A Question for Poly's Literati (or: Getting D laid more often: A project not worth your time)

[Dis]

War and Peace is awesome.

JM

Didn't they make a movie about that? I'm just remember the Cheers episode about that. Good episode, good show. Or perhaps I'm showing my age here.

[Japher]

Here's my thought:

the pretty ones are usually dumb or pregnant or has a kid
the smart ones who are also pretty are in the minority
the smart ones who are also pretty and are without kid are even fewer
the smart ones who are also pretty and are without kid and would be interested in you are even less

So, you can't waste time reading books to try and find them. Thus, rent the movie. Get them chick flicks, preferably ones that are based off some book you'd think is stupid and has some chick in it with a gay friend. I.e. Marley and Me, The Notebook, or The Piano... or some other crap. This way you can speak to the movie/book without wasting any more time than you have too.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Just don't pull a George Costanza and fail to realize that a movie may have changed things in the book.

[Flubber]

my point is that if a woman likes you at all, she won't care if you have read book x or y

But she may care that you haven't read any fiction books .

yes-- so perhaps he reads a few out of interest.

Despite his claims, I figure he had to have read some fiction. Hell we had to read "Animal Farm' in high school.

Also if he just wants to knock off a few books to so he can say he read something for fun, he could always pick up a Tom Clancy or 5

[Flubber]

Another approach to the literarti: Ask them what books they like and why. Ask them which one do they think you should read.

Exactly-- lets them talk about themselves for a while which is flirting 101

[Flubber]

and I of course am no expert. But how do books allow one to get laid? Am I missing something?

he wants the opportunity to hang out for "more than one night'

he claims to have success obtaining short term company to ride his pogo stick. Intelligence is not required for this.

This is more about knowing and doing the things to keep a woman interested longer term.

I believe he is overestimating how valuable reading a whole bunch of fiction will be-- You are far more likely to get into a debate on current events/politics/ social policy than you are to speak about any individual book.

And its not like he has no answer for the what have you read lately question. He can name a bunch of high level textbooks and then say that he has been reading so much for school that he likes to do other things for fun.

[Ben Kenobi]

I believe he is overestimating how valuable reading a whole bunch of fiction will be

Considering the fact that I've read about half that opening list, and pretty much all the suggestions on the thread, I will second this.

Do you really think it helps me?

[Flubber]

I don't know what the big deal is. He's looking for a couple good conversation pieces to hook the ones who are pre-selected by virtue of their reading habits. I'm sure there are other methods, like KHs'. Worst case is that his language skills improve.

No big deal-- I just think the time is better spent boning up on current events and if he wants to read for this purpose, he should select things he thinks he will enjoy.

I never see anything wrong with reading more-- hell I read a lot-- Its simply that if you read a novel, you may get a converstaion out of that sometime, maybe not . If you more broadly read history, world events, opinion pieces on social policy etc etc, you get a broad background to make intelligent commentary on a broad spectrum of issues which come up in intelligent conversation every day.

I just get the sense he is busy and whatever he could do with the least time commitment to get the greatest impact would be great. I still think joining in activities which interest him would be a far greater payoff.

Reading? hell you should do that for its own sake

[Flubber]

Considering the fact that I've read about half that opening list, and pretty much all the suggestions on the thread, I will second this.

Do you really think it helps me?

[Ben Kenobi]

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

Haven't read any of these.

Would like to read Anna Karenina, Gatsby and Proust.

Not really interested in 2 or 10.

I've read Twain (recommend a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court), Achebe. The book you are thinking of is "Things fall apart." Kafka was ok. I've read Brave New World.

Would add, "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, "Caves of Steel" by Isaac Asimov, "Enders Game" by Orsen Scott Card, "Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury, and "Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller.

All are rather short and excellent books. If you have the time, I recommend the Russians: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn. You pretty much can't go wrong.

The book I want to read is Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. I must see about getting it from the library. Thanks for the reminder.

[DanS]

No big deal-- I just think the time is better spent boning up on current events and if he wants to read for this purpose, he should select things he thinks he will enjoy.

You aren't getting it, I'm afraid. There are many tools useful in getting laid. Boning up on current events may be one of them. But novels is the one that D is talking about right now. He might also bone up on current events, if he wants to attract a certain type of intelligent person. He might also take up weightlifting to keep his svelte figure. Or take up acting classes in order to deliver his lines like KH says he does. Or whatever.

[KrazyHorse]

to deliver his lines like KH says he does

[Kitschum]

The book I want to read is Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. I must see about getting it from the library. Thanks for the reminder.

Oh yeah, I like her too.

[DanS]

to deliver his lines like KH says he does

Up above, talking about the book that you read. In your drunk threads telling of your expert impersonations.

But I wonder why you weren't telling about the book you are writing rather than the book you are reading?

[KrazyHorse]

Expert impersonations?