I usually have my MP3 player so I can at least pass the time
I always forget my book and then remember that I have a three hour train journey ahead of me and then my MP3 player will start displaying low battery in the first 3 minutes.

I hate people who go to coffee shops specifically to read a book. Not that you do that, just saying, I hate it. Pretentious douchebags.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:15, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Couldn't listen to an iPod in the pub!
What do you take me for, a weirdo?

I have stopped reading, it's very sad. I used to read a lot.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I read for at least two hours a day.
This is because my office is an hour away from my house.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Last book I read was Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
was pretty good, but I really shold read proper books. Having this conversation with my friend. Asked him the last book he read: "War and Peace".


Riiiiiight.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Good Omens I take it?
Edit: and just laugh at your friend and ask him how it's taken him this long
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Yeah. Enjoyed the Gaiman bits (the bit with the Antichrist)
Enjoyed the character of Crowley, but got a bit pissed off with Pratchett.

That was about a week ago. He'll have read everything ever by now :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Pratchett is a cunt.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Gaiman is God
and has a hot fiancee
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Agreed. And that Hogfather was utter pigshit.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:33, Reply)

Fake War and Peace reading
just claim your favourite character is Andrei because he's everyone's favourite, and then blag some stuff about the futility of war, and the oppressive nature of society. Bingo
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:30, Reply)

If you're going to pretend you've read War and Peace
at least pretend to like some character that no one likes.
Or act like someone who has read war and Peace and say "it's boring"
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:55, Reply)

If you're going to pretend you've read any book whatosever
you deserve a kick in the fucking face.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:11, Reply)

I like that book a lot

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

War and Peace is one of my all time favourite books.
I don't understand why people think it's a difficult read. It's just long. I think it's brilliant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

It's good
I read it a few years ago. And it is brilliant, but the problem is it's not the best book ever, and people tend to cite it as being so
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:32, Reply)

It's dull.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:58, Reply)

If you're not interested in history it probably is.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:07, Reply)

To sum it up...
History controls everything we do, so there is no point in observing individual actions. Let's examine the individual actions of over 500 characters at great length.
THE END.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:36, Reply)

I used to read on my hour long train journey
but as I now walk I hardly find time to read anything anymore. I tried reading at lunch times to make people stop bothering me, but it doesn't stop them and I have to re-read bits over and over which is annoying. I pass people on the way to work who are reading whilst walking, but that's just the worst idea ever.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I only ever read if I'm on the train going somewhere, or sat around in court siderooms
I've just started a Charles Stross book my Dad lent me, s'good so far.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Ooh ooh which one?
He's fucking brilliant.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:22, Reply)

The first in the Laundry series
Cannae remember the name though. I do recall you telling me about him in Edinburgh though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:36, Reply)

The Atrocity Archive.
I love that book. New one's out in time for my birthday, hurrah!
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:41, Reply)

That's the bastard!
Only just started it, but I like it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:46, Reply)