What do your books say about you? Picture thread...

[Roadkill]

Living room:

 

[Roadkill]

Bedroom:

Hallway:

 

[Orang Utan]

You're into ship and trains then?

 

[Roadkill]

You'd never guess, would you?

 

[El Jefe]

Has everyone got books by that twat Bryson then?

 

[Roadkill]

Apparently so, yes...

 

[Dirty Martini]

Cough

It keeps getting put back. I should probably just dive in

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I don't understand the Bryson hate. That travelogues aren't great but the history of language stuff is very readable and the history of science book is perfect to read while crapping.

 

[maes]

Does that copy of civ 3 by any chance belong to barney? Did you never give it back to him?

busted i tried! he didn't take it! i think!

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't understand the Bryson hate. That travelogues aren't great but the history of language stuff is very readable and the history of science book is perfect to read while crapping.

He's very likeable - I've just read his childhood memoir and it was enlightening and funny

 

[Orang Utan]

Has everyone got books by that twat Bryson then?

What have you got against him?

 

[El Jefe]

I've only read perhaps one and a half books, but I found him smug, unfunny, lazily sexist, tedious and totally over-rated

 

[Orang Utan]

He's definitely smug and overrated but he's certainly funny - what were the books you read?

 

[El Jefe]

Notes From A Small Island I read all the way through, and about 50 pages each of two or three others, all travelogue ones (it's one of those "You're staying at someone's house and you don't have a book and it's Bryson or Dan Brown' scenario, but 3 times over).

 

[Orang Utan]

I can see why people don't like him as he's very pleased with himself, but he's good for a train journey

 

[El Jefe]

But there are so many other, better writers for a train journey. Life's too short to waste on 'funny and harmless' or 'passes the time'.

Which isn't to say you should only engage with the classics, all day every day, but I need a bit more than Bryson offers for me to bother with it.

 

[nosos]

busted i tried! he didn't take it! i think!

Poor Barny!

I found a copy of Sim City 4 at my parents house which I think belongs to him

 

[heinous seamus]

A truly pitiful haul. 95% of mine are in boxes in attics. I'm trying to keep the current lot down so I can move to another city in one trip and one smallish parcel.

I'm living with 25 books

Half of them are upside down

25 books isn't much. I guess it depends how many of then you've read though.

 

[chooch]

25 books isn't much. I guess it depends how many of then you've read though.

22 1/2 to this evening. This travelling light is shit. I've only got about a third of me music too.
It pains me to think of the boxes and boxes and boxes of beautiful books I've spent the last 23 or so years collecting that are not being read by anybody.

 

[Dirty Martini]

I feel your pain. Some crackers there though.

 

[chooch]

I feel your pain. Some crackers there though.

Aye. Urban books thread in no way responsible

 

[maya]

- Bump!

 

[krtek a houby]

I've got a Peter Bagge book for xmas but I'm not allowed open until tomorrow

At least it's not another Bryson - seem to get one every year

 

[Dillinger4]

A bit of one of my bookshelves.

 

[tastebud]

 

[mentalchik]

There actually a few more since this was taken (early in the year).....