Its a mechanism of infernal design. What use, the abolishing of books? What USE!?

Music you could never really hold, its as intangible now as then, from vinyl to digital, but books, well...when Y2K finally does hit, and power is dead and gone from our hands, you'll all be cursing your kindles then won't you? You can keep your expensive gadgetry, I'll settle in with my paperbacks and a pen

I'm sure I'll regret such words when I buy one six months from now but today I'm bitter.

Im thinking about starting the massive undertaking of reading The Stand by Stephen King, wish me luck

When the power dies, so will the music and the movies and the internet and the printing presses and I'll put a gun to my head and not worry about it much.

I like books, but mostly for the way the fill my shelves. They're about as practical as CDs tho...

Amen!

Hahaha I agree as well though. I've always been this way with books though. The smell, the feel, the knowledge that the book is in my hand, in my possession, is one I would never want to replace with a machine.

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Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Probably won't endure with it, but bought on a whim so we shall see how it goes!

I don't know, I do hear that it's a work of genius... grandly ambitious, wickedly comic, a wild, surprisingly readable tour de force.

Well I read somewhere that it's a national bestseller.

I recently finished "Fight Club", although I actually preferred the film in this case. Also read High Fidelity by Nick Hornby which is both a fantastic book and novel, especially for music lovers. Just started "The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett. Looks like it's going to rock.

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I decided that the amount of Pratchetts I haven't read is reaching dangerous heights (6!).