what are the ideal reading experiences in which to partake of

I think (borges - in an ancient library high in psilocybin) sounds much more appropriate

also i see burroughs' Naked Lunch sitting on the floor, a book i abandoned. Id say the appropriate experience for reading is that you're a gay junky pedophile

>>9871455
>carver
>50s
dude what? Carver is definitely fake wood paneling and general gaudy late 70s/early 80s furnishings from budget department stores. linoleum. bright orange, nauseating washed out green carpets. and of course dull mustard yellow plastic ash trays that haven't been emptied and are just stuffed with cigarettes.

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>>9871726
damn this makes his stories even cooler. guess i know what i'm rereading tonight.

Is pynchon a bachelor pad with last night's Chinese food, lots of technology and cheap decoration?

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>>9871455
>Murakami
>plate of spaghetti
accompany with coffee, an empty house, loneliness, and sense of no agency

>>9871455
>William S. Burroughs
In a brothel in Morocco while you wait for your gay child prostitute to come to your room.
>Cormac McCarthy
At a hotel or camper van in some drive-through southwestern town. Junkies periodically tap on your windows a they walk past.
>Yann Martel
A tent in some Indian shithole after dropping acid with the locals.
>Bernhard Schlink
A middle-class well-to-do German neighbourhood, as the local schoolchildren are singing choirs in the streets below.
>Yukio Mishima
A hot day at home while everyone else is out at work, with the window cracked open slightly to let in a gentle breeze and the far-off horn of the ships.
>Ernest Hemingway
A bottle of wine, a fishing rod, and a pair of defective testicles in a remote village in the middle of the mountains.

>Franz Kafka
Eating your brownbag lunch alone at your desk at work avoiding making eye contact with the black and white photo of your father you keep on your desk.

Reddit: the thread.

>>9872607
I absolutely despise the fact that Kafka is treated as some sort of workaholic, when in reality he only worked from 8am to 1pm and usually (as his coworkers attest) turned up late and left early.

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>>9872646
>muh reddit

>>9872602
>A bottle of wine
nah, bourbon

>>9872651

That is ideal. Damn.

>>9871455
The ideal reading experience is when the book is worth reading regardless of external circumstances.

>>9872215
I agree with this. I for a while read Norwegian wood every morning before school over a cup of coffee and now every time I see the cover I get the strong memory of the taste of coffee in a cold room with no intention of carrying on with my day yet being forced to