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Subject: Do you like old books?

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  • 12.08.2012 7:46 PM PDT

Gather around the campfire, once it goes out, it's out for good.

I prefer books written between 1900 and 1990.
Young enough to be comprehended and old enough not to suck.

  • 12.08.2012 7:48 PM PDT
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

-Gandalf

Meh. They're okay.

  • 12.08.2012 7:55 PM PDT

Yes. The smell is fantastic.

  • 12.08.2012 7:55 PM PDT

the smell took me right back...

I was hiding behind one of the faces, back then i could get away with anything

  • 12.08.2012 7:57 PM PDT

"Life is constantly fleeting from your grasp even from the very day it's bestowed upon you, but the shadow of death is always there, waiting for its chance to take you away."

"Even though many may not think so, ignorance and innocence are one and the same. The only difference is that one sounds nicer."

"I once knew a man who spent his entire life contemplating where we go after our death....it's a shame he realized it a second too late to tell anyone."

Copies of books actually made during those times? Or just the stories written back then?

  • 12.08.2012 7:57 PM PDT

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Posted by: Shadows1907

Posted by: eggsalad
I prefer books written between 1900 and 1990.
Young enough to be comprehended and old enough not to suck.
But most of the old books helped make all of the new books if you get what I mean
And I'm too stupid to adjust comprehension skills.

  • 12.08.2012 7:58 PM PDT

There are great books that are even much older than 1700

  • 12.08.2012 8:00 PM PDT

"Life is constantly fleeting from your grasp even from the very day it's bestowed upon you, but the shadow of death is always there, waiting for its chance to take you away."

"Even though many may not think so, ignorance and innocence are one and the same. The only difference is that one sounds nicer."

"I once knew a man who spent his entire life contemplating where we go after our death....it's a shame he realized it a second too late to tell anyone."


Posted by: Shadows1907

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Copies of books actually made during those times? Or just the stories written back then?
Both. I have quite a few books that were made back then.
Oh. As for books actually printed back then, I don't have any copies of. I have recent copies of more classic literature, though.

  • 12.08.2012 8:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: eggsalad
Posted by: Shadows1907
Posted by: eggsalad
I prefer books written between 1900 and 1990.
Young enough to be comprehended and old enough not to suck.
But most of the old books helped make all of the new books if you get what I mean
And I'm too stupid to adjust comprehension skills.

So your poor comprehension skills make those books "suck?" It's one thing to say you don't like something. Quite another to say that thing "sucks."

[Edited on 12.08.2012 8:22 PM PST]

  • 12.08.2012 8:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: eggsalad
Posted by: Shadows1907
Posted by: eggsalad
I prefer books written between 1900 and 1990.
Young enough to be comprehended and old enough not to suck.
But most of the old books helped make all of the new books if you get what I mean
And I'm too stupid to adjust comprehension skills.

So your poor comprehension skills make those books "suck?" It's one thing to say you don't like something. Quite another to say that thing "sucks."
I said that modern books suck and that I'm too stupid to comprehend older ones.
And if I actually have to clarify to you the difference between common statements of factual quality and subjective quality I think I might as well just kill it now.

[Edited on 12.08.2012 8:34 PM PST]

  • 12.08.2012 8:32 PM PDT

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I prefer modern literature, after 1960 or so.

  • 12.08.2012 8:33 PM PDT

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I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.

My dad owned a few books that old. It was pretty cool just leafing through them, looking at the binding and so on.

Or do you just mean works that were written that long ago but may have been reprinted in new editions since then?

  • 12.08.2012 8:34 PM PDT
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They smell nice.

  • 12.08.2012 8:36 PM PDT

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  • 12.08.2012 8:38 PM PDT

The human element always mucks things up.

The only "old" book I've ever read was Frankenstein and it is a total -blam!- to understand.

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  • 12.08.2012 8:39 PM PDT

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Some I like some I do not. There writing style was different and it seems that had a better vocabulary than people today. Anyway, this makes it difficult to understand some texts so yea.

  • 12.08.2012 8:53 PM PDT

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I struggle to enjoy most things written before the twentieth century.

  • 12.08.2012 8:55 PM PDT

I like touching old books.

  • 12.08.2012 8:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shadows1907
Like books from the 1700's and up?

I like to collect them I love the old smell, the feel of the wrods pressed on the pages and the whole vibe of the book.


Right on!

I am a book collector, and I love books of most makes and models!

  • 12.08.2012 8:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Shadows1907
wrods

ÓP loves wrods.

  • 12.08.2012 9:28 PM PDT

Remember those times when we all had something better to be doing, but didn't do it? Those were good times. Gooood times

Depends on the book. I like ancient epics up until Shakespear's time. After that hand me something modern

  • 12.08.2012 9:34 PM PDT