/lit/ - Literature

>>22475776
I get motion sick if I try to read while moving

You cannot read out loud in public thefore comprehension is worse, also there's a lot of fucking noise and people interrupt you all the time. Why would you do that? Whenever I see someone reading in public I get the feeling they're just trying to look interesting desu

>>22475845
Some people can still concentrate in a loud environment, depends on the person.

>>22475823

>>22475776
only at miller grove

>>22475845
i don't really ever read out loud, and noise kind of helps me focus
it's something to cancel out to absorb myself into the book
depends on the noise though

>>22475845
>read out loud
is this real

>>22475871
Yeah, you should try it

>>22475845
>You cannot read out loud in public
yes you can. coward. coward bitch bloody bastard.

kind regards

>>22475845
I find I focus better reading in my head. I do read out loud more often, and I read to a metronome. I do this with books I will reread, so if I don’t get it the first time I will get it later anyways.

>>22475776
Ouuuu not a good look

Once, during my morning commute, I saw another train passenger reading a weird rapey sci-fi erotica book. She looked very normal.

>>22475845
>read out loud
the literary equivalent of counting with your fingers

>>22475776
Not to derail the thread but I can't believe it's normal for buses to be that dirty in America.

>>22475776
why is he trapped against a floating mattress. Was he trying to hide that he was reading but forgot we don't live in a 2D plane?

>>22476011
It's so funny after decades of "Chink shit" "china is dirty" and so on and now China has autonomous brand new train systems that make Tokyo's look old and gross and America has buses that look straight out of 1980's Beirut.

>>22476025
lol obsessed chink

>>22476025
go spit inside, yellow man

>>22475871
I am currently reading Moby Dick to a child.

>>22476037
how are you posting

>>22475823
I used to as well, but strangely enough I am now able to. It all changed one day a year or so ago when I was on a plane home from a vacation; we hit turbulance and there was a massive shout in the plane. I thought I might die, the woman next to me even grabbed my arm in fright. I knew it was that flight because on the trip there I tried to read but got nauseated, and after this I just wanted to feel some relief so I tried to read (Dead Souls at the time). Lo and behold, I could and from that point onward, I was/am able to read in any moving vehicle, whether it be car, bus, train, or plane. It unlocked a whole new world for me, especiall since I use public transit a lot in my new city.

>>22476030
>>22476033
aw look the yankee mud people are mad. enjoy your crumbling infra while the rest of us split long ago hehe

frfr can’t be reading none of that whack ass shit on the bus senpai why not enjoy some real art like some hiphop or the newest Netflix series fr

>>22475776
No one cares if you read in public as long as it’s not weird shit. I’ve even struck up quite a few good conversations by people approaching me, I got a few dates, and had coffee with a professor who saw me reading Chaucer. He wouldn’t shut the fuck up about Pier Plowman though. No need for the persecution complex, it is alright to read in public

>>22475823
Oh yeah this sucked growing up since I couldn't just read on long road trips and such. Got over it but don't even how.

>>22476025

trains, engines, computers and generally most complex things were conceived in the west and so the infrastructure is older, having been around longer. i'm glad you have a train though.

>>22475845
You mean you can't think/imagine inside your head?

>>22475823
I only get it when in a ship during storm with huge waves, or when riding a vehicle on bumpy road.

>>22475845
This. Not to mention the opportunity cost of forgoing socialization is mentally much worse than whatever midwit scribbles you could possibly be reading in motion. People who read in public are antisocial and autistic and reading to avoid life, mascurading they're somehow more intelligent for doing this. Meanwhile they can't speak or interact with people or put anything they've read to use, and miss out on potential women and networking opportunities. The Twilight Zone captured this well in the bank teller reader episode. An inept low status bookworm who trys to read for the sake of reading. He's a bumbling idiot with nothing going for him and retreats into whatever garbage his eyes go across even at the expense of talking to someone. I remember an anti social lesbian at work who would just read on her lunch break and everyone hated her simply because she didn't have the presence or tact to interact. It's ironic because public readers and phoners are the same, so in actuality it's like 60% of people now. I notice that people raised on phones or nose in a book, can't interact with people, have no social awareness (fails to introduce, can't talk with another person just talks to them, unable to separate people talking in groups or cues to when one should speak).

By the way, most replies to you are all seething copes by the way, reading aloud is fine and was commonplace in most of history (see Augustine being suprirised that Ambrose read silently).

>>22476011
thats a school bus. no one bothers cleaning them regularly because the little shits are just going to destroy them again shortly after

>>22475776
no
never get caught lackin

>>22476164
>it's like 60% of people now
Wouldn't that make you the abnormal one stuck in a bygone time?

>>22476164
are you, dare i say it, autistic?

>>22475845
As a Jew Yorker, reading in public is like black people repellent. Very useful

>>22476041
Lmao I just happen to be listening to a song called 'beautiful calm driving' while reading this

>>22476164
7/10

I do not understand.
I do not understand these threads or you lot. What happened to you lot that made you so dangerously self-conscious? I constantly read in public, in the waiting room at the doctors, at the park or office during my break and when I commute which I rarely do because I can walk to work. Are you reading to impress someone else or something? No one cares and I don't care if anyone would care. Are you also unable to speak-up at the bakery because you're so scared what some bloke in the line might think of you knowing you buy bread xyz?

>>22476064
Only becaue you are attractive and geomaxxing, fuck you

>>22476164
>caring about hollow social interaction
>even putting it above reading
You're a disgrace to this board and humanity.

>>22475776
Guess the ethnicity of whoever posted that tweet

>>22475845
>read out loud
My six years old daughter do that but at one point youre suposed to read "in your head" buddy.

>>22476025
I hate you chinks and yet you're right.

>>22476164
>mascurading
…

When and how did reading get so stigmatized? I can only speak for USA.

I hate blue collar families so much it's unreal.

>>22475823
The bane of my existence.

>>22477026
It's not especially stigmatized, even by lower class people. If you grow up in a ghetto you will get hassled for just about any reason, if you are alone and not trying to be part of the social scene with your peers. True enough, they don't read and don't understand the appeal of reading, but it's more about you not fitting in with the group than anything else. If you were still "cool" by their standards and hung out with them, they probably wouldn't give a shit if you read a book now and then in your spare time.

>>22476025
after an uptick in untreated insane homeless people pushing commuters on to the subway tracks, nyc is finally installing barriers in a couple stations like the ones hong kong and thailand have had for decades. progress, and all it took was deblasio's wife mismanaging billions of funds intended for mental healthcare programs.

Recently got injured at my job so now I'm on "light duty" I have to sit in a room for 8 hours a day and do nothing. I decided to start reading during that time and now I get somewhat bullied by my coworkers and get called "the librarian".

>>22476164
I can talk to people just fine, just don't have the patience or interest, therefore I either zone out or read faggot. Especially if I wanna finish a book, something you sorely cannot because you're "networking".

>>22475979
You so rarely see that anymore because of e-books. When I was studying publishing in college, they'd mentioned how for certain genres the e-book format had completely displaced traditional mass market paperbacks. People love to ready trashy books but don't really like to be seen reading them, and don't necessarily want visitors to see those books covering their shelves. The e-book makes it a lot easier to keep your reading interests to yourself, while being a lot easier and more convenient than manually disguising every trashy book's cover with some kind of custom book jacket for mass market paperbacks.

>>22477049
kek

>>22475845
Plenty of guys play their music loud in public but you can’t read aloud?

>>22477050
i work at a college and the only other person i've seen reading a book was a chick with a literature masters, but she married some rich guy and quit. so now there are only non-readers. it's not a good school though. i mean you might see someone reviewing a textbook or reading a pdf about dei best practices, but an actual novel? absolutely not.

>>22476561
People here are extremely vain and status-obsessed. It's a mindset that prevails when you're an adolescent, but people are supposed to grow out of as they mature, acquire life experience, and become secure in their relationships. People here tend to be emotionally stunted and trapped in adolescence. They never properly socialized, they never acquired life experience necessary to give them emotional security, so they're on a treadmill of continually seeking external validation for everything they do.

>>22475823
My motion sickness while reading somehow only happens if the vehicle is under a certain size. Car, nope, bus, nope, tram, yes, train, yes.

>>22477050
Buddy of mine told me he got snitched on to management by a coworker because he read a book during their lunch break. Note that all coworkers including the one that complained spend the same break on their phones.

>>22477058
College is a place for socializing, for most. They read when they're at home and have no friends around. When they can pry themselves away from their phones. And then most of them still mostly likely use sparknotes or something else to get by without reading.

>>22477098
I'm shocked by how little today's students actually read in college. It's definitely phones and internet. Back in the day there was nothing to do on nights without parties so you at least did something, and parties were harder to come by because you weren't constantly scanning the 37 social networks you're peripherally connected to, to see if "anything is happening tonight."

Most people in college today are basically going a few hundred thousand dollars into debt for a four year vacation before they start working. And they spend the whole time depressed anyway.

>>22475776
I used to read on the bus ride to and from school in high school. No one cared.
>>22477092
Why would anyone feel the need to whine to management about someone reading on break? Like who cares.

>>22476011

It's a school bus but yeah it's kind of dirty. Brings back old memories though. Looks like they haven't changed a thing in half a century.

>>22475845
Insane how many people are taking this bait seriously

>>22478292
autism website

>>22475776
Some twink chased me down after we got off the bus this morning and asked what I was reading. Then he started talking about some Hollywood autobiography nonsense or whatever and I just stopped listening

>>22476164
This but unironically unironically

>>22475845
It's really not that hard. You get used to it.

>>22478292
what bait, i mean it

>>22477193
NTA but my former boss openly discussed the possibility of firing one of my coworkers because he was "too quiet." It's a gay and retarded world we live in.

>>22478416
Referring to someone as a twink means you are gay yourself. Not sure why you're proud of being a faggot.

>>22478539
That can't be right; I haven't had sex with a man in nearly 3 years...

>>22478509
I love you, anon. Have a nice day.

>>22476601
Its a joke, calm down chud

>>22478604
ILY2

>>22476164
This would be very very funny if it was bait but the fact that it's serious makes it so much sweeter, like a fine vintage or a real Cuban cigar or some shit. The little details just aren't quite the same when it's artificial, you need that natural touch.

>>22476038
based

>>22476601
A nigger. Stop pointing out the obvious and the dirty.

>>22475776
Twice in my life sometimes talked to me while I was reading in public, both times it was an older man trying to hit on me. Am a dude.

I guess reading is gay?

Maybe my book choices were gay? First time it happened, I was reading Midnight Children, and the second time I was reading 2666.

I don't mind the gay part, I just hate being talked to in public in general, that's why I got a book and headphones where I go.

>>22475823
I get sick if I try to read. Period.

>>22478539
This. Also the term "cocksucker". Instantly pegs (lol) the speaker/writer as a faggot.

>>22476075
So the US should get carpet bombed?

>>22476075
Public transportation takes a few weeks to get dirty.
You guys are just pigs. And it's fine but don't go pretending it's because the trains are decades years old because there are old trains in Japan as well that are spotless.
It's culture, not time.

>>22475845
>need to read aloud to fully understand
Is this really a thing? I don't think I've ever heard someone read aloud before so I feel like this has to be bait.
It's good bait if it is. You got me good.

>>22475871
Americans do that cause they lack inner voice

>>22477060
Shit, this is literally me.

>>22476561
I sometimes sneak out at night when my wife is sleeping to read Proust in the car.

>>22479383
I wouldn't want my female onahole companion to know that I'm gay either.

>>22478890
You probably look gay.

I apparently have a look that tells both men and women that I'm a bisexual which is actually a big hit with girls. Then again I also read and reading is kinda gay when you think about it.

>>22475823
Same but my commute to work is so long that I feel I'm wasting my time if I don't try reading while driving anyway.

>>22479450
Girls don’t like that

>>22475823
I can read in everything but a car. But that might be psychosomatic reaction to my dad's driving.

>>22476064
>No one cares if you read in public as long as it’s not weird shit
>Proceeds to show examples of people caring about him reading in public
That said, I haven't had any negative interactions over it myself, either. Only a couple of people acting somewhat bewildered that I was reading an actual book. Unfortunately, anti-intellectualism is on the rise worldwide with plummeting literacy rates and kids like in the OP won't fare as well.

>>22476561
my biggest fear is someone striking a conversation with me about what I'm reading