/lit/ - Literature

>>4299922

never met a woman that actually finished it, or could answer a simple plot question.

Dostoevsky, probably, could greatly increase your chances.

Galaxy Angel. Bitches love Galaxy Angel.

>>4299925

Honestly, have you met anyone in real life who's finished it?

>>4299925

I'm a grill and I finished it. (inb4 XDDDDD)

It's excellent. But I've never met a guy who's actually finished it.

Every time I mention it as one of my favorite books, the guy is like "oh yeah! I love that book too!" but then when I'm like "what's your favorite part" he's like "uh... well it's been a long time" or some such.

Turns out hipster douchebags come in all genders. Who would have thought?

>>4299921
>mfw the most studious girl on one class boasts about reading 50 Shades of Gray
The Hunger Games.

>>4299921
Plato's Republic

>>4299926
This is true. I became much more interested in a guy after we talked about TBK.

>>4299926
At the very least, you may get a mirror to show you how socially retarded you are and you'll learn tolerance and to tune out overly religious things without offending anyone.

I love The Brothers Karamazov, and have picked it up for the third time earlier this week. Fyodor really showcases his angry recluse characterization in Notes from Underground, even though there's always one in the books I've read of his.

>>4299945
This is the correct answer

>>4299921
Way of the Superior Man

>>4299938
>what's your favorite part
>The part with Wardine and Roy Tony

>>4299948
>tfw I'm reading TBK now.
When do all the qt's start coming up to me?

checkbook

also, chequemate

no need just show her your gets

>>4299999
>show her your gets
>99995
wut

>>4299999

>>4299999

>>4299999
I am in a legendary thread

No book will get you laid dummy. No girl wants to talk about literature, such a pussy drying conversation.

>>4300060
You're diddling the wrong girls, m8

>>4299999

>>4299985
This.

>2013
>getting laid

>>4300079
this
>not being a pure as snow 25 yo virgin like me

Only works on HB 10s tho

>>4299921
Only way literature has got me laid is 'come see my new books in my room'

>>4299999

>>4300074
Perfect.

>>4300086
:(

>>4299999


CHECK EM' MOTHERFUCKER.

>>4299999
quints prove truth. NICE.

>>4299926
Not knowing Dostoevskij changes you.

>>4299999

>>4299999

>>4299999

>>4299999

>>4299999
I sense a get.

>>4299999

>>4300144
nice dubs there too!

>>4299999
You are the man m9

>>4299999
very nice and impressive :^)

>>4299999
:^)

>>4299922
>>4300033
>>4300144
>>4300299
>>4300300
>dubs
checkd

s4s we don't care about those here.

>>4300074
lel u dont even mene

>>4300335
maybe thats y ppl here r so dum

only nerds read books

>>4300341
#rude

>>4300354
#RudeButTrue
we should be honest sometimes

>>4300341
Can't argue with the master

>>4299921

The Game.

How come you don't know of this?

>>4299938

"Your favorite part?"

What kind of stupid question is that?

>>4300384
She said she's a woman, don't bother

>>4299938
There are followers everywhere. Really, there's no sense/need to hate on hipsters, since it's new, ironical way of following the crowd by being an exclusive non-crowd follower (but you actually follow a crowd.. you see, that's the joke).

I asked for Infinite Jest for my b'day, but didn't get it. Gonna order it anyway since apparently it's a good read.

>>4300396
Now this is b8 I can get behind.

>>4300400
Wrong thread lol.
Ma bad

>>4300400
R u rusing me m9?

>>4299999

>>4300411
Flippin Ebin dubs friend!
Will you read me manga?

don't focus on 'getting laid', work on getting more women in your life in general.

>>4299999
Checked :^)

>>4299999
>dubs
checked

>>4300422
From my point of view this is very solid advice. It seems to me that there is too much focus on "getting laid", "filling the poon" and any other euphemism for sexual encounters you want to name.

>>4300384

How is that not a reasonable question to kick off discussion of a book?

Also, it's a good way of testing if someone's actually read the thing, which is always in doubt when someone says they liked a certain notoriously difficult work.

>>4300438

>Also, it's a good way of testing if someone's actually read the thing, which is always in doubt when someone says they liked a certain notoriously difficult work.

I don't get this shit. That's aggressive and presumptuous. What is your favorite part of Ethics?

>>4299999

But check these

>>4299999

>>4299999
nice get

>>4299999
sticky bump

>>4300438
What is there really to say about most difficult books besides affirming that both parties have read it?

almost anything by Andre Gide

>>4299999
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>4299999
>That minimalist prose
>That meta-nonfictional reference to the post itself
>That conscious and active participation in the community of readers that is the board
>That devil-may-care rejection and/or flaunting of grammatical prescriptions

My god this is the literature of the future

>>4299925
That's the point. Delay it, never fish it. Leave her crying for moar

>>4300000

>>4300683
>implying the problem with marxism isn't gets

>>4299945
nope

>>4299938
>male dilettantism exists therefore it is equal to female dilettantism

Sorry, but 98% of autistic hobbyism and dedication still exists solely in men.

>>4299938
>what's your favourite part
Has there ever been a more inane question?

>>4300754
Oh, I've already been agreed with. Never mind.

>>4300500
>/lit/

>>4299928
Yes, my Professor.

>>4300060
did he say grils m90

>>4300754

That one, for starters.

>oh look how smart I am, I'm above small talk

>>4299926
no thats true if a dude has read dostoevsky i naturally become more interested in him

>>4300357

not really

i know a sexy former slut who reads

its shit like hunger games and pretties but it's still a book.

even with myself its not true. but i dont think it necesarry to get into that.

>>4299921
Anything with a cheesy romance.

>>4300812
How about you fucking try, 'what do you think?' If we want to be as autistic as possible, starting out on a debate about kinds of small talk, then I guess I'll start saying that you're better off, probably, to use general, rather than specific, questions, if you're hoping to 'stimulate a conversation'. Or, you could try starting out with a statement, like, 'I liked it, but the wraith stuff threw me off a bit, even though I get it with the whole Hamlet connection and everything'.
Okay, bud? You're now ready for an adult conversation.

>>4300848

"what do you think" is so general as to be totally asinine. You'll usually only get something like "oh, I liked it."

>>4300820
>it's still a book.

no

no it's not

was wondering why this stupid fucking thread got so many posts but hey it's a get thread
glad it wasn't 90 posts of "how to read books and get laid B-)"

>>4300880
*tips fedora*

>>4300880

i mean that shes still sitting at home reading.

i recall her reading jane eyre and 1984 also

alot of the girls who read young adult fiction are full on nerds, but some of them aren't (like her).

we do english lit together, and despite being the best in class neither of us are complete nerds. it doesnt work that way, not for me and her anyway.

>>4299999

>>4300871
>"oh, I liked it."

"Did you think it was good?"

"Oh, yeah."

"What did you think made it good? Because I kind of thought it was lacking."

There you go; now the two of you can enjoy a nice thirty minutes or so of jerking each other off - both figuratively and literally, if things go to plan.

>>4300300

saaaaaaaaamefaaaag

>>4300909
>full on nerd

what

>>4300935
thick glasses, beanie hat etc.

>>4300939
Sound gross. I never want to meet one of those.

>>4300926
>"What did you think made it good? Because I kind of thought it was lacking."

And in what way is this functionally different from "what was your favorite part"?

swinggcat real world seduction

Iceberg Slim - Pimp

>>4300968
That it allows you to talk about anything at all other than plot?

>>4300993

What's wrong with talking about plot? Do you think it makes you more intelligent to pretend plot doesn't matter?

Anyway, "What's your favorite part" doesn't necessarily mean "what's your favorite story point." And it's not like a discussion of a scene can't possibly lead into a discussion about character, style, theme, etc.

>>4300769
Did you fuck him?

>>4301009
No :(

>>4301005
Sure; it can lead into that, but it restricts your entry into that discussion, which discussion the other party, or you even, might prefer, through an initial plot-centered discussion (and, come on, they're going to respond to that question by describing a plot point), and it's always better to leave a greater number of topics on the table, is the only problem; I've got nothing against plot-narratives. And plus, and perhaps because of all that, the question, as you can probably judge from the response this thread gave it, is a known favourite of bores everywhere; it's not the one to go by.

>>4300675
>that thread continuing without irony even when confronted with a get
>that unrelenting discussion towards the female species
>that never ending obsession with discussing the female species

My god this is the /lit/ of the future

>>4301338
>a get

Yeah, /lit/ doesn't give a shit about "gets". Why should it? Try >>>/b/

>>4301027
>it's not the one to go by.
not everyone's an aspie like you

>>4301338
/lit/ da best
/lit/ da very best

>>4301349
>>>/s4s/ is the dubs board, friend.

>>4300000
what do we have here?

>>4300384
>not throwing witty references to books you've read and steering the conversation towards said books with it
Anytime my doofus friend who likes Oreimo talks about Oreimo, I make the rest of my group talk about A Hundred Years of Solitude by claiming MC and his sister's offspring is going to be born with a tail.

You're idiots.

>>4300438
The best way to realize someone read the thing is to talk naturally about it. Like small talk, like how you'd talk about anything.

I liked a lot of things from the books I've read, I'm not going to pick one thing in a split second to keep a conversation or shit a literary analysis on the spot to sound smart.

>>4299999
"It's always right to get quints".

>>4300909
I have never, nor will I ever I think, understand what a nerd actually is. I genuinely don't understand what it actually refers to because so many people use it in so many differing ways.

>>4300675
:^) epic analysis

>>4299938

I'm a guy and I've read it 3 times and made my own book of annotations, timelines, and theories.

>I'm a grill

Nope.

>>4302420
>420 in a get thread
>g-g-get the bong

the art of seduction, however the author expects the reader to a: not have social anxiety. or b: know how to deal with social anxiety. so you´ll need some complemetary books.

>>4300820
>A girl has read a book
Show me citations from a reputable journal this second you tumblr spewing castration machine.

>pls satan shower me with ur blessings

>>4299999
Jesus Christ

>>4299999
what the fuck....

OP...have her read this post...claim it is yours...she lays you like a whore of Babylon

>>4303238
i want my own gets-luck-charm as well pls
>pls gets

>>4299938
did you go to camp eberhart?

DUUUUUUDE

>>4299999
By the power of Thor....

>>4303333

>>4303333
ae you fucking kidding me...

>>4303333
are you /lit/s scripting like the idiots at /b/ do sometimes?

>>4303333

>>4299938
i read that whole book but i don't remember a single thing except the canadian bullshit because it was retarded
serious dfw was a fucking hack

>>4303333
Alright this has to be scripting. The magic is gone. Thread over.

adlas fugged

not blep :DDD

100% :DD badrition :DDDD

Any HS required reading. My ex had Billy Pilgrim's gravestone tattooed on the bottom of her foot and a Catcher quote on her hip, she was smoking hot but insufferable.

What anime is OP pic from?

>>4302666

>people impressed by gets on a board as slow as /lit/
what the fuck

If you are seen carrying The Bell Jar by any female, they will almost always start talking to you. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet.

Texts from Bennett by Mac Lethal. It's a good read and actually has some great dating advice towards the end.

What the fuck is with people constantly posting anime here all the time now

>>4303969
/lit/ is basically /a/ 2.0 now that mods have been cracking down on visual novels and light novels over there. Makes more sense to just move over here.

>>4303973
Visual novels have their own shit threads in /vg/ and Chinese cartoons are not literature. This was one of the few remaining boards that seemed like it was distinct from 4chan, now we have a feminazi mod who censors fucking everything but who allows Chinese cartoons to be plastered everywhere while dipshits make dubs posts and :^) posts, just like this stupid fucking thread.

>>4303977
I'm not the one that makes the rules, man. Though since visual novels and even anime to a lesser extent are technically literature, I don't see why they wouldn't belong here.

No particular book has consistently gotten me laid but I've used literature to impress and build a rapport with quite a few girls in the past. My knowledge of Ibsen and Fosse gave me a perfect in with a Norwegian theatre actress a few months ago. That's probably the highlight of my name-dropping career.

>>4303977
Weaphobes are truly the worst people.

>>4303977
what. feminazi mod? if this is so then how come every other day there will always be some /pol/ thread bashing black people (and citing iq tests as sources) and a /r9k/ thread like this one where the discussion will always derail into "why cant womenz appreciate literature"?
(your dubs intensify)

>>4300445

This. I fucking hate when people ask you questions in a way as to make it as hard as possible to answer unless you are a fucking expert on that specific subject (reading a book does not make you an expert).

>>4304050
Asking you to remember one scene you enjoyed from a book you claim to be a fan of is hardly expecting you to be an expert.

>>4304052

I was referring to "what is your favourite part of ethics?". If you haven't already thought about the question earlier, it's gonna be pretty hard to tell someone what your favourite part was.

>>4303988
>you will never fuck Somik

>>4304060
i know that feel bro ;___;

>>4303988

>weaphobia, the irrational fear of low-brow culture and smelly neckbeards

>>4303988
Don't give me that. I have played quite a few VNs, and I have yet to come across a plot that wasn't bland and predictable, or a character that hadn't been oversimplified to the point of cringeworthyness. Worse than that, every single one was mediocre or just outright bad in terms of prose (no surprise there, given that awful 'one sentence at a time'-format most of them use)

I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but 99% of VNs don't belong on /lit/, simply because they arent worth talking about.

>>4304196
Eh, judging a VN solely by its text is like judging a movie solely by reading the script. There's more to the experience than that.

>>4304196
>100% of VNs don't belong on /lit/, simply because they aren't literature

fixed that for you

On The Road, obviously.

>>4299999
:^)

>>4299921
Atlas fugged.

>>4299921
This is the worst post I've seen in a while.

I sincerely hope you die painfully.

>>4304420
That's a horrible thing to say.

>>4300380
It looks like just a basic story...

>>4304196
>I have played quite a few VNs, and I have yet to come across a plot that wasn't bland and predictable
Someone who'd read Saya no Uta or Ever 17 (two of the most popular) wouldn't say this.
>or a character that hadn't been oversimplified to the point of cringeworthyness.
See above. And not all character have to be complex. Most people aren't that complex really.
>Worse than that, every single one was mediocre or just outright bad in terms of prose
See above. Gen Urobuchi is an excellent writer, even in translation. Also, too flowery or advanced prose would distract from the atmosphere and visuals.

>>4304228
Have fun in the past.

>>4299921
Great Gatsby

Mein Kampf

Aku no Hana faggot

>>4299921

Music is more likely to get you laid than books

>>4307555
I've played Remeber 11, and decided that I didn't want to bother with any other parts of the series. Are you saying Ever 17 was better?

>See above. And not all character have to be complex. Most people aren't that complex really.
Anon pls, your underage is showing. Most people are in fact quite complicated, if only in a shallow, a little fucked up way. Do you really not see the problem with writing a story about one-dimensional characters?

>>4299999
IT'S ALL OVER

>books
>getting you laid

Fucking LOL i hope you don't reveal your power level IRL, this might only work with some chick going through a hipster phase ie you'd be a notch on her belt o look i fucked a guy who reads Dostoevsky.

>>4300060
>not telling her you will write a serious love story for her
>not writing it postmodern as fuck
>not writing about two dudes fucking in a gutter

step it up, /lit/

>>4308193
>not telling her you will write a serious love story for her

only if you want to get rid of her the fastest way possible

>>4308190
You obviously surround yourself with philistines. I've connected with loads of people over our mutual love of literature.

>>4308199
>this might only work with some chick going through a hipster phase

obviously you don't read a lot

>>4308196
>not writing love poems to girls you don't even know

>>4308190
oh wow

People are hiding what books they read now?

>>4308201
You know what is actually an anathema to women? Behaving like an adolescent fuckwit who has never been with a woman in his life.

>>4308210
weird, seems to have the opposite effect for me

>>4308205
it's irrelevant. i'd hide my bank account if it was large too. a normal chick won't care what you read so it doesn't matter but i especially want to avoid a chick who likes me because i read books, it's a vain interest, they're barely above gold diggers

>>4308214
heh

And why would you hide your money?

I'd be affluent as hell.

>>4308155
>I've played Remeber 11, and decided that I didn't want to bother with any other parts of the series. Are you saying Ever 17 was better?
Ever 17 is generally considered the best in the series. It has one of the most fascinating primuses of any work of fiction ever. And again if you haven't played Saya no Uta you seriously should. Like Punpun or Yume Nikki, it's a story that could not be told in any other medium.

>Anon pls, your underage is showing. Most people are in fact quite complicated, if only in a shallow, a little fucked up way. Do you really not see the problem with writing a story about one-dimensional characters?
Complexity is easier to fake than you'd think. I'd much rather have 1-dimensional, archetypal characters than ones with little shallow identifying quirks thrown in with no value to the story (the John Green/YA/indie movie method).

>>4308195
What are they doing in that picture.

>>4308313I

>I'd much rather have 1-dimensional, archetypal characters than ones with little shallow identifying quirks thrown in with no value to the story (the John Green/YA/indie movie method)
Eh... I'd have some things to say to that, but I'm not going to change your opinion on this matter by arguing about it, so I guess our discussion ends here.

One Last question: How often do you go on /lit/, and what kind of books do you read?

>>4308313
>it's a story that could not be told in any other medium.

Then it should have been told in a better one.

>>4299999

Just from coming here and knowing a bunch of names of books and authors got me laid, so really you don't have to read anything, anon.

>>4308390
>Eh... I'd have some things to say to that, but I'm not going to change your opinion on this matter by arguing about it, so I guess our discussion ends here.
I don't mind my opinion being challenged.

>One Last question: How often do you go on /lit/, and what kind of books do you read?
I browsed this place a bunch in 2011. I mainly read Japanese lit and translated Latin American/European lit.

>>4308441
>Then it should have been told in a better one.
Give it time, Anon. The visual novel, once it is iPad/Smartphone compatible, will revitalize reading for an entire generation of tech-obsessed youth (after being distanced from its Japanese roots and made digestible for the close minded).

No other medium can replicate hypertext. Web browsing simulation is the future of literature.

>>4308214
What a stupid thing to say. I wouldn't be interested in a woman who didn't read, and if I met one who was very into reading I would use that as a basis to begin conversation like any normal human being. Are you seriously saying that a normal woman who wants to meet a guy with the same interests as her is being vain?

>>4300074
OP is obviously from /a/. With all that shitty Samurai Flameco force.
And that's why it's pointless to respond to his request, he's not gonna get laid anyway.

>>4311016
What you got against Samumenco, pleb?

>>4311748

sacramento?

Smart girls love Middlesex because it makes them feel better about being born a girl

you'll fuck like two bisexuals

>>4309714
If she's nice, kind, attentive, watch the news and can handle herself in conversations will you then be able to consider getting into a relationship with a girl who doesn't read?
>Protip: this is kinda my situation right now

>>4300939
>Beanie hat
I vomited in my mouth when I read that.

>>4311786
I highly doubt it. That's not to say I look down on those who don't read or avoid entering into friendships with them, it's just that from past experience relationships with women that read have always been much more fulfilling for me, so I've stopped looking for women who don't read.

>>4299982
I be cry

stuff by the French philospher George Didi-Huberman x or publications from the NGA (National Gallery of Australia)

The options are few,

Casanova's autobiography

Simone Beaurevoire, Dworkin

LOTR, Hunger Games, Girl W. Dragon Tattoo, Twilight, Harry Potter,

ars amatoria definitely

go out to races plebs, there's tons of girls

Stop fucking making / posting in these fucking threads, I fucking hate all of you

>>4313164
>Dworkin

reading Dworkin will guarantee you will never get laid, EVER.

>>4313375
what the fuck is wrong with you, posting in this thread like it's a thing to do

>>4300445
I know this is kinda a late reply, but couldn't the person just admit to not having read it, like in a normal conversation? Why is it aggressive? I wouldn't really take offense to it I would just reply with the truth

The God Delusion. Wear a fedora and trenchcoat also.

>>4300384
One I hate even more
"what's it about"
I mean for a lot of books it's easy to answer, but when I was asked this about Gravity's Rainbow / V. , Infinite Jest, and Brothers Karamazov I can never come up with a succinct, accurate summary that will do the book justice

>>4313690
Yeah, it's even worse when someone asks this when I'm clearly not 1/3 of the way through the book myself, so often I won't even rightly know what it's about yet.

>>4313690
>>4314704
Just memorize the synopsis from the back of the book or something.

HOLY SHIT STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD YOU FUCKING MONGOLOIDS

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

>>4315723
Happy Thanksgiving anon.

>>4311769
googling....bracing penis for impact

>>4300909
just tell her you love her

>>4315723

did you just call me asian

>>4315723
i love you too anon

>>4299921
one from bukowski

basic bitches love it

>gets
>everyone loses it

Sometimes in /lit/ i forget all the /b/ faggotry but i get a friendly reminder every now and then

This thread a fucking shit.

Some faggots here recommended I read Judith Butler to impress a girl I likes from my seminars.

I pretended to read Gender Trouble for five fucking months, holding it above the table with the cover towards her. Nothing.

Her friend was the one who asked me "hey how many times have you read that book Anon?" and seemed to be speaking sarcastically. The girl just looked over to see if her friend was talking to her then looked back to the Chad Thundercock character with two piercings in his ear (so edgy!) dressed like a part-time Beatnik.

Fuck you. Sage.

>>4317654
I think you're just a beta that wouldn't get laid anyway blaming your reading material

>>4317654
>actually reading a book and holding out the cover on display to some girl you like because 4chan told you to
>not just getting up off your ass and going to talk to her like a man.

is it true that you should always read paper books and not use an eReader?

I have a Kobo but apparently people think you're smarter if they see you in public reading giant bricks or something with a famous title/name on it. And in the case of using an eReader, this affect is totally lost.

Have I simple exchanged meeting friends and women who will want to talk to me just because of some misguided notion that I'm smart in exchange for portability and ease of reading?

>>4318044
Just print out the cover and tape it on the back of your ereader.

>>4318051
People don't seriously do this, do they?

>>4308313
>Complexity is easier to fake than you'd think. I'd much rather have 1-dimensional, archetypal characters than ones with little shallow identifying quirks thrown in with no value to the story (the John Green/YA/indie movie method).
then you only want characters that confirm your ideations of the world?

>>4313690
>Brothers Karamazov

Holy shit nerd have you even read it?

>>4318044
Please leave

>>4307555
>mfw weaboos defend stupid backwards comic books

I mean, I'd like to talk about Archie, but I know it's not literature.

>>4318088
It's the social norm actually. I have a few books on the go, so I keep multiple covers all handy to indicate to others what I'm reading at any given time.

>>4317654
I tried this shit Freshman year of high school with Jane Eyre. Took me about week to realize holding her favorite book will not get her to hold your dick. Seriously, how old are you?

>>4318088
I don't do it anymore, but I did when I first switched to ebooks.

>>4300074
can someone explain the joke please

Give her the Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences.

>>4318925
yes explaining how a heart works, so sexy

>>4318995
I explain how my dick works after lol

>>4318925
I give the dick; therefore I am

>>4299985
lulz

>>4308313
>Saya no Uta
That shit was awful. It began with a single original concept and then proceeded to beat it into the ground with overuse. The rest was just your standard gore/hentai-lolita-fest wrapped around a paint by numbers 4spoopy Lovecraft detective story. The soundtrack could be suitably unnerving at times though.

Either you're 11 or you seriously need to stop being so pleb.

>>4299999

>>4321928
I thought Kara no Shoujo was really good. Probably one of the best mysteries I've ever read. Really good twists.

>>4322030
Do you mean Katawa Shoujo?

>>4299921
I'm late but I feel like The Red and the Black gets one laid.

I prefer Tucker Max and Lance Manion myself. But I like sluts.

>>4299999
This is the first time I actually shouted "HOLY SHIT" after reading something on 4chan.

>>4299999

>>4324485
>>4324501
>>>/b/

>>4325511
Oh, let them have their fun.

>>4325511
Check thy own dubs before thee wreck the dub checking of others

>>4300675
lol'd

don't die yet guise we r almost there

>>4299999

nice

well today I got my confirmation that this girl IRL still prefers looks/style rather than her feigned superficial interest in "literature". she's real into this blazer wearing architect major and from what i can tell she just thinks they would "look good together as a couple"

>>4333052
Maybe she just knew you were full of shit?

>>4333052
I think a girl likes very much a man who is obviously talented.

What they want is a tormented genius to nurture.

How else was DFW so popular with the ladies?

i visit fit but im. not gay ok?

>>4333073
>tfw I've cultivated my inner tortured genius ever since I was 16 but nonetheless I still have no gf

Do hipster girls in college still get a massive girl boner for Franz Kafka or have they moved onto other stuff?

>>4333073
>How else was DFW so popular with the ladies?
Bitches be likin bandanas yo.

>>4299921
Lolita, and really any good erotic novel that sparks the conversation, but make it a good novel.

>>4336110
Wouldn't she just think you are a paedophile?

>>4336116
No I brought it up last night actually.

>>4336116
Only if you get excited over fucking a tween. The porpuse of Lolita in getting you laid is that it shows you're open minded and sexually available, plus the intelectual analysis of the character you could offer would make for some sapiosexual stimuly, assuming the girl is a bookworm as well.

>>4336116
Anyone who hasn't read that book doesn't know what it's about, and anyone who has read it knows you're not a pedophile for reading it since they know it's not pornographic.

>>4336138
Plenty of people who haven't read the book still know of the title and its paedo connotations.

>>4336110
>had to read this in high school
>we're all like halfway through it
>sitting around quietly at lunch
>"...so does anyone else wish he would just fuck her already and get it over with?"

I wasn't even the one to say it.

>>4336144
>takenabackexpressiondoge.jpg

Someone here mentioned Cortazar's Hopscotch.

He said citing a certain chapter to a woman could get you laid but I forgot which chapter was.

Maybe chapter 70. Or was it 77?

only true answer

>>4299999
I visit this thread every day to see that get.

>>4299999

>>4318106
Where did I imply that?
>>4321928
But it was only a couple hours long. It didn't really have time to "beat it into the ground with overuse." Also if you were paying attention maybe you would have spotted the subtext about existential crisis and rebirth.
>>4322032
>being this clueless.

>>4339971
As an addendum,1-dimensional, archetypal characters are less likely to confirm my ideations of the world because they cause me to suspect my own complexity may be a simulation of my own.

Certain types of literature and your reading of them can get you laid?


I call bullshit.

>>4318044
Paperback is more enjoyable to read
Faggot.

>>4317654
>pretending to read books
>the current year

I rarely even bother approaching hipster chicks.

but some times a cute girl will approach me out of nowhere, so I must seem like a nice enough guy. if youre weird enough to hang out here, there is seriously no point in approaching out of nowhere a girl who looks like she thinks shes really cool.I fucking hate 90 percent of good looking women. They are assholes with unwarranted self importance

>>4299999
Superb, m8 :^)

>>4299999
>>4300675

I laughed until I cried. My puppy thinks I'm hurt.

>>4336138
It doesn't need to be pornographic to carry negative connotations. The subject matter alone takes care of that.

>>4299921
>11/24/13(Sun)01:53 UTC-6
>11/24

this thread is almost two weeks old. just admit it op youre shadowbumping this thread to make it there

I have story about my success with women.

I was at the bus stop waiting for the bus when the bus pulled up. In it was a lady who was young an acceptably cute. She smiled when I entered the bus, and smiled at me as she was pulling up to the bus stop. The bus was nearly empty, and it was a small community shuttle, not a city one. I saw near the front and she made a comment about the traffic lights. I didn't say anything because I think it would have been awkward. But I knew she was speaking to no one directly but it was aimed mostly at me. When we arrived at the bus station and the bus parked in its spot, everyone filed out and said goodbye. When I said goodbye, she said "ok I'll see you later." quietly. She definitely likes me I think. But she's a bus driver, and I'm in college, and I don't if how I'll ever see her again.

>>4341595
>When we arrived at the bus station and the bus parked in its spot, everyone filed out and said goodbye.

Your story is a bit absurd, although I did laugh at the ending. Work on the little details.

>>4341602
Oh crap, I meant "said thank you." That makes more sense. The story is completely serious.

>>4341582
nah m8 we're just all a huge fan of >>4300675

>Go to nearest college campus
>Read any John Green novel
>?????
>An abundance of pussy

>mfw this thread has been around for almost two weeks

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan and Machiavelli's the Prince.

Hobbes has this short passage where he teaches you about confidence. It's very useful to think about.

Machiavelli helped me come to terms with the idea that 'political struggle' is an inevitable fact of human life. So there's nothing wrong with.. I guess hiding parts of yourself and seeming other than what you are for 'political' purposes.

It seems kind of far fetched. But I really think these two guys helped me.

Girlfriend I'm currently with first conversation spawned from Lord of the Rings.
Thanks, Tolkien.

What are some books that are guaranteed to get you raped?

>>4341688
'How To Dress Like You're Asking For It'
By Fedora McSlutshamer

>>4337255
there are two: one with dead bby, and one with sitting on a piece of wood over the street

>>4341688

How to Get Raped

Because people will see it and rape you

>>4299999

Fuck /lit/ i thought you were above this quints shit

>>4341744
>being above this quints shit
>>>/b/

The mods deleted the get. unacceptable.

>always read on an ebook reader because it's handy as fuck
>nobody can start a conversation about the book
ok

>>4318296
>Using weeabo unironically

>>4341648

that's because no one has gotten laid yet

Five People You Meet In Heaven

Read it, finished, girlfriend got out of the shower and I went back in with her.

>>4343675
See >>4318051

>>4300751
But that's fucking bullshit.

>>4299921

None.

You get laid if a woman wants to fuck you.

>>4344931
virgin detected

>>4344933
>not a virgin
Get out.

>>4346686
It's a thread specifically about getting laid, man.

>>4344931
Which books will make a woman want to fuck you?

>>4347070
See >>4337487

>>4300087
> by mystery

>>4348260
Chicks dig mystery.

>>4349407
Sounds like you've been watching too many saturday morning cartoons.

>>4299921
>29992

Depends on the person reading.
For most of mankind, none.

Atlas Shrugged, OP

>>4344874
ok 99%

>>4299925
>>4299938

>dropping someone because they like you enough to pretend to like the stupid stuff you like

>>4350939
>being a pretentious dipshit that pretends to like books they never read
Nah

>>4351947
>blindly saying "I'm into that too!" in response to whatever a hot person says they like
>pretentious

>>4352010
You're only setting yourself up for humiliation if they ask you basically anything about it and you're not ready with an answer though. Why not just be honest and avoid the risk?

>>4300909
I read 1984 when I was like 15. I try to scoff as much as possible at it and anyone who reads it.

>>4353346
People don't always read books just so it can be hella 難しい you know. Maybe she just wanted to read the book. A person won't necessarily read every available book from the first moment they are intellectually capable of it.

Here's what you do:

Read Zizek, Foucault, Sartre, and Camus and quote them extensively -- especially Zizek. Walk around with a copy of Infinite Jest under one arm, and a de Sade book under the other.

You'll be swimmin' in it.

This kid at my school lived in an apartment dorm where his roommates would throw parties all the time. He'd leave his door open, faintly playing some Bob Dylan or some shit on his turntable, lounging around and reading. Special snowflake grills would wander in and talk to him about his bookshelf. He'd give them a copy of Norwegian Wood (he had three for this specific purpose) and send them along.
They'd be back within a week, slobbing knob like a pro.
Just for clarification, too, this guy was by no means a looker. Failure at life, too, he dropped out and busses tables in Lousiville.
Never seen anything like it.

>>4353358
shut the fuck up you fucking weeaboo fagget

>>4353436
What the fuck is your problem, asshole?

>>4353436
Where do you think you are right now?

>>4299921
>living in a dorm
>constantly flirting with this kinda cute 6/10 neighbor
>ask her what she reads
>she likes to read erotic fiction

i called her pleb and stopped talking to her obviously, now i dont even say hi to her

PUA Books.

Read Brownhorse

Nothing wets panties faster than The Fortress by Mesa Selimovic.

>>4300087
My friend gave me The Game for my birthday and fucking swears by it. He used to be this nerdy try hard, and still sort of is except now he gets mad poon. I've watched him pull the stupid tricks when we're out and be hounded by girls.

Honestly though I couldn't finish it. Something about it strikes me as cheap.

srsly

>>4357769
Yep its cheap and phoney. That's ok though 'cause we have the internet instead of girls

>>4357541
>The Fortress by Mesa Selimovic
riiiiight

>>4357949
I've got girls before without the aid of cheesy tactics though. I think he gave me it for the same reason he's gave other guys the book, he just wants a wing man.

I get the sense that he's actually pretty lonely, since these hook ups never lead to anything more. Which is what the book is about, it doesn't teach you anything about keeping a girl, and the vast majority of techniques promote straight up lying about every aspect of yourself.

>>4357971
But you would have gotten MORE girls with the aid of those tactics. That's the point.

Anyway I think the point of the book is to get your foot in the door, then keeping the person around from that point is up to you if you want to. Not like most people care about a few harmless lies anyway.

Why would you try to "get laid" with a member of the barbarous female sex of the 21st century?

>>4360392
What are you, gay?

my problem is that im internally inconsistent. one day i'll feel like i've tapped into this raw alpha reservoir and confidence and flirting with girls is natural, but then it vanishes. i don't know what controls it.

I read Star Wars books in cafes and at school, and bitches love pretending to be interested in Star Wars just to strike up a conversation with me.

True story.
Seriously.
I am not kidding.

It's happened five times.

Of course, the real reason is that i'm not ugly and girls just want a reason to talk with me and having something they're familiar is a good conversation starter.
No one has ever come up to me to talk about my Dragonlance books... at least, no girls.

>>4360438
>reading Dragonlance books
ugh...why? They're fucking terrible

>>4360454
no worse than most of the Star Wars books, which is pretty average.

I'm currently going through this one. Very good read.


Got a lot of nerd respect when reading my Dragonlance books in public, unlike here!

>>4299921
I got laid through reading Chuck Klosterman in public

thank you based klosterman

alternative answer: the hot seller on the Barnes and Noble hot seller list

>>4299921
why won't this fucking thread fucking die

This helped me to get in a lot of conversations, especially hipster chicks. I fucked 2 of them when this was our first topic

>Women don't read
Four out of five people who read fiction are women. Any troll who disagrees has obviously never set foot in a bookstore.

Men only have the attention span to read comic books or generic science fiction. (inb4 women only read about teenage vampires or romance)

>>4361462
I don't know any women that would sit through something like Book of the New Sun.

They're all over shit like Game of Thrones tho

>>4360481
i'd hate to see the type of girl who shags guys b/c they read klosterman

>>4360490
It's basically the best thread on /lit/, honestly.

>>4361472
I'd shag a guy who read klosterman, honestly.