Reading in public

[Anonymous No.10877430]

Has anyone ever talked to you because they saw you reading a book they liked in public? Share some stories lads.
>inb4 black guy Plato pasta

[Anonymous No.10877434]

But i don't read in public

[Anonymous No.10877456]

>>10877430
Only once and it wasn't really anything special, a little bit depressing actually
>reading the brothers K on a crowded train
>I'm about 75% through
>guy sitting next to me is an older salary man, probably in his late 40s or early 50s
>asks me how I like the book, says he read it when he was young and really liked it
>start talking to him about Aloysha and how his journey seems really interesting to me
>he says"uhmm, who was that again?"
>we just start talking about books in general instead since he doesn't remember the book
>I ask him if he's been reading anything new these days
>tells me he only reads magazines now because he's so busy
>says he listens to the radio a lot while driving
>we talk about NPR for the next 20 minutes
I guess that's my future...

[Anonymous No.10877475]

There was a guy reading The Wealth of Nations on the train the other day, I asked him if he was enjoying it.
>Well I have a Masters in econ so like... yeah
>Oh haha... cool. I liked it as well
He got off on the next stop. Was really awkward for some reason

[Anonymous No.10877487]

I was reading Daniel Silva in a cafe waiting for some work stuff to happen
Qt waitress mentions she loves the Gabriel Allon series. Talk about fav books in the series. She gave me her number. Never called.
Genre fiction is only thing you should read in public

[Anonymous No.10877684]

>>10877475
>Well I have a Masters in econ so like... yeah
Sounds like a snobby pseud

[Anonymous No.10877694]

>>10877487
>reading genre fiction ever
No

[Anonymous No.10877721]

The other day I was reading at my local coffeeshop and a somewhat cute barista chick randomly slipped me a piece of paper with her name and number on it. Out of reflex I just said "oh thank you," then when I read it I realized that I had just been propositioned. I pretended to be unfazed, but was actually quite flattered. I was reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haigt. Highly rec'd.

Anyway, I didn't text her. And now she's spoiled one of my favorite coffeeshops with her overstepping, that daft aposematically colored cunt.

[Anonymous No.10877738]

>>10877475
>masters in econ
>just now reading the wealth of nations

you should have slapped the shit out of him

[Anonymous No.10877754]

>reading In Cold Blood at a resuraurant at lunch
>waitress says she liked it
>I said thanks I’m enjoying it

[Anonymous No.10877767]

>>10877721
you're such a fucking lying nigger fuck

[Anonymous No.10877779]

>>10877767
why would I lie about this

what, other than social capital, do I have to gain

[Anonymous No.10877805]

>>10877779
>what, other than social capital, do I have to gain
Do you even have to ask lad? The most precious social capital in all of human existence. (You)s. This ones on the house.

[Anonymous No.10877816]

>>10877487
>qt waitress
>she gave me her number
>never called
I hope you die a slow, excruciating death.

[Anonymous No.10877844]

>>10877430
>black guy Plato pasta
needs to be posted. I forgot it partially
Also, i asked like 5 peope what where thy reading and talked about the book a bit. One pretentious old man became """friends"" with me

[Anonymous No.10877880]

One time I was at the thrift store looking at books and a middle aged guy just asked me what types of books I liked, then he told me what type of books he liked and then complained that his wife was going to get pissed at him for buying more books again. Weird but nice conversation

[Anonymous No.10877907]

>reading Plato on the subway
>Parmenides, struggling to understand
>black guy next to me glances over
>"Are you an intellectual ?"
>"Not really."
>"That's why you read Plato"
>he smiles and leaves a few stations later
>come home and try thinking of comebacks in the shower

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.10877947]

>>10877907
>tfw I never understood this pasta

[really nice guy No.10877967]

>go to coffee shop under building
>new place, checking it out
>have journal and a copy of a Kierkegaard anthology
>go up and place my order
>barista notices book
>"that's some nice light reading you got there"

I frequent it now

[Anonymous No.10877981]

>>10877947
You must read Plato.

[Anonymous No.10877997]

>>10877981
But is he not an intellectual because he reads Plato or because he needs to read Plato in order to become one?

[Anonymous No.10878031]

>>10877430
I was reading Bleeding Edge on my bus to university a few days after it came out. Later that day, I was working on a project with a friend, and one of his friends came over to talk. Apparently, he saw me reading on the bus and wanted to ask me how it was but didn't want to interrupt. He was also a big Pynchon fan and he ended up recommending me some random books. He was the first person I met in real life that had read Pynchon, and I never saw him again after that.

[Anonymous No.10878033]

>>10877997
he’s insulting him for ostensibly both reasons: that he needs others ideas to think is a sign of mental inferiority, that he is reading plato to do this is a sign of inability to judge what is good for the mind. black man was a Nietzschean and read Schopenhauer to make fun of him for being a weepy poodle fucker

[Anonymous No.10878039]

>>10877997
The first one

[Anonymous No.10878168]

>>10877805
especially when *you* give them to yourself

[Anonymous No.10878177]

>>10877947
You must read Plato's Parmenides, specifically

[Anonymous No.10878547]

@10878168
F-fuck you

[Anonymous No.10878608]

>>10877430

>Was at a trendy coffee house in my city's theatre district last December
>the kind where there are just couches and antique arm chairs about
>Order a London fog
>Waitress asks my name, to write on the cup
>"It's Joe."
>"Thanks. Take a seat, I'll bring it over when it's ready."
>find a pretentious arm chair
>continue rereading Light in August
>qt waitress eventually brings my drink over
>"Here you go, a London fog for Joe. Joe Christmas. Enjoy."
>I slowly look up from my book as she sets the over-sized coffee cup on the table.
>diamonds
>she recognizes that her reference has frazzled me
>she shuffles away to escape my stare
>I return to the book
>can't read a single sentence
>can't string two thoughts together
>go home and castrate myself out of principle.

[Anonymous No.10878674]

>>10877721
11/10, fuckin funny m8

[Anonymous No.10878678]

>>10877456
you should have put him out of his misery desu

[Anonymous No.10878679]

>>10878608
eggs’d

[Anonymous No.10878685]

I was reading the Count of Monte Cristo in a cafe and taking notes when this old black lady looked me up and down creepily and said "you'll never write like a black man", and walked away. I've never been so close to killing myself, I don't even know why.

[Anonymous No.10879204]

>>10877430

>Living in Japan in 2016
>Reading in train, as always (I took the train afuckinglot, like everyone)
>Usually left alone
>Reading next to a girl one day
>She starts talking to me about what I'm reading
>I guess she just wanted to practise her English, probably didn't care about the book
>She was a little weird but harmless. Probably interested in foreigners and/or the English language.

I think that's the only time anyone's talked to me as I was reading. I can't even remember what I was reading, but it wasn't anything too exciting.

[Anonymous No.10879218]

>>10877880
That is nice.
I wish old people in book stores would talk to me...

[Anonymous No.10879458]

>>10879204
Nice yellow fever weirdo

[Anonymous No.10879531]

>>10877456
You should've told him about audiobooks.

[Anonymous No.10879534]

>>10877430
I was reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground on the train on the way back from uni once and somebody sat across from me pointed to it and kinda joked "Dostoevsky? So some light reading then eh?"

I think there was another time I was talking to someone about the book I was reading on the train, I think they were interested in what it was about, but other than other students and lecturers asking me what it was I was reading right then, people didn't really say much about what I was reading unless if they had read it.

[Anonymous No.10879541]

>>10877947
the black guy is either saying "that's why you read Plato" so anon is improving himself to become an intellectual OR he says it to demean the merit of Plato and call anon a dummy plebbo

[Anonymous No.10879548]

>>10878031
One of my lecturers read Pynchon and one extra-curricular session he set up with students reading a bunch of written work to help mark it, etc I remember reading something and literally like the fucking pseud I am name-dropped and said it was Pynchon-esque

he caught wind of it and we started talking about some of his books for a little while. it was just a nice little break from staring at pages and pages of essays

[Anonymous No.10879554]

>>10877430
There is who works at my university library who would always check out my books for me when I was there. I would typically go around the same time twice a week. I could tell the books I would check out made her curious about me. One time I saw her outside on campus and she came up and started talking to me about books and eventually asked for my number. I had a girlfriend so I turned her down, and now I make sure I only check out books when she isn’t working, out of respect for my autism.

The books were:
>Hugo, Toilers of the Sea
>Kafka, The Castle
>O’Connor, All That Rises Must Converge
>a volume of Schiller’s plays
>Maupassant, Ball of Fat and Other Stories of the War
>Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

[Anonymous No.10879557]

>>10878685
That seems a little rude to just say to some random youth you meet in a cafe but then again she's probably not wrong lmao

[Anonymous No.10879570]

I read Kafka on the Shore on the way to university by train and a bookish qt with glasses opposite me looked me in the eyes and smiled.

Of course, being the autist I am, I quickly averted my gaze and continued reading the book, never to see her again.

Sometimes I really wish I was raised to have more confidence in myself.

[Anonymous No.10879585]

>at train station, reading Kafka on the Shore
>Japanese girl smiles at me from a nearby bench
>rape her in my dream that night

[Anonymous No.10879589]

>>10877721
>I realized that I had just been propositioned. I pretended to be unfazed, but was actually quite flattered.

nice sentences, made me laugh

[Anonymous No.10879596]

>>10877430
>reading critical bible on queens bound subway
>crazy eyed middle aged black lady grabs my hands and starts to pray with me

[Anonymous No.10879597]

>go to cafe
>forgot to bring a book
>catch waitress at the end of my order
>"you guys have the paper around here?"
>she almost scowls at me
>she goes next door to the gellatisimo
>knocks on their staff room door
>explains something
>gets a paper from there and brings it back to me
>drops it on my table and walks away in a huff

Wtf bitch could have just said no

[Anonymous No.10879600]

>>10879596
better say your prayers, whiteboi

[Anonymous No.10879602]

>>10877475
lol omg that was me haha

[Anonymous No.10879614]

>>10877430
Once I was reading Mein Kampf. A skinhead came to me and we started talking about how we could finish with all the jews and niggers.

[Anonymous No.10879615]

>>10877430
People always ask if I'm reading for school. That's about it. I think it's weird since I'm almost 30 and look older still.

[Anonymous No.10879618]

>read in public
>bobody talks

[Anonymous No.10879629]

reading in public is the most pretentious thing to do
>no real value from reading due to noise and clutter around you
>only reason to do so is "look at me im mr smart i read books lol"

[Anonymous No.10879644]

>>10879602
>having a degree that shit
K E K

[Anonymous No.10879646]

>>10879629

God I can smell your awful Walmart American burger smell from here you fat retarded cunt. In Europe, where public transportation isn't a joke, reading is common.

[Anonymous No.10879648]

>>10879629
>I am so young as to not have to deal with children's activities, commutes, or even blocs of time between class.

[Anonymous No.10880110]

Few months back I was reading The Castle by Kafka on the train and an average yet decent looking girl came up to me and awkwardly told me she loves Kafka and the castle is her favorite. I told her I hate the book (I lied, it was alright) and she went away.

[Anonymous No.10880143]

>>10879629
Where do you live? I'm in the US and I read on the train every morning and there's almost always a handful of people reading stuff, it's mostly genre shit but they're reading none the less.
>>10880110
lol why'd you lie? Didn't want to deal with her?

[Anonymous No.10880147]

>>10877430
>Has anyone ever talked to you because they saw you reading a book they liked in public?

I don't think that's possible for me.

[Anonymous No.10880149]

>>10877721
>I was reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haigt. Highly rec'd.
Seconded

[Anonymous No.10880165]

>>10880110
based

[Anonymous No.10880168]

>>10877430
Kafka got me laid by a girl I met on the train. Did I feel guilty getting laid for reading the work of a tormented, sexually starved virgin? Never!

[Anonymous No.10880234]

>>10877738
You're allowed to read a book more than once.

[Anonymous No.10880241]

>>10880147
Tell me anon, should I get one?

[Anonymous No.10880260]

>>10878608
lol

[Anonymous No.10880269]

>>10880147
I read on the phone. People probably think that I browse facebook or some shit. I have enough confidence to not care.

[Anonymous No.10880274]

>>10880168
This is very disrespectful

[Anonymous No.10880278]

>>10880269
One cannot retain what is read on the phone.

[Anonymous No.10880404]

>>10880278
I've retained just as well either on phone, computer, or book desu senpai

[Anonymous No.10880424]

>>10880241
yes definitely worth it. be sure to get a paperwhite.

[Anonymous No.10880428]

>>10880278
bcuz I said so

[Anonymous No.10880436]

>>10877816
>genre-fiction pleb
Had it coming

[Anonymous No.10880454]

>>10880234
This is /lit. We don't even read them once.

[Anonymous No.10880460]

Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

[Anonymous No.10880472]

>>10879614
>reading mein kampf in public
BASED

[Anonymous No.10880476]

I was reading Youth Without God once, and a 15 year-old Highschool girl with blond short hair came up to me and said she thought it was a great book. I said "Yeah" and got off the train.

[Anonymous No.10880482]

>>10880110
Smart.

[Anonymous No.10880491]

I read caesars commentary on the gallic war in the bus. Some old people were trying to aee what i was reading and one guy exclaimed the name of the book in latin and said you dont see it very often nowadays. I said it was interesting and i continued reading.

[Anonymous No.10880526]

>>10880476
should've fucked her

[Anonymous No.10880563]

>be me
>in coffee-bar reading, minding my own business
>ask person next to me to pass cream jug
>it's a girl & she thinks i'm flirting
>"what are you reading anon? STRESS FRACTURES IN TITANIUM gosh that sounds erudite" yada yada
>ask her is she always this nosy
>her eyes fill with tears
>notice she's actually a solid 9
>relent
>long story short - we're an item
>only problem: my life is complicated right now
>like, i have to leave the country fast
>dilemma.jpg
>a) ditch her (much more convenient)
>b) stick with her

GUIDE ME O WISE ANONS

[Anonymous No.10880568]

>>10880482
Why?

[Anonymous No.10880570]

>>10879541
which, in the end, is the same, because how can he judge platon without reading him

[Anonymous No.10880602]

>reading public to show everyone how smart and socially maladjusted you are
>not just staring off into space with reckless abandon
literally kill yourselves pathetic nigger scum

[Anonymous No.10880621]

>>10880476
should kill yourself for having shit taste. youth without god is awful

[Anonymous No.10880721]

>Before class
>See I girl I was crushing on reading "Catcher in the rye"
>She says she doesn't like
>I criticize her for reading in public
>She has a bf


Also
>In class
>See a 10/10 model girl I kinda knew reading "The sound and the fury"
>She's actually a real model, travels to Italy for photoshoots and fashion shows regularly
>After class I talk to her about the book
>Show her my copy of "Intruder in the dust" (also by Faulkner) I've had in my backpack
>Uhh yeah that's it, didn't ask for number or anything, ran into her couple weeks later, had a little chat, that's it

[Anonymous No.10880725]

>>10877475

How did you like the 2000 page exposition on how to optimize pin-manufacture?

[Anonymous No.10880782]

>>10877430

>Was travelling, sitting in a park in Bratislava
>Reading Chekov
>an overweight young man, acne-ridden, wearing a trilby hat and a cheap suit vest and plaid shirt, unmatching, approaches me
>he speaks to me in Slovakian
>I answer that I do not speak Slovakian in english
>he asks me if I am reading See-fee
>I ask him to repeat what he said
>"See-fee, see-fee, see-fee", he says, like an incantation
>flabbergasted
>"SCIENCE FICTION!!!" he yells, in a mixture of delight and unexplained anger that he finally found the words
>tell him no
>he leaves without a further word, sort of skipping, positioning his arms naruto-style for a brief moment
>take the train to Vienna and blow my money on having thick polish whores with fake tits and bleached hair sit on my face and making me lick their assholes

Who else here /literary lifestyle/?

[Anonymous No.10880811]

>>10877430
Yes, it was recess in a jury selection so I read a bit. Someone asked me what it was.

[Anonymous No.10880823]

>>10880563
stick it in her.
b I guess. Depends how much of a non-committal faggot you ate.

[Anonymous No.10881401]

>>10880721
the second one is pretty normal but who knows, you could have gotten the poon if you tired.

[Anonymous No.10881421]

>>10878685
Should've told her she will never smell like a white person.

[Anonymous No.10881430]

>>10881421
>wanting to smell like wet dog
Ew

[Anonymous No.10881443]

>>10879614
I hope you enjoyed my book.

[Anonymous No.10881506]

>>10879629
>due to noise and clutter around you
That stuff helps me read actually. I find it easier to concentrate on reading when I'm walking down the street than when I'm sitting in my bedroom.

[Anonymous No.10881542]

>>10880491
Entirety of library system where I live doesn't have it. Thanks for reminder I need to make note to send off for it.

[Anonymous No.10881546]

I'll occasionally go to my local library to read/check out a book/reference something etc and the manager always stares at me and follows me around. He's the only male employee at said library. I think he suspects that I steal books, but who steals books, from a library no less? I have a card and don't cause trouble.
It makes me very uncomfortable so I haven't been back in a while. Got a lot of books to read anyways.

[Anonymous No.10881552]

I was reading Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus at Starbucks when a man commented about it, we ended up talking and eventually it lead into a four hour discussion. Another guy commented on the book but he was retarded, saying "He's German, do you know any Germans other than Hitler? Do you speak German?"

[Anonymous No.10881554]

>>10880563
Face it, you're going to dump her the first second you sense the lawman's step behind you.

[Anonymous No.10881557]

>>10881546
Maybe he is a homosexual, be careful anon.

[Anonymous No.10881563]

>>10881552
wtf i love macron now

[Anonymous No.10881579]

>>10881557
That was my second thought. Like I said, I haven't been back.
I'd be minding my own business looking for/at a book and I'd look up and he'd be staring me down across the way. Didn't look away immediately either. Things like that. Very strange.

[Anonymous No.10881601]

Reading in public is perfectly fine, but why the fuck do you guys go to coffee houses and read?

[Anonymous No.10881642]

>>10881601
Because that's where the pseud sluts are.

[Anonymous No.10881655]

>>10881601
I read at the bar because my roommates kind of suck to be around when they don’t have cocaine to share and I have had more success talking books at the bar than anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.10881683]

I was reading Iq84 when I was about 14 in a cafe, and a guy much older than me approached and started pompously talking about how Murakami was sexist and how us girls really deserve better from modern authors. Clearly he hasn't read the book.

[Anonymous No.10881723]

>>10881683
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

[Anonymous No.10881726]

>>10881723
'straya

[Anonymous No.10881742]

>>10880563
Kek

[Anonymous No.10881751]

>>10881683
Should've tested his Murakami knowledge by complimenting the fuckability of his ears.

[Anonymous No.10881758]

>>10881751
I didn't need to, he obviously hadn't read anything the guy had written.

[Anonymous No.10881762]

>>10881726
Better. London girls are mostly gross.

[Anonymous No.10881773]

>>10877430
Riding the PATH train reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. A woman suddenly grabbed my arm and asked me what I thought of the book.
I looked at her and saw that she was obviously a lesbian, so I told her to fuck off and not to ever touch me again.

[Anonymous No.10881871]

>>10877430
>finally start reading Crime and Punishment
>reading on the train
>group of highscool girls sitting next to me
>hear them start giggling
>it's okay anon, it's okay, they're not laughing at you, don't be silly
>they keep laughing
>glance at their direction
>they're all looking at me
>I-its okay anon, remember what your boi Marcus said, if I choose not to be affected by this I won't be
>one of them whispers "why is that old guy still reading high school books?"
>I'm 22
>tears are welling up in my eyes
>the handful of strangers in my vicinity see what's happening to me and begin quietly snickering to themselves
>start sweating profusely
>my nose is runny now
>massive headache
>one of the girls sees me panicking and sarcastically asks if I'm okay, I overhear her friends telling her not to approach the creepy old guy
>I can't bring myself to look her in the eyes so I stare out the window and mutter something
>she loudly says "huh?! Speak up!"
>start clumsily stuttering and muttering in an attempt to string together a sentence
>just say "y-you too, thank you"
>the entire back of the train starts smirking and giggling
>I see one of them snapchatting me from the corner of my eye
>tears start flowing down my face, I let out a defiant scream that unfortunately sounded an awful lot like a "REEEEEEE" as I run out the train
>I got off 13 stops early
>burned the book
>took 3 hours to walk home
>got stopped by 3 hobos on the way back asking me if I was okay and offering me a spot for the night
>library charged me $50 for the $9 paperback
>I never finished Crime and Punishment
>never ever read in public ever again
Still have nightmares about this incident.

[Anonymous No.10881874]

>>10879554
>borrows books
>borrow
Such a fucking pleb

[Anonymous No.10882073]

>>10881874
>buying books
No

[Anonymous No.10882104]

>>10881601
to drink coffee, mainly

[Anonymous No.10882109]

>>10882073
> having to return them
Get outta here

[Anonymous No.10882150]

>>10881871
kek

[Anonymous No.10882233]

>>10882109
>hoarding paper for "muh stacks"
bruh

[Anonymous No.10882344]

>>10877487
i second >>10877816
life serves you up an opportunity and you fucking virgins shit all over it
you deserve to be miserable

[Anonymous No.10882371]

>>10877997
>>10877981
>>10877947
>>10877907
For You

[Anonymous No.10882378]

Read Mein Kampf in the car with my grampa, he asked what I was reading and I said it and he was like oh. Used to read Kung Fu books in public and once got hit on by a woman 20 years older than me in high school.

[Anonymous No.10882406]

>>10879629
>I have to senselessly browse on my phone for an hour every morning on the train instead of reading a book, because I have to make sure that I don't come across as pretentious.

[Anonymous No.10882574]

>>10877430
>Reading Republic, girl asks what I'm reading while we both wait for subway
>Tell her
>asks if I'm reading it for fun
>yes

she wasn't attractive so I just answered then kept reading

[Anonymous No.10882704]

>>10882574
>she wasn't attractive so I just answered then kept reading
Even if she were attractive, you wouldn't have done anything.

[Anonymous No.10882798]

A camus-reading female once started a conversation with me because I was reading Satyricon

[Anonymous No.10882935]

>>10882704
>Projecting

[Anonymous No.10882976]

I'm frequently accosted by hookers on the midnight train home from the opera. They tell me I look like a church man (because I dress nicely and go alone) and ask if I'm reading the bible, even when I'm clearly not reading the bible.

[Anonymous No.10883177]

Do y'all NOT read Mein Kampf in public? Serious question

[Anonymous No.10883198]

>>10881871

>I got off 13 stops early

That's gold.

[Anonymous No.10883199]

>>10883177

My boy's trynna pop a drain in your beef glands, but I'm just trynna write some Super Nintendo Yelp reviews. What are you readin'? Mein Kampf?

[Anonymous No.10883231]

>>10881871
i refuse to believe this happened

[Anonymous No.10883300]

>>10882976
whats stopping you from fucking one

[Anonymous No.10883384]

>>10883300
I don't want to. They're old and black and can't appreciate Wallace Stevens.

[Anonymous No.10883399]

>>10879629
>look at me im mr smart i read books lol
Let me guess - you read because you ENJOY it? Don't make me fucking laugh.

[Anonymous No.10883437]

>>10883231
Search your soul anon, you know it is true.

[Anonymous No.10883461]

>>10881871
a work of art

[Anonymous No.10883512]

>>10881871
so good

[Anonymous No.10883560]

>>10881871
t-tfw

[Anonymous No.10883593]

Yes, it was the late 90s and I was sitting in the passenger seat of my mother's car, in line in a drive-through, reading The Color Purple. (It was required summer reading for high school.) We were on a road trip and were somewhere in Kentucky. The woman working the drive-through window said it was a great book.

[Anonymous No.10883611]

>>10879585
>not her raping you

[Anonymous No.10883615]

>>10883593
It is a good book. Not great, but comfy and good feeling.

[Anonymous No.10883616]

>>10881506
how. do you have no peripheral vision/reflexes? everything that moves catches my attention and brings me out of whatever i'm reading.

[Anonymous No.10883619]

>>10881430
Niggers smell worse.

[Anonymous No.10883622]

>>10881601
because they're stimulant addicts

[Anonymous No.10883905]

>>10883622
>tfw coffee gives me anxiety but I can't function with out it
I shoulda never started drinking it.

[Anonymous No.10883973]

>>10877430
I don't have a lot of public exposure outside of my school's library, and even then I chill in the silent study.

Sometimes I bring a book to family gatherings and get asked the cursory cookie-cutter "whats such and such book about". I tell them, and their response is usually a lukewarm/feigned understanding.

[Anonymous No.10884465]

>>10881874
I have a theory that the reason a lot of people dislike library users on here is it takes away the dopamine rush of purchasing a book, and makes it so you actually have to read them. Your library hate is just an extension of your consumerist mindset. You care more about owning books than actually reading them.

[Anonymous No.10884494]

did you see new intro by that better than food guy? so fucking cringe

[Anonymous No.10884668]

>>10878547
>being this much of a newfag

[Anonymous No.10884672]

>>10883593
>>10883615
The Color Purple is pure dribble.

[Anonymous No.10884693]

>>10877721

>that daft aposematically colored cunt.
>mfw

In all seriousness though, fuck coffeeshops

[Anonymous No.10884697]

>>10878685

>"you'll never write like a black man"

Feels bad mang

[Anonymous No.10884716]

>>10879629
You're fucking retarded and projecting your personal weaknesses onto everything. If you can invest your energy and focus onto your smartphone in the noise and clutter of the public, why not a book? Kys

[Anonymous No.10884738]

>>10877430
I was a grad student living in a dorm-cafeteria compound mostly filled with undergraduates.
I always read while I eat, usually holding the book with one hand.
Bunch of them laughed at me, don't know why, didnt took much offence though.
Another grad student also apporached me this way, she was doing a phd while I was doing my masters, it was her last year. We talked a little bit occasionally. Didn't became "friends" though.
I wonder what happened to her.

[Anonymous No.10884739]

>>10884697
A modern masterpiece

[Anonymous No.10884747]

>>10884465
Unrelated but heavily underrated post
sick and tired of people pretending book buying cannot be in "consumerism"

[Anonymous No.10885693]

>>10884697
Kek

[Anonymous No.10885914]

@10884668
>not knowing I didn't want to give him any (You)s
It seems to me that you're the newfag gayboi.

[Anonymous No.10885939]

I work as a barista and on my break I like to read. The other day I was was on my break reading Fire and Fury and there were three other customers in there reading it. One of the guys gave me a high five when he left, was pretty random lol!

[Anonymous No.10885984]

>>10880110
bait

[Anonymous No.10885995]

>>10881871
>I-its okay anon, remember what your boi Marcus said, if I choose not to be affected by this I won't be

[Anonymous No.10886014]

>>10884697
>>10878685
KEK

[Anonymous No.10886066]

>>10879597
Scared that you would give a shitty review .

[Anonymous No.10886175]

>>10883905
I've had the same experience with weed for years

[Anonymous No.10886194]

When I was 16 I was reading Naseau on the side of the roads while my two friends skateboarded and my friends moms friend basically called me an edgy faggot and told me I should read something more uplifitng.

[Anonymous No.10886287]

>>10886194
lol it's funnier when you imagine those were here exact words

[Anonymous No.10886304]

>>10880110
You did the right thing

[Anonymous No.10886482]

>>10877487
>Daniel Silva

Holy fuck I gotta take a break from this site.

[Anonymous No.10886504]

>>10883616
Anon you dont need to pay attention to everything around you.

[Anonymous No.10886519]

>>10881683
did you also have unusually big breasts like Fuka-Eri in 1Q84? pls respond.

[Anonymous No.10886526]

>>10881871
fake and gay. No teens speak like that and no one ever gave a shit about what you read.

[Anonymous No.10886538]

>>10884697
>vaccum sucked that muthafucka until I could feel my nut rise from the sac of my balls

is what women actually believe happens?

[Anonymous No.10886540]

>>10885939
>One of the guys gave me a high five when he left, was pretty random lol!

fuck you, my sides.

[Anonymous No.10886541]

>>10883616
Those parts of your brain should be occupied with generating the most vivid imagery when reading. What's the point of reading if you aren't in a borderline hallucinatory state?

[Anonymous No.10886562]

>>10886526
Are you underageb&?

[Anonymous No.10886587]

>Reading Norwegian Wood in a bar while waiting for my friends
>Guy comes up asking if it's about Beatles
>Tell him it's about a japanese guy that spends a lot of time thinking
>"sounds like shit to be honest i think a lot without reading books"
>what
>He left

[Anonymous No.10886603]

Funny story, the other day the barista at the usual place I get a cup mentioned he knew Thomas Pynchon, furthermore he called him a friend and said he dedicated a hardback copy Gravity's Rainbow. As if! tommy hates black people.

[Anonymous No.10886614]

>>10886587
>listening to the beatles
Did he look like this too?

[Anonymous No.10886634]

>>10880460
your existence

[Anonymous No.10886645]

>>10881655
>my roommates kind of suck to be around when they don’t have cocaine to share
amen

[Anonymous No.10886646]

>>10884672
it's *drivel you moron

[Anonymous No.10886649]

>>10886603
John Larroquette is that you?

[Anonymous No.10886679]

>>10886614
How is it hipster to listen to one of the biggest bands of all time?

[Anonymous No.10887189]

>>10880168
>Kafka
>virgin

[Anonymous No.10887262]

Reading "the idiot" on a train. A cute girl next to me commented on it being great.
I got annoyed by the interruption.
Then when I got home I hated myself over the missed opportunity.

Today I am wiser, but lonely.

[Anonymous No.10887279]

>>10886679
because their heyday was fifty years ago

[Anonymous No.10887315]

>>10880563
but mccauley had no choice but to ditch her, sure he had the dilemma beforehand but he chose to stay with her until there was no other choice

anyways nice meme anon 10/10

[Anonymous No.10887365]

Was reading about the Ottomans. Some Muslim guy asked me what book it was. Didn't have the heart to tell him it was by a gay Balfour.

[Anonymous No.10887467]

>>10887365
how do you know he was muslim?

[Anonymous No.10887477]

>>10887467
He was Bosnian.

[Anonymous No.10887492]

>>10887477
Not all Bosnian's are muslim though. Also how can you tell them apart from normal white folk? Maybe I'm just retarded but they just look like normal white people to me, some of them look a little slavic but that's it.

[Anonymous No.10887498]

>>10887492
They are Slavic. He was Muslim, trust me.

[Anonymous No.10887561]

>>10877684
Econ has really come a long way since the labor theory of value. I can see where the guy is coming from.

[Anonymous No.10887564]

Have you ever talked to someone about what they were reading in public?

[Anonymous No.10887577]

>>10887564
Yes because I'm a fucking autist who likes to interrupt people when they read.

But seriously, it's a good way to talk to strangers, and you can politely exit the conversation by letting them get back to their reading.

[Anonymous No.10887620]

>>10887577
I've never seen anybody reading anything worth talking about, but when I do, I will jump at the opportunity.

[Anonymous No.10887643]

>>10887564
I do this thing where I wait until they turn the page and then look at the first line of their right hand page and memorise it. I then watch there eyes intently until they flick to the top of that page and then proceed to recite the line.
It really shits people up.

[Anonymous No.10887647]

>>10887643
*their eyes

[Anonymous No.10887659]

>>10887564
I honestly can't even remember the last time I saw someone reading a book

[Anonymous No.10887664]

>>10887564
yes there was a girl at this dumpling place I go to who was reading steve martin's latest book and we talked about him for a minute before I left her alone

[Anonymous No.10888115]

>>10877430
Years ago, I was reading the history of western philosophy by bertrand russell in a USMC classroom. The instructor laughed and said "if you read this shit on your free time, at least you won't fall asleep in my class."

[Anonymous No.10888151]

>>10877430
I was reading Cathedral by Raymond Carver on the train, the man in front of me commented on how good the book is, and how the stories resemble greek tragedies. I was a pretty comfy moment, the other people in the near seats were listening interested.

[Anonymous No.10888247]

>>10888151
Thank you anon.
Today I remembered reading the short story "Tell the women we're going" in a short story thread about one year ago,but I didn't know how to find the name or the author of the story.
But now I found it again because I looked up Raymond Carver.

[Anonymous No.10888260]

>>10888151
Anon, there's no need to lie. We know you can't read. Just be honest with yourself. Literacy is so passé anyway

[Anonymous No.10888324]

>>10884465

just fucking download them

[Anonymous No.10888341]

>>10888260
I read so little that i might as well forget how to do it at all.
Disheartening to say the least.

[Anonymous No.10888407]

>>10888341
Gosh anon I was just joshin'

don't be disheartened

be heartened

[Anonymous No.10888507]

>>10877430
>21 year old me
>reading some Russian short story collection in the city center and day drinking because I can't sleep
>I hear girls giggling and look up
>one girl is pushing her blushing friend (both about 13) toward me
>"h-hi, I'm girl 1, what are you reading?"
>tell her
>"that sounds cool. I really like the book wicked, we're going to see that tonight"
Blah blah, small talk until they say they have to go and giggle off into the evening... What did they mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10888514]

>>10888507
Svidrigailov?

[Anonymous No.10888528]

>>10888324
cannot stand computer screens have to put on night mode constantly and even then no back and neck support, I hate laptop screens and mouse so I use desktop. Real books, which I own forever, which I can abuse and walk around with at will are worth the Amazon price tag. Most of my collection is on PDF or EPUB or Kindle but I would never spend money on a laptop or kindle just to read that shit. I live in city with excellent used book stores and the major city a few hours drive away has nationally renowned bookstores so its not a big deal to spend $100 on 5-6 books I really want for good

[Anonymous No.10888575]

>oh hey i like that series too
>cool
>
>
>

[Anonymous No.10888589]

>>10877430
Once my dad laughed at me for reading How To Win Friends And Influence People.
Another time I was getting aboard the Orlando Eye and while the security guard was checking my purse he pulled out Island of Dr Moreau and told me he had to read it for high school.

[Anonymous No.10888628]

>>10879629
Some people just like prose as a medium and want to read at a restaurant or something. It's no weirder than watching Netflix on your phone in public.

Also, airplanes. Do you unironically buy in-flight wifi?

[Anonymous No.10888843]

>>10880725
Some of his best work, the speech he gave on pins was fantastic.

[Anonymous No.10888939]

>>10888514
Haven't read c&p in a long time, but Google is telling me he's definitely /myguy/

[Anonymous No.10888953]

>in a coffee shop reading A Thousand Plateaus
>an overweight man about 55, balding with a rat tail and wearing a turtleneck comes up to me
>he taps on my table with his fingers and stares at me
>I put my book down and look at him
>"Deleuze killed himself. I want you to remember this."
>he stares at me for a few more seconds with a blank look on his face
>walks out without ordering anything
>he didn't pronounce Deleuze right

[Anonymous No.10889063]

>going on a flight
>have a rushdie novel with me
>put book in the security scanner at TSA
>security guard looks at me, goes: "you know a lot of people got angry because of that book."
>i chuckle, shrug, get my book and get on the plane

[Anonymous No.10889115]

I got approached by an older man on the bus who told me how good it was that I was reading. I get approached all the time in book stores for whatever reason too. That's pretty much it.

[Anonymous No.10889285]

>>10889115
It's because you're a black man who reads. To them, you're basically a talking husky and they're telling you what a good boy you are while really just complimenting your trainers for making you seem human.

[Anonymous No.10889293]

>>10889285
they’re also complimenting him because blacks don’t read, and are not a literate culture, having scarce literary, or even literacy, traditions in most african societies. Whites seeing a black doing something peculiar is interesting. Don’t you feel the need to approach oddities that aren’t immediately threatening or grotesque? You have curiosity just like them, there’s is racial, yours is otherwise.

[Anonymous No.10889325]

>>10880110
It is shit though

[Anonymous No.10889340]

>>10881871
>Crime and punishment
>I'm 22

Come on anon, C&P is acne virgin coming of age tier. If you haven't read it by the age of seventeen, don't start reading it!

[Anonymous No.10889372]

>>10889293
>people this uneducated exist

[Anonymous No.10889397]

>>10889372
this doesn’t work here, show me the alphabets, epic poems, tablets, complex works of cosmogeny, spiritual science, mathematics. Semites, Steppe derived populations and Mongoloids had this since at least 1-2000 BCE, blacks had absolutely nothing remotely approximating civilization or human genius until they were intermingled with Arabs and Europeans. All the great culture from Africa shows up with Christian and Islamic settlement.

[Anonymous No.10889423]

>>10878608
lost

[Anonymous No.10889436]

>>10883611
this desu

[Anonymous No.10889451]

>>10877430

>be me
>live in south germany
>coworker gave me "Infinite Jest" as a christmas present
>wtf I thought its just a meme
>start picking it up one day
>reading the first 100 pages
>hmm i like that
>drive to gf one day
>she lives 250 km away so i had to take the train
>stand at the railway station
>read this gigantic fucking book
>so hooked by this fucking junkie stealing the ladys mechanic heart
>literally laugh out loud for a second
>old lady walks straight to me
>"Excuse me, where do I find the S4 to Marbach?"
>oh its the next one coming i have to take it aswell I'll show you
>"oh how lovely, what are you reading young man?"
>literally tell her about this chapter that got me so hooked
>"may i read it?"
>OFC OFC
>give her the book
>she turns into a little muzzie-dwarf, kicks me in the balls, runs away
>MASHALLAH

[Anonymous No.10889455]

>>10889451
>starts with be me
>half way through and nothing interesting happened
>punchline is a shitty so randumb joke
I hope you were being ironically unfunny lad

[Anonymous No.10889457]

>>10889397
what does that have to do with a modern day negro though? your response would have been accurate some 80 years ago but since then the negro, especially in america, has more than established itself in the literary tradition. there was even a negro president in the states you know? he wrote a couple books as well. you'd have to have been stuck in a cuck shed for well over a couple decades to still be astonished by the fact to find a negro reading in public

[Anonymous No.10889463]

>>10888528

wtf weren't you just shitting on buying books and praising libraries?

[Anonymous No.10891297]

>>10879648
>children

[Anonymous No.10891303]

>>10880424
fuck paperwhites, backlighting ruins the screen

[Anonymous No.10892883]

>>10889451
What the fuck. The S4 is my daily train.

[Anonymous No.10892938]

>>10877456
well, if he read while driving that wouldn't be great either

[Anonymous No.10892968]

>>10888953
keked

[Anonymous No.10893130]

Literally never

[Anonymous No.10893153]

>>10881871
Sounds like something raskolnikov would do.

[Anonymous No.10893177]

>10 years old me
>reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth just outside my house
>some girls around my age from the neighborhood are close by chatting and stuff
>one of them lifts up her skirt and shows the other her underwear
>she catches me staring
>"you SAW didn't you!?"
>pretend not to hear her
>mfw I did see it
She was wearing tight blue boyshorts.

[Anonymous No.10893202]

>>10893177
Hot. Still, not sure if it qualifies as someone talking to you because you were read in in public.

[Anonymous No.10893232]

tfw you don’t read in public cause you never go out.

[Anonymous No.10893267]

>>10886679
it's pretending like music has been dead ever since is why it's for faggot hipsters

[Anonymous No.10893294]

>>10888507
THEY Wanted TJE D
YIU FUCKEX IT UP
YOUNG PUSSY

[Anonymous No.10893314]

>>10878031
Could have had a /lit/ bf you fool

[Anonymous No.10893339]

>>10881579
Is he cute?

[Anonymous No.10893370]

>>10893339
I don't think so.
I'm straight, but n I don't see any attractive qualities. He's white, bald, average, height average, build normal, about 40's, seems to wear mostly jeans/slacks with dress shirts and sweaters.
So I'd say no.

[Anonymous No.10893403]

>>10877907
I love you guys
I'm glad I gave up on having a wife and kids to browse this board

[Anonymous No.10893423]

>>10877456
>we talk about NPR for the next 20 minutes
>I guess that's my future...

No, evidently your future is dying of AIDs.

[Anonymous No.10893431]

>>10878685
Were you writing in cursive? Blacks can't into cursive

[Anonymous No.10893437]

>>10881421
Here's your (You)

[Anonymous No.10893451]

>>10877475
What kind of retard just reads the Wealth of Nations, econ masters or not?

[Anonymous No.10893458]

>>10879646
Well not everyone lives in Europe m8. Where I live the train is so loud I can't even listen to music.

[Anonymous No.10893473]

>>10880476
god i would have fucked the shit out of her

[Anonymous No.10893474]

>>10879629
This, there’s nothing more arrogant a person can do than read in public

[Anonymous No.10893482]

>>10893294
Not even into nymphets, but they were pretty cute. The blushing one that did most of the talking was blonde, with a nice athletic young body, and budding breasts that barely showed through her blouse... Really have no clue why they approached me like that, I'm wasnt particularly attractive and my face isn't friendly at all... But whatever, it's a cute little memory I keep to think about occasionally.

[Anonymous No.10893492]

>>10884697
Replace that with Irish dialect and it’s practically Joycean

[Anonymous No.10893505]

>>10886519
No, average sized.

[Anonymous No.10893530]

This unironically happened when I was 17 and it still scars me to this day

>in sixth form
>skip classes to walk into town and read in a coffee shop I like
>reading Brothers Karamazov
>three girls and their big, overweight homosexual friend walk in and sit down
>I look up and accidentally catch the eye of one of the girls
>she whispers to her friends and they all look over
>fat gay guy shouts “HEY WHAT’RE YOU READING?” over the heads of three or four elderly couples sitting between me and their table
>splutter out a ‘w-what?’
>he shouts again “YOUR BOOK IS BIG, SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT YOURE READING” while pointing to one of the girls
>I try and get the words out but end up saying “Duh brudhes Kamzov”
>at this point the elderly people have worked out when I’m reading and what I’m trying to say, looking at me with pity
>fat gay guy shouts again “WHATS IT ABOUT”
>don’t want to shout again so get up and walk over and say “it’s about Russians” and then go back to my table and sit down
>don’t respond to any more of he heckles
>get a napkin on my table with her number on as they’re leaving
>text it saying ‘sorry’ and then never reply again

Was perhaps both my worst coffee shop and worst public reading experience ever

[Anonymous No.10893539]

>>10893530
kek

[Anonymous No.10893544]

>>10889457
That doesn't change the ingrained thousands of years of eat, fuck, sleep;

[Anonymous No.10893551]

>>10893482
You wasted your chance to have a virgin blonde waifu anon

[Anonymous No.10893589]

>>10893423
What's wrong with NPR?

[Anonymous No.10893597]

>>10893530
>i was 17
with this poor of social skills
>text it sorry and don’t reply again
autism

[Anonymous No.10893603]

>>10893530
thanks for sharing
my worst coffee shop experience is never going to a coffee shop or indeed a public area to eat because I cannot consume anything whilst under observation

[Anonymous No.10893728]

>>10893589
I've listened to NPR for years just because it's the only thing on the radio I can stand listening to. When it's something like snap judgment or basically just straight headlines or on the occasion they interview someone halfway interesting it's fine, but it always has had a bias and it's especially obvious lately with these high-pitched lispy fags going on about Russia and drumph and democracy or whatever social justice topic of the week for hours on end. I also just want to just start murdering people whenever "wait wait, don't tell me" or that faggot from Minnesota or wherever does spoken word about the most boring and cliched shit.

[Anonymous No.10893772]

>>10893728
brian lehrer is the only good shit on npr, the rest of it just so corny

[Anonymous No.10893792]

>>10893772
I don't think we get him in the Midwest. I could be wrong, but I've listened at all hours while driving and I don't recognize his name or voice.

[Anonymous No.10893841]

>>10893232
This
Should I just go out for the sole purpose of reading in public? I wanna attract some qt intellectual girls

[Anonymous No.10894013]

middle aged lady talked to me in the bus when l was reading Hesiod. she was part of some strange self help/quasi religious group of which apparently the 'Work and days' was a central part. gave me a phon number in case l wanted to attend one of their meetings but felt a strange vibe and she wasnt attractive

another time on the bus l had Sophocles and a metal dude with a Slayer shirt simply asked "reading the Greeks?". this specific wording made me wonder if it wasnt one of you guys

a few weeks ago at the bus stop two qts came up asking about the book while l read 'To the lighthouse' (a nice edition with gilt edges) and l dropped lots of spaghetti

[Anonymous No.10894018]

>>10893728
t. trumptard

[Anonymous No.10894031]

>>10894013
>women hips him to new age religion based on the greek classics

athena just contact u in disguise and offers to link u up with a dank crew of pagans and u didnt call the number, damn bro

yoooo thats how my novel is gonna start, athena disguised as old boomer hippy chick gives mysterious phone number to classics major reading on the bus in the sf bay

[Anonymous No.10894148]

>>10894031
:(
probably still have her number in my hesiod book, mite give it a shot after all. this happened well over a year ago but l can make up an excuse. like l desperately need the guidance now or some shit

[Anonymous No.10895270]

>>10880563

Based

[Anonymous No.10895400]

>Reading The Odyssey on the train back from a job interview in London.
>(I didn't get the job).
>Some older milf woman, 6/10 sits down in front of me and I politely say hello.
>Get back to reading for a minute.
>She taps the book cover and says how interesting this looks.
>Asks me questions about it, why I'm wearing a suit etc.
>BS I work in marketing and am coming back from my wagecuck job.
>She starts playing footsie with my under the table while chatting.
>I'm bored so play back.
>She moves over and sits next to me.
>Starts playing with my dick under my clothes.
>Older gentleman looks over with a mix of disgust and jealousy.
>Wink at him to piss him off more.
>Train gets to my stop.
>Say goodbye to the woman, 'pity we don't have longer'.
>She says next time we're both on a train back from London we should have more fun.
>Agree and she gives me her number.
>Never call her.

[Anonymous No.10895559]

>>10883199
Buzz me, Mulatto.

[Anonymous No.10895667]

>>10893530
I remember this thread two years ago

[Anonymous No.10895679]

>>10893530
>>10895667
Is this you anon?

[Anonymous No.10895681]

>>10895679
Sorry forgot link
>>/lit/thread/S8371934

[Anonymous No.10895700]

>>10877721
based

[Anonymous No.10895709]

>>10880110
well played anon

[Anonymous No.10895759]

>>10888953
Underrated

[Anonymous No.10895788]

>work as a HR bitch
>get to interview cute girls all day
>One of them started talking about how she really likes to read and poetry (I was expecting some john green trash tier)
>she starts talking about Blake, Milton, etc
>we chat a little, both very happy about finding someone with similar interests
>agree to share numbers
>forget at last minute

JJUUUUSSSST

[Anonymous No.10895791]

>>10895788
That’s all I did at my last job. Got three different numbers from men and women

[Anonymous No.10895832]

>>10877430

>stoped in a coffee house on my way back from a friends house at 05:00 am
>took the copy of The Magic Mountain I was carrying in my pocket to read while drinking my coffe
>cute girl approaches and asks me if I know a place where they still sell alcoholic drinks
>long story short, end up taking the girl to an hotel room so we can have sex. Neither of us was really feeling in the mood to do it, but we felt that if we didn’t something was going to be left unfinished between us

[Anonymous No.10895905]

>reading joyce
>A braphog (or as I like to call them moocow) is standing infront of me.
>feel a gust of wind
>take a long sniff
>mutter Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk to myself

[Anonymous No.10896037]

Both of the times it happened to me I was reading a Pynchon book.

The first was V. I had it in my coat pocket and took it out to sit it down at a bar when I got there to meet some friends. I went to the bathroom leaving the book there. When I came back, some guy in his 40s was talking to one of my friends about my book. He saw me and I can't remember exactly what he said but all of it was ridiculous and performative (he had a date with him). Stuff like "Oh you know I've read it all, back in college mind you so forgive me if the details are spotty but..." Then he starts talking about how he thinks Lot 49 is the best and I just had to tell him about how Pynchon thought it was his worst. He seemed like a really genuinely awful person.

The second was when I was reading Gravity's Rainbow. I also had it with me at a bar. Much cooler guy though. Some old guy that was clearly very familiar with Pynchon. He asked how far I was and how I was doing with it. We talked for a bit. He told me that after I was done Mason and Dixon was well worth reading but that he hasn't liked the ones that have come out after but that I might like Bleeding Edge since I'm younger and probably understand more about tech.

I did have someone else ask about JR but they barely did anything but imply that they had read it and then change the subject (presumably because they hadn't read it).

[Anonymous No.10896065]

>>10877721
>ywn be this alpha

[Anonymous No.10896086]

>>10896037
>Then he starts talking about how he thinks Lot 49 is the best and I just had to tell him about how Pynchon thought it was his worst.
he was right. pynchon's not a critic, he's a self critical artist. he never even said that crying was his worst, just gave a very vague self critical sentiment.

[Anonymous No.10896128]

>>10896086
He says it represents the worst in his writing. Self-satisfied smug literary allusions. Being baroque just for the sake if flash. He says this all in Slow Learner's intro as well as that it was an overgrown short story that he was pushed to publish as a novella after V was released.

Most people say TCL49 is the best because it's the only one they've read. I don't deny that some people actually do think it is the best and I can see why but I do think Pynchon is right that it's too showy and underdeveloped compared to his later work.

[Anonymous No.10896154]

Man all of these stories are so bullshit.

>reading book
>sexually attractive female approaches
>i tell her to scram cause i'm so smart and cool

[Anonymous No.10896191]

>>10896128
But that's what makes crying such a flash of brilliance that he could have something so dense, rich, and exemplifying of his style in such a short pagecount, he has never managed anything like that anywhere else. There isn't a wasted word, and I would even say not a wasted reference. Also Oedipa is his best protag. Sure there are dilettante hipsters who tattoo horns on their wrists, but that shouldn't be the first point of reference.

[Anonymous No.10896192]

>>10896154
how new?

[Anonymous No.10896239]

>>10877721
this was one of those posts where you timorously read it through, unsure of the 4chan power-play council consensus deciding if the anon was clearly acting like a pathetic sperg or swaggering chad.

[Anonymous No.10896240]

>>10896191
I think we agree. I'm just telling you that this guy was one of those annoying people that are full of shit.

[Anonymous No.10897292]

>>10896154
You are bullshit incarnate.

[Anonymous No.10897466]

>>10895400
Reeeeeee i want to fuck an older woman. Seeing a wasted opportunity like this makes me MAD

[Anonymous No.10897512]

>>10888939
Well he does kill himself