The bible
I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.
I inherited a ton of books from my father, who was a minister & a Jungian psychologist. Lots of old interesting bibles, in a handful of languages. (Plus a Koran, and some Crowley, and of shelf full of Trotsky… ha ha. Lotta books.)
American? I haven’t seen a bookstore selling a bible in ages, if ever
The Bible
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The dictionary
lol
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dictionarydikshunaryDo they have those at the lie-berry?
The Silmarillon - the yellow pages of middle earth
It is literally easier to read the KJV of the Bible than the Silmarillon.
Easy != Fun
Hey, I read half of it
Alright, name 6 characters with a name starting with fin
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Atlas Shrugged.
It’s a massive paperback and looks impressive on a bookshelf but it’s a dull narrative. I got about 200 pages in and was like fuck all these people and these stupid trains.
Read the whole thing. It’s OK.
The worst part of the book is that stupid chapter in the last third. Which summarizes the previous 2/3.
I can’t name very many people that have finished the whole dictionary
The book gave me a roller coaster of emotions, I never knew what was coming next!
Anything by Ayn Rand. She’s a terrible author and most people are more interested in showing that they could have read The Fountainhead than actually reading that unfun, meandering garbage.
The Bible
When was the last time you heard of someone buying a bible?
My partner bought a study Bible for academic use a few months ago, and our roommate bought herself one (for actual worship use) a couple weeks ago?
Not as relevant as it used to be regarding this question, but…
War and Peace
My Godfather tried to read that to me in it’s entirety when I was 4 lol.
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For Christians, there’s one called The Bible.
Heya fellow raccoon, raccoon Bible is much better than the one compiled by Roman bishops in 325AD in Nicea e.g. “let there be trash for all” and “give to racoons what belongs to the raccoons” :D
Sometimes I buy physical copies of books I’ve read digitally.
Sometimes I buy physical books, then listen to them digitally instead
Dictionaries or lexicons. Who reads those from start to finish?
To be honest. I did.
I found another of my kin.
1984
You’re missing out. It’s one of the few books I’ve read and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.
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I think that was one of the books that I had already read when we were assigned it in high school…
Why exactly would you buy a book and not read it ?
The same reason anyone buys anything that they don’t use, they think they’ll enjoy it but in reality they don’t find time or lose interest.
Looks good on the book shelf. Many people decorate with books. Look at all those old mansions you see in movies, where there is a giant library.
I guess it’s never crossed my mind. I never thought someone would get a book for a reason other than reading it. They do look good in a living room
People buy false books for decoration, so…
I had no idea
So other people think you did read it. Perhaps for the binding color in a background. Maybe to impress people while holding it in a cafe. To burn.
I have a pretty decent sized library. My fiction section is about 95% read, but the non-fiction sections are much less. You sometimes buy non-fiction as reference materials, to flip through, etc. Not necessarily to read cover-to-cover. (I’d guess my non-fiction is 25% read.)
The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World
Not for a lack of trying
Are you kidding? This is a great book! I’ve probably read it about 10 times.
I’m not saying nobody desires to read it, I’m referring to how difficult it is to read because it’s so wordy for some people. It’s longer than the Deathly Hallows, has hundreds of characters, and the main characters only scratch the surface. Not negative things if you ask me, just these are complaints other people have.
That series took me something like 5-6 years to read, broken in the middle with Game of Thrones. WOT gets extremely dry by book 9 and Robert Jordan is tied up in something like two dozen plot lines with no way out.
I only finished the series because I was overseas with nothing to do except listen to audiobooks on my time off for a year and a half. The last 3-4 books being written by Brandon Sanderson was the best thing that could have happened to the series.
