Talking to some NYU grad girl

>talking to some NYU grad girl
>says she's thinking of becoming an author
>"Yeah I love reading, stuff like 1Q84 and sci-fi like Eragon"

>grad student
>anything but STEM

found the problem

>expecting intelligent discourse with women

>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!"

>be me
>fully funded MFA student

why would i not

Can you give her my number desu?

because STEM salaries are high

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.

>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

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

rofl what a fucking loser right guys?
IT WAS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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

>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.

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

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.

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

>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

>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

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.

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

>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?

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

>be me
>fall for Veeky Forums 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

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.

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

I unironically love 80 percent of those books

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

calm down, son.

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

>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

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

>buying a bible
ISHYGDDT

S A V A G E

>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?

>Some

You should have sweet talked her with Veeky Forums memes

There are some really aesthetic bibles though

>subjectivity is objectivity when I say so
Wew lad