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I don't know... When I'm reading something that really excites me I usually want to tell others about it and talk about it, why it excited me, what I find inter

I don't know... When I'm reading something that really excites me I usually want to tell others about it and talk about it, why it excited me, what I find interesting, thus encouraging conversation.

supertofu 4y ago
I feel the exact same way. Except it seems that no one I ever meet cares a single bit about about the topics that excite me, and aren't polite or curious enough to indulge me 1-3 minutes to share the exciting things about these topics. So usually I just listen to people talk about themselves. :/
- euroderf 4y ago
  Curiosity made infectious
- MrVandemar 4y ago
  There's a lot of it about. I usually solve programming problems in my head until they stop talking.
  - shakezula 4y ago
    Not to be rude, but the other person can likely tell you’re feigning interest and probably feels similarly as you do about your lack of interest in the things that interest /them/. Ask more thoughtful questions and you’ll likely be surprised at the ones you’ll get back.
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago
I'd love to hear about this! Anything you're reading like that lately? To your point, though, I live in a major and supposedly-sophisticated city, and one of my go-to smalltalk questions is, "So, what're you reading these days?" I don't know if I've become an old grump — or if I just have poor luck of the draw — but lately it's been a deeply depressing question. A staggering number of people will quietly (or, occasionally, proudly) unveil the fact that they don't read at all.
- LoveMortuus 4y ago
  I recently stumbled across a website which is also an app called Webnovel and because I've never been huge on reading stuff on a LCD, due to eye strain, I've been very sceptical (That's why I own Kindle and ReMarkable). But I read a few pages on my computer and I got hooked into the story so I downloaded the app and now I actually find it quite easy to read on the phone, especially because the width of the page is quite small so it's easier to go to the next line while reading. EDIT: (Both of the stories are fiction, they're not scientific literature, if you're looking for non-fiction that had me pumped, here ya go: "Life brought to artificial cells" [2]) The story that hooked me is: "I cultivate passively" [0], it's quite brutal though and at times the writing can feel a bit amateurish, but it still got me hooked. But the story I've been reading for the past two days is: "Reborn As A Dragon Girl With A System" [1]. The quality of writing is better with this one and the story feels quite a bit more colourful. Don't worry, no real spoilers ahead. The first one that I mentioned is very dark, it's about a man that's practicing cultivation in a sect where they put a thing similar to a leech or a worm into your heart which is constantly eating your blood and your blood qi, meaning if you're not eating enough the worm thingy with kill you, but if you are feeding yourself and thus the worm. The worm will grow and release purified qi which will allow you to get to a higher level of cultivation, but that will also make the worm stronger, thus eating more. So it's really a world of struggle it's either eat or be eaten. As for the second story, it's about a girl who's parents were killed when she was like 6 years old and because she didn't have anyone else she had to live on the streets, seeing more bricks than trees (quote from the story). One day she was digging through a dumpster when she was attacked by another homeless person, because she was scavenging in his territory, this resulted in her death, as she was dying she cursed all humans saying that they're all rotten to the core and hoping that if she ever reincarnates she would be anything but a human, even a bug would be better... Thus she's reborn as a very cute red dragon baby. ^^ [0] http://wbnv.in/a/b5hBQF5 http://wbnv.in/a/b5hBQF5 [1] http://wbnv.in/a/aehBQGJ http://wbnv.in/a/aehBQGJ [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02231-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02231-8
- lanstin 4y ago
  If you like conversing about reading, and you are short of people that also like it, arrange a book club or join a book club.

I don't know... When I'm reading something that really excites me I usually want to tell others about it and talk about it, why it excited me, what I find interesting, thus encouraging conversation.

supertofu 4y ago

I feel the exact same way. Except it seems that no one I ever meet cares a single bit about about the topics that excite me, and aren't polite or curious enough to indulge me 1-3 minutes to share the exciting things about these topics. So usually I just listen to people talk about themselves. :/

euroderf 4y ago
Curiosity made infectious
MrVandemar 4y ago
There's a lot of it about. I usually solve programming problems in my head until they stop talking.
- shakezula 4y ago
  Not to be rude, but the other person can likely tell you’re feigning interest and probably feels similarly as you do about your lack of interest in the things that interest /them/. Ask more thoughtful questions and you’ll likely be surprised at the ones you’ll get back.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago

I'd love to hear about this! Anything you're reading like that lately? To your point, though, I live in a major and supposedly-sophisticated city, and one of my go-to smalltalk questions is, "So, what're you reading these days?" I don't know if I've become an old grump — or if I just have poor luck of the draw — but lately it's been a deeply depressing question. A staggering number of people will quietly (or, occasionally, proudly) unveil the fact that they don't read at all.

LoveMortuus 4y ago
I recently stumbled across a website which is also an app called Webnovel and because I've never been huge on reading stuff on a LCD, due to eye strain, I've been very sceptical (That's why I own Kindle and ReMarkable). But I read a few pages on my computer and I got hooked into the story so I downloaded the app and now I actually find it quite easy to read on the phone, especially because the width of the page is quite small so it's easier to go to the next line while reading. EDIT: (Both of the stories are fiction, they're not scientific literature, if you're looking for non-fiction that had me pumped, here ya go: "Life brought to artificial cells" [2]) The story that hooked me is: "I cultivate passively" [0], it's quite brutal though and at times the writing can feel a bit amateurish, but it still got me hooked. But the story I've been reading for the past two days is: "Reborn As A Dragon Girl With A System" [1]. The quality of writing is better with this one and the story feels quite a bit more colourful. Don't worry, no real spoilers ahead. The first one that I mentioned is very dark, it's about a man that's practicing cultivation in a sect where they put a thing similar to a leech or a worm into your heart which is constantly eating your blood and your blood qi, meaning if you're not eating enough the worm thingy with kill you, but if you are feeding yourself and thus the worm. The worm will grow and release purified qi which will allow you to get to a higher level of cultivation, but that will also make the worm stronger, thus eating more. So it's really a world of struggle it's either eat or be eaten. As for the second story, it's about a girl who's parents were killed when she was like 6 years old and because she didn't have anyone else she had to live on the streets, seeing more bricks than trees (quote from the story). One day she was digging through a dumpster when she was attacked by another homeless person, because she was scavenging in his territory, this resulted in her death, as she was dying she cursed all humans saying that they're all rotten to the core and hoping that if she ever reincarnates she would be anything but a human, even a bug would be better... Thus she's reborn as a very cute red dragon baby. ^^ [0] http://wbnv.in/a/b5hBQF5 http://wbnv.in/a/b5hBQF5 [1] http://wbnv.in/a/aehBQGJ http://wbnv.in/a/aehBQGJ [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02231-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02231-8
lanstin 4y ago
If you like conversing about reading, and you are short of people that also like it, arrange a book club or join a book club.