- JetpackCat ( @JetpackCat@feddit.it ) 126•1 year ago
The bible
- redballooon ( @redballooon@lemm.ee ) 27•1 year ago
I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread. One of them has nice art in it.
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
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.)
- VodkaSolution ( @vodkasolution@feddit.it ) 4•1 year ago
American? I haven’t seen a bookstore selling a bible in ages, if ever
- Rocky60 ( @Rocky60@lemm.ee ) 123•1 year ago
The Bible
- bradorsomething ( @bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ) 8•1 year ago
Just popped in to find and upvote.
- Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) English62•1 year ago
The dictionary
- AFF ( @AsepticFuturisticFox@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
lol
- JohnnyEnzyme ( @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
The
dictionarydikshunaryDo they have those at the lie-berry?
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 49•1 year ago
The Silmarillon - the yellow pages of middle earth
- Grayox ( @Grayox@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
It is literally easier to read the KJV of the Bible than the Silmarillon.
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
Easy != Fun
- Emanuel ( @Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br ) 4•1 year ago
Hey, I read half of it
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Alright, name 6 characters with a name starting with fin
!/s!<
- AZERTY ( @AZERTY@feddit.nl ) 49•1 year ago
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.
- TxTechnician ( @TxTechnician@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- Nipplecreek ( @Nipplecreek@lemm.ee ) 44•1 year ago
I can’t name very many people that have finished the whole dictionary
- 👁️👄👁️ ( @mojo@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year ago
The book gave me a roller coaster of emotions, I never knew what was coming next!
- originalfrozenbanana ( @originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ) 42•1 year ago
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.
- wuphysics87 ( @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml ) 24•1 year ago
The Bible
- TheLemming ( @u202307011927@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
When was the last time you heard of someone buying a bible?
- frostycakes ( @frostycakes@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
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?
- Steal Wool ( @h3mlocke@lemm.ee ) English19•1 year ago
For Christians, there’s one called The Bible.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 4•1 year ago
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
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
Not as relevant as it used to be regarding this question, but…
War and Peace
- TheMcG ( @TheMcG@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 year ago
My Godfather tried to read that to me in it’s entirety when I was 4 lol.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English3•1 year ago
I wonder whether it would have been as highly acclaimed had it been published under it’s original name War: What is it good for??
- Crabhands ( @Crabhands@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Got me picturing Jackie and Chris now
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 17•1 year ago
Sometimes I buy physical copies of books I’ve read digitally.
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Sometimes I buy physical books, then listen to them digitally instead
- ekky43 ( @ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•1 year ago
Dictionaries or lexicons. Who reads those from start to finish?
- RT Redréovič ( @RTRedreovic@feddit.ch ) 6•1 year ago
To be honest. I did.
- richieadler ( @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ) English3•1 year ago
I found another of my kin.
- Summzashi ( @Summzashi@lemmy.one ) 11•1 year ago
1984
- howrar ( @howrar@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
You’re missing out. It’s one of the few books I’ve read and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I think that was one of the books that I had already read when we were assigned it in high school…
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
Why exactly would you buy a book and not read it ?
- li10 ( @li10@feddit.uk ) English22•1 year ago
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.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
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.
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
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
- richieadler ( @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ) English3•1 year ago
People buy false books for decoration, so…
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
I had no idea
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
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.)
- MNByChoice ( @MNByChoice@midwest.social ) 3•1 year ago
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.
- NarendraCzar ( @covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•1 year ago
Most of friedrich nietzsche’s books