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people wanting to know what you are reading

JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
edited June 2006 in Strut Central
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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  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
    People come up to me in the lunchroom all the time, stunned that I'm "always reading". I usually have to explain what it is I'm reading, and they walk away more confused than when they showed up.
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    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?

    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.
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    BUS UNCLE
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    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?

    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?
  • JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
    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?

    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.
  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
    Hell, once I wanted to make a list of everything people read in my subway car for a month. For fun.

    Go to this site

    http://www.lonelycustodian.org/index.html

    and check out Public Readings
  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    one of my favorite games on the commute is "what's everybody reading today?" Don't hate... I'm interested!
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    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?

    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.

    plaese to define "killin"

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Hell, once I wanted to make a list of everything people read in my subway car for a month. For fun.

    Go to this site

    http://www.lonelycustodian.org/index.html

    and check out Public Readings

    that was good! thanks for that.
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    My favorite is Japanese guys in suits in their mid 30s reading porno comics like "Rapeman" on the subways in Tokyo with no shame! Fools don't even try to hide the material. Crazy.
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    Hell, once I wanted to make a list of everything people read in my subway car for a month. For fun.

    Go to this site

    http://www.lonelycustodian.org/index.html

    and check out Public Readings

    that was good! thanks for that.


    Reading: Sista Soulja

    Subject: gold hoop earrings-white areobic shoes-long green coat, black pillbox hat

    Train: R
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    one of my favorite games on the commute is "what's everybody reading today?" Don't hate... I'm interested!

    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."
  • drewnicedrewnice 5,465 Posts
    I was getting on the plane for Chicago in May and had a really funny experience. You know those overly-friendly attendants who stand and greet you as you board the plane? Well I had a book in my hand and he leaned is happy-ass neck my way to ask, "What you reading there?"

    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.
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    My favorite is Japanese guys in suits in their mid 30s reading porno comics like "Rapeman" on the subways in Tokyo with no shame! Fools don't even try to hide the material. Crazy.

    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!!
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    I was getting on the plane for Chicago in May and had a really funny experience. You know those overly-friendly attendants who stand and greet you as you board the plane? Well I had a book in my hand and he leaned is happy-ass neck my way to ask, "What you reading there?"

    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.
    Please tell me you were flying first-class when this happened.
  • ladydayladyday 623 Posts
    I love when I see someone reading something completely unexpected, like one time this little old lady sat next to me and opened up some next-level advanced astrophysics textbook. I used to see stuff like that all the time in Boston on the T.
  • theory9theory9 1,128 Posts
    My favorite is Japanese guys in suits in their mid 30s reading porno comics like "Rapeman" on the subways in Tokyo with no shame! Fools don't even try to hide the material. Crazy.

    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.
  • Sweet_PremiumSweet_Premium 368 Posts


    Keep your raers a secret and write over the titles with this!
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    public transit reading confession.

    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.
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    public transit reading confession.

    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
  • drewnicedrewnice 5,465 Posts
    I was getting on the plane for Chicago in May and had a really funny experience. You know those overly-friendly attendants who stand and greet you as you board the plane? Well I had a book in my hand and he leaned is happy-ass neck my way to ask, "What you reading there?"

    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.
    Please tell me you were flying first-class when this happened.

    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.

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts


    I read one chapter on the way to work, and I read one chapter on the way home. I am currently on page 257.
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