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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:01 pm

Tero wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I would like to eventually get a few books on WWII.
I may have one. Can I add it to yours? I have a WWI book I got to read about Russians and Finns. The czar lost the army and we got communism.
Sure, I'd love to double my collection of WWII books. :tup:
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Tyrannical » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:19 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I would like to eventually get a few books on WWII.
May I recommend :{D

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:22 pm

Can't be Nick, that guy's white. :coffee:
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by FBM » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:13 pm

Nothing escapist or fantasy-based. Philosophy, mostly, of a wide range.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:13 pm

Books? Good grief. Can't keep 'em in the house. The servants might read 'em and get funny ideas.
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Post by En_Route » Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:58 pm

Books covering the full gamut of human existence, many without pictures. The more esoteric tomes are prominently displayed in order to daunt visitors, though these grow rarer in my fallow years. The world tends to say of me: "Despite appearances, he knows a lot". Some add "And he has exquisite taste in bandanas",
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Tero » Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:28 pm

E-R, suggest you try boobs. Just as good. You can fall asleep under some book or under some boobs. Your choice.

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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by tattuchu » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:02 pm

What books would we have? When you say "have," I assume you mean sexually? I'd have them all. I'm a bibliophile, a book lover. I never met a book I didn't like :naughty:
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by klr » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:09 pm

Lots and lots of history books - mostly military history.

Lots of evolution-related books - it's a very broad church.

Comparatively few fiction books.
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by En_Route » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:13 pm

Tero wrote:E-R, suggest you try boobs. Just as good. You can fall asleep under some book or under some boobs. Your choice.

I'm not at all in favour of boobs (or bazongas as my au pair calls them). I rarely find them aesthetically appealing and they ceased to be functional after I passed the age of two. Plus they have a habit of making people seriously ill.
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Animavore » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:13 pm

Books on everything. I'm eclectic. Probably why my mind is so erratic :twitch:
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by macdoc » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:20 pm

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How many thousands do you have to go through....English majors read a lot. 100+ per year - check out the 50 book Challenge here - it's hot this year :D

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 9#p1410379

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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Tero » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:22 pm

macdoc wrote:OP
How many thousands do you have to go through....English majors read a lot. 100+ per year - check out the 50 book Challenge here - it's hot this year :D
http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 9#p1410379
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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by macdoc » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:33 pm

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Re: Guys, what kind of books would you have?

Post by Tero » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:31 pm

I would have some murder mysteries made better than the one I'm reading now. It's not awful, but it's not necessary to announce that something bad is going to happen to a character later. WE KNOW the detectives, wives kids, harmless towb winos and anyone else are ALL fair game to be victims.

Anders Knutas mystery.

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