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Tell me, /lit/... what does your dream girl enjoy reading?

>> No.2057214

7

>> No.2057224

Just the fact that she enjoys reading is enough for me.

My more specific answer would be high fantasy.

>> No.2057228

>girl
yeah no.

Preferably Chuck Klosterman and Metta Fuller Victor.

>> No.2057229

ITT: kissless virgins

>> No.2057232

How to Lose Your Gag Reflex in 10 Days

>> No.2057240

Cookbooks. In the kitchen.

>> No.2057244

Things he/she really enjoys, of course. Which I hope includes Sherlock Holmes. I wouldn't know what the fuck to do if I met a person IRL who I could permanently discuss canon with. I'd probably sperg out like a motherfucker and then die of overwhelming love.

>> No.2057250

Shit that I wrote. So I can have a free editor that I can also bone.

>> No.2057274

The books that I enjoy, I suppose, or similar books. If her favourite book is Twilight or something I'd be annoyed, but it doesn't matter all that much.

What's the point of this thread, anyway? Are you just curious, or what?

>> No.2057288

>>2057274
Completely curious.

>> No.2057291

Classical Chinese poetry, Hungarian modernism, 17th century Japanese literature, Borges and his disciples, Russian absurdists, Croatian literature, medieval literature in general, the Greek classics, Korean sijo, Persian poetry, literature from both the Western world and the Eastern, children's literature, Nobel Laureates, winners of the Jnanpeeth Award, etc.

The important part is that he be more well read than I am, so I can learn from him and get recommendations.

>> No.2057303

>>2057291
>>2057244
>>2057228

Female or gay/bi? (or both I guess)
Just curious

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>>2057303
Bi, and I live on the internet so I can be genderless.

but I do have a vagina i guess

>> No.2057328

Books that I like or similar to what I like. But I think I would be OK with most anything that wasn't fantasy or science fiction or garbage like Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown.

>> No.2057373

I guess it would have to be the Greek, Latin, French, Russian etc. classics. Also she'd have to be as geeky about linguistics as me. Although I doubt anyone else's idea of romantic is creating an idioglossia...

>> No.2057377

how to make a bunch of money and give it to your husband for no reason the complete guide

>> No.2057475

Something other than just Lord of the Rings and Orson Scott Card. Unfortunately, this isn't a dream, so I'll have to live with what I got.

>> No.2057543

>>2057475
Sorry, bro.

>> No.2057547 [DELETED] 

My mind. My heart. My soul.

And I the same. :'(

>> No.2057551

>>2057377
You mean you want to be a pimp?

>> No.2057556 [DELETED] 

More specifically a lot of tragic stuff, with some comedy mixed in for good measure. But yeah, drawn to tragedy and would be cool enough to mourn the loss of Tim Hetherington with me.

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>>2057373
>Although I doubt anyone else's idea of romantic is creating an idioglossia...

Anon, I...

>> No.2057562

>>2057556
I didn't know who that guy was until I recently met the head of classics at LMH, of whom he was first joint honours classics and english student. Small world huh.

>> No.2057565

My gf's favourite book is Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind.

She made me read it. It is a cliche ridden mediocre book. Mere entertainment, near no artistic merit.

Of course I didn't tell her that.

>> No.2057570

>>2057551
no that's distasteful

>> No.2057571

>>2057560
I think it would great just to have a critic that isn't me. The amount of phonemic inventories I've torn up...

>> No.2057575

>>2057565
Sometimes, and for some people, "mere" entertainment is all that is wanted or required.

>> No.2057578

>>2057575

Sur, understand and respect that, hence the fact I wasn't being a dick about it.

I atleast still have my literate friend.

>> No.2057579

philosophy, so we can talk about it

>> No.2057582

My dream girl would have a taste that is tangent to mine. What I mean is that she would know and at least moderately enjoy 50% of my favourite books and I would know/enjoy 50% of her favourites. More than that and we'd be bored at each other. A good balance between having similar taste and adding to one another's life.

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>>2057571
Lay it on me, baby. I'll take a look at whatever you've got, though I may not be too helpful or know all the linguistic jargon; it's just a hobby.

Personally I save phonetics for last. My first experiments with conlanging were a sign language and then a system of hieroglyphics...I really have a history of neglecting sound and speech entirely. What sorts of projects you workin on?

>> No.2057588

>>2057583

>>phonetics for last

Linguistics major here, you should start with phonetics.

It's the basics of everything language. At least that is how they taught me in each and very linguistics class.

>> No.2057594

>>2057583
Well I prefer to start with the phonetics and then use what I've got to start building the lexicon. It's also improved my understanding of the IPA loads, which is very useful. I was thinking about coming up with a way of communicating through the hands when holding hands, but forever alone linguistics nerds don't get many opportunities to try stuff like that out.

>> No.2057617

>>2057588
That's true enough, anon. But I go through life doing almost everything ass-backwards for my own entertainment.

The current language that I am working on is, so far, text-only. It's an experiment. I may in the future end up adapting a spoken form to it, but I'm really enjoying myself with the writing system and visual components of it, and seeing how it develops from that angle, since the writing was always my favorite part of the process anyhow. When I start with phonetics I don't get very far because I get too hung up on it.

>>2057594
>I was thinking about coming up with a way of communicating through the hands when holding hands

WHERE DO YOU LIVE I WILL FIND YOU DUDE LES DO DIS

I used deafblind sign language (that is, singing directly into another person's hands) to chat with a friend of mine in high school during classes, haha...

>> No.2057625

>>2057617
Any language I made at the moment would just be for myself so it only really needs to be written, but I like to be able to pronounce what I write.
Is that not really difficult? I've never learned a sign language but ASL's definitely high on my list of priorities. I was thinking more about touching or squeezing different parts of the hand.

>> No.2057635

>>2057625
ASL is the easiest language I have learned even easier than Esperanto

Take a class, though. I can't imagine trying to learn it from books or online. Or learn it from meee...Though I've forgotten much of it. My deaf friend moved away 3 years ago. I'm sure I would relearn it very fast with a bit of exposure, though.

>I was thinking more about touching or squeezing different parts of the hand.

I'm down for all kinda crazy shit, bro

>> No.2057648

>>2057635
So I was thinking, for example, the knuckle of the thumb representing, say, a letter (therefore communicating by spelling out English or some conlang), or a concept e.g. grammatical persons.
Then by touching the thumb knuckle, the five fingers come to code for the 1st and 2nd persons and 3 genders of the 3rd person.
This is starting to sound like the crazy rants of a nutter...

>> No.2057650

Now what would she be doing reading in the kitchen?

>> No.2057654

>>2057650
Cookbooks, mah nigga. Cookbooks.

>> No.2057655

Poetry, Philosophy, and Mythology.

>> No.2057656

Kafka, Hesse, Mishima, Nabokov, Brodsky, Baudelaire, Borges, N.Gumilev, Sartre etc.

>> No.2057666

>>2057648
>This is starting to sound like the crazy rants of a nutter...

Or the awesome rants of a...cool person.

I think the best way to develop a hand-holding language would really be to test it in person, though. Theory's a bit difficult for me, at least--I prefer real-life application and trials.

Anyway, you might want to have a look at the fingerspelling system used in BSL. Unlike ASL it requires two hands, and it deals with pointing to/touching certain parts of one hand with the other, at least for the vowels. This could be adapted to your idea. Just take a look at the handshapes.

How necessary are tenses and genders, though? Are you saying that words should be conjugated? because that seems sort of unwieldy given the limited landscape of the hand...i think it would be best to just indicate tense and gender when it's really necessary, but leave things mostly unmarked if they can be understood from context...i think you know what i mean, and perhaps that's what you were saying

anyway for serious dude, where you live

>> No.2057667

>>2057655
I will be more specific. Rumi, Ibn Arabi, St.John of the Cross, Joseph Campbell, Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, Hemingway, and etc.

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>>2057582
Nice idea.

>> No.2057677

>>2057666
I was just trying to illustrate the idea of each "touch" having a semantic coding to contrast with the idea of spelling (like each touch is a chinese character or something).
Yeah I've had a look at BSL fingerspelling before. Probably ought to look at it again.
And I live in the UK so should probably be learning BSL; I just thought ASL would be more widely used around the world. Although I never usually care about practicality when choosing languages to learn.

>> No.2057678

I would want her to know braille so she can tell me what the pimples on my ass say. I've had this idea for a while that the answer to everything can be found in the pimples on my ass.

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Vonnegut, Kerouac, Orwell
At least she did the last time we spoke.

>> No.2057701

Whatever she likes to read.

>> No.2057706

>>2057677
>And I live in the UK

aw, shucks

>Although I never usually care about practicality when choosing languages to learn.

Follow your heart, my friend!

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>>2057211

haters gonna hate

>> No.2057742

Probably philosophy, if only to supplement my lack of experience in the subject.

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>>2057742
>Probably philosophy, if only to supplement my lack of experience in the subject.

>> No.2058067

Preferably a wide-variety, with a emphasis on futuristic settings, that way she would want to read what I write.

>> No.2058102

>>2058044
hi. lets marry.

>> No.2058196

Borges

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>> No.2058199

Charles De Lint.

>> No.2058202

Southern writers. She'd have to be well versed in McCullers, Faulkner, Williams and Wolfe, but I would have to be the one to introduce her to Styron.

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>> No.2058207

Pynchon

>> No.2058219

Anarchists cookbook shit
the art of shen ku

>> No.2058237

I know she's read alot of dostoevsky in it's original language

>> No.2058346

>>2058202
do you want her to be fresh out of 12th grade ap lit at a magnet school in georgia? what girl who knows all of those guys will think styron is a deep cut?

i don't mean to jump down your throat but you reminded me so much of a doofus friend of mine who had a My Perfect Imaginary Girlfriend fantasy about finding a girl with good, but not necessarily exhaustive & record-nerdy tastes...who he could introduce to THE BYRDS

>> No.2058355

My gal reads porn. Or, I guess, "erotica."

And then she tries to reenact it. Which is weird when it's fag bdsm shit. You never know when she'll want to be the dom.

>> No.2058399

One of the best girlfriends I ever had was obsessed with Faulkner.

She taught me everything I know about Faulkner. I haven't exactly gotten over her despite having others afterwards and now reading Faulkner is alternately blissful and painful.

K___, there will never be another you.

;________________;

>> No.2058408

like this

http://lettersfromalibrarian.blogspot.com/

>> No.2058414

I am finally getting my boyfriend back into reading. In high school he read and liked 1984, Moby Dick, Crichton, and Star Wars novels. But the last five years, nothing.

He's starting off with Vonnegut, who he seems to be enjoying. I think I'll throw Catch-22 at him next.

I doubt he'll ever reach the person I described in >>2057291, but hey. Its something!

>> No.2058449

I tried to talk to a girl I know about infinite jest but it was awkward and didn't really go anywhere. I really like her too. Dang

>> No.2058450

>>2058399

> now reading Faulkner is alternately blissful and painful

it's like that anyway, dude

>> No.2058454

>>2058414

So were you two outed in high school?

>> No.2058471

I was thinking recently about what a girl would have to read that has the highest probability of being a good sign, and I decided on Coleridge.

>> No.2058480

She has a love/hate thing for Murakami. She adores Hermann Hesse and likes Kazuo Ishiguro. Random books she really likes are Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Great Gatsby, and Into the Wild.

>> No.2058483

>>2057211
Eynid Blighton

>> No.2058523

Lorrie Moore

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INFINITE JEST INFINITE JEST INFINITE JEST

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John Cleland's "Fanny Hill."

We would tease each other for having read 1700s-era porn and then when we got more intimate talk about what parts we found most exciting.

>> No.2058542

asimov

>> No.2058544

I have to agree with this guy >>2057582

When I meet someone who is extremely similar to me, I tend to feel repelled. I like myself, but I don't find myself particularly interesting. I don't like being in constant accord about intellectual/artistic matters and I don't need another of myself hanging around.

The best relationship I've ever been in was with a guy who was always trying to get me to read American 1950's Beatnick bullshit. He would also never shut up about Sigmund Freud; he's probably read the man's complete works by now. We overlapped in certain areas for sure, which I think is important--but there was alot we didn't share, and that was just fine.

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>>2057211
She enjoys reading any literature where the ellipsis is properly used. In your case, I fear my dream girl will never read your pathetic literature.

Let me explain:

>Tell me, /lit/... what does your dream girl enjoy reading?

The above is obviously wrong, and anyone who thinks otherwise should return to elementary school.

The correct way, however:

>Tell me /lit/, what does your dream girl enjoy reading?

See how I removed the ellipsis, replacing it with a comma?

I hope you take note, lest you be the laughing stock of all the literary elite.

>> No.2058547

>>2057211
Anything that's not stupid as fuck. Some stupid as fuck things would be fine with me if the routine is broken up with things that aren't.
Beyond that, I'm not picky.

>> No.2058549

>>2058538
I've only read the part about the guys fucking in the hotel. I'd love to get my hands on a physical copy of that book. I've mostly just read 1800's erotica.

>> No.2058553

My dream girl wouldn't read. She'd just cook, perform fellatio and ask silly ignorant questions.

>> No.2058563

>>2058549
There are paperback ones for under ten bucks on Amazon. I've never seen it in a bookstore though.

>> No.2058569

>>2058546
You way doesn't read as well. The "tell me" is an exhortation, and then there's a pause before elaboration happens.

>> No.2058571

>>2058199
I like 14-year-old girls too, bro.

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>>2058569
Ha ha! I assume you meant "Your way"?

Wonderful try, but a futile one at best.

>> No.2058585

>>2058573
Hey, Buddy?
There is no point to you correcting every mistake you see. You're kind-of coming off as, well... a total dick. By all means, correct the glaringly stupid mistakes. But >>2058569 merely missed a single letter, and more than likely is the possibility that they did so entirely by accident.
TL;DR: Fuck you and everything you stand for, and have a nice day. ^.^

>> No.2058587

>>2058585
that's his whole gimmick, you moron. i thought it was played out already, but if you idiots don't get it, maybe i was wrong.

>> No.2058589

>>2058585
Stop feeding trolls and start contributaaaaan.

Anyway, chicks who've read Ovid are my kinda crazy.

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>>2058585
Again with the improper use of ellipsis! It makes me cringe.

Your insults merely deflect off my superior intellect. Please try harder or leave my presence.

>> No.2058602

Harry Potter and John Greene

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>>2058602

>> No.2058627

Super entry level. Why don't you just slap Jane Austen on there and you'll have a real winner.

>> No.2058633

My dream girl would think reading is poncy.

She'd be smart and intuitive, but certainly not intellectual.

She'd be a force of nature. One of those ridiculous people who yells at everyone, trying to infect them with their ridiculous ideas. She'd be annoying as all hell, controlling, demanding, and she'd know what exactly what she wants all the time. Every conversation would be an extravagant nonsensical argument.

I'd be her subby hubby who's just along for the ride.

>> No.2058634

>dream girl
Stuff I read, like Murakami and Vonnegut, so I we could talk about it.

>real girl

J.R. Ward, J.K. Rowling, Robert Jordan

But it's not like I care or whatever.

>> No.2058636

>be female
>read Vonnegut
>be interested in Murakami
>never heard of Ward or Jordan
>didn't read HP

Don't give up hope.

>> No.2058664

>>2058636
Glad to hear that, anon.

>> No.2058665

>>2058634
Fuck yeah Vonnegut and Lovecraft! My favorite writer is Vonnegut and possibly Ayn Rand.

>> No.2058666

>>2058634
I would go crazy for a girl who read Robert Jordan. I know plenty of chicks who read Murakami and Vonnegut, it's plenty common, but man, I wish I knew some cute girls who were into Robert Jordan.

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>>2057735
haters gonna hate
i'm serious. i just want to meet a cute boy to geek out with.

>> No.2058673

>>2058666
By the power of these trips, may your wish be granted.

>> No.2058674

>>2058670
ahahahahahaha a homestuck fan

i'd go out with you and then geek out with you about how awesome karkat is (if you don't think karkat is awesome, i would literally get up and walk out of the restaurant immediately) and then you'd inevitably turn out to be crazy, and i'd turn out to be terrible in relationships, and then we'd break up and then life would go on

glad we conducted this relationship via this post on a messageboard so we didn't have to go through all that, we'll always have paris babe

>> No.2058678

Jame Joyce esp. the fart letters.

>> No.2058680

>>2058674
i like karkat.
but i'd probably let slip that i'm an eridan fan and you would think i'm crazy and i'd walk away in shame.
wwhatever i can dream.

>> No.2058681

>>2058678
i hope you really mean that

because i love those letters and hold them in higher regard than the rest of his work

>> No.2058686

>>2057211

every "nerd girl" i've met pretends that they've read stuff like Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, Underworld, etc, but when I try to start talking about those books, they bluff and make excuses and it's obvious they haven't actually read anything. i get really embarrassed for them and stop talking to them.

nerd chic is in right now.

>> No.2058690

>>2058680
here's looking at you, kid

>> No.2058694

So give me a list, /lit/. If I want to come of as mildly intellectual, which books/authors would I need to start off with?

>> No.2058697

Lautreamont, Kafka, Cioran, Bataille

>> No.2058699

>>2058694
William Shakespeare. I recommend his Dante's Inferno, written in collaboration with Tolstoy and Jim Joyce

>> No.2058701

>>2058694

Just read what you enjoy reading.

Otherwise you're only going to appear as a pseudo-intellectual if you read a stack of books to sound "deep". Chances are, you'll only sound like a bore. Besides, most men look for a girl who seems to enjoy themselves, and they have a sixth sense for unnatural behavior.

>> No.2058709

>>2058701

My problem is that I don't read often. So I don't quite know what it is that I'd enjoy other than poetry books, some fantasy, and other light reading.

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>>2058709

Maybe you could begin with short stories by popular authors. That way you'll get a feel of their style (though you might also end up disliking them for a weaker work).

I'll upload a folder for you. .... .... Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?8rxo1zc1phx5ma5

You can also have this t-shirt, whose ugly design is OC. Had we met in some strange alternate universe with no space restrictions, we could read Vonnegut naked and eat grapes. Maybe the Tralfamadorians could help with that.

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Cool, the file and originally designed tee shirt are very much appreciated. All I have to offer in return is a crappy link to Ancient Aliens S1.E3.

http://www.vidxden.com/kp9nyj3u40pj/Ancient.Aliens.S01E02.The.Visitors.HDTV.XviD-FQM.avi.html

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books that they learn something from. not just romance/d&d/Twilight/tween/trek/wars/etc... last gf didn't care she was intellectually dumb as a rock and lived in d&d books- then had the gall to say she felt stupid because i read 'other kinds of books'

>> No.2058746

science fiction and mein kampf.

>> No.2058747

>>2058734
Nice. Never heard of that show before. I enjoyed History Channel's UFO Files, though. Looks like this one is similar.

>> No.2058923

the World According to Garp

dat scene where she accidentally bites off his ... member

>> No.2058929

lol @ girls hanging around in Chapters.

>> No.2058958

how to bring another girl into the relationship
how to bring yet another girl into the relationship

>> No.2059122

She likes reading guides about female to male sex changes.

>> No.2059181 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.2059213

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

>> No.2059217

>The art of french cooking.
>Cleaning: a practical guide.
>The applications of barbwire in satanal sex second edition
oh, aslo
>twilight

>> No.2059231 [DELETED] 

Spot the Dog

mfw I'm the first one to make this blindingly obvious 'joke'

no face

>> No.2059241

>>2059231
see
>>2058483

>> No.2059252

If the bitch likes Murakami, I like the bitch.

>> No.2059254

late 1978 to early 1983 kitchen appliances manual.

>> No.2059269

>>2057224

>Just the fact that she enjoys reading is enough for me.

Yup.

As long as she reads more than Twilight and Harry Potter I'm really not bothered.

>> No.2059281

She enjoys different genres authors than I do. Occasional overlap is accidental but awesome when it happens.

Also she must hate or at least be indifferent to twilight. And Ayn Rand. In fact she can like different things than me, but must hate the same things I hate.

>> No.2059285

My genital warts Braille.

>> No.2059298

>>2059281
>but must hate the same things I hate

I never realized the importance of that particular element in a relationship until now.

>> No.2059323

>>2059298
Please, do elaborate.

>> No.2059477

Books about fucking.

Books about cooking.

Books about not being a bitch.

>> No.2059480

Some Bataille. With a penchant for Jungian theory.

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.Tell me, /lit/... what does your dream girl enjoy reading?

I think I just accepted the fact that I'm going to die alone posting to /lit/.

Doesn't feel so bad man.

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mfw I have a girlfriend and I will read a book, and then she will read the same book right after I do and vice versa, and then we always have awesome conversations about books.

Sometimes we just lie in bed and read next to each other and joke that we are like an old couple lol.

It is probably the best relationship I have ever been in my entire life, pic releated

>> No.2059524

>>2059510

I think I speak for everyone here when I say GTFO.

>> No.2059532

>>2059510
Can't tell if boy or girl.
Is that you ou the-said-girlfriend?

>> No.2059538

>>2058697

cool story bro. here I am

>> No.2059543

>>2059532
Thats her, she just has a very young-boyish look about her, I find it cute.

>> No.2059550

Cheesy, 2000 page space operas.

>> No.2059559

>>2059543
how old is she exactly? she reminds me of my 12 year old retarded cousin

>> No.2059565

SHe doesn't read much, but nymphomaniac and loves it in the ass

>> No.2059582

>>2059559
She's 20 lol, she hates it when people say she looks young. We've been going out since high school.

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Andy McNab and the others from the Special Author Service.

She's also very fit, and looks great in cammies

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Everything I have already read so that we have something to talk about.

>> No.2059603

Men Are Better Than Women by Dick Masterson.

>> No.2059606

>>2059582
You're lucky you got into such a rewarding relationship while you were around. I was never so lucky, and by the looks of it I'll never be so lucky. Too little time left in this world. You're very lucky.

>> No.2059613

I don't care. She likes reading? Good. Not? That's okay too.

She says reading sucks and its boring, or a waste of time? She can go fuck herself.

>> No.2059619

>>2058722

Dang, I'm going to have a good time reading some of those stories, thanks muchly.

And holy shit, "Guts" by Palahnuik? I had no idea he wrote that, I saw it as a copypasta and that an anon had written it.

>> No.2059621

>>2059619

thought* that

>> No.2059628

>ITT: people who will kill their wives of 20 years in a rage after an argument about Catcher in the Rye

>> No.2059638

We love books; so what?

also,
>implying I'd ever marry someone who enjoys Catcher in the Rye

>> No.2059752

>>2058523

Lorrie Moore is my favorite.

: )

>> No.2059760

Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Stephen King
H.G Wells
Oscar Wilde
Jack Kerouac
George Orwell

If she likes the first two, I'm marrying her.

>> No.2059762

Whatever I tell her to. I want a hipster who hasn't read anything she says she has. I'm sure that's probably easy to find too.

>> No.2059773

>>2059628
hahahaha

My boyfriend cried like a faggot when J. D. Salinger died, and he got really pissy with me when i basically said "so it goes"

mostly we're like these two though >>2059510

>> No.2059778

>>2059773
I don't know which one of you is gayer.

>> No.2059800

>>2059778
Well, really, you don't have to decide. I've taken it in the bum more than he has, but he cried like a girl both times we saw "Up". I think we're equals in gayness.

>> No.2061342

bump

>> No.2061533

bump

>> No.2061644

if they're reading operation chaos instead of that twilight shit they're fine with me

>> No.2061708

A mysterious girl who reads obscure literature and doesn't care about politics. And who is not an ugly stereotype of a nerd.

Really, I'd be considered a huge nerd by most people, but that doesn't mean that I look like shit and don't care about my appearance. I fucking hate people who are like that.

inb4 hipster, wanting a good-looking and interesting girl doesn't make me a hipster, it just makes me a naive forever aloner.

>> No.2061712

I would never date a girl who isn't a Marxist, sorry ladies.

Learn your shit.

>> No.2061849

>>2061708

Once you get with a girl that actually loves you, she won't care if you let yourself go. It isn't like you are trying to impress each other anymore.

>> No.2061851

>>2061849

Yes she will. She'll tell you she doesn't care. But she will.

>> No.2061852

>>2061849
not if you're interested in girls with any self-respect whatsoever.

>> No.2061859

>>2061852

Yes she will.

>> No.2061887

>>2061712
>marxist
>learn

Don't you mean destroy your critical thinking skills by smoking dope and then watch lots of MSNBC and Jon Leibowitz until you properly absorb the victim complex and massive ego of all leftists?
Then you can babble about non-existant right wing conspiracies and preach how we need to oppress whites along racial lines so we can achieve a society with no discrimination... or something or other.

>> No.2061894

>>2061887
>Jon Leibowitz
>I have to call him by his birth name because I will expose all the filthy Jews in media who hide their true name so that people aren't prepared for their Jew ways can be prepared to deal with them.

>> No.2061900

>>2061887

You sound like your father at the dinner table.
In Dubious Battle
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Making Money

>> No.2061901

>>2061894
So are you trying to pretend he didn't change his name and have surgery to appear less jewish?
Are you trying to suggest that there isn't massive overrepresentation of jews in the media and that you are fired from your job for mentioning it? As happened to that mexican CNN anchor a while ago?

>> No.2061927

>girl
>reading

no books in the kitchen, bitch. You'll get gravy and cleaning products all over them

>> No.2061929

If the girl enjoys books and reading them, thats enough. If she is interested in classics or stuff I read, that would be cool, but its not a must have. Basically its enough if she is just interested in literature and has read a little more than just main stream shit or if she lets me recommend her something.

I also would hate it, if she would pretend to have read Ulysses or some 'higher level' literature if she hasn't....

>> No.2061953

>Tell me, /lit/... what does your dream girl enjoy reading?
>161 posts and 21 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

Why, /lit/. Why.

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Foucault's Pendulum, The Dismemberment of Orpheus, Mythologies, Ficciones, Simulations and Simulacra

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>>2061987

>> No.2061993

>>2061987
lol

>> No.2062025

>>2061887 clearly hasn't read/doesn't understand karl marx and has never met any authentic marxists

To the OTHER marxist in this thread

Brofist man, nice to see someone else that understands this shit

>> No.2062028

>>2061987

if I met this girl I would need a change of pants after our first conversation

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A fucking cookbook.

What else would you read in the kitchen?

>> No.2062040

>>2062034
I think your dreamgirl should read a book on humour to make up for your inadequacies.

>> No.2063024

>>2061987
Does she have to be that pale? I'm out.

JK, only read Foucault's Pendulum :(

>> No.2063027

She's an avid reader with an eclectic taste, and she would strive together with me to find great books and share with each other our discoveries.

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>at Labor Day bbq yesterday
>meet girl
>her favorite book is Gravity's Rainbow
My one complaint is that she's a vegan

>> No.2063040

>>2062040
I laughed.

>> No.2063050

Real and Complex Analysis by Walter Rudin;
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry by Michael Spivak;
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes;
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokovl; and others.

>> No.2063054 [DELETED] 

>>2063031

>mfw

>> No.2063081

Judging by this thread, I think alot of guys of the /lit/ type would like me if they knew me irl. I suspected as much, and this is why i often shun contact with the living and cloister myself in the darkest reaches of the library so as not be discovered by anyone. i come to /lit/ because it is the most noncommittal form of friendship that i know

>> No.2063091

>>2063081
I agree. I think /lit/ is one of very few boards I would get along with IRL.

>> No.2063139

>>2057211

She reads a lot of crappy fantasy, but also good history and smarter religious stuff. Some philosophy now and then, some classic novels. She reads Dumas to me aloud—in French.

Throw away your silly expectations, guys, your dream girl will read what /she/ reads. If you want her to read something in particular, she's not your dream girl, she's a prop in your movie. Been there, done that, married better.

>> No.2063143

>>2063139
good man

this thread is the first-semester creative writing major boy version of one of those internet discussions where insane girls detail the plans for their dream weddings that they've been cooking up since age four

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>>2063143

>this thread is the first-semester creative writing major boy version of one of those internet discussions where insane girls detail the plans for their dream weddings that they've been cooking up since age four

>> No.2063300 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.2063306

>>2063081

except you're probably a whale.

>> No.2063314

Anything that isn't misery lit.

From experience, a girl who likes to read those is messed up emotionally.

>> No.2063321

>>2063314
Misery lit? You mean The Bell Jar, or Shakespearean tragedy?

>> No.2063348

>>2063321

No, misery lit is pretty modern and is usually 'personal' stories of child abuse, rape or something similar. Most famous example is A Child Called It

>> No.2063360

>>2058483

The Magic Faraway Tree? <3

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>>2063348

>mfw both my sisters and my mother read A Child Called It and refer to it as their favourite book

>> No.2063372

>>2063370

It's a female thing, I just don't get it.

>> No.2063377

>>2063372
I'm a girl and I wouldn't go near that shit.

>>2063348
And drugs, and prostitution? I get it now.

>> No.2063387

>>2063377

I know, it's just that almost all people who read misery lit are female. It's not true that all women who read, however, read misery lit. Just I happen to meet a lot who do.

>> No.2063388

>>2063377

Not as much but it does go there, mostly just abuse. This explains it better than me.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MiseryLit

>> No.2063413

>>2063387
It's shameful. I can remember a time during my early adolescence when most of my female friends were reading something of the likes, but I honestly can't imagine older women reading it. My mother only ever read Catherine Cookson and shitty "chick lit", which is probably worse.

>>2063388
Ta for the link!

>> No.2063414

>>2063413
>>2063388

>The "Books" episode of Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle mentions these, presenting the parody The Teats That Wept Tears by Paddy McGinty's Goat.

Your description of "misery lit" actually made me think of this.

>> No.2063417

>>2063414

Can't say I'm a Stewart Lee fan, I'm afraid. I don't like his delivery.

>> No.2063425

>>2063417

Ahh, dear... the delivery is one of the main things which make Lee's performances so particular.

>> No.2063427

>>2063425

Well, to me he comes across as very insulting and likes to think he is superior. He may be actually quite nice and very humble, but his delivery to me just reeks of snobbishness.

>> No.2063445

>>2063427
'tis all part of the act. I know what you mean, but I think his comedy is clever and subversive, regardless.

>> No.2063448

>>2063442

Oh I wouldn't say he's dumb, far from it.

I just don't like slow deliveries I guess.

>> No.2063699

I don't care so much about what she reads, that's not as attractive to me as a strong well thought out connection to whatever material she reads.