Books that make you look "cool"

[Cookie]

I have often wanted to have a chat with someone on public transport about a book they are reading but never really have the guts to do so! There should be a symbol for "come talk to me about my book if you really want to!", like a certain type/colour of book mark protruding from the book. Would get the reading community closer!

 

Yes, like a traffic light system -

 

Red- Leave me alone and don't even look at my book.

 

Amber- You can look but don't chat.

 

Green- Come talk to me I'm everyones friend!

[atticjnr]

Yes, like a traffic light system -

 

Red- Leave me alone and don't even look at my book.

 

Amber- You can look but don't chat.

 

Green- Come talk to me I'm everyones friend!

 

Haha, yeah that would be great! There would be designated carriages on the tubes and trains for readers to discuss their books. Book Club Carriages!

[Pablo]

"...I love seeing people reading...someone who really doesn't look the sort (unfair to judge I know but meh) whips out a book."

 

Ditto.

 

While I agree with what's been said, on the whole though, it's worth minding that books don't make people, people make books.

Edited January 30, 2010 by BookJumper

[BookJumper]

... of course books make people. Everything you experience influences you one way or another, and if your experience of choice is that of books, then it must follow that who you are is influenced by what you've read.

[Lucybird]

Haha, I do that too! If I can't see the cover I surreptitiously try to read snippets of the book to see if it's one I've read.

 

lol I do that too, I always feel a bit guilty about it though.

[Pablo]

"... of course books make people. Everything you experience influences you one way or another, and if your experience of choice is that of books, then it must follow that who you are is influenced by what you've read."

 

I agree, Bookjumper, but what I was talking about was the fact that you can't judge a person by a cover.

[Kylie]

I reckon The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath was making me look cool when I was reading it. Too bad I only took it out in public once.

[corina]

I love seeing people reading, but always make an eejit of myself trying to see what book it is! I usually can't, and don't want to look like I'm gawking at them

 

Same. It is quite an irresistible urge isn't it? :mrgreen:

[Kreader]

I just find it cool if a person seems really interested in what they are reading. No upside down books or having a book just to hide behind.

[StephenKingman]

If I had read either of those books I'd feel very cool. I'll probably just stick with Stephen King though

 

Cant go wrong there. Kings' books are the epitome of freaky dangerous cool.....books like The Stand and Misery and IT have a kind of cool status associated with them, even nowadays.

[Eck]

On a flight to prague recently, I had the pleasure of sitting beside a woman who was reading The Road and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Needless to say we talked books the whole of the flight. Cool IMO:mrgreen:!

[Anthony1900]

Anything by Sartre

[Pixie]

Oh, dear. Books that make me look "cool"?

 

The first genre of books I ever read was fantasy and horror. I don't think that made me look "cool". More like a goth geek, I would say, which I sort of was.

[Guest Eliza1]

When I was about 15 I saw a girl older than me reading Far from the Madding Crowd. And the name appealed to me for some reason and I thought she was soooooooo cool haha. So I decided to read it a year later and I enjoyed it. I read the grapes of wrath after that and I enjoyed that even more.