Pretty basic ******* rule, if a stranger is reading, listening to music, or otherwise engrossed in an activity, you leave them the **** alone unless you have something actually important to ask or tell them. Thinking the person is cute and wanting to get in their pants is not important. Was his response a little overly harsh. Sure, why not (though personally I've dealt with enough annoying dudes doing this that it sounds perfectly acceptable to me, if I politely hinted at every a-hole who can't follow basic decency to go away I'd have no time to do anything else in life), but you were rude first, so learn from it and start paying attention to obvious signals people send off.

Woah. Like fair enough if he'd told you what he was reading then said, "It's so good and I'm really enjoying it though, so is it ok if I get back to it?" But no need to be so harsh

I definitely think he was far too rude. But honestly, I really hate when people interrupt me reading, especially when they're strangers. Yes, I'm in public but trust me, if I'm reading in public it means two things: I have no choice but to be in public right now, and I have absolutely zero desire to interact with anyone else. So I'm not going to say YDI because dude was a total asshat, but maybe next time consider whether or not a person might even WANT to talk to you.

While he was inexcusably rude, people who read books in public generally don't want to be approached.

The cute ones can be assholes

I would have responded 'Oh I've heard of that one but I wouldn't read it myself, only **** Boys would be caught dead reading that. Have a good one!'

I understand that he may have been annoyed, but if he doesn't have the decency to at least not be a bag of dicks about it, he's not worth your time. If he wants to act like an "edgy" 12 year old, he can go shitpost on 4chan or something.

That was so uncalled for.

I'm sorry but you got ******* roasted

Calm down everyone. If someone approaches you while you're engrossed in something else, it's understandable to feel a little annoyed, but politely saying 'sorry, I'm busy' takes less than 10 seconds. I love reading- it really isn't difficult to just politely decline someone and then go back to your book. There's no need to be rude. If you think what the guy said was justified then you clearly have a complete lack of understanding of how to interact with people in a normal way.