faster and faster and then you die." I played it off as a tongue in cheek remark and she laughed. Unironically that started it and 1-2 months later we started dating.

I'll let you guess what the book was.

>>17855280
The Tartar Steppe

>>17852024
None. Every woman I've ever talked to told me "I don't read much."

>>17852111
so I should read this book if I want to break the ice with ugly women?

>>17855299
not that /lit/, it was semi-entry level by people's high standard here

>>17852034
pics?

From Barack Obama's latest book:

"Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships."

>>17856202
>As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.

>>17852024
The Throne of Glass series by Sarah Maas. Dead serious.

>>17856224
Well, he's not even wrong. You can't get far with anyone if you only have mutual interests, you need to carry it far enough. Even a photographic memory to memorize the KJV won't get you a Christian girl.

>>17852024
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

>>17856242
I'm actually reading The Fountainhead and goddamn Peter Keating is an insufferable fuck

>>17852024
Tolstoyevsky
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Judgement
The Culture of Critique

>>17852024
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

>>17852024
My Secret Garden

>>17852024
'Impressed' is an overstatement but Thomas Ligotti of all things got me an in

>>17852179
If you'd also read infinite jest you'd have known what to do after that.

>>17852024
Quoting Cicero works like a charm.
Thank me later, lads.

man this thread makes me think that I really should un-just myself and get back out into the world. my peer group is all cute hipsters and arthoes that I could probably surprise and wheel in easily now that ive read a decent hunk of literature and genuinely enjoy it and could talk about it. I even have a small gook of sylvia plath poetry lying around I could read and probably be able to talk about. what have I been doing with my life?

>>17857109
>I even have a small gook
do you now?

>>17857099
Yea, if she's unsure if she wants to fuck you can always drop the line "Quousque tandem abutere, hoe, patientia nostra?"

>>17852024
Alan Moore's Jerusalem

>>17857074
Yeah, I going to put myself on the spot here and confess that I actually haven't read it, so now I'm intrigued. Spill me the beans anon.

>>17857277
In the endnotes of Infinite jest, there's a phone conversation between two brothers which included a description of how the older brother pretended to be a celibate monk when approaching a girl.
He convinced the girl that he'd given his life to God and renounced all earthly pleasures, but after seeing her had now seriously begun to reconsider his path in life.
He eventually managed to woo her whilst pretending to have some sort of titanic inner moral struggle.

You should read the passage yourself though, DFW's writing in this particular endnote is hilarious.

Women don't like reading or literature

>>17857318
Sounds kind of degenerate desu. I thought DFW was all about that sincerity. But sure, it sounds like it could be funny. I might have to read the book one day.

Bump

>>17852024
>impressed
>by a book
If she’s impressed by you reading a book she’s probably going to die childless unless that book is a religious text.

>>17852024
The first Jason Bourne, pretty sure they love the constant rape tease aspect of it. They usually get a bit pouty when I say I'm not interested in fiction anymore.