Is it weird to be reading these books in public?

[InflatableBuddha]

I saw a guy in the gym this morning reading "The Game" while on the stair climber. He had bookmarks and bullclips all over the book, marking his favourite sections.

I don't find that offensive, but I think it's strange to be reading a book on the subject matter of pickup when you're in a viable environment for picking up women. Especially when he was working out next to a very attractive woman! :laugh:

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
The Quran? Why would it be weird to read that in public, ESPECIALLY if your family is Muslim? It isn't any different than reading the Bible in public if you ask me.

Yeah but that would be fairly weird.

Well if you were collage age, didnt have wild hair, a beard and usually muttered to yourself.

At least in the UK (or most of Europe come to think of it) anyway.

 

[dbk]

probably...but not in a bookstore or a library

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Who cares what they think?

Get THIS BOOK, then go sit next to someone on a park bench and read it. After a while, look over at them, grin, then start asking if they live in a nice neighborhood and if there are any houses for sale in the area.

That looks like a good book.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

lol, OP has stupid friends. maybe they got smarter since last year.

 

[Fritzo]

Um, in the US, you can read anything you want and people don't care. Just as long as it's not something like Penthouse on a schoolbus or something.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Um, in the US, you can read anything you want and people don't care. Just as long as it's not something like Penthouse on a schoolbus or something.

But thats where most copies are read!

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Read anything in a college library. It's supposed to be a place of higher learning - no literature should be taboo.

Edit:

My GF has a book with a racial expletive title beginning with the letter N. It's actually a pretty good book, but she used to leave it as one of the most visible books in our bookshelves when we first moved in. I had to convince her that not everyone would appreciate that. Instead, people now gravitate to the sex books and like to look at the amateur cartoons in them.

Would this be Clayton Bigsby's "great person Book"?

 

[Jeff7]

Safe or weird? I don't know, how dark is your skin? Morons are paranoid these days about anyone who might be one uh them there Ayy-rabs.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Safe or weird? I don't know, how dark is your skin? Morons are paranoid these days about anyone who might be one uh them there Ayy-rabs.

thats true, if you're arab or even indian (since most people who would be worried about someone reading those books would not be able to tell the difference between an arab and an indian) some people might get all nervous.

 

[IronWing]

One thing to keep in mind is that most people are clueless morons. You could be reading The Anarchists' Cookbook at the airport with five tupperwares filled with mysterious stuff in your lap and folks would think it charming that you were learning to cook.

 

[Madwand1]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
I'm not talking about reading these on the subway or near a synagogue or something.

I've read a copy of the Qur'an on the subway, and it was no big deal. I'd worry more about how you understand it than about where you read it and what some others might think of that. So if you need to read in private to read well, that's fine. The Qur'an is a really tough work to interpret. I'd suggest other works, such Rumi's Discourses and Lings' biography as supplements.

 

[videogames101]

Read"The God Delusion" in public.


(I've done it)