Do you and your girlfriend share similar tastes in literature?

Might be time to trade up, my dude

my ex gf is an absolute beautiful patrician who prolly reads more than i do and the best person I've ever met and i ruined our entire relationship by cheating on her in a fucked up insecure rock bottom drug/alcohol/self-deception induced stupor and then lying to her about it because I'm a fucking moron who fell for the nihilism meme for a few months

I am now desperately attempting to repair what is left of our relationship and earn back some semblance of trust

she posts here
please just don't tell me if you see this dude thanks

>so I honestly think she is afraid I might call her a pleb or something stupid like that if she read something I "didn't approve of".
At least she had some sense in her head

>Reads Nietzsche once

Clean your room buddy and straighten your life out.

Well thanks man, i like jbp too.

I'm trying. I stopped smoking weed every day. That's had a big effect, i think, but it might just be wishful thinking. something definite i can do for self improvement.

Gonna go to school soon, hopefully. If i keep my shit together then maybe i can get into a good grad school or something.

i just want my best friend back

I have never had a girlfriend and I have never tried to get one. It really bothers me but I'll do nothing about it

i have also lost a dearest, good friend of mine. it is a somber feeling, to be so acquainted with someone that has departed from our lives, for one reason or the other. mine is far less sinister, but the fault lies within me regardless for having let it happen -- and end -- in such a naive, and permanent way.

a truly special friend to me, an individual i had cherished, and still sometimes do, whom i have supposed never felt the same way about me. but as they say, if you love something then set it free. i truly loved this person in as wholesome of a way i could possibly mean it in, and still do, and so i still hold the hope that one day this cherished person will return to me on their own behalf.

perhaps my naivete that has gotten me into this somewhat dire situation has not been subdued after all. instead, it has been pumped full of toxic radiation juice and evolved into something far more disgustingly retarded

She goes to art school and watches a lot of kino.
She's quite stiff and conversation is difficult; we know to take a few weeks without talking to recharge.
I love her.

The trick is to stop caring. There is no point in sentimentality

Are you a girl?

My gf only reads ya garbage unfortunately.

not sure i agree with that despite my tendencies towards cynicism. i think personal relationships are one of the most valuable things any man could wish to have as they are dependent on time, the most valuable resource we have. but if you have any book recommendations i will entertain them with an open mind.

i had prayed for the second time in my life last night, and while i have sought forgiveness in the past i have not truly felt any atonement for what i had let happen. i feel this could only be done through them forgiving me on their own behalf but perhaps this philosophy of mine will change

nah and i'm not really talking about a girlfriend either. i just thought it was relevant, as far as any personal relationships go

>girls
>taste in literature

The fuck did you do? Introspection is good and all but you're really achieving nothing through this effeminate self flagellation. I've had my best friend disappear one day without a word and I didn't feel anything but curiosity. You should be a man instead of a possession of others, unless of course you are a woman

>girlfriend

Listen you fuck. Veeky Forums is one of the last places where i still feel like a human being and not a waste of space. You can't just walk in here a fucking flame me like this.

This is my home, you fucking monster.

>your girlfriend

You've come to the wrong neighborhood nigga

She's more patrician than me in her tastes but probably not as broadly read, if only because she likes to re-read books a lot and has a job which takes up her valuable reading time.

Before she met me she only liked hunger games and twilight.

I've made her read Bram Stoker, Kafka, Tchekov, Stendhal, Joyce and Flaubert, and the last book she bought was twenty thousand leagues under the sea.

But her focus is in the academy/biology so she doesn't read much at all, her taste is pretty pleb (Taylor swift and gilmore girl) but I actually love her for that, so whatever

Why did this post make me laugh?
I'm the same, user.

I hope she leaves you.

>ex

You're not a very good reader, are you?

>I am now desperately attempting to repair what is left of our relationship
I meant she completely cuts him out of her life.

I share cocks with my girlfriend

she is used to reading garbage
i got her to read the alchemist and then life of pi to start
she also read of mice and men and tried to read house of leaves
her ability to discuss these things are limited, i wish i had a Veeky Forums gf, but whatever

No, and it adds to our relationship. Half the stuff I read she has no interest in, and vice-versa, but we both end up reading stuff the other bought, so it's ok.

>tfw 24 kvs
f-f-fuck you niggers why do you always make me remeber

>24

Fucking how? I have trouble even conceiving of a post-college virgin.

Did you join a seminary after high school?

It's so fucking easy to lose your virginity in the 16-20 range that it's a freebie

>she is used to reading garbage
>i got her to read the alchemist and then life of pi to start

Sounds like you're the one who got her to read garbage...

Generally speaking she's more into 18th and 19th century stuff than I am and doesn't care for much published after 1920, but there's also a good bit of overlap

Veeky Forums - the postkino

he's probably really ugly or mentally ill just like me

Ugliness and mental retardation are not male monopolies.

Surely he should have found a mate before fucking TWENTY FOUR

ugly and retarded people typically aren't interested in mating with fellow ugly retards. i speak from experience.

youre retarded frendo
i tried to pick easy books for her to start with that were a step above stephen king and outlander series erotica
i read both of those years ago so we could at least try to discuss them

You're a broken human being. Even the downies mate.

i'm 23 and i haven't made an acquaintance in years. i'm in college but i only show up for exams and don't leave the house except to go to the gym. i have been diagnosed with depression and it's killing me.

even the downies what mate?

At least you didn't write an epic poem about it that some pig fuckers stole just so they could have a laugh at (you) whenever s/he or they wanted to. At least your torture is only self-reflection and not the joy of idiots and scum. I had to move three times, and I still can't get used to my new name.

Its called being shallow, user

I'm most interested in post-1900 stuff, she's more interested in the Romantic period and other 19th century stuff

It makes me sad that she doesn't love some of the authors I do but it's also nice because we can introduce each other to stuff

>when your property wants to be marked by someone else

the man has a point

I've never had a girlfriend.

nah. Veeky Forums has been okay with women from the start. stay here if you like but keep your whining on /r9k/.

she reads sci-fi, fantasy, and philosophy. pretty sure if she were a dude, she'd have a neckbeard, gut, and fedora.

i'm okay with women, i'm just not okay with girlfriends

g-gay

It's not that great a thing, user. You are with them all the fucking time. There is no more personal space. You won't be able to read as much as you want. You'll be stuck doing "cute" bullshit with her. Their thoughts, dreams and ideas are utter nonsense. It's like you are baby sitting a child all day and night. Once you get used to having sex with her your love melts into a puddle of slime...

So you're gay?

There's no such thing as a straight man who is "okay with women" but "not okay with girlfriends"

what are you, dense? those who can't get gfs don't like being reminded of their inadequacies. it doesn't necessarily mean they hate women, it means they hate being reminded of their failures.

Being reminded of your failures by the sensations of women doesn't strike me as "okay with women"

it's not "by the sensations of women," it's by the sensations of intimate relationships between men and women (or i guess men-men / women-women if you swing that way but still can't get any)

just become a published novelist

>imagination this poor
pleb

>there aren't easy reads that are actually good

Kind of the same thing happened to me could years ago, but I'm glad I turned my life around and my gf was mercifull enough to take me back. I love her so much it's just unbelievable.

My gf has different a taste, reads mostly magical realism and art theory academics (Gombrich, R. Krauss, etc). I'm not resentful of that, but its probably because she reads way less than me.

Though girls are not supposed to read that much, I think. I feel they have a very diverse sensibility compared to men, more prone to music, plastic and performatic arts. But I could just be generalising by my gf's standard.

>Girlfriend
My ex-girlfriend only read YA and science fiction, and rarely, but I didn't really begrudge her lack of interest. However, she was mentally unwell in the literal as well as the literary sense. Hid her emotional affairs from me, finally decided to move across the country to fuck her favorite sugar daddy, who was particularly pliable.

It sucked never being to talk to her about books, though.

>but i actually love her

wow a relationship based on love and not cynicism and stupid things like "taste in lit"

wow wow wow

>Loving plebeians

As passing affairs during your continental tours, but for life long companion ship?

Lord, no.

My gf likes philosophy, she's in love with Kierkegaard. I don't read much philosophy but I've introduced her to novels that I correctly guessed she'd like.
When I went on a trip to Chicago I found a copy of Milton's collected poems from 1936 and bought it for her. I showed her the beginning of the third (?) book of PL where he writes about the things he misses since going blind but being hopeful about God showing him inner light despite all of it and she cried.

Damn son, maybe you should've been screening her texts more

you are right

My gf is mostly into into classics while I even if I do read high literature occasionally feel like I'm a bit to much of a pleb for it and mostly stick to hard sf. She actually enjoyed some of the novels I recommended to her. It's funny there is a lot of talk about pleb women in this thread but in my circle of STEMfags most girls read more and read better literature than most guys.

my WHAT?

i don't have a girlfriend, and probably never will. i am too patrician

I ensure you that Asuka Langley Soryuu has great literary taste

>married five years to an "artist"
>honestly, she was pretty talented
>insufferable taste
>only likes listening to dubstep and high school punk
>only ever wanted to rewatch or reread Harry Potter
>I'm talking in the 6 years i was with this bitch she nevers puts on a movie that isn't Harry Potter
Things didn't work out for a lot of reasons, but not connecting mentally was huge. The life of a patrician is a lonely one.
She got a Harry Potter tattoo after she moved out. I have no desire to ever live with another human again.

gilmore girls is patrician
Rory gilmore is Veeky Forums

what's dreadful is having it be all your fault
and knowing that in some sense you really don't deserve to have that person in your life again the way you once did
but still wanting it so very very badly

and the hurdle of trying to emphasize how much they meant to you without being insensitive and making it about you

eesh, i really don't know how to interface with people longterm.

im trying to get used to the idea of letting her go but it's unimaginible I'll ever meet another cut from the same cloth
or even cloth of a similar thread count.

She's the type to prefer Musil to Mann, so yeah

This desu

it really makes you feel like a piece of trash don't it.
ouch
i have trouble writing about it
Makes me feel like I'm romanticizing my wrongdoing or something by trying to find beauty in it
but shit man I'm sorry. that's really dreadful.
I'm not totally sure what you want me to say to that user. like, i thought that was the only sensible choice for her for a while, and ran away to try and make that decision for her, which only made everything worse. so now I'm here.
i get the sense someone maybe did something similar to you in the past or something. i understand the anger. im just trying to figure out how to move forward.

I don't know why I always read every reply in these kind of threads. It only gets depressed.

>It only gets me depressed*

are you from NZ, cause I might be dating your gf......

Don't believe you desu

hello how 2 get gf pls respond

lol wish i new nigga

>Don't believe you desu
I don't care, nor is there any way for me to prove any of that if I did. I also don't see what wasn't believable, but okay.

i've never meet a girl who read anything other than YA and harry potter
in fact, most people (women and men) around me don't read at all, they'd rather watch GoT movie series

is that paul joseph watson?

yes, she reads thoreau and existentialism, and shes very cute

Reading is gay

yuri is the purest form of love

>You'll never experience a high school lesbian romance

Fuck

You turned your girlfriend into a cuck

MASSIVE RELATIONSHIP