or is it just weird?
To the question in the title: Yes. To the one just above: No.
now if it was the other way around i'd probably embrace it, i come on a book forum i enjoy discussing the finer details of fantasy epic, but would he be of a similar disposition? it wasn't worth the risk of him forcing a smile, humouring me with small talk and then dismissing me with a slight air of embarrassment and then enduring a week of passing each other around the pool and doing that raised eyebrow nod of acknowledgment to each other
No way to know beforehand.
so what's your opinion? ever made an obvious attempt at conversation with a person you see reading something you've read? and this isn't like when you're both in a book shop or a similar established ground for literary discourse. this is where you've crossed the expanse of a park or made for someone where they've noticed your approach and regarded you with wary anxiety as you've out of nowhere made an uninvited beeline for their reading solitude. were you stone walled or did you make a new friend? or do you have a more subtle tactic of perhaps edging closer, leaning over and being like...don't you just hate <insert character name> too?
I stated it above. Yes. I've never made a friend because I've never done it in the "beeline" style you describe. That can be creepy. Instead, try subtlety. I don't go out of my way to make conversation, instead only saying something if I'm already near.
similarly have you ever been received such attentions, how was the experience?
Yes. It's either been a short conversation or one of several minutes, but never a bad experience.
And to answer the overall theme of the post: Speaking to a stranger because you know you both have a common interest or experience is about as normal a reason to speak to a stranger as there is, and I frankly don't understand why you needed to ask at all.
*MySmiley*
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does seeing someone reading a book you like justify striking up a conversation
- 10/09/2011 08:21:28 PM
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Only if you fancy them and are using it as an excuse to chat them up. *NM*
- 10/09/2011 11:44:07 PM
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I wouldn't interuppt someone while they are reading.
- 11/09/2011 03:16:50 AM
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it is pretty easy tell if they would rather just be reading
- 12/09/2011 03:13:30 PM
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I guess my thing is I just hate to be interrupted and don't want to do it to someone else
- 12/09/2011 04:28:30 PM
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you get that immersed even in public area?
- 12/09/2011 06:52:54 PM
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Usually. If it's not a situation where I CAN, I just won't read.
- 12/09/2011 07:23:48 PM
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I used to be timid. Now I don't care and will happily interrupt.
- 11/09/2011 07:42:35 AM
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it's the "i will probably never see again" i can't get my head around
- 11/09/2011 10:21:45 AM
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Answers to questions asked.
- 11/09/2011 03:34:32 PM
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i asked because i wondered how many people would welcome it or view it as an intrusion
- 13/09/2011 02:25:32 PM
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I have just gone up to someone and said "good choice in book"
- 11/09/2011 04:49:21 PM
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did he reply or did you back away...staring and pointing at the book? 
- 13/09/2011 02:27:45 PM
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- 13/09/2011 02:27:45 PM
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I can't resist that. I will always say something. Many people have done the same with me
- 11/09/2011 06:10:36 PM
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How do you even figure out what they're reading?
- 12/09/2011 05:44:30 AM
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i look at the cover, i very rarely see someone reading a book bent back on itself *NM*
- 13/09/2011 02:31:52 PM
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Thats just irritating when it happens to me...I never would do that to another human. *NM*
- 12/09/2011 08:54:06 AM
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i love the farseer books too! and yeah a little weird, but not that weird *NM*
- 13/09/2011 10:37:53 PM
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