Things you haven't read, to your unending shame

[Tom]

Comic books are one of only two art forms indigenous to the US (jazz is the other). Reading comics is patriotic!



Oh, wait. Never mind.

[[deleted user]]

I never feel ashamed about not having read something. I do feel a sense of urgency, however, to read these:

The Bell Jar
Watership Down
Paradise Lost
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
One Hundred Years of Solitude
War and Peace

More Roth
More Nabokov
More Kafka

[Dave]

Sarah, didn't you say you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five? If so, tsk tsk.

I've never read anything by James Joyce, a fact which causes me nightly to cry myself to sleep.

[Rusty]

I’ve read Marquez. I’ve read whatshisface too – you know.........Borges. I can sum up my feeling on them in precisely one word:

mah.

[[deleted user]]

Dave, I haven't read SO MANY books. How do I even begin a complete list? That's why I don't feel shame about it. I AM reading--there are too many books in the world.

This is why I don't keep reading books I don't like. Alfonso keeps reading "John's Wife" even though he hates it just because Karen suggested he read it. I don't have patience for that.

KD, I'm speaking of Philip--Don't worry!

[Dave]

Quit your job and devote all your time to reading.

[Amanda]

Sarah, I have a slight sense of urgency about The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
I loved Watership Down. Cute little bunnies (some psycho, some not)!!! Sometimes, when I see a bunny out in the neighborhood, I call him Fiver.

I own Slaughterhouse Five but have never read it. That's pretty shameful.



I think I'm more ashamed of spending so much time online instead of reading. I have only read one book so far this year and it only took me two days. I go through phases.

[Amanda]

Of course!!!!!!!! I've read plenty of his other stuff. Like:


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Ok, I've never read any Vonnegut.

[Dave]

Slaughterhouse Five isn't my personal favorite Vonnegut (that would be Breakfast of Champions) but it's definitely essential reading.

[Dave]

Do you mean the book or the audio version specifically? Because I can't listen to audiobooks. I don't have the auditory attention span.


Even when I'm talking to someone.

[[deleted user]]

I read "Breakfast of Champions." I liked it, but it's not a favorite.

[Tracy]

i kind of hate that i no longer have the attention span to read anything that isn't at least a little bit violent and/or kinda sexy. i just seem to have no patience for the "classics" anymore, although slaughterhouse five does have a suitably gory title that intrigues me.

maybe i'll go through another voracious reader phase soon though, and i can make up for being one of those people who only read stuff about zombies or by stephen king. although i have been meaning to read the dark tower series...

[Servius Heiner]

"beyond the gap" "breath of god" two part series fast good reads with a little... I dunno but they are good.

[Dave]

But it does have a drawing of breasts.

[Tom]

"Breakfast of Champions" is moderately gory, is it not?

I liked "Player Piano," myself.

[Dave]

I don't remember Breakfast... being gory.

[Amanda]

Dave wrote: "But it does have a drawing of breasts."

Hmmm...

[Annie]

I have tried and cannot handle Jane Austen -drives me nutty trying to read anything by her!

[Amanda]

I've been looking for Cat's Cradle for years, but my used bookstore never has it. I suppose I could get it from the library. (Why didn't I think of that until this very moment? Good lord, I'm an idiot sometimes.)


I don't have any desire whatsoever to read Jane Austen. And I am NOT ashamed.

[Tracy]

i figured as much about the vonnegut. although i do feel like it's something i should read at some point, whether i want to or not, just because i SHOULD. kind of like i feel like i should see crash and the english patient, even though i'm really never in the mood for that sort of thing.

[Nikki]

Breakfast of Champions also has a wonderful drawing of an asshole. That and Slapstick are my favorite Vonnegut books.

I am ashamed to not have read Candide by Voltaire or The Stranger by Camus. Someone at work asks me about those two books every time he sees me reading something a little...lowbrow. I think to make me feel bad about not always reading real literature.

[[deleted user]]

I remember that drawing.

[Amanda]

I don't think Breakfast and Assholes should go together.

[Gus]

Breakfast and Assholes sounds like the name of a book I should write.

[Amanda]

Now's the time. Get to it!

[Servius Heiner]

Breakfast and assholes sound like a description of my morning routine: At work I am inundated with assholes and their stupid questions... like dude, I know where here 24/7 but that doesn't mean I am available to hear your shit 24/7 wait till I get to my office.

[[deleted user]]

Nick, Why are you Servius still? Was that from that name generator website? Has it taken personal meaning to you? How do you pronounce it? SERV-EE-USS or SHER-VISS or what? It drives me crazy.

[Servius Heiner]

yes, yes yes, no. It has become my alter ego. I am thinking about naming my next Mastiff Servius.

[[deleted user]]

How do you pronounce it?

[Amanda]

I think yes to serv-ee-us and no to sher-viss.

[Servius Heiner]

I guess eating some tofu between drinks makes one pretty smart huh RTP.

[Caroline]

I have tried to read some Kafka's work, but find it so hard. I'm constantly on the go, IE: 2 jobs, so I need easy reads. I also have not read a lot Leo Tolstoy's works. He's an amazing writer, but his work is so loooonnnnggg.

[Amanda]

Of course!
My cocktail tonight is gonna be some nyquil, though. I'm getting sick. :(

[Tom]

I think Montambo was crazy to begin with, and that NIck has nothing to do with it.

[[deleted user]]

I think YOU have nothing to do with it, Tom!

[Tom]

So now you're admitting that you're crazy all on your own, and it's nothing that anyone's driven you to?

[[deleted user]]

Oh, I'm crazy for a lot things. I'm just sick of that name Servius! I just sealed fate, though. He'll never change it, now that he knows how much I want him to.

[Tom]

You could always tell him that the name is Latin for "male prostitute specializing in anal sex." He might change it then.


Come to think of it, maybe not.

[Servius Heiner]

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