what books do you read to to ruin?

i've had 24 pages fall out of high fidelity, 30 fall out of three kingdoms, 18 fall out of red dragon, 12 fall out of fight club and my copy if stephen king's It looks like hell

forrest gump. really. the original book from 1984 or whatever. it's in pieces, but i refuse to buy a copy with tom hanks on it.

the talisman and it are both fucked also.

and i LOST or HAD STOLEN fear and loathing in LV. so i guess that counts as destroyed.

you mean during sex?

i had a really old copy of 'catch 22' fall apart on me after the first reading. of course i only paid 10 cents for it.
i have a feeling that 'love is a dog from hell' by bukowski will be next, only out of genuine me reading it so much and shoving it in dark, crampt places.....like my bookbag. yeah.

mine don't ruin. i look after them, it's an OCD thing.

Harry Potter

"the stand" - it just fell apart....

Watership Down. It's fucked. I need a new one.

BTW, Two_D, why is this in "SEX TALK"? You get off on tatty literature? "Oh, god! Those Dead Sea Scrolls make me so horny!"

if I were one to ruin books, they would be:

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

only Beloved has been somewhat ruined because I've had to take notes in it for classes. the other two I refuse even to dog-ear the pages because I love them so much they hurt me.

I used to hate the spine getting cracked or any sign of wear and tear but now I kinda like it- shows the book has gotten some loving.

The only book I've actually ruined was a paperback copy of Nine Stories.

i think you read books different then i do

and i just realized i put this topic in sex talk and not lifestyle ooops my bad


[Edited on May 09, 2005 by Two_D]

day of the triffids and the never ending story.

Cat's Cradle....my copy is covered it tape, and only prayer keeps the pages in it.

My copy of Hitchhiker's was eaten by the Great Bugbladder Beast of Traal. Or at least it looked like it. I just bought a new one.

i try to keep my books in pristine condition. my harry potter books are in heavy rotation as i wait for the new book to come out. i loaned my 4th HP book to someone once and witnessed them dog-earing the pages, i almost lost it. they suffered my wrath, and a day later i forced them to give it back to me.

i love my books. but not in the "Sex Talk" kind of way.

"The Remains of the Day" and "The Sheltering Sky"

The only book I've actually ruined was The Brothers Karamazov, but it wasn't looking too well to begin with.

I care for my belongings, so none of my books have been ruined that weren't already.

i have my dad's copy of breakfas of champions he said he read it about 20 times, i'm up to about 6

it is being held together by packing tape

My floor is carpeted with comic books at almost any point in time. I make no effort to avoid stepping on them.

If I finish with a paperback novel and it still has a cover, then it must have been very well made.

all of them. I read and re-read books like crazy.