/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20656731]

Reading in store before you buy is literally batshit insane

[Anonymous No.20656745]

So much good autistic cystic acne pussy in Japanese bookshops just waiting for a strong powerful gaijin to sweep them off their feet

[Anonymous No.20656747]

>>20656731
nah I used to do it all the time I did it with picrel back in the early 2000s when I got the first edition

[Anonymous No.20656753]

>>20656745
This post weighs 500 pounds and has not showered in at least one month

[Anonymous No.20656764]

It seems pretty nice to just be able to grab a brand new book and read it and then decide to own it. Like reading tables in plenty of Barnes & Nobles before someone goes thing thing japanese.jpg.
But I'm fat, sweaty, covered in acne, people can smell me, look at my greasy face, my horrible breath, look at my hairline and judge my childish fashion sense. When I want to grab a book and see someone between shelves, I get scared and turn back. I circle the whole store hoping for them to finally leave, I hate being near people. Then the teenagers come, they crowd all the manga. I get up and leave.
So I don't like it. But I wanted to.

[Anonymous No.20656788]

>>20656731
I just read the back cover and the index to decide if the book is interesting. Do you just buy books without knowing what they're about?

[Anonymous No.20656811]

>>20656788
>Do you just buy books without knowing what they're about?
I get my recs from the world wide web, then buy the books in the store.
Why should i read it in the store when i know that i'm going to read it?

[Anonymous No.20656816]

>>20656731
Where I live the big chain bookstore has benches for people to sit and read.

Also, what a hellish fucking bookstore. Imagine trying to find a book in that place.

[Anonymous No.20656837]

They're reading manga originally published in the shoujo magazine Margaret
After all these years, I still only know kana so this is the most useless skill I have. And I'm skilless.

[Anonymous No.20656841]

>>20656731
Not if you're reading a comic book like they are

[Anonymous No.20656860]

>>20656731
I mostly just skim books that look interesting and then buy them if I like them. As far as appearances go, I'm a 6'3 proto Aryan hispanichad with a mostly average build (minus a small beer belly). I can't believe most /lit/ anons are 500 ib acnebeasts. Shame...

[Anonymous No.20656890]

>>20656860
I'm a tad round but my father blessed me with good skin complexion

[Anonymous No.20656899]

>>20656890
Based lightskin boaster

[Anonymous No.20656903]

>>20656860
Tall people need to be, and one day will be, murdered en mass through decapitation.

[Anonymous No.20656927]

>>20656764
>But I'm fat, sweaty, covered in acne, people can smell me, look at my greasy face, my horrible breath, look at my hairline and judge my childish fashion sense.
Sigh... Anon you know all of these are easily fixable right?

[Anonymous No.20656930]

>>20656764
Damn that’s a sad post. I know it’s easier said than done but you just have to remember strangers don’t give a shit about you and you’ll feel much more comfortable in social settings. People don’t judge if they don’t care.

Hopefully you can start by mustering the strength to just pick up a book in a library and then take it from there. Or keep wallowing in self pity I guess.

[Anonymous No.20656931]

>>20656811
Based charter.

[Anonymous No.20656938]

>>20656927
I do push ups everyday until I fall on my face and got a new haircut
My current issue is getting a fucking call back from a min wage slave job
>>20656930
>I know it’s easier said than done but you just have to remember strangers don’t give a shit about you
Their noses do and if I want to come back to the same place again, they will

[Anonymous No.20656947]

>>20656903
I do get looks of enmity from short people every now and then. Y'all are fortunate us tall people are very much to ourselves and not bothered to put on airs. We could round the world's midgets up in an hour and exterminate y'all holohoax style. Better hope your legs magically longer, so we don't catch you as quickly

[Anonymous No.20656948]

>>20656938
Push ups don't help with weight loss that much. The main thing is dieting.

[Anonymous No.20656958]

>>20656903
The mandatory shortening.

[Anonymous No.20656988]

>>20656947
*shoots you*

[Anonymous No.20657110]

>>20656903
Based

[Anonymous No.20657123]

what's insane is buying manga. respect to the mangaka who are actually good and worth supporting but that shit is so fucking expensive especially the longer serieses which appears to be many of them.

[Anonymous No.20657126]

>>20656988
>Teleports behind you

[Anonymous No.20657133]

>>20656938
>I do push ups everyday
Go to /fit/ and lift, you won't see gains just doing pushups and you'll ruin your posture by only working on chest without exercising your back

[Anonymous No.20657143]

>>20656938
Have you heard of showers and deodorant anon?

[Anonymous No.20657156]

>>20657133
How do you work on your back? How will it fuck up?
>>20657143
I haven't showered in two weeks and deodorant is for going outside

[Anonymous No.20657160]

>>20657123
How much expensive is for you american? I'm a third worlder and original japanese manga cost 12 dollars per volume, and 3 for local edition.

[Anonymous No.20657170]

>>20657133
That's bad advice with all due respect. If pushups don't provide enough stimulation to develop his musculature then they can't ruin his posture either, that's a contradiction. Calisthenics and stretching are more fundamental to balanced development than free weights, it's the over-emphasis on weights that causes posture imbalances. The idea that doing pushups is counter productive in any way is frankly nuts.

[Anonymous No.20657176]

>>20657123
I can't imagine actually owning everything from one of those 70+ volume long series
I think people in Japan still have places where you just rent books

[Anonymous No.20657179]

>>20657156
You are not the right anon. Barnes and Noble is outside one's home. If he is concerned about his sweat and smell, he'd shower and put deodorant on.

[Anonymous No.20657181]

>>20657156
>How do you work on your back?
Pullups, but if you're too fat for that you're going to need gym equipment. A lot of gyms have a machine with a counterweight that lets you do assisted pullups. If you have some place to hang gymnastics rings from, they aren't expensive and you can do rows with them. A rowing machine would also be good if you go to a gym.

[Anonymous No.20657198]

>>20657160
I'm Australian, a cursory glance at a distribution site says volumes usually cost 20ish AUD which is roughly 13 US, this is not so bad but as I said when you take into account that various popular manga run on for many many chapters it becomes clear it's a very expensive hobby to indulge in long term. Of course I suppose many people would simply pay for a subscription to a manga site and read online. But I'm willing to bet there are various autists who spend a great deal of what little money they have on this shit, besides the rich autists who can of course do so with little loss.

[Anonymous No.20657212]

>>20657179
I haven't been to Barnes and Noble in months, and the closest one is an hour away

[Anonymous No.20657245]

>>20657198
Well, I'm an third worlder with no decent job. I spend a lot of my little money buying every used manga on japanese I find in fb.
Years ago before local economy went to shit I could just order two or three volumes from Japan.
I have a fetish for paper I think. And only know hana and kana.

[Anonymous No.20657265]

>>20657123
Most people probably just buys magazines, which might be less of an expense (especially modern online versions), while the volumes are for fans that want a collection. Unfortunately, the manga that are good get stretched to oblivion, so they can help sell magazines. That means that when it's time to turn that into manga volumes, you get stuff like One Piece and Detective Conan currently having just a little bit over 100 volumes out and ending still far away. It's simply too expensive to be dedicated to more than one series, and one would need a lot of storage space for it.
The particular downside is that stretching the series' story comes at the cost of its quality, so at some point spending money on it (or even reading it) becomes more a matter of completion rather than true enjoyment.

[Anonymous No.20657266]

>>20657245
Well it's fine anon, because manga is actually somewhat admirable despite the questionable subject matter of some of them. At the very least in contrast to contemporary 'literature' which seems to generally be very shallow from conception through to publishing, these mangaka must dedicate a significant part of their lives to completing it.

[Anonymous No.20657291]

>>20657266
I only go to books stores to buy manga. All my books are second hand. Sometimes are like new. Another day I'll make a used books thread.