/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2876060]

>That feel when bringing girls to your crib and your bookshelf is pleb as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2876065]

>that feel when bookshelf is patrician and no girls are likely to see it anytime soon

[Anonymous No.2876068]

>>2876060
>>2876065

I think there might be a connection here.

[Anonymous No.2876073]

>that feel when no bookshelf, just books

[Anonymous No.2876083]

>caring about material possessions

You're all pleb as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2876086]

My bookshelf is mighty patrician. my books are plebeian. I don't even read. I only date blind women.

[Anonymous No.2876106]

>>2876060
>>2876065
I knew it!
I don't have a girlfriend, not because I'm ugly and socially retarded, but becase bitches can't handle my refined taste in literature.

[Anonymous No.2876120]

>>2876073
this is one cool cat.

[Anonymous No.2876124]

>>2876073

>that feel when too many books to just leave lying around

[Anonymous No.2876133]

>>2876120
if it were a cat it would prefer bookshelves and no books. They like high places and hate reading.

[Anonymous No.2876186]

>that feel when you go home with a girl and there are no books in her room anywhere

[Anonymous No.2876190]

I sold 80% of my books a few weeks ago. A true patrician bookshelf only hints at its owner's readings.

[Anonymous No.2876207]

i need to get rid of the stranger and siddhartha

[Anonymous No.2876211]

>>2876207

entry-level =/= bad

[Anonymous No.2876240]

I need to get rid of lot of books but then again my bookshelf would look empty

[Anonymous No.2876244]

I just gave away most of my genre and pop-fiction stuff. Feels refreshing.

[Anonymous No.2876245]

>2012
>not keeping your books in air-sealed alphabetically organised plastic boxes

[Anonymous No.2876258]

>>2876186
>>2876186
Iknowthatfeel,bro.jpg.gif.png

[Anonymous No.2876263]

>tfw a girl look at your book and look confused and ask about what you're reading now, and ask " what genre it is ? " and you don't know how to sound not lofty, and you start to look at your books to find something to say, and try to find the most well-known book to say, and you pull one and say " you'll like this, here " and it's Lolita and now you're in prison.

[Anonymous No.2876279]

>>2876263

must be a nice prison if you can post on 4chan from it

[Anonymous No.2876293]

>>2876263
>*reach to shelf to show random book*
>Her: "Lolita? Isn't that about pedophiles?"
>You: "Oh, shit!"
>*pull another random book*
>Her: "Lolita again? Are you a fucking pedophile?"
>You: "Fuck! Sorry!"
*pull yet another random book*
>Her: "How many copies of Lolita do you own? You know what, forget it, I'm out of here! Sick fuck!"

[Anonymous No.2876377]

>tfw you have a respectable bookshelf of literature which is neither too pretentious nor too plebeian and you discover bitches aren't all that impressed by literature whether they care about it or not

what the fuck do i do now?

[Anonymous No.2876385]

>sleep over at bro's house
>his 20yo sister is away, use her room
>twilight and HP errywhere

God damnit, Alex

[Anonymous No.2876387]

>>2876377

Meet better women.

[Anonymous No.2876389]

no, i dont know that feel

bitches love my Le Clezio

[Anonymous No.2876394]

>not having a 100% /lit/core bookshelf
>even having a bookshelf
>not having mostly .epubs

[Anonymous No.2876397]

>bringing girls to your crib
>doing anything with girls

[Anonymous No.2876405]

>share house with a few other people
>chose my room as second biggest and has largest bookshelf which I needed.
>hangs precariously over my bed with large books jutting over the sides each shelf
>have girl over one night
>impressed by amount of books I own
>irregardless we have sex later on
>going at it like crazy
>bookshelf starts to shake
>massive hardback falls off and hits her on the back of the head
>night ruined

[Anonymous No.2876413]

>so, what genre do you like, anon?
>pokerface

[Anonymous No.2876416]

>>2876405
>irregardless
>ir
No.

[Anonymous No.2876417]

tfw you are gelfling and merely have to dreamfast to share your literary collection with girl gelfling, who ages ago could fly, rather than just flutter to the ground

[Anonymous No.2876420]

>>2876416
http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0037-irregardless.htm

[Anonymous No.2876422]

>tfw you live in a tiny one bedroom apartment and your books are stacked on the floor and you have to navigate through them like a maze to get anywhere

[Anonymous No.2876427]

>>2876417
get to work devin

[Anonymous No.2876442]

>hey anon, you read a lot right? i loooove dan brown. what do you think? he's great isn't he?
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2876446]

>that feel when your room is full of philosophy books
>that feel when half of the girls will think this is an indicator for boring

[Anonymous No.2876452]

>>2876446

>that feel when half of the girls will be right.

[Anonymous No.2876455]

>>2876422
perfect

[Anonymous No.2876458]

>having a fat girlfriend
>she can comfortably rest the books on her belly
>that feel when jelly

[Anonymous No.2876461]

>>2876458

[Anonymous No.2876473]

>Not just having a pile of comics.
>Stay pleb.

[Anonymous No.2876478]

>>2876458

But...wouldn't all the books get a fine film of boob cheese on them?

Nvm...brb fat gf

[Anonymous No.2876484]

>mfw I'm naked smoking a cigarette on the couch as I perceive the naked girl glancing through my bookshelf, not knowing what to pick, overwhelmed by how cultured I am even though I'm a simple man at first sight and great in bed

[Anonymous No.2876512]

>>2876263
>>2876293
>Implying Lolita is for paedophiles
I hate you

[Anonymous No.2876578]

>girl sees my bookshelf
>"aww it's so cute!"
>she said the same thing to my penis
>
>embarassed

[Anonymous No.2876581]

>>2876578
>girl sees my bookshelf
>"wow, it's huge!"
>she said the same thing to my penis
>
>proud

[Anonymous No.2876584]

>tfw remembering to move all the non-fiction out of eyeline when you're bringing a lit graduate back

[Anonymous No.2876586]

>>2876581
>girl comes to my house
>I can greentext
>not impressed
>said the same thing to my penis
>
>embarrassed, again, but not as much because I can greentext, but I still have a small penis

[Anonymous No.2876633]

>crib

are niggers secretly babby

[Anonymous No.2876701]

>>2876512

> tfw two ex's have recommended Lolita to me

[Anonymous No.2876725]

>>2876584
Whaaat? Be proud of your nonfiction!

[Anonymous No.2876748]

Wow, that's pretty neurotic.

[Anonymous No.2876754]

>>2876725
Not that guy but yeah, I've had some awkward moments in the past with some non-fiction lying around.

>bring girl back to the apartment
>she sees a copy of leon trotsky's permanent revolution on a table
>'you know, my dad and his friends used to beat up communists when they were in college'
>boner gone

I'm not a communist and the book wasn't even mine.

[Anonymous No.2876797]

>>2876754
Were you two going to fuck before that? Because you totally should've had sex and then asked her how her dad would feel about her experiencing your DICKtatorship of the proletariat.

[Anonymous No.2876801]

>>2876797
moar like POLEtariat

[Anonymous No.2876803]

>>2876797
>>2876801

[Anonymous No.2876804]

>>2876385
masturbate and ejaculate over her pillow

[EFA !!FUmjYt9IOZk No.2876807]

>>2876801
Fuck it. Communism/sex jokes time. So far we have the DICKtatorship of the POLEtariat. I'll throw in "reclaiming the means of reproduction."

[Anonymous No.2876830]

Who was the author of the Cum-on-your-knees Manifesto?

Karl "Hungus" Marx

[Anonymous No.2877082]

>>2876452
>that feel when you talk to people into philosophy and they're actually interesting to talk to

[Anonymous No.2877103]

>>2876797
>>2876801
>>2876807
Go back to reddit with your puns

[Anonymous No.2877122]

well you did call your house a crib...

[Anonymous No.2877128]

>GREEN FUCKING TEXT

[Anonymous No.2877131]

I don't have a book case
I don't own books
I rent them
There's this cool place called a library by me
I've never had to purchase a book
Just go and take whatever I want and return it when I'm done
Did I mention that it's free? Because it's free.

[Anonymous No.2877137]

>>2877131
You don't say?
>faggot.

[Anonymous No.2877426]

>tfw husband doesn't appreciate your refined literary tastes
>tfw wall of shelves full of great literature and no one to share it with because no literate friends

[Anonymous No.2877458]

>tfw when Kindle

[Anonymous No.2877464]

>>2877458
>tfw most of the books you want to read don't exist as ebooks
>tfw no instant access to everything you want to read

[Anonymous No.2879018]

bumpz

[Anonymous No.2879024]

Nobody here brings girls to their "crib" and that's a fact.

[Anonymous No.2879025]

>>2877458

>tfw you will never be able to show off your book collection

[Anonymous No.2879043]

>tfw my place looks like a monks cell and the only thing that directs away from the sparseness are stacks of paperbacks and candles in empty whiskey bottles
>tfw bohemian as fuck
>tfw bitches like bohemian as fuck

[Anonymous No.2879081]

>tfw you spent $500 buying classic books to impress people

[Anonymous No.2879128]

>>2879081
Sometimes I read em too, Just incase they ask me a question about em.

[Anonymous No.2879156]

>>2876830

[Anonymous No.2879157]

>>2877426
get better friends
get a better husband

[Anonymous No.2879245]

>>2876060

[Anonymous No.2879274]

>tfw you buy translations of all the major philosophical manuscripts and only read the short descriptions on plato.stanford.edu to pretend that you read them.


Just kidding, I'm not a massive poser, though it does sound like pretty good advice.

[Anonymous No.2879298]

Girls don't notice my good books, they just see the pleb stuff like Girl with a dragon tattoo and get impressed.

[Anonymous No.2879333]

>tfw no girl has come back to your crib in a very long time

[Anonymous No.2879342]

>>2879274

Oh lord, I remember reading about a company a while back that did exactly this: Offer fairly short summaries of important works of literature and philosophy for "businessmen without time" for money so they can sound intelligent in conversations.

I remember reading the sample of the summary for Proust (yeah the complete "In Search of Lost Time") and cringing so hard it hurts.

[Anonymous No.2879346]

>>2879043
>candles in empty whiskey bottles
Not sure if that's really cool, or tryhard as fuck

[Anonymous No.2879363]

>tfw the only girls you know who like smart boring men are women like your mum and her friends when they were your age falling for your dad and his friends.
>tfw boomers got lucky as fuck
>tfw you'll never meet a girl exactly like how your mum was in her 20s.

wait, what the fuck am i saying. oh well it's out there now...

[Anonymous No.2879364]

>>2879346

like most tryhard things, it's a bit of both

[Anonymous No.2879582]

>mfw my female friends are still in a Pahlaniuk/Chobsky phase
>that feel when I can't discuss literature with them

[Anonymous No.2880727]

Either this is a robot raid or you guys are getting even stupider.

[Anonymous No.2881043]

>>2877458

It really isn't pragmatic to have a giant book collection when you live in a one bedroom apartment. It's not pragmatic to carry around thick ass books in general. My reading has doubled since I got my Kindle last year.

Only plebs need to show off their collection.

Besides, most women don't even appreciate good literature. You'll have a better chance at impressing them if you have a copy of Twilight or The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo laying around.

[Anonymous No.2881053]

>>2881043
>implying girls need to understand to be impressed
no one would get anywhere if this was the case

[Anonymous No.2881055]

>>2881053
Then what the fuck is the point of showing off?

[Anonymous No.2881071]

>That feel when you bring a girl home and you have sex, and neither of us comment on my bookshelf because we're too busy fucking.

Actually, I'm okay with this.

[Anonymous No.2881197]

>girl asks what genre you like to read
>reply, "oh I like to read a lot of the classics"


Crisis averted