Let's pretend we are the bookshelf in a 23 year-old gay man's apartment

The Internet for Dummies. I'm untouched.

OP got inspired!

I'm Atlas Shrugged.

I hold two boxes of condoms, 1 bottle of hand lotion and a phone number written in the dust.

whatz a buk shef

op is too old to have heard on Kindle

I'm the Time Life history of the 50s and 60s! I'm a gift from grandma!

What bookshelf?

op hasn't been in a 23 year-old gay man's apartment since The Johnson administration.

I am his collection of Britney Spears lunchboxes.

Book and book. What is book?

Bitter elderghays, party of 150...

R6:

[quote]op is too old to have heard on Kindle

Missing capitalization in first letter of statement, missing capitalization of abbreviation (standard DL usage), missing punctuation and, of course,

[quote]heard on Kindle

Asswipe illiteracy of the uneducated loser who still thinks it can snipe and make a point other than that it is a waste of stretched-out skin.

And THEN it thinks it can improve on things by posting R9, with another four errors.

Such a worthless cuntlette. And, naturally, it fails to understand that being in a 23 year-old (sic) person's apartment is the LAST thing the OP would want.

R6/R9:

Wouldn't he have some graphic novels?

This thread is astonishingly stupid. It might fit on a "Let's pretend we are angry, bitter old gay shut in!" thread.

Not that Kind of Girl by Lens Dunham

Hot lesbo/incest action in it!

Won't a bookshelf make me fat?

A very used Jeff Stryker dildo left behind for him by his dead sugar daddy.

I like this thread. I'd add something, but I just imagine that there is nothing in this person's bookcase, other than graphic novels, as someone else noted. I recall when I was 33 or so, and learned that a peer read comic books. I was surprised.

When I was 23, I had all kinds of literature I had read on my shelves: Middlemarch, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Absalom, Absalom!, To the Lighthouse, Women in Love. And I have always quite a thing for daddies too.

But bitter older men like the OP didn't want erudite young guys like me--they wanted the dumb musclebound twinks who never cracked books (even though they pretended to complain about them). They lusted after them but they also wanted to feel smarter than them (and thus superior to them, because they hated them for being more desirable than they were). When I would date older men they'd complain that although I was well read I was not a gym rat (even when they themselves were not!).

Eventually I eventually met a cute, kind, smart guy who is also well read. And guess what? He's now a hot daddy.

tchotchkes... an empty bottle of poppers that rolled towards the back of the bookshelf... maybe a couple of campy paperbacks, like "Valley of the Dolls" that double as tchotchkes.

OP isn't bitter, he created this thread in response to the one deriding 57 year old men. Jeeze.

We don't have bookshelves, gramps. Everything we do is electronic.

[quote]op is too old to have heard on Kindle

R6 is young enough for hooked on phonics apparently.

R22, thanks

Go fuck yourself, r22

The most idiotic threads start with let's pretend.....

You all get really worked up about this shit. That's so fucking awesome!

r9/r11=so bitter, so rule orientated

R6 is too poor for an iPad.

OP is bitter, and he failed to realize that the tone of the thread was mostly affectionate, with guys reminiscing about shared cultural artifacts. Half the posts had to be from men who are around that age

This thread is just a nasty rant against the young by someone who can't distinguish between gentle rubbing and pure mockery.

Lots and lots of books and with words in them, just not pictures. Get yourself OP. Some of us do read

some

Some of his college textbooks: the Harcourt Brace Handbook, the MLA Style Book, Caton's Civil War history, the textbook for Art History 101.

Some do, some don't

Aeropostal work schedule written on napkin, framed pic of senior trip to Six Flags, Ariana Grande concert schedule.

I'm a tube of dried lip gloss and a pair of slightly scuffed Prada mules.

I was left behind when my owner defaulted on his condo at 114 and Rochelle in Dallas.

Contrast this thread with the one that inspired it, about a hypothetical 59 year-old man's bookshelf. Most of that thread was clearly written by men who had a good amount of daylight between themselves and their twenties. No vapid, illiterate twenty-something has ever heard of Ethan Mordden or Edmund White, but those authors are referenced throughout that thread. It was a good-natured, self-deprecating thread.

This thread here was mean spirited from the get-go.

I'm 28, so I suppose I'm biased toward the lower end of the age bracket on this topic. I won't rattle off a bunch of titles on my bookshelf because I'll sound like a dilettante and you'll make fun of me because datalounge. What I would like to say, though, is that many of the books I own I bought and read because they were recommended to me by gay men older than I am. I had the good fortune when I was still struggling in the closet of having some older friends who were willing to offer me some guidance and to refer me to some cultural touchpoints that they had found valuable years earlier.

It's 2014; I would never have sought out Doris Day's or Myrna Loy's entire canons unless some older, wiser gays hadn't dropped them into my lap. I wouldn't be able to write (or at least imagine) Helen Lawson fanfic if I had never found DL.

MARY!!

[38] I, for one, think its wonderful that your father and his husband were there to guide you. If only someone had introduced me to Nora Charles at such a tender age.

[quote]Middlemarch, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Absalom, Absalom!, To the Lighthouse, Women in Love.

So you went to high school. So what?

I just got rid of a lot of old books and the bookshelves that housed them. They were gathering dust and taking up space. I never re-read books, so what's the point in keeping them? I read everything on my iPad now.

God, when I was 23 (13 years ago) I read ten times more than I do now. Don't have the time anymore. Most of the books on my bookshelf now I bought then.

[quote]Sorry, I'm too addicted to chaturbate

Young men get laid.

Elderly assholes watch other people having sex on the internet.

Chitchat

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R43 thinks he's always going to be young.

I'm a vape pipe

I'm a big sticky tube of lube. Who has time for books?

Books can be AWFULLY decorative, don't you think?

r41 I still regret giving books away from years ago.

I know they take up room. But they are just so fabulous to look at.

Stuff the clutter I love them

Getting stuffed makes reading books all the more interesting.

God.. when will the 50+ Datalounger stop bashing the 18+ generation they are lusting after so badly? It's pathetic, really.

I don't own a single book anymore. That's right: I don't even own a dust-collecting book case. It's all on my Kindle. Read, enjoy, delete. Some titles are worth keeping.

Some classic books, published years before my great grandfather was born, are still worth the read. Some books from the 19th century simply became outdated, old-fashioned, boring. Some new titles amaze me, some are overyhped.

I didn't learn to appreciate the joy of reading until I reached my late twenties: don't judge young men because they don't feel like reading. They are doing other things, enjoying the boys, time with their friends in bars, thinking about the future, studying or simply trying to make ends meet every month.

Reading is a delight, and I would always encourage someone to become acquainted with literature, classics and new releases.

And yes: I am one of those people who only read in bed, before the lights go out, or at the pool when I am on vacation. So what?

[quote]judge young men because they don't feel like reading.

nope, I will, it's a sign of mental sluggishness - NOTHING about your twenties forces you to be intellectually vapid, it's a choice, R53.

and for the record I've never been attracted to 25-year-olds, even then.

You haven't read the rest of my post, R54. I pity you.

I guess he's not fluent in Cunt, R55.

R55, I did, and I don't need or desire your pity.

I'm older than the number of responses to this thread, read for a living, and I'm surprised/terrified by how few books I've added to my shelves in the last few years.

Enlighten us, R56 — what was so cunty about my original post at R53?

(I know you won't, you bitter old queen)

The entire thing, R59. Your sense of "me, me, me...I am the only one who does anything right" drips sociopathy and oozes vaginality, to the point that the sum total of all you write may be summed up in the one word.

I'm all for parody threads, but they should at least be funny or creative.

Cuntish

Suze Orman's "Young, Fabulous & Broke."

Cell phone charger, mail and random item taken out of his pockets when he gets home.

When he gets older it will be filled with fabulous things!

Bump.

A box of Skyn condoms.