/lit/ - Literature

horrific posture

Stop it, OP. I'm not in a good place.

They're all reading 50 Shades of Grey

So this is a subgenre of creepy photography, I take it?

I like it. There's something horribly sad about a woman alone in a bookstore. I don't know why.

>>3134987
>tfw girls at the local bookstore are always with their bfs

It's almost like they only feign interest in books for boys

Is it creepy to save all these in a folder?

>>3134997
>Girl With Curious Hair
>Bagombo Snuff Box

Would possibly start conversation maybe if I could work up the courage and if she didn't seem to preoccupied and a had taken a shower that day and it was a full moon that night and had shaved and put on deodorant and brushed my teeth and was dressed decently and mars and Jupiter were aligned the right way and if my horoscope for the week told me I would meet someone special this week and and and and

>>3135011
They're the kind of photos you can nostalgia over without having anything to nostalgia about. So no, so long as you call the folder something like "good book photos".

>>3134996
Or the boyfriends are only feigning interest because of the girls.

>>3135021
She looks like a pleb

>>3135027

And less than attractive.

Not to mention the beanie.

>>3135015
Her elbows look pretty pointy though.

>>3135032
holy shit I want to visit this bookstore

Anywhere that would have an entire section dedicated to something like "australian poetry." and I love publisher-specific section.

>>3135042
That's probably a Barnes and nobles in Australia

>>3135032
>>3135042
>AUSTRALIAN POETRY
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY

>>3135038
Yeah but that sweater looks so cozy and nice.

I just want her to wrap her sweater clad arms around me. ;-;

>>3135031
>less than attractive
do you have other pics of her or something?

>>3135058

I can only speculate at this point, but I have my theories.

>>3135048
It looks like a Dymocks, pretty sure that's Sydney but I don't know what one faces a corner like that though

No cute guys reading?

>>3135071
You're talking to one babbyqurl.

>implying you're a girl

>>3135048
>>3135066
Oh, well darn. I guess it's not so exotic if it's actually in Australia.

They need a Mongolian poetry section then.

>>3135077
But are you reading something besides entry-level classics?

>>3135083
Oh just some Harold Bloom, Zamyatin, Borges, Christopher Moore, and a little bit of the Dammapada. ;)

>>3135100

>bateman pic
>proud of that list

This is why you're a virgin.

>>3135077
post pics of you reading

>>3135100
Why would you think those weren't entry-level?

develop your own taste

>>3135042

Vintage are shit though unless you're wanting to pick up a Pevear and Volokhonsky Tolstoy or some other shit like that.

>>3135050

I know it's terrible that Banjo Paterson is on our fucking $10 even though bush romanticism is for weak cunts, but they're not all that bad in my selective reading of the major ones.

Besides, having like six unsold copies of fucking Cloudstreet (I'm assuming by the way they're sticking out) is somewhat more humourous.

>>3135100

It would have been easier to just say "No"

>>3135105
bich pls u prolly a man anyway

>>3135110
I don't especially like Vintage. I do like publisher-specific set-ups. NYRB Classics or Dalkey Archive would be more preferable.

>>3135109
Jeez you guys, those are just what I happen to be reading right now. Prolly starting some Vasily Grossman and De Lampedusa soon.

>>3135110
>having like six unsold copies of fucking Cloudstreet (I'm assuming by the way they're sticking out) is somewhat more humourous.
I've not actually met anyone that likes this book but all reviewers suck dick over it

>>3135127
As long as you actually think about those, you're good. I'll be looking out for your thread on them both, and try to engage you in some decent book discussion.

>>3135138
I'm a relatively slow reader and I've got a couple more books from the library headed my way so it might be awhile till i get to them but I'll be delighted to discuss them once I have.

>>3135113
>that bookshelf
0/10 would not fuck

>>3135127
While I have not read the same writers you have read I have read other writers. It is because I have read these writers, and enjoy reading them, that I do not feel insecure about my literary knowledge.
It seems like you are always needing more, but I don't think you'll ever be able to prove what you are trying to prove.

>>3135113

9/10 so much desire on so many levels

>dat organized chaos

God I am so lonely

>>3135176
nah dog it's nef

>>3135177
>reading a book shelved next to dianetics

NOPE

Where the hell do all these photos come from?! Who is taking them? For what purpose?

This thread has given me much to think about.

>>3135184
I'm not insecure. Probably.

>Stop looking at me

>>3135227
The instagrammed ones? hipsters

>>3135234
fuck

>>3135234
>breaking the fourth wall
>jumping the shark

>>3135234
>Douglas Coupland
Why would I even glance?

>>3135249
To judge her more intensely, perhaps?

Any pics of elderly people reading?

Hipster bookstore girl
You only read vapid shit
I want to bang you

>>3135187

>mfw i work in a bookstore and see girls get their friends to take photos of them selecting a book
>mfw those pictures get 50,000 notes of tumblr
>mfw im going to start accusing them of preparing to steal books and ban them from the store

>>3135347

>>3135355
Are they at least selecting good books?a

>>3135374

They usually head straight to the classic section, get a book like Gatsby or Emma and hold it so that the spine is clearly visible in the photo.

>>3135382
>Gatsby
>classic

The Pleb Stoer

>tfw you never gave a single fuck about this situation
>tfw now your mind is full of green feels when this situation happens

thanks lit...

>>3135409
>The Pleb Stoe

>implying gatsby isnt seen as a classic by all

>>3135355
>>3135382

As much as I want a photo of myself looking intense and intellectual in a bookshop, I honestly don't know how people can do this without feeling like the world's biggest self-absorbed poser pieces of shit.

>>3135431

That's why we love postmodernism: it gave us irony as a cloak.

>D-do you like books? O-okay. You too. B-bye!

tfw no busty readers

>>3135517

That's the irony.

>>3135432
'Using irony as a cloak' while trying to look intellectual and intense in a bookshop makes you twice as much of a shit eater.

>>3135518

A Hipster is roped to a photograph amidst a wave of approaching liquid shit.
>The irony! It does nothing!

>>3135540

You can't escape the cloak. It is all-pervasive.

>>3135229
>>3134959

These posts gave me the feels.

>>3135011
yes, but I don't anticipate that stopping you.

>>3134928
You're right, objectification is AWESOME. I'm sure all of those girls really wanted some creepy fucking dude taking photos of them while they tried to do something simple like pick out a book, then post it on the internet so people could stare at them and make judgements about them physically and mentally.

You guys should really be above this garbage.

>mfw this is my usual scenario for picking up women
The best part about it is if we don't hit it off I have a friend to talk books with. The few male friends I've made over literature are great for recommendations and terrible for actual talks. Most guys don't give a shit, so the ones that do are usually aggressive about their tastes.
It's amazing what you can discover when you treat women like people.

>>3135812
>implying any of these pictures are taken without the girls' knowledge

Any guys here want to post photos of themselves reading/holding a book? :3

>>3135819
I realized this pic is probably 2 years old and I made it to post here on /lit/ and I feel kind of sad about that now.

>>3135819
Here's me showing off my shabby poetry collection instead.

>>3135830
Thanks, but why did you hurt the book? :<

>>3135835
How can you hold them all with just one hand? :O

>>3135835
>making an ironically weird face so that when you look at yourself and it doesn't meet your expectations you can rationalize it by telling yourself that you weren't being serious

>>3135842
I used to post standing on books, my "bookshelf" of a cardboard box and the floor, eating books, tearing them up, etc. on /lit/ as a gag.
Also your emoticons have been setting off my troll sensors, tone it down if you want responses you can lead on.

>>3135850
I see this shit so often. This generation is insanely insecure and self-conscious about everything.

>>3135850
>>3135857

>>3135817
while many of them seem staged, several of them sure seem to be randomly snapped.

>>3135856
Oh, I see. I'm not a troll, I just like using emoticons and sometimes use them too much.

>>3135857
>This generation is insanely insecure and self-conscious about everything.

Why didn't you listen?

>>3135835
you are officially attractive. in case you wondered or something.

men + poetry always = 20% hotter than anyone else

>>3135869
Damn. You mean I have been going to the gym, setting up a potentially lucrative company, trying to improve my knowledge in as many field as possible, when all I needed to do was buy a couple of poetry books?

>>3135875
It couldn't hurt. Women like sensitive guys. Just carrying one around will earn you points.

>>3135856
>>3135866
Also, I forgot to add: if you have any more of those pics or could take some new ones, please do. [no emoticon, no emoticon... I'm trying!]

>>3135850
>>3135857
It was actually an attempt at a smile because someone in that thread had said I don't really read poetry or some shit like that. The point of the pic was the books, my face just being confirmation that it's still the same guy posting.
I'm a relatively handsome guy and aware of it.

>>3135877
>Women like sensitive guys.

>>3135882
>I'm a relatively handsome guy

>>3135881
Last read Sinclair Lewis, currently reading the Vollmann. I'm done now, gotta go, helping my sister move into her new apartment today.

>>3135903
Oh, you're so cute!

>>3135903
What are all of these attract guys doing on lit? I thought it was all people who couldn't find girlfriends, etc.

>>3135877

>Women like sensitive guys.

LOL keep telling yourself that

>>3135890
Well, he's not ugly.

>>3135903
>>3135906
>>3135912
>all this samefagging

>>3135912

The other boards have the manchildren. We're the enterprising knowledgeable types, so there's going to be more normal types here.

>>3135912
Attractive people can be shy and awkward too.

>tfw attractive, shy and awkward.

>>3135921
Speak for yourself, subhuman. I'm from /jp/.

>>3135919
You are aware that you can check if it's samefagging and that it wasn't? Just telling you, so you don't make a fool of yourself next time you post.

>>3135929
Looks like I struck a nerve.

>>3135927
>/jp/

Mah nigga.

>>3135919
>all dat jealousy

>>3135001
Pfff, she doesn't care about fossil invertebrates.

>>3135935
>>3135929
>more samefagging

>>3135927
From what I've seen of /jp/ which is admittedly next to nothing, you guys are the most cynical outright antagonistic board on here. /v/ is angry and /pol/ is racist but you guys are fucking hateful. What is it about you weeaboo's?

>>3135911
I'm one of the women who likes sensitive guys, dummy.

>>3135925
I know that feel.
I'm so awkward people don't even notice my looks.

>tfw 6'2 but been called ''shorty'' all my life

>>3135032
>"Australian Poetry"

So I'm guessing this is Australia?

That blood biatch
She should get fucked, I opt out
Dogs aren't for me, noice.

>>3135942
We are hardened 4chan veteran truNEETs who don't leave the house. We have to act according to our status.

These are my pissbottles.

>>3135947
Wait, Deadpoet is a girl? wtf

>>3135952

>I'm so awkward people don't even notice my looks.

PROTIP: That's because you aren't as attractive as you think you are.

>>3135954
Oh, dude. Just get a 2ltr bottle and empty it when it gets full. Being able to screw the cap on stops it from stinking out the room too.

>>3135857

Yeah but there's a good reason for it.

>>3135877

Correction

>Smart women like sensitive guys.

Most women don't.

>>3135954
Oh dear Lord that'd better be sweet tea or something.

>>3135968
I don't have money.

>>3135890

So you wouldn't go gay for him?

Oh he's probably really upset now

>>3135947
I'm still in the thread, meant to leave but I decided I'd make myself some breakfast first because I know my sister isn't the considerate type who'll be like "Hey, here's donuts!" or whatever.
The odds would be incredible, but do you happen to live in Texas?

>>3135941
This:>>3135935
actually is me. The rest aren't. I'm still pretty sure you're jealous, regardless.

>>3135959
This just in: girls on the internet. The party's over!

>>3135966
Good one, but not true.

>>3135979
>I'm still in the thread, meant to leave but I decided I'd make myself some breakfast first because I know my sister isn't the considerate type who'll be like "Hey, here's donuts!" or whatever.
The odds would be incredible, but do you happen to live in Texas?

Fuck off to /soc/, scum.

>>3135975
what the fuck is wrong with you?

>>3135981
Oh, I'm not that surprised there are girls on the Internet since I'm one too. It's just that I've seen you post here a good couple of times and always assumed you were a guy.

/jp/ hijack

>>3135991
Yuuka is best touhou.

>going THIS off topic

>>3135993
>Yuuka is best touhou.
>Yuuka

That's an odd way to spell Ran.

>>3136000
Can't say you don't have good taste, but I stay true to my statement.

>>3135991
>>3135954
What's up with the piss bottle thing?
Seriously.
Why.

>>3135986
Look, we're in the thread talking already, if you like, we can discuss what I was reading, too.
Ever read Sinclair Lewis? He was the first American novelist to receive a Nobel Prize. His style has been criticized for its journalistic, crude narrative, but this directness has also been argued to be one of his virtues. His tone of "summing up" and shaping the story through broad strokes was really, I think, a distinctive trait that made his works both accessible and layered, not merely crude. Babbitt, one of Lewis' most famous books, is a character study in these broad strokes, which created an everyman so recognizable to the American consciousness that we now think of this same person in the cliche of "mid-life crisis."

>>3136003
It's too much effort to get up and go to the toiler. Why the fuck do you not piss in bottles, normie?

>>3136003
Are you saying you'd walk all the way to your bathroom?

>>3136008
>normie
>calling someone normal is an insult on /jp/

>>3136010
Who are you quoting?

>>3136012
this.

that chair when milk isn't ur gf

>>3136008
This. I actually do piss in bottles, especially if it's in the middle of the night. Do people really get out of bed and stagger to the bathroom? What fools. Try a bottle of Oasis. The extra-wide neck allows you to squeeze the tip of your dick inside it so you don't get any on the bed.

>>3136009
>>3136008
I'm a shut in (I get out of my room though, just not of the house), but I'd never piss in a fucking bottle.
Plus, doesn't it take more effort to gather, store, and eventually get rid of a shiton of bottles, than to just fucking walk to the bathroom?

>>3136025
>gather, store, and eventually get rid of
Their mothers do the first and last parts.

>>3136022
>Plus, doesn't it take more effort to gather, store, and eventually get rid of a shiton of bottles, than to just fucking walk to the bathroom?

WOAH, that is way too much long term thinking, nerd. Just piss in whatever is closest. After the smell gets really bad you can do a cleansing.

>>3136025
>Plus, doesn't it take more effort to gather, store, and eventually get rid of a shiton of bottles,

No. You have to get out of bed, go to the bathroom, wash you hands, then get back into bed.

I piss into the same bottle and make one reach to the window when it gets full. I can reach the window from my bed, so I never have to take my eyes off my laptop screen.

>>3136032
>He has the wrong post linked.
>"WOAH" is actually misspelled.
>The subordinate clause "After the smell gets really bad," is not followed with the necessary comma.
>He doesn't proofread his posts.
Go back to this /jp/ cesspool you claim to be from, uncouth beast!

Thank you 4chan for curing me of my illness.
I don't want to end up pissing in bottles in a few years time.
I'm going to go outside right now and get the bus to the bookstore and find a qtπ /lit/ girlfriend.

>>3136045
Whatever dweeb. I will be laughing all the way to the bank when I'm cashing my welfare check that you pay for.

>>3136050
Ha! Fuck you, I'm a writer, I don't pay taxes

>>3134928
I went to a book fair recently and there were a few cuties there. I don't know how to approach them though without getting rejected instantly.

>>3136058
Sales tax.

>>3136059
You don't. As soon as you talk to them, you realize what idiots they are.

>>3136066
>maybe if I act superior they won't know I'm a lonely loser

>>3136059
"Hi do you want to go on a date"

>>3136047
>Thank you 4chan for curing me of my illness.
>I don't want to end up pissing in bottles in a few years time.

To late now son, you're infected. You think you can escape your fate, but you will crawl back here and eventually become part of the NEET bottl-pissing master race.

This thread got really weird.

I understand the whole NEET thing but why don't people want to take control of their lives? It just seems like the easy way out to shut yourself from the rest of the world and pretend things don't exist. I, myself, feel pretty shitty and often shut myself off but not to the detriment of everything.

>>3135850
wow

>>3136269
>It just seems like the easy way out to shut yourself from the rest of the world and pretend things don't exist.
>the easy way
Your answer's right there.

>>3136292
Yeah, it's pretty fucking deep son.

>>3135947
And you're insufferable.

>>3136314
you're certainly welcome to your opinion, little one.

>>3136380
he's right, though.

drop the name and stop drawing attention to your rancid vagina in every post.