[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 559 KB, 1024x595, black hole.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10889983 No.10889983 [Reply] [Original]

Books for brainlets? My partner is a real meathead and I'm trying to introduce him to the joys of reading. So far he's read and enjoyed some autobiographies about sports players and soldiers but I was wondering if /lit/ could suggest something a little more abstract, but that would still appeal to that type of macho mindset.

For the record, we agreed that we'd both try and pick up some of the other's hobbies so please don't accuse me of disrupting his peace and quiet with my shrill wailing.

>> No.10889986

children's books

>> No.10889993

>partner
Fag

>> No.10890006

>my partner

>> No.10890016
File: 44 KB, 292x450, 410841.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10890016

>>10889983
>Partner

>> No.10890035

>>10890006


>>10890016
whats so weird about OP having a partner, i dont get it

>> No.10890038

>>10890035
salright desu senpai

>> No.10890052

>>10890035
Fags get the rope.

>> No.10890069

Reading books is a hell of a hobby to push on someone its not like picking up a tv series or playing a couple games of league every once in a while. Youre probably not going to have much success putting him on to /lit/ canon immediately. If hes comfortable with biographies then reccommend historical figures who also had a masculine slant.

>> No.10890099

>>10890052
implying OP is male.

>> No.10890105

>>10890099
>implying there are women on /lit/

>> No.10890612

>>10890105
they barely post because of creeps like you

>> No.10890620

If he's into manly men doing manly things, then tell him to go read the Greeks. Teach him about the Greek concept of arete (ἀρετή), and talk to him about devotion towards one's country and one's family.

>> No.10890674

>>10889983
Start him of with some non fiction about polemology or history? If he's interested in soldiers life he might be interested in the political and historical phenomena's that shape these lifes.

>> No.10890687
File: 894 KB, 600x900, doesn'treadxbizenoughtopostonlit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10890687

>> No.10890721

>>10890105
Women are more likely to use gender neutral terms like partner. Just go to any female dominated online community, even if vast majority of them are straight, they still for some reason use they and partner when referring to their boyfriends.

>> No.10890786

>>10889983
Romance of the Tbree Kingdoms

Have him watch the tv show first then get him to read it

>> No.10890832

>>10889983
Dump that brainlet and date me instead

>> No.10890845

Roastie whore with a monkey bf or fag with a monkey fag bf. Try better never to have been.

>> No.10890868
File: 10 KB, 300x250, 1465189209993.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10890868

>>10889983
>So far he's read and enjoyed some autobiographies about sports players and soldiers

ty i needed that good laugh

>> No.10890891

Divorce the brainlet desu.

>> No.10890897

>>10889983
Lee Child "Jack Reacher" novels,

The guy is like a Sherlock Holmes/ Rambo that uncannily observes, theorizes and uncovers strange criminal conspiracies then head-butts or machine-guns everyone to death toward the end of the book. The stories/ concepts and conspiracies are actually interesting and moderately intellectual but also very formulaic.

Written by a prolific British guy and takes place in the USA so everything is slightly Eagleland extreme. I like them.

>> No.10890898

>>10889983
Soldier's memoirs are top tier. Has he read Storm of Steel?

>> No.10890903

I dumped my ex who was a real brainlet
Still feel a little bit bad about it, it was unkind

>> No.10890917

>>10890903
about to dump my bf for being a dicklet

>> No.10890924

>>10889983
Start him off with straightforward, grounded, masculine books that lean towards entertaining while still trying to be 'art.'

Hemingway is easy to ready and manly. "Shoeless Joe" is another decent book that the movie "Field of Dreams" is based off of. "The Godfather" might be good too for the same reasons of familiarity. "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a solid fiction on the expireinces of German soldiers in First World War. Ernst Junger's "Storm of Steel" is also good. Orwell is another readable author with a lot of autobiographical work.

>> No.10890929

>>10890917
Just get some dick on the side anon.

>> No.10890936
File: 27 KB, 583x616, 1503957235855.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10890936

>>10890917
Stop being such a lovelet!

>> No.10890960

>>10890917
well you sure sound like you've got nothing to offer but your pussy, go ahead then
report back when you turn 30

>> No.10891153

>>10890929
sounds like a good idea

>> No.10891235
File: 59 KB, 397x500, 1521686207647.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10891235

>>10890612
Good, they can fuck off to tumblr

Only pic related is allowed

>> No.10891244

>>10890845
4real guys, don't help this bitch! Make her date a real cultured man, instead of trying to culture her Chad. Fuck off back to hell Stacy

>> No.10891251

>>10890924
You are a faggot, KYS

>> No.10891260

>>10889983
>For the record, we agreed that we'd both try and pick up some of the other's hobbies so please don't accuse me of disrupting his peace and quiet with my shrill wailing.
I would like to know who's idea this was.

>> No.10891261

>>10890917
f*male

>> No.10891274

OP here.

Calm your tits people, I'm not a grill.

>>10891260
His, actually. He wants me to go to gym with him.

>> No.10891280

>>10891274
Are you a twink? Are you the top or bottom?

>> No.10891282

>>10891251
No u faggot

>> No.10891283

>>10891274
Was the idea of sharing each other's hobby your counter proposal?

>> No.10891301

>>10891282
Suicide pact? You first, and I promise I'll follow

>> No.10891304

I should mention, thanks for all the great suggestions in this thread. I like this idea >>10890897 for teaching him that fiction stories don't have to be gay dragons and shit and can be fun even for adults, but all the people suggesting non-fiction works about war and politics at a higher level than the individual soldier are good ideas too.

Good thing we get to read more than one book in life.

>>10891280
I'm a lanklet booknerd (without being auschwitz mode). We swap.

>>10891283
Yes. I'll engage in physical exercise if you engage in mental exercise. It's easier on him that it is on me, because you can read books you enjoy instead of books you don't, but you can't lift weights any way other than the way it's done.

>> No.10891310

>>10890917
you can buy a huge dick separately
unlike wits

>> No.10891314

>>10891301
Sure. Lets meet up. I'll bring my gun. After I kill myself you can take it and do yourself in.

>> No.10891333

>>10891314
California bitch. Y toi?

>> No.10891340

>>10889983
Don't give him fiction if you want him to be well adjusted, that's for sure.

>> No.10891348

>>10891333
That really narrows it down. You're super tough anon, I'm fucking scared.