or is it just weird?

i was on holiday and saw a guy reading well worn copies of shadows rising and then fires of heaven, so obviously a fan of wheel of time that i could probably have made a passing "oh i like that book too" but i didn't because in the back of my head i was thinking that he would think, what a weirdo

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

and yet and yet

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?

similarly have you ever been received such attentions, how was the experience?

oh and if you're recently back from oludeniz in turkey, stayed at the belcahan hotel and read robert jordan i'm talking about you, i was reading robin hobb

on a tangent, the farseer and liveship trilogies still might be my favourite six fantasy books of all time. i reread them after maybe 6 or 8 years and i did think that my favourable memory of them may have been tinged by nostalgia, but they really weren't they truly are a great piece of work