/lit/ - Literature

There are no rules for life, kid. Just enjoy yourself.

I like to read outside my house, I frequently do. But never in cafes, there is too much noise and I feel people are watching me or as if I'm about to be interrupted by a waiter. Anyway, I don't feel right reading anywhere that I have to pay for something.

I enjoy reading at parks and stuff like that.

sounds dumb and a waste of money

Do what you feel.

I read at home because I get too distracted if I read elsewhere. Although funny enough I can read on the train just fine.

>>4526221
I like reading in parks too, but since I live in England it's rarely sunny. I just want a qt in a nice summery sundress to walk past and comment on the book I'm reading and we talk all day and then I forget to ask for her number and go home and cry myself to sleep. The ambient sounds of the park are quite soothing (except when a kids starts screaming) but the wind and the sounds of joggers and cyclists going on their merry way is nice.

Coffee shops have too many harsh sounds like china hitting china, machinery and that unintelligible sound of fifty people talking at once.

>>4526222
It's a nice drink and, ideally, a comfy chair. An extension of your home out into the world. A communal living room (I have none. Four waller) It helps me get away from the computer. Which should make all the haters happy.

>>4526227
I used to get easily distracted as a kid. Turns out it was because I was a kid. Maybe you can read on a train because there's less fine booty walking around. (I still let myself get distracted by that.)

>>4526206
I could never read in cafes or pubs even though I love being in them.
I need to be with a friend or something in cafes or pubs and I need to have bought them a bottle of cider or two before I can be truly happy in there.

I read outside cafes because: it fills my fresh air and day light requirements while still allowing me to smoke; it gives my apartment time to air; being in the cold excuses the mark up of buying coffee by the cup.
>>4526232
>I just want a qt in a nice summery sundress to walk past and comment on the book I'm reading and we talk all day and then I forget to ask for her number and go home and cry myself to sleep
This too.

Best reading is in nature, I have found. Reading in a park really makes me more clear-minded than, say, in Starbucks (though I do plenty of reading there too). I have fond memories of reading most of Euripides' corpus while camping at Big Bend National Park.

I have a really good knack for "spacing out" (thanks to meditation, I guess) so working at coffee shops doesn't bother me. I once wrote a midterm paper in the midst of a Bacchanalian party in my dorm-room (made a 100!).

By the way, everyone on /lit/ should learn to meditate. It is as simple as sitting down, closing your eyes, and focusing on breathing. Really good for clear-mindedness, etc.

>>4526268
Isn't that like saying you can't enter the kitchen with making a turkey sandwich?

Yeah. I wish I had friends to meet there too. Maybe its an illusory trip.
Going anyway.

I've done it but it's too noisy, coffee is too expensive and doesn't taste as good as what I make at home. Also at home I can read in whatever position I can.

Reading in libraries is nice though.

>>4526292

I can second this

meditation is as imporant as healthy eating and good exercise

I think taking time out to specifically relax and read is a good thing. Venue doesn't particularly matter but outside the home is definitely recommended.

I go to cafés to drink and talk with people, or maybe just sit on the patio and watch the people go by. I prefer not to look at books when I have the world to look at, books are for worldlessness, in my concrete womb.

>>4526297
you don't have friends? ;_;

>>4526206
Too much noise. Also, you're doing it to be seen lets be real. Serves no purpose because no one will be impressed / approach you.

>>4526330
Very moving and poetic. Love you, anon.

>>4526212

Althou i recent you calling me a kid, no offence was taken due to the nature of your comment.

>>4526221

You should try finding a quiet place, I would read in a park but the weather (Sweden) isnt very good here.

>>4526232

We all know that feel. A bit back I was browsing in a secondhand bookstore, and as i searched a very qt grill glanced at me and smiled. I smiled awkwardly back, and was very mad afterwards for ruining my chance of creating memories.
But she may have been a bitch, so meh.

>>4526337
Not OP but I actually only read in cafes because of the immediate access to good coffee and to escape from my apartment, I purposefully sit in the back or in a corner so as not to be seen, it would make me very uncomfortable for people to look at what I'm reading, not that they would because I live in a student area filled with people studying in cafes.

I think reading in a cafe puts you in a situation where you can do nothing but read, since there are very little distractions. Having said that, I feel quite self-conscious when I'm out so I can never feel as comfortable as I would at home.

i don't usually do it as i am self-conscious about being perceived as some kind of poser, but recently i found myself out with some time to kill and a book in my backpack, so i found a nice, quiet, well-lit pub and sat down to read in there for an hour or so with some guinness and i have to say that it was a rather pleasant experience

I could never read in a coffee shop or subway, etc. Just too noisy and I'm too self-conscious about looking pretentious. I've read a few times in parks, which is nice, but I'm too used to the positions I sit/lay in when reading at home to sit on a bench for very long and hold a book up. What I need is a nice country house with a porch, a couch, and a cool glass of water.

>>4526777
>traditionalist conservatism
>2014

>>4526398
>Althou i recent you calling me a kid

I hope those spelling mistakes are meant in satire, otherwise I will call you a kid.

>>4526206
I would do but my ears and mind wander, if people are talking and I'm on a page my eyes will still move to every word, but my mind will be occupied by their conversation, so I can only read in solitude i.e. the shitter.

I don't like paying the entrance fee (buying a drink) to go sit in a cafe. It's overpriced and I don't drink coffee very much anyway.

>>4526324
I can third this

meditation is as relaxing as a nice massage or some opium

>go to coffee shopped
>get laughed at by STEM majors for reading philosophy books

no thanks. not ever.

>>4526841
what. I just like tranquil reading, man

>>4526951
I can fourth this

meditation is as invigorating as a tall cold beer or some twiglets dipped in milk

I Only Read In Public 2 Take Selfies Of Myself In My Nerd Glasses And My Spock T-Shirt Which Is A One_To_One Replica Of The One Shenmore Was Wearing In My Fav Show Eva
Two And A Half Bang Theorums & Molly Then Post Them On My Facebook Because I'm such A Nerd And Always Use Correct Grammar.

>>4526206
I take books to dinner. I like to take myself to a nice dinner, read and relax, then walk to the movies through back routes in my little town and smoke a joint on the way.

It'a super fun. So yeah, do whatever.

>>4526975
Twiglets dipped in milk?? You sane?

>>4526222
If you're going out for some coffee alone you might as well take a nice book with you. It's nice.

You fucking bastard.

>>4527040
It is on a whole 'nuther level of flavour and texture, it is as if both products were to come alive in my mouth and make love with the passions known only to the gods themselves.

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

>>4526975
>>4526951
>>4526324
>>4526292

Is there a good introduction to meditation that you guys used? I really want to get into it but don't really know where to start.

>>4526225
this

>>4527081

My "Journey" began when I bought a CD called Solitude, it was generic plinky music but I really enjoyed it. I used to put it on the background when I used to study, then I just used to sit and listen to it on my beanbag. Then I dropped it and it snapped the edge off, from then on I just sat there eyes open or closed for x amount of time, I did a bit of research but I just thought it's best to fin my own path to it. I'm not paying £10 for some aged hippy to tell me how to sit still. I'm a big boy I am.

>>4526937

Not a native English speaker

>excuse for poor english

>>4527144
Carry on sir.
Nice Dubs

>>4527081
Start with Samatha, then explore Vipassana.