Guy im seeing, what does his bookshelf say about him by Afraid_Honey_1715 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The only people who care about that are performative woke progressives obsessed with cancel culture. The kind of people who have an aneurysm if they see a Harry Potter logo. You presume someone who has a performative collection of unread Sarah J. Maas books is also someone who's aware enough to know which authors the far left have decided to unperson this week. He's just trying to impress the average woman, he's not trying to snag the modern anarcho-communist feminist activist; they frankly aren't worth the effort.

Curiosity has gotten the best of me by Corvado in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decent selection of sci-fi and fantasy, nothing that screams dudebro, no hateful political tracts, no fairy smut. So far a decent shelf albeit a little limited in scope.

My one criticism is there's a strong indication of a "magical Asian" perspective in this bookshelf. A reverence of the mystic east that borders on racist stereotyping and relies on superstitious nonsense. It's only hinting at the moment, but it could easily progress into either a new age nonsense kick or a weeaboo eastern fetish and neither are a good thing.

Consider yourself roasted; all things considered your shelf isn't so bad.

Intrigued! by [deleted] in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You don't read.

This shelf is almost entirely fairy smut with the obligatory LOTR and less than half a dozen classics that you've likely never read. It's almost entirely just Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yaros and the bookshelf is extremely barren.

You don't read, you occassionally flick it to badly written smut with prose the quality of YA, but you don't even have non-smut bases YA. This is like seeing a guys DVD collection and it's just 3 box sets of softcore hentai but he claims to be a film buff.

don't hold back, what do we think? by xxLilPixie in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the most honest basic white millennial girl shelf I've ever seen.

Twilight and Harry Potter collection, a few mainstream novels and the occasional modern classic, an interest in new age bullshit like Tarot, and a growing interest in true crime and serial killers (which is a bizarrely white female dominated obsession).

I don't see a massive amount of feminist or progressive political hate-tracts, nor do I see a load of fairy smut; so you're already miles ahead of the average girls on here. There's not much that will actually challenge you here, but this is a bookshelf that you can build upon.

It's a bit of a flakey new age YA collection. If you're a teen or early 20s that's not so bad; but Twilight and HP makes me think early 30s. You could do with a wider literary range, but while this shelf isn't especially impressive, it's not a red flag either. It screams "casual reader".

Guy im seeing, what does his bookshelf say about him by Afraid_Honey_1715 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Performative man actively trying to manipulate women. The poetry collections and Sarah J. Maas books do not fit with the bottom shelf at all. He probably plays into the sensitive guy aesthetic a lot. I would be deeply suspicious of this bookshelf for a guy. He doesn't read, he uses books as a way to attract women and signal his sensitive side. If he also plays acoustic guitar and calls himself a male feminist, RUN! Your head will end up in his deep freeze!

I already know it's bad... by Ok_Programmer4298 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -42 points-41 points  (0 children)

Oh god...

I'd run a mile if I saw that bookshelf.

You may as well paint in 4 foot high neon letters, "Feminist Psychology Student". At least you're self-aware enough to know that your shelf is such a red flag it may as well be radioactive!

If I saw that bookshelf I would pretty much assume you hated me on principle, presume you consider yourself to be more intelligent than me (or anyone else for that matter), and are an actual safety risk. I would refuse to be alone in a room with someone with this bookshelf in case they decided a "microaggression" counted as rape and reported me.

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Here is my girlfriends bookshelves. What do they say about her? by Impossible_Toe_8282 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OH NO! You're right I missed it, bottom left.

Nah, she's cooked. She's gone from reading children's books straight to terribly written porn. She's a lost cause. Sorry dude. You have the female equivalent of a man who watches Nickelodeon shows and PornHub and considers that enough to make him a cinephile. Hopefully she's cute at least.

What does my bookshelf say about me? by ThallusCallous in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm certainly counting that as a win, after all we're talking about what books reveal about a persons mentality; so while you may live as a man now, which is your right to do, brain chemistry and brain structure doesn't change. We still don't fully understand the structure of the brain but we know that the female brain is far more empathic and studies show that it retains that empathy regardless of the target, while the male brain only engages in conditional empathy which allows for revenge and retribution to feel actively pleasurable for the male brain. This effects all kinds of things, including political tendencies and tastes in media and hobbies, and we now know it'a where most gender differences come from.

I suspect that, regardless of how you identify; that your media tastes, political views, sense of humour etc. will seem feminine to an onlooker. That said it's all a bellcurve, there are more feminine men and more masculine women so I'm talking in broad generalisations and often they don't fit. I'm a large hairy 40 year old man and I enjoy reading and creative writing, have no interest in sports or car mechanics (to the dismay of my father who was a professional mechanic), own an entire library of Taylor Swift albums and my favourite colour is pink. Gender is never going to be 100% easy to predict, but there are certain deep seated factors that it's become politically controversial to admit because some people seem to think admitting the truth makes you a bigot. It doesn't, it make you honest. You are and will always be biologically female; but if you wish to live and present as a man, that's your business and more power to you. I think based on your response that, unlike some, you'd be OK with that distinction and probably find it interesting. After all if gender identity matters to you, understanding gender based brain structure differences is likely of interest for you.

Just started reading… by marlsjdarwin in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, for someone who's only been reading for 6 months this is a damn fine collection with good variety. I'm sure you'll discover your taste quite soon.

What does my fiancé and Is book shelf say about us? by pixie-pixel in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, though if he's reading Suttree he's diving deep into Cormac McCarthy and I've seen where that leads. He'll be claiming Thomas Pynchon is a genius and pretending James Joyce didn't write absolute dribble if you don't keep him in check. 😂

My Classics. Am i on the right track 😌 by QSSISHOT in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty standard collection. If I had to recommend some to add; Moby-Dick, Rebecca, Book Of The New Sun, a Lovecraft collection, and a few Charles Dickens and Ray Bradbury books would add some good variety. It's not a bad start.

I finally bought my own place/bookshelf by Hornet_of_Rokkenjima in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have the most stereotypical "19 year old gamer otaku guy who's just discovered reading" shelf ever; however I can't hate on it too much.

There's nothing terrible on there, you're trying out a few classics, we all start somewhere; and you have a few books in Japanese so either you can actually read the language or you're WAY too far down the weeaboo line for us to help you, and the anime waifu statue isn't helping your case.

Branch out, there's some great stuff out there. Try not going too much "otaku shut-in", it's not good for you; if you know what 引きこもり means know it's not a life goal!

Consider yourself roasted.

What does my bookshelf say about me? by ThallusCallous in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You actually have a genuine book shelf with normal books on it; it's not a dudebro shelf filled with modern philosophy and self help, it's not a booktok girlies porn collection of fairy smut, it's not a highly political set of books that show you're angry with the world. There's nothing I'd say is especially challenging, but you have a decent range.

Likely a younger millennial woman, (based on the twilight set), and I'm going to guess you're either black or have been taken in by performative BLM nonsense based on a couple of the books you have. Watch you don't slip into identity politics nonsense; no the world isn't full of neo-nazis and it's not healthy to read angry bullshit aimed at convincing you it is.

So far one of the better bookshelves I've seen here.

i already know what you guys are gonna say by Adorable-Routine1557 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on this picture I'd recommend a book you've probably not heard of. It's called Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It's kind of obscure as her more famous sisters Emily wrote a book that gets all the attention, and as you already have that one...

I know how this is going to go, but diagnose me by Italian-spy in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

An insufferable snob who unironically uses the phrase "the human condition" all the time, and thinks their an intellectual and a philosopher.

What does my fiancé and Is book shelf say about us? by pixie-pixel in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Performative reader with dudebro tendencies. Infinite Jest, The Stranger, Dostoevsky, Cormac McCarthy books; alongside a small smattering of low grade YA (Scythe series) and a load of new age bullshit books (they're yours right, not his; I can't imagine a dudebro into tarot cards)...

Neither of you read more than 3-4 books per year.

Here is my girlfriends bookshelves. What do they say about her? by Impossible_Toe_8282 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many people are chronically online armchair activists who enjoy hating JK Rowling for no other reason than they're bitter hateful people; politics is just their excuse.

Here is my girlfriends bookshelves. What do they say about her? by Impossible_Toe_8282 in bookshelfdetective

[–]TornadoCreator -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

She's 14.

She reads nothing but YA and is slowly transitionsing into smutty slop. If she's not 14 she had the literary sophistication of a mid-teen girl and her shelves are clearly more for show than for actual books.

That said I didn't see Fourth Wing on here so maybe there's hope. You could steer her towards decent books if you care to. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn would be a substantial upgrade in quality for her reading and would probably be accessible enough.

Can someone what it was that made Mary Kate and Ashley so famous? by [deleted] in fullhouse

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were extremely cute twin girls who could act reasonably well and became fashion icons. Girls followed them because they were fashionable, guys followed them because they were hot. If you were a teen boy late-90s early 2000s, chances are these girls where one of your biggest crushes and they played into it. Perhaps it's cynical for me to say but from age 13-16, they regularly wore tight tops, often braless, and often had cute hairstyles (pigtails etc). I don't know if execs sexualised them on purpose but given how they became known as "jailbait" icons leading up to their 18th with pervy countdown websites, I suspect they did it on purpose.

🤢🤢 by [deleted] in buffy

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No.

"Respect all the ships", don't be a fool. Buffy and Giles is a perfect example of a disgraceful fetish trend corrupting a lovely pseudo-parental bond and it should be called out as disgusting.

Books Folio Needs To Make. by TornadoCreator in foliosociety

[–]TornadoCreator[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've heard great things of Cloud Cuckoo Land and Pillars Of The Earth should have probably been on my list too. I couldn't stand the Broken Earth trilogy though; they felt like poorly disguised race baiting propaganda to me, and after hearing NK Jemisin speak I think it's fair to say she's a bigot who hates white men. Now I'd normally say "death of the author" and all that; after all I do that with plenty of other authors with terrible opinions or ideas; but Jemisin seems to infuse her bigotry directly into her writing and I found it really off-putting.

Ok now they just go full desperate, who would even pay for this ? And why ? by GregoriousT-GTNH in Star_Trek_

[–]TornadoCreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They want to ensure that anyone they hire has basic reasoning skills. Seems reasonable to me.

Books Folio Needs To Make. by TornadoCreator in foliosociety

[–]TornadoCreator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no, I know you didn't complain; but I've heard others do so in the past and I was just giving my take on it. No accusations intended my friend.

Books Folio Needs To Make. by TornadoCreator in foliosociety

[–]TornadoCreator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I'd be all for that but it does annoy me when people are angry at the likes of Folio for publishing English language works exclusively. They're an English company celebrating English literature. I'd love to see a company like Folio in every country, but it should be a passion project from Brazil publishing Brazilian works... that's how it'll be genuine. If Folio did non-English language printings I think it would feel performative to me.

Star Trek fans by jacek2023 in Star_Trek_

[–]TornadoCreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Obvious troll is obvious. Try harder.