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Anonymous No.24698911 >>24698918 >>24698926 >>24698990 >>24699363 >>24699378 >>24700855 >>24700871 >>24701047 >>24701128 >>24701132 >>24701479 >>24701540 >>24701556 >>24701758 >>24701913 >>24702275 >>24702300 >>24702357 >>24702361 >>24702385 >>24702562 >>24702727
Have you ever seen a cute girl reading an actually good book in public?
Anonymous No.24698918 >>24701347
>>24698911 (OP)
never. and i'm 78 by the way.
Anonymous No.24698919
Do people actually read those books?
4chan shitposts are better than that rubbish
Anonymous No.24698926
>>24698911 (OP)
No. And if I did I would feel scared.
Anonymous No.24698990 >>24699363
>>24698911 (OP)
i just read books on my phone. i guess many other people do the same. usually you won't be able to identify what book i'm reading or even notice it, for that matter.
Anonymous No.24699015 >>24701592
this is performative because it's gr
Anonymous No.24699017
there is no such thing as a good book
Anonymous No.24699363
>>24698911 (OP)
Saw one with a copy of "Notes from the Underground". Was in her Dostoevskyan girl summer era I guess.
Also I once saw a 30-40yo nice looking woman reading Selimovic' "Tvrdava" (in the original Serbian) in a park in England.
I think younger people just do this >>24698990
Anonymous No.24699364
Never. I'm 54
Anonymous No.24699378
>>24698911 (OP)
I don't look at women; the power they have to destroy my life scares me.
Anonymous No.24700855
>>24698911 (OP)
Yes, I let my wife borrow mine once.
Anonymous No.24700871 >>24700975
>>24698911 (OP)
>Gravity's Rainbow
>A good book
Ha, lol. Anyone reading in public is doing it for performance. If you're homeless, it's acceptable.
Anonymous No.24700975 >>24701185
>>24700871
>he's never read under the shade of a tree in the park or in a hammock by the river
Denying yourself life's simplest pleasures due to insecurity and then acting conceited about your cowardly heart
Anonymous No.24701044
I'd say 1 in 5 women I see reading on the subway have a book with any literary merit, and that's counting stuff like Joan Didion. And only 1 in 5 people I see reading a book on the subway are women.
Anonymous No.24701047
>>24698911 (OP)
Why does nobody complain about people watching loud fucking brainrot tiktok slop in public? I'm all for somebody, ANYBODY picking up an actual honest to god dead tree book with actual meaningful words on it, even if they can't understand a single one of them.
Anonymous No.24701128 >>24701217 >>24701352
>>24698911 (OP)
I saw a girl reading Tennyson on a bus once
Anonymous No.24701132
>>24698911 (OP)
Women this, women that. Shut the fuck up. Women ruined my life. I can't stop cumming. I'm drained.
Anonymous No.24701185 >>24701237 >>24701322 >>24701344 >>24701834 >>24702360 >>24702684
>>24700975
>Denying yourself life's simplest pleasures due to insecurity
Not at all. It's legitimately a fact that people who read in public are nine times out of ten posting it somewhere for validation. It's inherently performative. Read at home, in a comfy chair, with a cup of tea, preferably away from niggers.
Anonymous No.24701201
yes, my diary (male)
Anonymous No.24701217
>>24701128
whoa
Anonymous No.24701237 >>24701396
>>24701185
>I'm NOT insecure
>I'm just constantly thinking about what other people think of me
Anonymous No.24701255
Cute yes, but reading slop.
Anonymous No.24701322 >>24701396
>>24701185
>being away from my coffin-apartment, my comfy cuck chair, and my 4chan shitposting machine is, by its very nature, performative
Anonymous No.24701344 >>24701398
>>24701185
You're a performative little fag boy wherever you go so what difference does it make where you choose to read.
Anonymous No.24701347
>>24698918
Kek
Anonymous No.24701352
>>24701128
>I would've proposed on the spot.
Anonymous No.24701378 >>24701384
How many threads about "performative reading" with a Reddit/Tiktok image/video attached do we need?
Anonymous No.24701384 >>24703488
>>24701378
Your post is performative. You entered the thread with the same curiosity we all did. Go back to your philosophy threads and pretend to be smart.
Anonymous No.24701396 >>24701494 >>24701674
>>24701322
Actually, yes, if it's done for any other reason than for your own sake.
>>24701237
Nope. I'm simply pointing out that when you read in public, you are most likely doing it for validation. People see what your reading and engage with you. It's like street busking. Their interaction with you is your reward. It's saying, "look at me, look at me! I read!" I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you are reading in a spot where you know you won't be seen/interacted with.
Anonymous No.24701398
>>24701344
Not an argument.
Anonymous No.24701479
>>24698911 (OP)
I saw a beautiful girl reading Faust on a bench the other week. I was on a run, and she was sitting along the waterfront facing the river. It struck me as a horrible spot to read. There is so much foot traffic and too many cracked out zombies stumbling around to ever really relax and read something like Faust. And sitting on a dirty metal bench... I prefer to read in the comfort of my home on my couch and in my underwear, but then again I'm not trying to posture as an intellectual. She was pretty though, and looking for attention. And I don't really give a damn if she is being performative, probably means she's good at sucking dick. I can't help psychoanalyzing a pretty girl who reads Faust in a spot like that, though. She's asking for it.

Notes on patient: Late stage adolescent female with acute focus on external validation stemming from repressed incestual compulsions toward her narcissistic father. Patient would benefit from a hard spanking by an older intellectual who can help sublimate her repressed sexual instincts which have manifest into a myriad of performative expressions of the reflection of her father.
Anonymous No.24701494 >>24701519 >>24701534
>>24701396
>People see what your reading and engage with you
Not me. I purposely take off the sleeves and/or tilt the book down so people can't see what I'm reading at all, and I have a scowl on so no one comes up to me.
Anonymous No.24701519
>>24701494
This is the way to go about reading in public.
Anonymous No.24701534
>>24701494
I mainly read outside just to get out more and it's nice, but anything over 400 pages I leave my book at home and take my kindle so I'm not seen reading a "big book" like some pseud fag.
Anonymous No.24701540
>>24698911 (OP)
Never. Hell, when I have met some cute girls who claim to read and try to talk to them, they don't even know the books they claimed to like.
Before you say it... Yes, it's probably because I'm ugly.
Anonymous No.24701556
>>24698911 (OP)
No. Never saw a cute girl reading anything but on her phone.
Anonymous No.24701589
God dammit if I saw a woman reading Gravity's Rainbow I would cum so hard
Anonymous No.24701592
>>24699015
GR kicks ass faggot
Anonymous No.24701674
>>24701396
>I'm simply pointing out that when you read in public, you are most likely doing it for validation
Either that, or people like being outside during the warm seasons when the weather is nice. But the least charitable and most bitter explanation is probably the correct one
Anonymous No.24701758 >>24701781
>>24698911 (OP)
>good
>book
Anonymous No.24701773 >>24701778
That's a man.
Anonymous No.24701778 >>24701787
>>24701773
Don't tell me I didn't warn you.
Anonymous No.24701781 >>24701787
>>24701758
>tranime
Anonymous No.24701787
>>24701781
see
>>24701778
>and imagine reading trooks
Anonymous No.24701834 >>24702263
>>24701185
If you live around niggers you only have yourself to blame
Anonymous No.24701913 >>24702424
>>24698911 (OP)
Many times. But then I was an English major, so I guess this doesn't count
On a train once I did encounter a woman who was reading This Side of Paradise, however. She's now dead, though (of leukemia, at 28)
Anonymous No.24702263
>>24701834
I don't live around niggers, niggers live around me.
t. Metro NYC area fag.
Anonymous No.24702275 >>24702278
>>24698911 (OP)
You will see this all the time if you go to any European city with a university
Anonymous No.24702278
>>24702275
Grim
Anonymous No.24702300
>>24698911 (OP)
don't know what she was reading, but just few days ago I saw a girl walking on the street walking while reading a book, similarly to how most zoomers walk with a phone in their hand not paying any attention to their surroundings. it was cute.
I presume she was coming from the library, which was nearby and in the opposite direction than where she was walking to.
Anonymous No.24702357
>>24698911 (OP)
Of course I have, quite often in fact. The trick is to have acquaintances with proper education and to live in a place where anti-intellectualism is rightly scoffed at (so, not america)
Anonymous No.24702360 >>24702504
>>24701185
You are so insecure and in your head you can't fathom that some people just do things for themselves and don't give a shit what others think of them. I will continue to read on the metro during my commute, and I will read in the park on a picnic blanket because I love the sun and fresh air. And you will continue to rot in your unventilated basement.
Anonymous No.24702361
>>24698911 (OP)
>Have you ever seen a cute girl
NO. GIRLS ARE FILTHY SHIT AND BLOOD MACHINES.
Anonymous No.24702385
>>24698911 (OP)
>girl
Anonymous No.24702424
>>24701913
>On a train once I did encounter a woman who was reading This Side of Paradise, however. She's now dead, though (of leukemia, at 28)
Story time?
Anonymous No.24702504 >>24702508
>>24702360
>some people just do things for themselves and don't give a shit what others think of them
If you're actively making the effort to avoid the performance of reading in public (which it is), then I'll support you. If you're doing it clearly to signal/street busk, then your argument falls flat on its face. Again, most people read in public as a performative act.
> I will continue to read on the metro during my commute, and I will read in the park on a picnic blanket because I love the sun and fresh air.
Have you ever thought of joining a circus?
Anonymous No.24702508 >>24702511
>>24702504
it can never not be a performative act. just learn to live with this thought. become the cute girl/guy reading an intriguing book in public and accept the consequences.
Anonymous No.24702511 >>24702519
>>24702508
>it can never not be a performative act
Not necessarily. You can read a beat up copy of a book with tears and stains, sticker residue; if it's a hardback, removing the dust jacket, etc. Also, it would help to read with a scowl so that people don't talk to you.
Anonymous No.24702519 >>24702543
>>24702511
That's pretty funny, unless you meant it seriously, because to me it just sounds like a different form of performance!
Anonymous No.24702543
>>24702519
An anti-performance, but really, just read at home, fags.
Anonymous No.24702562
>>24698911 (OP)
bitchass nigga my collection are limited editions, I'll never take them out of the confines of my home
fags who does shit like this are either, women, attention seekers or pseuds
women read garbage anyway so who gives a fuck, other cocksucking OP
KILL YOURSELF BITCHASS NIGGA
Anonymous No.24702684 >>24702721 >>24703481
>>24701185
I grew up in a village and spent a lot of my childhood reading outside. I imagine doing things outside is a hard thing to understand if you were raised in a city
outside is a nice place to be. if you can understand making an occasion of reading and setting some time aside for a session, then you should be able to understand wanting to read in a place you like
Anonymous No.24702721 >>24702742 >>24703479
>>24702684
I understand reading outside, but not in public. I have no qualms against people who read outdoors, and I have enjoyed reading outdoors myself, but it was usually in my own backyard. I've never read in the park or on a street bench.
Anonymous No.24702727
>>24698911 (OP)
No but I have seen a mid girl reading sloppa (Brandon Sanderson) in a library
Anonymous No.24702742
>>24702721
a street bench is wild, but I'd read at the park. go on a nice walk, get some sun, top it off with some reading. sounds nice
I think the easiest way to tell is if they seem comfortable or not
>shitty anti homeless bench that's designed to restrict blood flow
has to be some sort of extrinsic motivation
>nice quiet place with some sun
a good time that anyone could appreciate
Anonymous No.24703479 >>24703496
>>24702721
>I've never read in the park or on a street bench.
A lot of people read in the park or on trains, it's the most normal thing in the world. Only permanently online zoomers who consume the world through screens would be surprised by it.
Anonymous No.24703481
>>24702684
>I imagine doing things outside is a hard thing to understand if you were raised in a city
Have you ever been in a city ever? Actual city, not just a giant single family home suburb.
Anonymous No.24703488
>>24701384
Shiggy diggy
Anonymous No.24703496
>>24703479
Never said I was surprised by it, only that it's performative.
t. zoomer that doesn't have a phone.