Have you ever been in a book club? What happens at book clubs?

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Anonymous Sat Nov 9 12:06:38 2019 No.14139427 [Reply] [Original]

Have you ever been in a book club? What happens at book clubs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 12:08:05 2019 No.14139435 >>14139427 I want to go to meet new people, but I think in reality it's going to be a bunch of people who just talk about some new book I'm not interested in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 12:10:44 2019 No.14139449 You pretend to read books, and have anxiety attacks in the form of uncontrolled spasms and blushing anytime someone mentions anything even remotely related to sexuality

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 12:11:45 2019 No.14139455 File: 161 KB, 1200x675, D_I75JZWsAEvJUW.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] homofascism

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 12:51:17 2019 No.14139628
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>>14139427
you have to work your way through six soul-crushing months of judeo-feminist instant classics off the NYT Best-Sellers list before you finally get to choose the book yourself, then no one reads it because it just isn't their thing and well they had a lot on that month and it isn't really in the spirit of what we do here, anon, and then at the next meeting they politely change the venue without telling you where it is and you wonder why you even bothered

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 13:48:46 2019 No.14139830

>>14139427
Book clubs are for ancient boomer ladies or wine aunts, they read books like 'eat pray love' or some YA shit for the 20th time and pretend like it's learning.
That's best case scenario. Most of the time they won't even be reading anything and actually just use the meeting as an excuse to gossip and drink boxed wine.

There's no equivalent to a book club for men, guys are too busy trying to get the approval of women to care about anything beyond working or netflix.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 13:50:25 2019 No.14139836 >>14139830 I just want a book gf who doesn't read gay as fuck YA novels

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 13:55:21 2019 No.14139859

>>14139427
I made a book club with my mom. She never read much as a young person but I got her to read The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. Unironically she understood Dostoevsky very well and since she misty just read the Bible her whole life she was able to make a lot of connections (some obvious ones) that I never did. She also told me she didn’t know many poets but when she was in high school and college she loved every Emily Dickinson poem she came across, and she wanted me to find her a good collection of her poems. So basically my mom is a natural patrician.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:00:34 2019 No.14139883 >>14139859 Based and Mompilled. I wish my parents read but they view books as a chore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:03:16 2019 No.14139894 >>14139859 Your mom sounds based

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:03:33 2019 No.14139897 >>14139628 Sounds like you’re speaking from experience. Tell me anon, what book did you recommend?

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:23:55 2019 No.14139997
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>that fucking overly optimistic dude who just read plato and won't shut the fuck up
>ugly woman with no make up wearing pajamas that reads shitty borderline erotic novels
>that guy cosplaying as Camus
>fedora trench coat that reads cringy scifi
>middle class white guy with polo shirt that reads how to become successful and other motivational shit
>pseud smug hipsters
>peak autism and cringe conversations (on par or even more than here)
>99% of the time it's a shitty long novel that you forget after two weeks
>everyone is very optimistic and strong-willed yet no one is passionate or willing to dig deep

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:25:52 2019 No.14140008

>>14139427
if you have the time to go to a book club you have the time to get your personal style fixed, your body ripped and your sexual life in order aswell as having uhm... A FUCKING JOB?! Next thing you'll ask if playing bingo with Tabby and Janeth is based or not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:27:17 2019 No.14140014 >>14139997 Where do I sign up?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:27:41 2019 No.14140018 >>14139628 shouldn't have recommended Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:29:28 2019 No.14140027 >>14139427 that picture is the epitome of BOOMER

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:37:04 2019 No.14140066 >>14139427 It's mostly just old ass people at the one I went to. Retirees.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:38:48 2019 No.14140074 >>14139859 based mom

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 14:50:45 2019 No.14140137

i've been in three book clubs

1.
the first one that i'm still a member of i joined years ago when i had to move back in with my parents. my mum kept talking about and i had actually read the books so i was talking about them with her and she was like 'you should come along and talk to everyone about them' so i did
it's really great. everyone is sincere and reads the books and we take turns to choose books and host the evening and everyone reads them and discusses the shit out of them whilst drinking wine and eating snacks
i've made them read skylark, the unconsoled, satantango and others lol
i love them

2.
i joined an informal book club on a forum i post on. it was incredibly informal and had no rules but lasted like two years. people would dip in an out of it and eventually the forum and the book club died

3.
a local book shop to me was doing a book group and the book was some sally rooney shit so i dipped out of it. but then later i was buying something and the lady peer pressured me into it and now they're reading pereira maintains which looked neat so i was like ok
i went and there were like 20 people and the discussion was so stilted and awkward. one guy was this old dude who clearly hadn't read the book but had a job as a publisher or something and just kept talking about his experience in the industry and skirting the topic. another lesbian couple were outspoken and had nothing interesting to say and seemed to just like terry pratchett and neil gaiman,
the next book was a man called ove which was trash and after that was that famous one about the retard who became smart and i quit

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:00:37 2019 No.14140190 >>14139859 comfy and mummypilled, happy for you

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:06:32 2019 No.14140214
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>>14140137
i'm gonna repost the list because why not. i've posted it before here
not gonna say which is my mum though

our next books are cold comfort farm chosen by elizabeth and the two serious ladies chosen by me

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:09:53 2019 No.14140233 File: 140 KB, 743x853, 1556937648557.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] so anyone ever score some pussy by going to one of this shindigs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:14:34 2019 No.14140260 >>14139859 any mom that loves the Dick is a cool mom

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:15:49 2019 No.14140270 >>14139997 >ugly woman with no make up wearing pajamas that reads shitty borderline erotic novels Based Meredith, I'll sit with her

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:20:42 2019 No.14140301 >>14140214 got some nice recommendations there, anon bonus points for the Hungarian ones funnily enough, I just wanted to start reading Fathers and Sons

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:22:11 2019 No.14140313 >>14140301 do it, it's great

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:24:45 2019 No.14140334 >>14139859 based mom

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:24:54 2019 No.14140336 >>14139427 I dont know where all these anons are going to for book clubs but everytime i join one its just orgies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:26:08 2019 No.14140341 >>14139997 based madman

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:26:27 2019 No.14140345 >>14140336 i'm so disinterested in orgies i just want to have an involved conversation about a book we've both read with another person

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:32:54 2019 No.14140378 >>14140313 I'll do it and I'm kinda ashamed to admit, as a hungarian, I have read very few books from my country nowadays, but you inspired me to do better thanks

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:37:45 2019 No.14140405 >>14140378 i wish you well i'm jealous of your ability to read kozstolanyi in his original language

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:37:55 2019 No.14140408 >>14139427 The first rule of book club: you don't talk about book club.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:43:27 2019 No.14140440 I just want someone to play d&d with me

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:43:30 2019 No.14140441 >>14139836 >book gf who doesn't read gay as fuck YA novels D-do those exist?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:44:48 2019 No.14140446 >>14139997 That sounds like some comfy cringe. I'll have to look into that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:48:18 2019 No.14140466 >>14140440 I see a lot of tabletop games that go on at my local book stores. Also at comic stores and the like. You could look into that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 15:53:17 2019 No.14140487 >>14140214 Absolutely based. I'm jelly, anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 16:09:46 2019 No.14140568 I went to a Bible reading group and it sucked

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 16:27:56 2019 No.14140656 File: 38 KB, 636x400, 0740CF37-75AD-4AE7-8E14-52DDBB4874D6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14140568 You chose the wrong bible reading group lad

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:29:30 2019 No.14140933

I went to my uni's book club and it was only cute girls and me and everytime I tried to talk I just stuttered barely coherent sentences. At one point I manually got up and just walked out and never went back. After that I couldn't go to the campus without feeling physically ill and scared of seeing any of the girls so I quit half of my classes and later I dropped out

dont care for book clubs really

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:35:24 2019 No.14140966 >>14140933 Based autist

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:37:10 2019 No.14140980 >>14140933 What the fuck is wrong with leople on this board

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:46:13 2019 No.14141027 File: 191 KB, 470x298, booksa.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Looks pretty chill

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:47:09 2019 No.14141032

Made a book club group chat with my friends but after our first book (Dorian Grey) only three out of five people read it and no one has pushed another book successfully yet because I'm the only one who actually reads and one person won't bother reading something that sounds smart

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 17:54:38 2019 No.14141067 >>14141032 why do they join if they're not going to read anything?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 18:37:37 2019 No.14141239 https://discord.gg/JWMrvpK

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 18:45:52 2019 No.14141269 >>14139897 lolita

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:50:27 2019 No.14141750 >>14141239 What am I looking at here, chief?

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:54:05 2019 No.14141768

I was in the /lit/ Count of Monte Cristo book club but dropped out because keeping myself to the slow pace of the threads was ruining the fun

I also inquired about one at my local library but they outright said the book club was only attended by 50 year old women

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:54:35 2019 No.14141771 >>14141269 Based

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:55:28 2019 No.14141772 >>14139427 >What happens at book clubs? Menstruation, I'd imagine (the smell).

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 20:55:43 2019 No.14141775

>>14139427
I've been in a short story group since the summer.

It's made up of some local community college students.

We meet once per week and each week a different person selects a story to read.

It's been very good. I've made some good friendships and been involved in some good discussions. Would recommend.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 21:03:54 2019 No.14141818 >>14139997 This describes /lit/ perfectly though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 21:19:53 2019 No.14141913 >>14139427 Any single thing primarily attended, or enjoyed by women - is no doubt awful. That's not to say someone might create a decent Book Club at some point in the future - but currently they are a sad state of affairs, senpai.

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 21:27:40 2019 No.14141941

>>14139997
god I had some cringe moments when I "found" philosophy and was definitely overly optimistic dude.

I remember my first job out of college...I was at a meeting with a bunch of other folks, maybe 10 people? Ages between myself (23, 24) and maybe early 60s. The guy running the meeting started it off by asking everyone who they looked up to:

>oh yknow, my pops
>yeah me too, my mom as well
>yeah my uncle who survived cancer

I say: "The big 3. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They basically began Western civ and introduced us to science, philosophy, rationality, etc."

I don't really remember everyones responses but in hindsight what I said was mega fucking cringe.

I also remember buying some Heidegger books on Amazon during a break in the meeting.

Based? No.

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 22:40:51 2019 No.14142232

>>14139427
Women's "book clubs" are just an excuse to drink wine and socialize and maybe talk about the book. Had to listen to one occur because they held it at the pool I was lifeguarding.
Most other book clubs have people going off on nth degree tangents about their personal politics or why cats are better than children.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 9 22:44:18 2019 No.14142255 >>14141772 this. Book Clubs smell like boiling gore and iron.

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 22:53:44 2019 No.14142290

>>14139830
Kek

My bosses wife is in a book club that is hosted where I work occasionally, and this perfectly summarizes it. It's usually YA stuff, sometimes popular fiction or memoirs, often stuff I subtly cringe at. One time I saw a Trevor Noah book. Not my kind of thing. I did get a Gaiman book for free though, and I appreciated that even if it wasn't a 10/10 read

I wish we had a book club/literary group in the vain of Tolkien's

Anonymous Sat Nov 9 23:02:33 2019 No.14142330

>>14139427
I participated in one of these http://www.readingodyssey.org/ once. It was OK, but I had a hard time making the calls due to scheduling. The other participants ranged from pretty good to significantly under-knowledged (going into these books without general historical context can tend to lead you to the wrong conclusions). The general level was basically armchair historian grandpas, which was pretty comfy but also pretty surface-level.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 00:52:32 2019 No.14142661 >>14140233 cumbrain

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 01:30:24 2019 No.14142764 >>14139427 nonstop fucking

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 01:52:08 2019 No.14142825 >>14140933 kek, screencapping this

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:16:22 2019 No.14142900 >>14141941 Kek sounds like me when I would take adderall in high school, but instead I would talk about atheism (unironically)

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:20:14 2019 No.14142912 >>14140933 Fuckin based

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:21:20 2019 No.14142915 >>14139427 Look at those people and tell me they have anything interesting to say, Book clubs should be able 4 people max, after that it turns into idiots promoting Infinite Yeast

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:25:47 2019 No.14142926 I'm going to be starting a philosophy book club at my university next month. I anticipate a total disaster but starting a student organization should look good on my resume at least.

Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:27:12 2019 No.14142932

>>14139883
>>14139894
>>14140074
>>14140190
>>14140260
>>14140334
Thanks homies. As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized how cool my mom is. Thankfully I realized it while she’s in her 60s and still fully there mentally and physically mobile. Not sure what we will read next but I think I’ll pick something more low key and shorter after TBK just to keep her interested, she likes it but it’s a long book for her. Maybe something with a little romance like Jane Eyre or some Austen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:48:56 2019 No.14143000 i was in one and some woman wouldn't stop talking about anal it was ridiculously annoying

Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:53:48 2019 No.14143014
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>omg guys it's that loser who picked Process and Reality for us... did anyone tell him we didn't even finish reading it haha.. oh what's that he now has some book called The Reign of Quantit- oh I can't make out the title.. anon come here and tell us what that new book is about

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 02:56:02 2019 No.14143019 >>14141941 >thinking in terms of cringe and awkwardness all the time Fucking zoomers

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 11:03:20 2019 No.14144149 >>14141032 last guy sounds absolutely based

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 11:31:57 2019 No.14144282 >>14139859 mommy

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 11:37:27 2019 No.14144309 File: 102 KB, 500x321, B0755D79-B825-446E-A833-2DC4E44EA889.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14139628 >judeo-feminist

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 14:51:18 2019 No.14145450 >>14139897 fanged noumena

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 14:57:59 2019 No.14145492 >>14140441 Yes but theyre all lesbians

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:01:45 2019 No.14145512 File: 337 KB, 3747x1511, feminists by religion.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14144309 :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:05:31 2019 No.14145530 File: 142 KB, 500x280, mnh.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14139859 wish my mom wasn't an abusive gaslighter

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:12:26 2019 No.14145567 >>14139455 hes gone, off to california to get aids and a suntan

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:33:03 2019 No.14145710 >>14139427 it's mostly charlatans hanging out, getting high and pretending to be enlightened just because they've read some Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:33:20 2019 No.14145713 If you guys were to start your own book club, what sort of rules would you enact in order to keep things on track and to avoid an invasion of wine aunts and autists? >>14145567 He got a pretty good tan desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:36:31 2019 No.14145738 >>14139427 >what happens at book clubs Orgies with one person reading aloud Ouspensky works as background. There are also copious amounts of opioids avaliable

Anonymous Sun Nov 10 15:47:54 2019 No.14145818

My high school started a bookclub when I was in senior year. The first book was some YA novel about racism so I never showed up again. I think the idea of a bookclub is intrinsically flawed, since they require more people than it is possible to have an actual discussion with. Just talk about books with your friends

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 10 16:33:15 2019 No.14146154 >>14142926 I believe in you anon

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