1 in 4 adults read no books last year

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

My sister reads nothing but Greek philosophers and Ayn Rand. She's an ass.

My god, I've never heard of a more carefully cultivated, affected taste. It's so bad too. I hope you taunt her endlessly for this.

As for me, after having an unfortunate run-in with L. Ron Hubbard in my youth, I don't read all that much. I've been trying to do right by picking out random books in the literature section of people I have heard positive things about*, but even still I probably only read about five or six books for pleasure in the last year.

* they were lying when they said all publicity is good publicity.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

How can you not taunt a girl like this?

She worships Plato and Socrates, thinks that they are some sort of ancient gods.

Last I saw her, she was reading "Socrates in Love," which I almost threw in the campfire upon spotting it in her handbag. Before that, it was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is a step up from anything with Socrates in the title, suppose. Her boyfriend at the time stole the book from her - for good or for bad, I am unsure. I hear a lot of people out there enjoyed this Motorcycle Zen shit. Me? I don't need a book to explore values. I AM A HEATHEN LIKE THAT. O, I almost forgot the God Delusion, which convinced her to become an atheist. She's vulnerable like that. My being an atheist for years and years and being pretty vocal about it always caught plenty of criticism from her. BUT SUDDENLY, A BOOK TOLD HER TO BELIEVE IN NOTHING. So she did.

Needless to say, my normal sub-intelligent taste in books makes her :frownyface:. I am a barbarian to her. I have no passion for philosophy therefore, I must be a complete moron. I pity the man who puts up with her in the future. (Presently, a 34 year old Brazilian who can hardly speak English. Smart of him, since they can only communicate in a primitive sign language at this point.)

oh jesus. I bet she's read the Divine Comedy a couple of times too for street cred, huh?

I read a bit of Cicero recently, when looking up what lorem ipsum meant. He seems like a reasonable fellow.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Do what I do and reach back into the mists of time to your high school english summer reading lists.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by LeHah

What, like you haven't?

That hurt, LeHah. What'd I do to deserve that.

actually, in my younger years, I bought the first one, I think it was inferno. But it was too dull to get through and I think I quit within fifty pages.

My attention span was fried by video games and shitty decathelons by scientologists. I'm just glad that it got fried before I read too much awful sci-fi and fantasy books. Terry Goodkind was bad enough.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

haha Sass. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Similarion was like that too; actually, I don't think I would've made it through Lord of the Rings if I hadn't watched the first movie ahead of time.

Originally Posted by Avalokiteshvara

I think I read through all of Robert Jordan's books sometime last year, again.

God why do you hate yourself

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Then I've read a ton of books off of Baen's website.

<3

I was speaking idiomatically.

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(I feel bad about it to this day, since my friend Sarah finished it. But she never finished high school and she's not the brightest. SAD)

lolling at that set of priorities.

Come on, Similarion is just a backstory. It's not even a real book like Lord of the Rings is. It's all just elf Ayurmuer travelling to these lands and doing battle with banished kings and his best elf friend Myroumer dying and with his last breath cursed the heavens, and that's why the area is a swamp to this very day.

How ya doing, buddy?