Are people always trying to read books with you?

people learn that i read a lot, realize they don't read at all, and want to read something 'with me.' like they think reading 'with' someone else will force them to read something. think this is why girls are so often in book clubs. they are literally just reading to have something to talk about with other people. this may also be behind the consumption of new tv, movies, news, sports, etc. - mostly to do with feeling the zeitgeist.

anyways, i joined the nyrb classics book club with my gf - they send you a book/month and we got some deal on it.

i realize the reading groups on here are way more directed, but why the fuck are people in real-life book clubs and why are they 99% female?

dahye has a tight anus

Post your gf's feet

Women are women.

(I hope that helped you!!).

>are people always trying to read books with you?
no

>Dear Diary,
>i fucking LOVE korean girls!!!!! (only the pictures {i hate real women})

Discussing books with people sounds like it could only be a good thing, as long as they are of like mind.

Two minds are better than one, and why wouldn't you want to socialise with someone who enjoys, or at least engages in, the same things you do? You can discuss your own experiences with each book.

Stop being an antisocial cunt.

People want to be able to discuss the book they've read with someone else. Reading "with" others guarantees that.

When I read the meme trilogy, I didn't have anyone to discuss it with, because no one in the real world seems to read stuff like that. I had to try to discuss it with the people on this board.

If I read a book "with" someone, I know they've read it and are willing to discuss it. It's not great, but better than nothing. You can usually read some pleb tier book "with" someone as your side-piece to a true patrician classic.

>>are people always trying to read books with you?
>no

>there's a bookclub at your uni and you aren't in it

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Kek you're such a pathetic pleb. Get the fuck out of here, retard. Back to 9gag.

I don't read books desu

I wish anyone wanted to do anything with me.

I really don't see anything wrong with wanting to get together and discuss a book you've read

just a pretty simple social interaction nothing really strange about it at all

because youre doing it only for that. you're a culture vulture, looking up gallery openings in the paper and going, liking chinua achebe, finding SNL funny, reading the new yorker, listening to wait wait don't tell me, seeing jonathan franzen speak, etc.

Thats highly presumptuous

Is it really that hard to believe that sometimes people just want to talk?

I mean a lot of important figures throughout history have been very positive towards group discussion

Even if not everybody is in it for purely intellectual pursuits there's still nothing wrong with that

>there's still nothing wrong with that
only if you're not an autist

Kant, Hegel, Marx, and many of the other philosophical heavyweights frequently discussed their ideas with friends over dinner. Were they also "culture vultures"?

I've been reading a bunch of pynchon and DFW lately and I'd love to talk to someone about it but you're right.
It's like these books don't even exist in the real world. Even within book communities, it's nothing but stephen king, harry potter and new york times top 10 shit.

My english professor is the only person I've encountered that's heard of these authors and i cant help but ask him a few questions every now and again.

Dialogue exists and is necessary outside of books.

>try to have an enlightened discussion with internet plebs about muh intellectualisia
>girl: I would love to discuss this stuff with you too sometime, and also have some quiet time together to read... and then also maybe we could get naked and-
>FUCK OFF YOU FUCKEN CULTURE VULTURE

>17
>blown away by Under the Volcano
>form a discussion group with a few friends interested in mysticism
>we meet every other week, discussing one chapted at a time
>heated drunken discussions
>after chapter five or so group devolves into just purposefully trying to get to consul levels of intoxication

None of them did finish the book bar for my best friend, but those are some of the best memories from my adolescence.

Don't be a cunt, OP. Pick a book you love that's isn't easily accessible, fid a few people that might be interested (readers or not) and put a discussion book together. You'd suprised how rewarding it can be

>My english professor is the only person I've encountered that's heard of these authors and i cant help but ask him a few questions every now and again.

There must be people in your classes who have also heard of these things. It would be a pretty poor lit class if everyone was ignorant of literature.

I wish they would respond to you. It might start a discussion that might actually bear fruit.

small university with small classes. it's one of those required english courses(I'm not an english major) so chances are only a few possible english majors have heard of them.
i have no doubt the upperclass english majors and professors have but i have no idea how id get into that circle.