Books you have but never Read..

[HollowedPumkinz]

..or finished in the first place.

You ever move into a new home and had a book case but could never get it to look "full" enough? So you bought a bunch of random books at a Half-Price Bookstore and then placed them on your shelves NEVER to be touched again? Yeah, I've never done that...but I know a guy who knows a barber who's cousin has done that. Yep, so I-err this cousin's family has done a lot of that and rummaged through these virgin pages years afterwards. I've come to find they aren't exactly "good" books, rather just the run of the mill Murder Mystery, Romance, Cook books, etc. They've littered the shelves for ages but who knows, maybe I'll like one of them or something, it just seemed weird to have them there and have never touched them, it's like they become part of the furniture and you just forget they can be removed.

I suppose its largely just for furnishing purposes but kinda feels like a lie. Like all of our guests are suppose to think we read the damn things. And I have to question whether they've read any of the ones on their shelves. So guilt kinda forces me to at least skim through them just in case, I dunno, the guests start to question me on a book I've got.

How awkward would that be?

"Oh you have x book? I love x book! Didn't you just love when x fought y on the z?! Who's your favorite character?"
"Oh yeah I love y, he's such a badass."
"Y's a woman..."
"...fuck." *jump out window*

Admit your bookish shame here. Would you pick out a book now and read it if I said I'd do the same, uh, that is get that cousin to do it too?

Those aren't books on those shelves, they're lies! Damned LIES!

[Sense-Offender]

I have a whole bunch I haven't read, mostly sci-fi and some thrillers.

[hoorayjay]

books r 4 nerds

[RyderOmega]

At 5/22/14 02:31 AM, Vnzi wrote: I have T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land on my desk right now and I haven't even attempted to try to read it. Too busy with House of Leaves.

I've recently been reading House of Leaves as well.

I still got to finish the last couple of books of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

[VJF]

The Bible.

I don't like to read a lot of Fiction.

[RyderOmega]

At 5/22/14 02:45 AM, Vnzi wrote:

At 5/22/14 02:40 AM, RyderOmega wrote: I've recently been reading House of Leaves as well.

I still got to finish the last couple of books of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

What book you on? I've read through The Dark Tower series more than I can count.

Just barely halfway, near the end of the fourth book.

[Xenomit]

Every single book I bought from my local library that was made before the 50's.

I have about 200 books that range around the 10's to the 40's, and every single one of them was a dollar.

[Dr-Worm]

I've never bought a book just to fill out a shelf with no intention of actually reading it, but I do have a couple of things I bought but haven't read yet, chief among them being Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue, William Goldman's Adventures In the Screen Trade, and Stephen King's On Writing.

I also have some shit on my Kindle I haven't gotten around to yet, like Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road and Lawrence Wright's book about Scientology.

[Magical-Zorse]

All the books I own I've read but some of my sisters books I Haven't read.

[Urban-Champion]

the bible

[Urban-Champion]

At 5/22/14 03:21 AM, Vnzi wrote:

At 5/22/14 03:18 AM, Urban-Champion wrote: the bible

You have enough experience to teach a youth camp then.

OHHH SNAAAPPP

YOU MUST BE A FOREST FIRE, BECAUSE YOU JUST BURNED THAT SHIT

[SithCorduroy]

I've never bought a book that I never actually wanted to read.

My bookshelf mainly consists of fine literature like Friday the 13th expanded universe novels.

[Repsi]

The only ones i haven't read are comic books.

[Ejit]

I generally get given populist science books for birthdays/Christmas that I have no interest in. Of books I've bought myself there are a fair few I haven't been able to finish, like Catch-22 and Foucault's Pendulum.

I pretty much use a Kindle at the moment though, which makes it ludicrously easy to 'pause' reading one book and start another, and so on.

[Regal]

One day you cheeky bastard

[Viper]

I have a bunch like that. But I DO have plans to read them at some point in the future though.

[TheDukeofJuke]

Any book my grandmother ever got me.

[satanbrain]

I have some mysticism books I've never read.

[KatMaestro]

The Quran... some dude on the street was giving it out for free. I took it and use as a monitor lifter. LOL, so blasphemy!

[Urban-Champion]

my bookshelves are reserved for my snes games

[Sensationalism]

On the Road was the first book I didn't finish. It was a chore to read. Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me was soooooo much better.

And I didn't finish Gravity's Rainbow because I got sick of it.

And I didn't finish this other book that got boring. I forgot the name but it was a thousand something pages.

[PanzerKorpse]

Paradise lost, Ive read about 1/3 of it, I like it but honestly when I read I get entertained but I cant get wrapped up in the book and feel the story like I used to so I dont finish many books. Eventually I probably will read them all. As for never read I have many books I havent read, I dont even know their names but one is about independant film making another about king and queen and castles and shit, oh and "savages", about a couple of white women stuck in the african jungle, lol. Fools die is good I dont know why I stopped reading it. The guy goes home because he won alot of money in vegas and decides to kill himself because he didnt know what to do with his life or something.

[Jester]

I'm very slowly but surely getting through Relativity: The Special and General Theory. At some point my uncle gave me a shitload of Hardy Boys books from the 70s that I've never touched. Lastly, I have all of Kurt Vonnegut's books, but I've only ever read Cat's Cradle.

on that note, reading Hocus Pocus seems like a good idea i'm going to go do that

[ManDeep]

At 5/22/14 02:29 AM, hoorayjay wrote: books r 4 nerds

I Concur, People With The Real Smarts Watch Anime.

[SubparTony]

The Parrot's Theorem
I've been told it's good and reading-worth, but never got into it. But I will read sometime in the future.

[Viper]

At 5/22/14 02:29 AM, hoorayjay wrote: books r 4 nerds

Yeah well....you're a nerd.

[D-Nightmare]

I haven't properly read through my Complete Calvin & Hobbes book all the way through.

I've only got the first one. Didn't have enough cash for the other two.

[CiviLies]

Anyone wanna get rid of their books PM me maybe you cans end them to me ;D

[NekoMika]

Newgrounds Writing Anthology
Magic the Gathering Book 4

although I do plan to read them

[Sensationalism]

At 5/22/14 02:51 PM, Jester wrote: I'm very slowly but surely getting through Relativity: The Special and General Theory. At some point my uncle gave me a shitload of Hardy Boys books from the 70s that I've never touched. Lastly, I have all of Kurt Vonnegut's books, but I've only ever read Cat's Cradle.

on that note, reading Hocus Pocus seems like a good idea i'm going to go do that

Shame on you!!!!! Send them to me plz. Do you even know about the wide open beavers??? sheesh!