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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 18, 2014 14:21:40 GMT -5
Ah, but you couldn't read those anyway. That's cheating. I have a few collections that I refuse to read on philosophical grounds. They were gifts. I often find myself staring at them on my shelf in anger. I relegated them to "The Shelf of Shame" where all trades that go that under-preform and displease me. If they anger you, why not sell or donate them? At least they won't be there inspiring negative emotions. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 18, 2014 14:35:30 GMT -5
Ah, but you couldn't read those anyway. That's cheating. I have a few collections that I refuse to read on philosophical grounds. They were gifts. I often find myself staring at them on my shelf in anger. I relegated them to "The Shelf of Shame" where all trades that go that under-preform and displease me. I don't think I've ever used 'philosophical grounds' as a reason not to read a book (which has me curious what rubbed you the wrong way). Some things have made me a tad bit uncomfortable, such as the 'God' and 'Lucifer' in DAWN comics, though I reasoned in my mind it's a fictitious DAWN universe (I hope)....  |
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Post by MatthewP on Jul 18, 2014 14:38:13 GMT -5
I have a Disney digest book I bought in the Portugal airport as a souvenir, but unless I suddenly decide to study Portuguese I don't expect to ever read it. I also picked up a couple old copies of a book called "El Capitan Trueno" when I went to Spain, and don't expect to really read them.
However, I haven't bought anything in English which I don't intend to read (although it may take me a while to get to some of them). I've even bought some books in French from France and Belgium which I have read - at least enough to follow what's going on.
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Post by impulse on Jul 18, 2014 15:41:12 GMT -5
I have a Lois Lane annual from the early sixties that I bought to display in my vintage comics room. I flipped through it briefly, but I'm afraid to mess it up.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 18, 2014 22:24:26 GMT -5
Of course not. Though I do have a Young Romance 100 page giant I've never been able to get all the way through.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 18, 2014 22:30:46 GMT -5
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
I'll have what he's having! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 22:44:50 GMT -5
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
I'll have what he's having!  Absinthe? -M |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 18, 2014 23:22:51 GMT -5
Yes, thanks! But make sure you stop me at one.
Ah hell, make it one-thirty! 
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 19, 2014 13:05:43 GMT -5
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
I'll have what he's having! Absinthe? -M Well, either that or sodomy. Anyway, never bought anything that I didn't intend to read myself. Though the latin version of Asterix did tempt me. |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 19, 2014 14:20:23 GMT -5
Without exaggeration, I have three times now bought stacks of bargain bin issues (which I carefully selected), only to have the following somehow stuck to the back of one of them or otherwise slipped in to what I had picked out:  I actually asked the shop manager if he was messing with me. He'd never seen the book before. So I wonder if I'm just cursed. Anyway, I have no intention of reading it. Not to cast aspersions, but if you have no intention of reading a comic book starring four koalas with guns, I have to wonder if you actually have a soul.  |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 14:22:32 GMT -5
I have to wonder if you actually have a soul. You've been talking to my wife, apparently |
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Post by madthinker on Jul 19, 2014 16:44:03 GMT -5
Without exaggeration, I have three times now bought stacks of bargain bin issues (which I carefully selected), only to have the following somehow stuck to the back of one of them or otherwise slipped in to what I had picked out: I actually asked the shop manager if he was messing with me. He'd never seen the book before. So I wonder if I'm just cursed. Anyway, I have no intention of reading it. You know, according to wiki, this book not only has gun toting koalas, but an appearance of the adolescent radioactive black belt hamsters as well. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 16:46:04 GMT -5
Wow. You guys really want me to read this thing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 19, 2014 16:46:43 GMT -5
No. I have a number I've not gotten around to reading. But. No.
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Post by madthinker on Jul 19, 2014 16:47:11 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to the review thread!!!
Of Naive Inter-Dimensional Commando Koalas, of course...
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