Is it weird to read a book in a bar?
I have a routine where every Friday I eat a late lunch with friends, go to the library from 3:30 to 6, and then go home. But I was thinking that I might try going to a nearby bar instead of just going home, to drink and read a little more. And who knows, maybe even talk to someone.
Do you ever read in public places? How does it go for you?
ps: im gay so it would be a gay bar, but i dont think thats really relevant
Only if you're reading Mishima and wearing a fundoshi. Boipussi will be literally throwing themselves at you
>>9151264
Anyone who reads in public when they have no real legitimate reason to be doing so is a fucking douche. And there's never really a good enough reason. They just want to be seen reading. And that's douchey.
>>9151264
Depends on the bar. Some are pubby places where there's hardly place or time to read and some are more relaxed.
If you're really adamant about this, try finding a quiet bar that's not busy and obviously don't sit at the fucking counter.
Also if you're gonna be going to a bar everyday you're gonna become an alcoholic.
Just go to the fucking library.
>ps: im gay so it would be a gay bar, but i dont think thats really relevant
Well media paints gay bars as spots for gay men to get drunk, hook up and then go fuck each other in the toilet. If there's any truth to that, sounds like a fantastic reading environment.
>OMG SPOILERS!!! ASSHOLE!!!
Is there a bigger sign of being a brainlet than considering a book or movie 'ruined' after overhearing key plot details?
>>9151236
nice thread
Making threads like this.
caring about plot for once
>tfw no young jordan peterson bf
Well, I could be your bf.
>>9150188
anon, plz
>>9150178
>tfw when no one to call you bucko when you ask them if they have ever done shrooms
What's the most /lit/ cookbook?
Probs Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy.. but it sucks as a cookbook.
>>9150042
If you want some good shit tho On Cooking (the textbook whatever edition you can get) and On Food and Cooking the science and lore of the kitchen are great!
Anthony Bordain's newest cookbook is pretty good. All basic recipes + a Ralph's Steadmen cover.
? use your literary observational skills and prime philosophers to solve
"a randomrandom number between zero and one"
*assume only integers*
only integers between zero and one are [0, 1]
highest number = 1
> if first nuimber that comes up is 1, hold
> if get 0, press button for 1, hold
both have 1 has highest number
prize money split 50/50
no need to rechoose numbers
both players reassign gender as male
walk off studio premises
~ the end~
>>9149127
0.5 seems like the obvious answer which means it's probably wrong, but I'll submit it anyway.
>>9149145
Lol
I just finished bombing my second calc 2 midterm despite putting 10-15 hours of studying in a week. This is my second time taking the class and my advisor has already told me I should think of a different career goal. I'm in bio engineering right now, but I don't think my mind is apt for it anymore.
I love philosophy and literature, and am now considering taking one of these up as a major. Has anyone here done this, and what did you think? I am mainly worried about job prospects
how many job prospects are you going to have after failing out of your stem degree?
>>9147683
Why? Do a degree that will get you a job you might enjoy. College is 3-5 years. Working life is next 40.
>>9147683
Autodidactism
A friend of mine says that he believes Capitalism and consumerist culture is destroying the earth's flora and fauna, I don't agree with that but it aroused my interest. Are there any good books about ecology and similar subjects about the impact society has on the earth we live on and the way we treat our environment?
everyone rate the first line of my novella
>"I am skeptical towards meta-narratives." said John Everyman
>>9142696
fuck off postmodernist cuck
>>9142696
T.Derrida
p-please be my friend. I promise I will never speak to you.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7656933-bill
Top or bottom? How big?
Why Bill?
But, Bill, we are already friends.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/22494004-anna-syromenos
Naughty Recommendation Thread
Admit it, you want to read some weird shit, but google is useless and finding books on tv tropes is stupid and an effort in futility and pain.
Post what you want, and help an anon out.
I'm looking for a book where kids have to act like adults.
Especially in some kind of supernatural crisis. Why? Who knows. Is that a fetish? Can fetishes be non-sexual?
>>9132175
It's called having an interest or a hobby, you dumb millennial.
>>9132188
My hobby is reading about children acting like adults? I think you're confused.
>>9152189
I just read this gimmicky mother fucker. I'll give him one more shot. but if I get another book that's one giant gimmick you better believe I'll be in every mcelroy thread telling people he's shit.
>>9152189
Yes, but no one has ever read him.
He should stick to podcasts
Who are some writers that you enjoy that don't get enough love on /lit/?
I'll start with pic-related. He wrote several novels upon which Bresson based many of his films, like Mouchette and Diary of a Country Priest. Very melancholy novels about the sufferings of provincial people, and how they often are not aware of the vortex of misery they drown in
Sous le soleil de satan - I will never even think of a 16-y-o girl. They're batshit crazy and dangerous.
>>9152129
Mouchette was great, as are his writings on technology.
What's his best?
>>9152400
Monsieur Ouine was my favorite. I think it's translated in english as the Open Mind. Kind of similar to Diary of a Country Priest but more magical realism involved.
Not sure if this board is for this or /his/ but I haven't read much psychology/neuroscience, are things like this worth reading?
I'm going to pic up some Jung/Freud to start but i'm curious about books like this, there's so many of them.
>>9151882
Quick rundown on that book?
Freud and Jung couldn't be further apart.
Freud is the example of a rationalism taken to the degree that it can pick up sentiment again, as a total stranger to it.
Jung just fell back into pure primitivism again. At the end of his life, he believed that the supernatural was real, and that the unconscious was reality.
The great flaw, imo, with the idea of the collective unconscious is that it doesn't need to be there. It's enough for all the people of the world to have similar myths simply on the basis of their similar experiences. There doesn't need to be a big over-spirit collecting the information.
If people live in the same zones and fight the same animals, they will form the same myths, because those same myths will apply to the same experiences, you know?
I think that Freud is super-beyond and still not fully understood, even now. And I think Jung used his framework as a way to invent appealing mythologies.
I mean, they're both mythologies, but Freud's are much stranger and more interesting. But more... evil, somehow.
idk
>>9152281
Thanks, i'm going to read them both but that's a nice overview.
https://discord.gg/xNkqCKq
Come read Hadji Murat with a group of people who actually finish books, unlike 99% of these reading groups.
Schedule is 5 chapters a day starting Monday, and then Forged Coupon on the weekend.
Hadji Murat is only 212 pages, and papa Bloom calls it: “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best that I have ever read.", and what Joyce called the finest story he ever read.
This reading group has finished: Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki, Melmoth the Wanderer/Melmoth Reconciled, Middle C by Gass, Don Quixiote, Dante's Divine Commedy, Magic Mountain by Mann, Hyperion by Hoderlin, Walaschek's Dream by Orelli, Petersburg by Bely, Kappa by Akutagawa and others!
>>9151880
>and what Joyce called the finest story he ever read.
No, Joyce was referring to "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
>>9151880
> This reading group has finished: Makioka Sisters, Divine Comedy, Petersburg, Quixote
damn, I'm impressed. Every time I check the discord it's some losers talking about their fapping schedules and social anxiety.
>5 chapters a day
Do you people not have jobs?
>>9151902
>No, Joyce was referring to "How Much Land Does a Man Need?
you are correct, apologies. Misread pap bloom's book. As for the losers talking about fapping schedules, maybe in the past, we have purged them now.
>>9151904
thats like 50 pages a day. If you can't handle that then just read it slower.
they read a lot, study and live the characters and story, experience all these emotions.
bonus they all have access to top poon.
why are you not an actor?
>>9151786
>why are you not an actor?
shy manlet from a meme-country
>>9151786
What's wrong with that Chuck?...There's something off, but don't know what...
>>9151786
>implying most actors aren't living a thoroughly mediocre life
where were you when philosophy was effectively solved?
>>9151668
In my bedroom, reading Wittengstein.
>>9151668
But it was Stirner who took Hegelianism to its logical conclusion. Not Hegel.
>>9151944
>Stirner
>not Zizek