/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10169404]

Do you read on public transportation?

[Anonymous No.10169409]

Why wouldn't you?

[Anonymous No.10169411]

>>10169404
Yeah, but after i while i realised i just prefer to disappear in a daydream. I love early morning daydream.

[Anonymous No.10169414]

>>10169409
it makes me dizzy

[Anonymous No.10169415]

>>10169409
Because you are going to look like a fucking nerd.

[Anonymous No.10169418]

No because I'm not a pseud virgin

[Anonymous No.10169419]

Yes but my ride is only five or so minutes so I just read with the Kindle app on my phone because it's quick and accessible.

[Anonymous No.10169423]

>>10169404
>public transportation
Not even once.

[Anonymous No.10169426]

When I have to take the train, you bet I do.

[Anonymous No.10169432]

On train maybe, in bus no cause I get nausea

[Anonymous No.10169441]

No. I read exclusively at dusk in my bathtub filled with tepid water and sweet scent of freshly cut petunias emanating from a pastel colored chrysantemum-bouquet while sipping off-millesime Chateau Angelus. Anything less just doesn't get me in the mood. Reading in public seems kind of pretentious, though.

[Anonymous No.10169487]

>>10169404
It's the one and only time I listen to audio books because the once a week where I have enough time to even think about absorbing anything literary, the journey is so cramped and uncomfortable that it's inconceivable to even think about trying to functionally handle a book or an e-reader so I just don't. I'd have my headphones in anyway so I might as well be at least somewhat productive. One might argue the veracity of such a claim: audiobooks = productive"? etc, but I won't so keep your (You)s to yourselves.

[Anonymous No.10169555]

>>10169415
You shouldn't care about how you look, dumbass. be based

[Anonymous No.10169577]

>>10169415
You'll only look like a tool if you live in a hick American state. And even if that were the case, what the fuck would you do during your commute? Play Candy Crush on your cellphone?

[Anonymous No.10169583]

>>10169404
I do.
Not only that, but I have the habit of underlining parts of the books I'm reading and then writing small summaries on the blank pages at the beginning of the book for the parts I underlined, and I don't shy away from doing this on public transport either.
However, people look at me quite a lot when I do that. The other day a girl kept staring at me for like 10 minutes on the train while I was flipping back and forth and writing, it was incredibly irritating. Like, read your own book and stop staring, it's rude.

[Anonymous No.10169587]

>>10169577
>he doesn't vigorously masturbate through his pants while watching bbm futa furry reverse penisbirth hentai on a 12 inch tablet on his daily commute
It's like you want to stay a pleb.

[Anonymous No.10169592]

>>10169441

If you're trying to be ironic, I applaud your good sense of humor.

[Anonymous No.10169596]

>>10169415
>Living anywhere but New York or LA
Why even live in America?

[Anonymous No.10169600]

>>10169583
>However, people look at me quite a lot when I do that

Are you sure that that isn't just your imagination?
When I read in public, someone may try read the title in the cover, but that's all

[Anonymous No.10169606]

>>10169600
It's not my imagination. If it were, I would also have the same feeling when just reading, yet I don't.
But when I do that thing people stare at me like they're looking at a freak.

[Anonymous No.10169608]

This is why Kindle was invented. You can easily appear like a normal, non pretentious human being reading kindle in public because the cover isn't showing and you might as well be using a normal tablet, plus it's really easy to carry around, unlike a book, which you usually can't pocket.

[Anonymous No.10169615]

>>10169608
>having a swindle
No thanks, I like my book to last into the future and not be taken away from me or be easily lost.

[Anonymous No.10169620]

>>10169415
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE

[Anonymous No.10169624]

>>10169606
Hm,I wonder why they do it then

>>10169608
Why it is pretentious to read fiction in public?
I say fiction because that's what I and mostpeople rread in public.

[Anonymous No.10169625]

>>10169587
I've done that but it's becoming too mainstream. Just the other day a guy came on my Kobo's screen and ruined my reading session.

[Anonymous No.10169628]

>>10169606
Dude, listen to me. I live in a third world country in Asia and I get no stares from people when I read a physical book during my commute. You're overreacting.

[Anonymous No.10169629]

>Reading on the train
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

[Anonymous No.10169634]

>>10169628
>You're overreacting.
Mate, almost every single time I raise my eyes up while doing that, I see someone staring at me. The other day that cunt kept staring at me so often I wanted to slap her.

[Anonymous No.10169639]

>>10169629
Copying someone else's meme post because it got (You)'s possibly.

[Anonymous No.10169651]

>>10169639
shut up nigger I'm just acting as an agent of the collective 4chan unconscious

[Anonymous No.10169653]

>>10169634
I would find that funny and a good way to initiate conversations.
-Hey I notice you were looking, are you also a fan of Gergrude Stein?

[Anonymous No.10169657]

>>10169629
>>10169639
Most people who use that big bellied guys2image is a shitster

[Anonymous No.10169660]

>>10169624

Why didn't you just say books and not fiction?

It looks pretentious because you look like you're showing off how intellectual you are. It's sort of like flaunting it into people's faces, because most people just mindlessly tap on their smartphones.

It's low key condescension, is what it is, even though it sounds silly, even though it shouldn't be the case, it is.

I'm ranting now, but I've been thinking a lot about the concept of "pretension," and how much more frequently I keep seeing it used. I think it sort of describes the death of the individual, because everyone considers themselves individuals now. The average person now is more educated and more informed about things than they used to be, and we're all sort of becoming more self conscious about how insignificant it is being informed.

Reading a book out in public with the cover showing is attempting to make yourself look individualistic, around people who all consider themselves individuals.

It's like being unaware of how miserable your attempt at appearing individualistic is because you don't realize these things.

[Anonymous No.10169664]

>>10169653
>I would find that funny
I really don't like being looked at so, no, I don't find it funny at all.
Also, I was reading Schmitt which is not exactly fertile ground for conversations between strangers.

[Anonymous No.10169666]

>>10169608
The bad part is that if you live in a third world country, it might get stolen since it does look like a tablet.
That's why i only use it on the school (college) bus and when traveling to other cities.

[Anonymous No.10169669]

>>10169409
Because there is NOTHING more pretentious or more attention-seeking.

[Anonymous No.10169672]

>>10169660
>Reading a book out in public with the cover showing is attempting to make yourself look individualistic, around people who all consider themselves individuals.
Or maybe the book isn't hardcover and I spend more than two hours each day on a train so when the fuck else am I going to read?
I wish people like you actually said this stuff irl so I could punch your stupid face.

[Anonymous No.10169673]

>>10169629

Look mate i have an hour long trip to uni on the train, what else am i meant to do? Waste time on my phone like a fucking normie?

[Anonymous No.10169686]

>>10169672

You know you hit a nerve when someone threatens you physical violence online

[Anonymous No.10169691]

>>10169426
this

[Anonymous No.10169692]

>>10169660
I spend about an hour on a train daily, doing something to pass the time isn't pretentiousness. It may be perceived as so, but it really isn't.

[Anonymous No.10169695]

>>10169596
Los Angeles is garbage, one of the worst cities in the country

[Anonymous No.10169698]

on long trips (mulitiple hours) sure but short metro trips i just listen to music with earphones and tap my foot to assert my dominance

[Anonymous No.10169705]

>>10169692

It is when the problem can be ameliorated by purchasing a Kindle, which is a better choice anyway.

[Anonymous No.10169710]

>>10169660

>It's low key condescension, is what it is, even though it sounds silly, even though it shouldn't be the case, it is.

>It's like being unaware of how miserable your attempt at appearing individualistic is because you don't realize these things.

Are you saying that reading in public is an attempt to look an individual or that it is wrongly perceived as so?

[Anonymous No.10169721]

>>10169710

It isn't acknowledged on a conscious level, but when you pull up that book and you know people see you reading, you feel it, you know it, you know you look pretentious but you don't want to acknowledge it, even though it is the case, and my description of what society has become is the reason.

[Anonymous No.10169722]

>>10169705
Nobody steals books, the same can't be said about kindles

[Anonymous No.10169729]

>>10169705
>the problem
There is no problem and never has been. Just a retarded rabbit fishing for (you)'s and some overly self-conscious autists projecting their silly insecurities.

[Anonymous No.10169730]

>>10169721
you sound like someone who suffers from agoraphobia

[Anonymous No.10169734]

>>10169722
>Nobody steals books

Wrong

[Anonymous No.10169766]

Why do you people have these insecure hangups? If I have free time then I'm going to get some reading done. You ever realize you go through life thinking people notice you more than they actually do?

[Anonymous No.10169805]

This is not considered a weird thing to do outside of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.10169818]

>>10169669
How is being quiet and not looking at anyone attention-seeking?

[Anonymous No.10169895]

>>10169404
I read on the bus-stop while waiting for the bus, on which bus I then continue to read until i get to the public library. MIstakingly i'm an hour ealry, and I must then read on its steps until opening time.
Either that or at a nearby restaurant, bar, coffee shop... So, yes, I do read in public.

[Anonymous No.10169896]

>>10169698
>not vocalizing along at full volume
beta as fuck

[Anonymous No.10169917]

>>10169722
I stole a bunch of books a couple of weeks ago lol

[Anonymous No.10169927]

yeah, ebooks are good because I can hold and turn pages with one hand then use the other hand to cling on for dear life

[Anonymous No.10169929]

>>10169404
Yes, I started bringing books when I realized my morning commute was around 40 minutes on average.

[Anonymous No.10169945]

>>10169917
While someone was publically reading them? I doubt

[Anonymous No.10169951]

>>10169945

Are you trying to make a point?

[Anonymous No.10169957]

>>10169951
a criminal might steal a kindle from you, but not a book

[Anonymous No.10169967]

>>10169957

Just grab it from you in front of bunch of people?

I can understand the fear if you're a woman living in a shithole, nigger infested suburban in America, but otherwise there is no point.

[Anonymous No.10169972]

>>10169415
Everybody's too busy staring at their phones to even notice.

[Anonymous No.10169979]

>>10169967
>I can understand the fear if you're a woman living in a shithole, nigger infested suburban in America

There are places that make these American shithole suburban places feel safe

[Anonymous No.10170017]

>>10169979
>There are places that make these American shithole suburban places feel safe
Places with a higher percentage of the population that's black? You have a point, but personally I can't muster up the effort to care.

[Anonymous No.10170024]

>>10169979
>>10170017
>implying """"people"""" in moortugal know how to read anyway

[Anonymous No.10170037]

>>10170024
How did you get my nationality?

[Anonymous No.10170041]

>>10169596
>living in L.A.
ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.10170095]

>>10170041
Problem?

[Anonymous No.10170153]

>>10170037
>crime-ridden third world shithole
>full of niggers
Easy, it could only be Poortugal.

[Anonymous No.10170184]

>>10170153
It could have been any African country or any Latin American country.
How did you get it right though?

[Anonymous No.10170239]

Is /lit/ really that self conscious they'd get anxiety reading in public when it's perfectly fine for normies to browse Faceberg and Shitter? There's everything wrong with this double standard in society.

[Anonymous No.10170260]

>>10170239

I had a laughing explosion upon rereading the term Faceberg. Thank you humorous samaritan.

[Anonymous No.10170276]

I like to read on the train, its either that or podcasts.

The people I don't like that read books on transit are the guys that are reading books on how to be a man. They like to look up a lot and see if anyone is looking at them or the book. They need some sort of validation beyond the book designed to validate them.

[Anonymous No.10170409]

Yes, with my phone. It's a 6.4" device, so it's comfortable enough to read a few chapters on the go.

[Anonymous No.10170429]

>>10170239
>double standard in society
There is no double standard. You shouldn't take socially retarded teenagers' ideas of societal interactions on faith.

[Anonymous No.10170501]

>>10169629
Bugs... easy on the carrots.

[Anonymous No.10170507]

Definitely. Commuting takes up a chunk of my day. I might as well put it to good use.

[Anonymous No.10170518]

>>10170429

It's not just teenagers, I see adults constantly shun books unless it's some shit like Harry Potter or A Song of Ice and Fire if only because they have a big TV show or movie advertising them.

[Tripped? No.10170610]

>>10169404
Duh

[Anonymous No.10170767]

>>10169734
Most people steal book on their kindle.

[Anonymous No.10170787]

>>10169404
who is that semen demon

[Anonymous No.10172460]

>>10170787
Looks like Micheal Cera to me

[Anonymous No.10172462]

>>10169415
But I am a nerd.

[Anonymous No.10172474]

>>10169629
>tfw used to bring books with me on the bus/train
>now I only read on my phone because it's safer if people assume I'm using facebook or something instead
>slowly causes my eyesight to degrade
>keep doing it anyway out of fear of being accosted
I hate you people

[Anonymous No.10172508]

>>10169669
>t. jealous illiterate

[Anonymous No.10172552]

>>10169629
100%. there's a guy at my uni who always pulls out some shitty scifi novel on the 5 min shuttle bus ride. he also keeps a pencil on his ear and plays the piano in the student lounge

[Anonymous No.10172592]

>>10172508
>t. ugly attention-seeking faggot
Here is the attention you wanted.

[Anonymous No.10172594]

According to /lit/ breathing is pretentious. Merely existing is pretentious. Look at that faggot, he was born at one point! How original and individualistic, you pretentious shit!

[Anonymous No.10172607]

>>10169404
Yea pt is great for reading - you don't have to concentrate like when driving a motor.

[Anonymous No.10172609]

I read a good chunk of Infinite Jest on the bus/train and got several 'mirin looks. It works you guys.

[Anonymous No.10172613]

>>10169404
Yeah, because I ride about an hour on the bus each day.

>>10169423
Public transportation sucks, but if the area you're going to is super inconvenient to park at it makes more sense. I own a car but still take the bus sometimes. Also bus fare is only 50 cents vs. $20 for parking where I'm going.

>>10170041
I've lived in both LA and NYC. They're completely different animals but I like LA a little more. Sure there's less history, but it's also less claustrophobic. I also got tired of New Yorkers blowing themselves about how 'great' New York is when it's mostly just people piled on other people. Just the grocery store lines in NYC are enough to make a person go insane (they sometimes go literally around the store). Also the subway in NYC is mobbed a lot of the time.

LA is such a large area that if you don't like one spot you can move to another and it'll be completely different, more so than moving between Burroughs in NYC. Yeah there's more beaners (depending on the neighborhood), but unline NYC there's less annoying cucks who are obsessed with coffee shops and improv comedy.

[Anonymous No.10172617]

>>10172607
>driving a motor
you mean driving a car you fucking mong

[Anonymous No.10172619]

>>10169404
Yes

[Anonymous No.10172650]

If your commute is more than 20 minutes you should be reading. What the fuck else are you gonna do?

[Anonymous No.10172659]

>>10172650
Podcasts. Audio lectures. Music.

[Anonymous No.10172685]

>h-haha reading in public is for l-losers
Why must you criticize each other over how others spend time on their hobbies?

[Anonymous No.10172700]

>>10172594
*inhales*

[Anonymous No.10172786]

>>10172700

You're living a meme you fucking loser. Le tortured artist who inhales amiright? Go back to plebbit and come back when you've grown up.

[Anonymous No.10172808]

>>10172617
Umm I'm British dude "motor" is pretty common vernacular in the fishing village called London where I currently reside.

[Anonymous No.10172819]

>>10169583
>wow he must be pretty smart. If only he wasn't so ugly

[Anonymous No.10173220]

>>10169634

People look at you, so fucking what. I really don’t see what the fuss is about. Why should you be concerned if another person you don’t know or care about looks at you in public?

[Anonymous No.10173544]

Your opinion on bookreaders are invalid if you spend more than 1min on your """smart"""phone when commuting.
Ill flex a book on the subway every day and you can't stop me

[Anonymous No.10173552]

>>10172552
shit this could be me i got laid yesterday though

[Anonymous No.10173649]

>>10169596
because the midwest is more /lit/ by a fucking mile

[Anonymous No.10173772]

>>10172819
kek

[Anonymous No.10173799]

>>10169729
What is rabbit fishibg?

[Anonymous No.10173813]

>>10173649
The Midwest is a huge flyover field. There's zero argument to be made that it is at all /lit/ let alone more /lit/ than nyc

[Anonymous No.10174027]

It's the only thing I do in public, desu.
It's so much better to read a book on my phone than flip through social media or something.

[Anonymous No.10174126]

On the bus that takes 15/20 mins I check the news on the phone
On the boat that takes 25/30 mins I read a book or a magazine
On the subway that takes 15 mins I look at girls

[saucy No.10174145]

all the time

[Anonymous No.10174193]

>>10169415
literally most people in my country read on the subway or the train

[Anonymous No.10174224]

No, because i go in bus. It just shaking all the time.
I just listen to music.

[Anonymous No.10174297]

>>10169664
>Schmitt
bet it was a translation, pretentious faggot. Nothing wrong with reading in public (I often read while walking around campus/around my neighborhood), but reading attended by some LEE MEE ALON schtick is absolutely autist-tier. You don't need to be chad to joke with strangers, "Ah, I see you must be a big Arno Schmitt fan, no?" is perfectly acceptable, people enjoy that kind of banter

[Anonymous No.10174408]

>>10174297

>Arno Schmitt
That's funny, I assumed he was talking about Carl

[Anonymous No.10174669]

>>10169404
I often don't have time to read anywhere else

[Anonymous No.10174681]

>>10169634
Have you considered that maybe people look at you because you're goofy looking or plain ugly, and not because you're reading a book?

[Anonymous No.10174687]

>>10172474
You should hate yourself for being such a pushover.

[Anonymous No.10174701]

>>10169615
>doesn't know how to disable DRM
lol

[Anonymous No.10174737]

>>10169411
i know your feel, anon

[Anonymous No.10174876]

>>10169629
Jesus Christ, is this some weird sort of projection? Do you really think everyone who reads in public is doing it just for attention?
This is really self-centered thinking. You're assuming what someone does to pass the time is because he/she cares what you think about them.

[Anonymous No.10174894]

>>10174876
>oh shit I've been outed

[Anonymous No.10175133]

No. In my country (Brazil) is impossible read on public transport.
1 - Always full of people
2 - Very unstable, the streets are not decently paved so the bus shake a lot and don't have metro/train in my city, I live in a country town.
3 - People always want talk with you about bus delay, climate...
4 - I need concentration and silence so I only read at night or dawn

[Anonymous No.10175197]

>>10175133
Use white noise mano

[Anonymous No.10175583]

>>10172462
Still waiting for this trend to die.

[Anonymous No.10175822]

>>10169596
>either of those cities ever feeling like America
New England historic towns are the quintessential America in my mind and I've lived all over the country. Those two trash heaps ARE the melting pot people refer to when speaking of America and as such can easily feel like an entirely different country altogether. Also,
>living around urban and suburban retards
Shiggy Diggy Ma Niggy

[Anonymous No.10176103]

Lots of people read on the public transport in my city
Books, e-readers, newspapers, phones etc

[Anonymous No.10176868]

>>10169404
Yeah, but I do it on my phone. Reading a book in a moving vehicle makes me feel a bit sickly, I'll never understand why.

[Anonymous No.10176889]

>>10173813
>If it gets overlooked it can't be lit
Just like if you try to get published

[Anonymous No.10176894]

>>10169404
Is he Michael Cera?

[Anonymous No.10176901]

>>10169441
>this kind of irony
Read more.

[Anonymous No.10177493]

>it's ok to play candy crush @ ur commute or/and in public.
>it's ok to stalk that girl that never ever will sex with u.
>it's ok even to watch porn on public spaces.
>you're a pretentious faggot if you read a fucking book.

[Anonymous No.10177503]

The virgin: reading in public whileteying to hide cover
Chad:proudly supports his fav website

[Anonymous No.10177547]

>>10169404
Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.10177613]

Is there someway to prevent myself from feeling sick while reading in a moving vehicle? I can feel it coming on within a minute. If I spend over ten minutes reading on a bus I start feeling like I need to vomit.

[Anonymous No.10177620]

yeah. but only pulp (bukowski, houellebecq. james ellroy etc)

[Anonymous No.10177675]

>>10169695
Just because you didn't have any friends willing to show you nice sides of it. Our train system Isn't much to boast about though, we've invested way more into the freeways.

[Anonymous No.10177700]

>>10172613
theyre both shit man

[Anonymous No.10177732]

>>10177613
Looking out the window makes it go away, just alternate.

[Anonymous No.10177745]

>>10169404
It's too distracting for me. So no, I don't.

[Anonymous No.10177746]

I find that deep breathing can help. quietly, through the nose.

[Anonymous No.10177754]

>>10177547
That guy is absolute patrician.

[Anonymous No.10177768]

>>10177754
This is an edit. In the real pic, he had an ancientgreek dictionary and Plato's Republic

[Anonymous No.10177780]

>>10177768
I know.

[NotaPleb No.10178331]

>>10169404

Read on public transportation? And chance getting the film of grease that clings to every surface on said transportation on my wondrous literature? Are you a fucking pleb or what?

[Anonymous No.10178348]

>>10169596
daily reminder to CRUSH THE URBANITE

[Anonymous No.10178440]

>>10169608
>>10169660
>>10169666
>>10169705
>>10169957
>"Just look at your phone! If you HAVE to read, use a Kindle!"

Have fun having your $150+ devices stolen by Tyrone as he sprints off the bus with your shit. Reading a messy paperback means either nothing will get stolen or the poor youth of America gets some Homer in their life.

[Anonymous No.10178465]

>>10169596
>living in a major city
Why even live?

[Anonymous No.10178761]

>>10169404
Sadly, no. My bus ride to work takes like 5 minutes and there's usually nowhere to sit (I'm too retarded to manipulate the book with one hand.)

[Anonymous No.10178774]

nook or kindle?

[Anonymous No.10178783]

>>10169409
too much noize

[Anonymous No.10178818]

>tfw you spend more time walking to and between stations than on the train
Can't do anything because i can read like two pages beore i have to close the book and step out of the train.

[Anonymous No.10178955]

>>10169415
I'm a fucking nerd though

[Anonymous No.10178985]

No, largely because I can't be assed carrying books around all the time.

[Anonymous No.10178997]

>>10169404
I can't read unless I'm completly alone.

[Anonymous No.10179002]

>>10178440
Not everyone lives in nigger infested shitholes, friendo.

[Anonymous No.10179013]

>>10169620
THE VIRGIN COMEDIAN
THE CHAD WAITRESS

[Anonymous No.10179388]

>>10169404
yall best brown bag it if you read in public. showing off what youre reading is shameful behavior and you will be judged harshly for it in the post-life

[Anonymous No.10179700]

>>10169818
That's exactly what some people count as pretentious.

[Anonymous No.10179824]

>>10179002
Then be my guest to read however the fuck you want. Much "bus culture" in the US is centered around New York though, which IS infested.

[Anonymous No.10179855]

>>10169583
Staring is only rude if you get caught

Then you quit staring

Or if youre like me you recognize the undying reality that you could die any moment and might as well take in the few moments more pleasure of staring at her chiseled ass, good call on the yoga pants

If she confronts, just point on the piece of gum on the ground near dat ass and say

Whens the last time youve seen a piece of gum with that color of Firetruck Red?

[Anonymous No.10181183]

>>10169404
>>>/n/
for extra comfy

[Anonymous No.10181209]

>>10169441
what are these petunias doing in a chrysantemum-bouquet?
i need to kno

[Anonymous No.10181399]

>>10178465
Good look Writing Fiction when you’re ignorant of diversity and other people.