>talking to some NYU grad girl >says she's thinking

>>9195455
>grad student
>anything but STEM

found the problem

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>expecting intelligent discourse with women

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>>9195455
>Chatting up some ho at work
>"My sister just published her first book, here let me show you!"
>Harry Potter fanfic
>"You can borrow it, it's REALLY GOOD!"

>>9195458
>be me
>fully funded MFA student

why would i not

>>9195455
Can you give her my number desu?

>>9195465
because STEM salaries are high

>>9195507
The most reliable ways to make a lot of money are consulting, finance and working for a specific set of tech companies that don't care that much whether you have a graduate degree or not. Going to grad school for any STEM subject is a roundabout way of making money so you should probably have other priorities if you're going to pursue that.

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>coworker is feeling chatty today
>asks me if I like to read
>I know this is going to go down a bad path
>tell him I like classical Russian literature
>he responds with "oh. Have you ever read the Ender's Game it's 12 books but it's super good!
>feign interest
>"my favorite book has to be Inkheart, it's so cool"

He's 24, but at least he's still reading. I try not to look down upon novice readers too much, but it gets hard with people like this

>>9195455
marry her before the inevitable bestselling YA novel gravy train gets rolling

>>9195823
rofl what a fucking loser right guys?
IT WAS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>9195792
>implying STEM isn't the best way into consulting firms

>>9195831

>marry her before the inevitable bestselling YA novel gravy train gets rolling

This. Then you can live comfy on dem sweet sell-out bux and work on your actual novel without feeling like an artistic sell-out yourself.

>>9195823
Recommend him Stanislaw Lem or something that could bring the gap between generic sci fi and literature. Build the bridge without demeaning him.

>>9195823
yea but they read for the same reason as watching television. It would be more admirable to talk to a person who can speak to the complexities of developing a video game and balancing its levels and structuring the speed of its plot.

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>I try not to look down upon novice readers too much

>>9195823

>coworker is feeling chatty today
>asks me if I like to read
>I know this is going to go down a bad path

lol'd

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>that guy who goes to the bookstore and buys
>the Iliad
>the Odyssey
>Ulysses and Dubliners
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>the Blood Meridian
>Stoner
>Moby Dick
>the complete works of Shakespeare
>Lolita
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>The Stranger
>and a Bible

>>9195876

that's a fine way to start out 2 b h.

You think it's bad being a reader, try being a writer attempting to get stuff published. The entire publishing/writer culture, at least on social media, is bonkers.

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>at secondhand bookstore
>I'm the only one looking at books
>everyone else is browsing the dvds

>>9195465
>why would i not work for $15k per year
Are you clinically retarded?

Anyone want to take a shot at justifying their snobbish behavior? Or do you look down on people's reading habits simply because you have nothing else in life?

>>9195952
We have to draw a line somewhere. Not all authors are equal, some books are objectively better than others.

What is the point of grad school

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>>9195876
>be me
>fall for /lit/ memes
>go to b & n
>buy 10 books for $130 there
>go to library a week later
>they have all of the books I bought at b & n
>every single fucking one is a dollar each
>mfw

>>9195882
Yeah I read almost all of those over the last few years and now personally I feel like I have a basis to post trivial demeaning comments over others on a Bangladesh kite testing forum, it was worth it.

>>9195981
At least you are more well read than everyone else who posts here.

>>9195876
I unironically love 80 percent of those books

>>9195981

you have an odd amount of angst in this post over such a non-issue.

calm down, son.

>>9196005
Lit purports such a pretentious standard for being interested in literature, just taking a jab at it.

>>9195876
>Iliad
>GR
>Stoner
>Shakespeare
>Lolita
>The Stranger
Throw in a pile of books from the Start with the Greeks chart and it's literally me 2 years ago

>>9195465
Take an econ 101 class and learn about the concept of opportunity cost.

>>9195876
>buying a bible
ISHYGDDT

>>9196048
S A V A G E

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>>9195852
>the complexities of developing a video game
Wow man, you're like so cool. You know about physics engines and stuff? Radical...

>talking to a woman online
>she says that she likes to read YA
>ask her to define YA
>books that you'd find at WalMart
>ask why she doesn't read literary fiction
>she says her reasoning: 'I write YA and enjoy YA'.
>"Do you read anything but YA?, if not you are swallowing intellectual poison".
>(she gets mad here) 'You don't understand the [YA] genre'.
>"I was a kid once I read YA, when I was 7".
>'I bet you don't even read (list of female lowbrow WalMart stock fillers who write YA) and you can't name one YA writer w/o google'.
>immediately respond "John Green".
>close tab

Why are some women retarded?

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>>9196613
>Some

>>9196613
You should have sweet talked her with /lit/ memes

>>9196051
There are some really aesthetic bibles though

>>9195964
>subjectivity is objectivity when I say so
Wew lad