people wanting to know what you are reading
JLR
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in public transportation? You know, leaning heads trying to see the cover of your book. Fuck you , you will never know what I'm reading. I won't proudly display my Harry Potter IX hardcover edition like the rest of you, suckers. How do you handle this?
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Fuck that, I share. Its good that people are interested in what you're reading. I don't care if you're reading self help, Robin Cook, or Ulysses, as long as you're reading something. Hell, once I wanted to make a list of everything people read in my subway car for a month. For fun.
As long as its not Homeland security or the like, I say chill and share.
what is this "public transportation"?
Sometimes I lipread read through the rear view of the person yapping away on their cellphone in the car in front of me.
does that count?
You are killin the ozone layer.
Go to this site
http://www.lonelycustodian.org/index.html
and check out Public Readings
plaese to define "killin"
that was good! thanks for that.
Reading: Sista Soulja
Subject: gold hoop earrings-white areobic shoes-long green coat, black pillbox hat
Train: R
Ditto.
And anyway, it's been my experience that dudes who horn about what a hassle it is to deal with people trying to see what they're reading are precisely the same dudes who, in their heart of hearts, would love nothing better than to wave whatever undoubtedly superior tome they're reading in the shamed faces of these unwashed readers of popular fiction. "Suck my Camus, you bovine Grisham-fingerer!"
Same goes for music dudes who gripe about people asking what they're listening to. Motherfucker, you know that you're standing there just dying for someone to ask you what you're reading or what you're listening to or where you got them shoes or whatever, and pretending otherwise isn't fooling anybody, so please get off the bullshit in 2006.
This thread is what my man Ness would call "somewhat wine-in-a-box."
I flashed him the cover of "Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class" without saying a word, and after he read it got the "Hmmm...OK!" face from dude. Shit was hilarious and would have been even funnier had I been holding something super Bambouche-friendly.
Don't ask if you don't really want to know.
A long time ago I was next to dude at a stoplight and saw him furiously tearing the plastic sleeve off a magazine... as the traffic (slowly) progressed he pulled the mag out and splayed his pron out right over the steering wheel while he was driving!!
I did'nt know anyone was watching.
Keep your raers a secret and write over the titles with this!
in my earnest and sensitive early 20's i had to get off the subway and sit on a bench and bawl my eyes out during the part where her step-dad abuses her in Bastard out of Carolina.
at this point, i can't even concentrate on anything deeper than a magazine on public transit.
The two funniest things I've ever read were on public transit, and caused such laughter on a bus and train, respectively, that I had to assure people I was ok.
1) Portnoy's Complaint- Dad in the Bathroom scene
2) Our Band Could Be Your Life- the chapter on the Butthole Sufers
Haha! Well, it was Southwest, so there was no seating assignment. But, I did manage to sit as close to the Captain as physically possible.
I read one chapter on the way to work, and I read one chapter on the way home. I am currently on page 257.