/lit/ - Literature

what if i don't have a crush?

>her
sage and reported

>>6523762
nice thread :^) really got going i guess!

Love in the time of cholera

The Anatomy of Melancholy

I tell her it is a critical text to understanding the human condition. If she doesn't read the whole thing, then she might as well never talk to me again.

>>6523762
Lolita

>>6523762
i like dudes, so Burroughs.

>>6523762
Twilight or Ftfy Shades of GreAY
2 much edge 4 ur filthy mind

The Recognitions

>>6523762
are you 13?

East of Eden. As I recommend to pretty much everyone I get to know on such a level to start talking about books.

>>6523762
I'll stall/ask her about things she likes.
Get the conversation going, y'know?

If I were to just blurt out "The Waves, Virginia Woolf" or something, who's to say I'll see her again even if she does read it and likes it?
Her number and going out with her is the thing, not the book rec.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>6523809
>>6523815

I think what OP is saying is more of a hypothetical, and that it's more about the book you would recommend and it's connotations, rather than striking a date with your crush. I mean, unless this is some sort of pretentious fantasy circle-jerk, in which case I'm clearly wrong.

>>6523834
If he's looking for advice or just some survey kind of deal; "What do you think girls wanna read, lit?" answer stands. I can't tell what she's going to like yet. I can only give recommendations of books I read or have heard a sufficient amount about, and have heard about some of the things she likes.

Short answer I guess is I donno.

>>6523762
Otto Weininger - Sex and Character followed by Schopenhauer's On Women. I then tip my classy hat© and walk away.

>>6523762

>Man U fan

Into the trash she goes

>>6523762
after thinking about this question way longer than I'd be able to in conversation, I'd say All The Pretty Horses for these reasons

1. most people don't read much and this book is easy
2.the overall pathos is very similar to my outlook on life
3.excellent prose
4.the title would hook most girls and therefore surprise them with the content

>>6523830

same

>>6523815

>If I were to just blurt out "The Waves, Virginia Woolf" or something, who's to say I'll see her again even if she does read it and likes it?

that book would be way too hard for a newreader but fuck it just say it anyway that book is too dank2deny

>>6523814
OP here:

I'm actually going to start East of Eden tomorrow morning. Why do you recommend it?

>>6523972
no

>>6523972
yes

Get her started on those Greeks ASAP.

>>6523972
Yep, that's why I mentioned it in this thread

>>6524016
What do you like so much about the book? I've read the grapes of wrath

>>6523762
Some shit that'd make her cry or something. Haruki Murakami?

The collector by John Fowles

>>6523762

Lolita

>>6524031
It's hard to describe...I feel as if it pretty much encompasses the entirety of human experience. There's good and evil, beauty and disgust, love and hate, profane and divine, honest phillosophy and the simplicity of the everyday - mixed up all together to form this amazing book.

>>6523784
Pseudoscientific bullshit that's been torn to shreds

>>6523762
>your crush
Jesus, how old are you? I sometimes feel like I'm a high school teacher when I discuss anything on /lit/.

>>6525193

>it isn't a valuable look into the human condition as an historical document simply because it isn't in keeping with scientific current findings I have lost any notion of human history because I am lost to modern STEM bravado I am a fucking retard please help me

>>6525193

>it isn't a valuable look into the human condition as an historical document simply because it isn't in keeping with current scientific findings I have lost any notion of human history because I am lost to modern STEM bravado I am a fucking retard please help me

>>6525265
It's opinion and anecdote dressed up in pseudoscientific terminology. It's relevant to literary studies moreso than psychology. Recommending it a crush is autismo/10

>>6523762

I actually did this with Of Mice and Men, and she suddently stopped speaking with me like in a week

she wasn't that hot anyway, it wasn't my crush lel

>>6523762
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>>6523762
The Sound and the Fury or gtfo

>>6523762
lolita!!!!!!!!!!

>>6523762
I gave my old crush Mrs. Dalloway. She never read it.

When I mentioned Virginia Woolf to my current crush she thought I was talking about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the play. Yeaaah.

evola

>>6523762
Super Sad True Love Story

>>6523924
>All The Pretty Horses
>4.the title would hook most girls and therefore surprise them with the content

jej, most 7 year old girls maybe

>>6525209
You're too old to be interested in someone romantically?

No Longer Human.

>>6523762
E L L I E
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ELLIE?

ellie?

The Nag Hammadi library

>>6523972
I know this doesn't answer your question, but the answer is yes.

>>6525457
>When I mentioned Virginia Woolf to my current crush she thought I was talking about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the play

well at least it's lit related

>>6525512

well memed my friend

>>6525521
Yeah cut your losses. Most people don't even know plays still exist.

>>6523762
My favorite book in the world of course, which is Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut.

>>6523762
Karl Marx - The Capital
She will be into you instantly

>>6523762
"Complete Criminal Law, Text, Cases and Materials." by Loveless.

A Song of Ice and Fire, Dune, Godfather or something like that. Dynamic, entertaining, accessible (and maybe some easy philosophizing in Godfather and Dune which might start her interest in "deeper" lit) and not horrible YA shit everyone reads these days.

>>6523762
Spring Snow by Mishima

you guys are fucking retarded. i would use it as an opportunity to get to know more about her and what she likes rather than just throwing out your favorite book.

>>6523762
make a constanza face and, in my best greentext voice, say:

>prose

Here's how I envisage the interaction:

"Hehe, you're cute and smart. What book should I read?"

"Come back to my place and we'll pick something out for ya. How's that sound, babe?"

*jumps into my arms and I carry her to my place, where we forget all about books, if you know what I mean ;)*

>>6523762
>Man U

disgusting

>>6525553
be careful you could get in trouble for baiting highschoolers

>>6523762
The Count of Monte Cristo.

It's a great way to get someone who's mostly read contemporary pop novels interested in more "serious" classic literature, since the plot moves quickly enough to keep even the most pleb reader engaged.

>>6523762
I would say "fuck off you man united piece of scum"

>>6523762
Infinite Rainbow.

>>6523762
I'm sorry, I hate reading. I can't suggest anything good to you.

>>6523972
no, crappy book. a cookie cutter novel.

120 DAYS OF SODOM
2
0

D
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S

OF
SODOM

>>6525553
strong choice, mate. mine would be breakfast of champions. that book got me started on a path to find truth while enjoying existence that keeps carrying me through the days.

(I've given away 3 copies by now, I just realized. I really do go to this book for recommendations.)

>>6523762
The bible, so I can show her that she needs Jesus

>>6523762
Kama Sutra
>/thread

>>6525553
>>6526707
>Choosing Vonnegut at all

>>6526083
>Count of too many pages

>>6525748
Pleb

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>>6525345
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>>6524006

True Patrician answers

>>6523762
Dubliners. last book I read, pretty nice and easy

>tfw crush is my qt hr manager but I'm pretty sure her and the dudebro manager are fucking
Still though, im getting the vibe that she wants the d, or at least doesn't not want it. But then again she might just me a nice and nervous person and I'm stupid for thinking its anything else

>>6523762
Finnegan's Wake.

>>6525295

>It's opinion and anecdote dressed up in pseudoscientific terminology.

It's a product of its time you autist.

I know what it is.

>>6528202
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Plebs make me nauseous.

When people ask me about my tastes in particular things I either tell them that I hate medium "m" or that I have never consumed medium "n." Examples:

>I hate music
> I have never read a book

Mostly I do it so people won't associate my identity with any representative artwork external to me. I know I have a problem, I know.

>>6528198
bro it is her job to not be entirely standoffish towards you so that you feel you have an ally at the workplace

>>6528239
Ahh yep I know this

>>6528234
I do this too but mostly cause its hilarious but I guess subconsciously that stuff makes sense also

>>6528251
Right, it's great for laughs too but in principle I do it to avoid unwanted associations.

>>6528257
Also, "What kind of books/music do you like?" Is a stupid question and I can't not act like a smug shit when someone asks me

But bro how are we supposed to make connections based on mutual interests if we don't let others know what those interests are? Maybe connections with those foundations are just not appealing? Maybe connections themselves are just not appealing?

Maybe we need to get off 4chan tbh

>>6528275
I feel as if we have an understanding, you and I.

There's a connection, and we didn't even need to hold a pissing contest about our tastes. We did it on 4Chan, no less.

>>6528282
I meant personal connections, which 4chan isn't really conductive to without taking further measures because of the anonymous nature and tbh that's kinda the whole point of this place. You have no name, no face, no voice, etc. I haven't/can't/won't see you and the same things go for me so, even though I know its not necessarily true in any way, this whole interaction might as well be a figment of our imagination. Its strange and kind of unsettling how this is the only place I've ever felt comfortable to consistently interact with others online, social media and even forums never really worked for me and Im more likely to lurk for eternity without ever submitting anything. Funny though how irl I can't seem to shut up lel

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor.

>>6528198
>romantic entanglement in the workplace
Huge mistake, don't do that anon

>>6528315
I do the same thing, both not posting online and not shutting up irl. Both stem from a sense of anxiety about being known or somehow "found out." Online I don't participate to avoid being seen altogether, in real life I talk too much in order to cover my tracks.

>>6528326
oh I'm totally not worried about anything like that kek, even if she was game I couldn't even if I wanted to anyway

The English Patient
Devisadaro
The Poisonwood Bible

>>6528334
That hits close to home and i think I've come to realize that over the past year or so. And not only to cover up tracks but to hold up your own imagined expectations of what others might possibly have of you, and maybe more importantly what those you might have of yourself. Attaching and associating general labels or ideals to you own identity is already uncomfortable when im doing it to myself, that is magnified a million times when i feel that someone else thinks they know me well enough to do it for me. That label, either self imposed or imposed by someone else, feels constricting to who I was/am/will be as an individual person but for whatever reason I will feel like I need to maintain it if it becomes the status quo.

But yeah, i kinda already realized what the problems/solutions were to all this in theory, its just hard to get over that mountain of anxiety to put it into practice. Honestly though 4chan has actually helped me in a way that there's no reason to avoid being seen altogether because nobody really cares to that extent what they see of me, and there's no reason to cover my tracks because nobody really cares to that extent what tracks I've left.

I'm usually one to give the benefit of the doubt to someone else so why not afford myself the same luxury. I'm no better or worse than anyone else, we're all people and i believe people are mostly good, just need to remind myself that I'm a "people" too.

And I'm gonna stop now cause i feel stupid and nice blog etc

>>6523762
Ian McEwan's "Under the sheets". It's great short stories and well the title suggests much more than a recommandation.

>>6528225
>Nauseous
Plebs make me nauseated

>>6523762

Why is she asking me for book recommendations during what I assume is our first conversation? Does she think I'm an introverted nerd or what? Like I'm some kind of a special person and she thinks she can't get through to me unless we're "speaking the same language"? I think that's pretty rude and arrogant. In that case I should ask her tips on sucking dicks, huh.

>>6523762

who is this demon of semen?