Inspired by Raz's genocide threat, I propose this question, you have to choose a particular book title, one that's been reprinted at least three times, and everyone within 10 feet of a copy of the title at the specified moment, gets erased from the face of the earth, so which book is it ?
At the moment I'm leaning towards the DaVinci code, but haven't pushed the button on it, as I know it would kill a lot of old dears/volunteers in thrift/charity shops.
Oh and one acception, anyone who works in a bookshop gets automatic immunity form the effect.
Think of it as the reverse of book burning, books that burn people. :P
Twilight. Twilight, Twilight, Twilight. Did I mention Twilight? Twilight.
Quote from: mongers on October 18, 2012, 04:48:49 PM
At the moment I'm leaning towards the DaVinci code, but haven't pushed the button on it, as I know it would kill a lot of old dears/volunteers in thrift/charity shops.
That might have been topical like 9 years ago.
Any Dawkins book.
DaVinci Code was a perfectly serviceable paperback thriller. Twilight is tween romance, and is pretty standard for the genre.
Please try and come up with something slightly more evil - perhaps Mein Kampf of Mao's Little Red Book.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 04:55:33 PM
DaVinci Code was a perfectly serviceable paperback thriller. Twilight is tween romance, and is pretty standard for the genre.
Please try and come up with something slightly more evil - perhaps Mein Kampf of Mao's Little Red Book.
With Twilight, we'd get the added bonus of nailing anyone with a copy of 50 Shades of Grey for free. It's standard for the genre, but the readership it got is anything but.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 04:55:33 PM
Please try and come up with something slightly more evil - perhaps Mein Kampf of Mao's Little Red Book.
:yes: Or Atlas Shrugged.
Quote from: DGuller on October 18, 2012, 05:09:32 PM
:yes: Or Atlas Shrugged.
Hmm, that could be an excellent candidate, too. Problem is, it wouldn't get the morons who've seen the movie but not read the book.
HEY IT WAS ON NETFLIX.
Just proposed this to my mom, and she had a good answer: Dianetics. :lol:
Quote from: mongers on October 18, 2012, 04:48:49 PM
Inspired by Raz's genocide threat, I propose this question, you have to choose a particular book title, one that's been reprinted at least three times, and everyone within 10 feet of a copy of the title at the specified moment, gets erased from the face of the earth, so which book is it ?
At the moment I'm leaning towards the DaVinci code,
Typical Mongers bait and switch. :lol:
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 05:35:59 PM
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
Koran.
There. Lawyers vaporized.
The Avesta, just to piss off Spellus.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 04:55:33 PM
DaVinci Code was a perfectly serviceable paperback thriller. Twilight is tween romance, and is pretty standard for the genre.
Please try and come up with something slightly more evil - perhaps Mein Kampf of Mao's Little Red Book.
Silly. I'd bet $100 that most copies of Hitler's or Mao's works are owned by people with a mere historical interest in the Third Reich or PRC.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 18, 2012, 05:45:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 05:35:59 PM
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
Koran.
There. Lawyers vaporized.
By contrast, I am happy with this.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 05:35:59 PM
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
:yeahright: Was that supposed to dissuade us?
Quote from: Ideologue on October 18, 2012, 06:24:15 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 04:55:33 PM
DaVinci Code was a perfectly serviceable paperback thriller. Twilight is tween romance, and is pretty standard for the genre.
Please try and come up with something slightly more evil - perhaps Mein Kampf of Mao's Little Red Book.
Silly. I'd bet $100 that most copies of Hitler's or Mao's works are owned by people with a mere historical interest in the Third Reich or PRC.
I'm willing to bet that there are quite a few of Mao's works floating around China.
Quote from: mongers on October 18, 2012, 04:48:49 PM
Inspired by Raz's genocide threat, I propose this question, you have to choose a particular book title, one that's been reprinted at least three times, and everyone within 10 feet of a copy of the title at the specified moment, gets erased from the face of the earth, so which book is it ?
At the moment I'm leaning towards the DaVinci code, but haven't pushed the button on it, as I know it would kill a lot of old dears/volunteers in thrift/charity shops.
Oh and one acception, anyone who works in a bookshop gets automatic immunity form the effect.
Think of it as the reverse of book burning, books that burn people. :P
Thread. I made a genocide thread, not threat. I think there is an important distinction here.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on October 18, 2012, 05:26:15 PM
Just proposed this to my mom, and she had a good answer: Dianetics. :lol:
Like it, plus Atlas Shrugged is a good one too.
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 05:35:59 PM
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
Not in America, you Canuckistani chumps.
The Motorcycle Diaries.
Quote from: Scipio on October 18, 2012, 07:23:41 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 18, 2012, 05:35:59 PM
Don't anybody dare say the Koran. They keep a copy in courtrooms.
Not in America, you Canuckistani chumps.
Do they keep any books in a Mississippi court room?
I wouldnt go with the Da Vinci code.
It is of course not thaaaaat bad. And because it did so well and has such an undeserved good reputation a lot of people were given it as a gift (me...).
Not that i brought it to Japan with me.
Twilight too I would imagine is owned by a lot of girls who have since grown up- maybe make it one of the sequels so then you know its only the fans you're getting rid of?
Does the old testement count as a book? It has books in it right? Then we can get rid of all the abrahamists. :p
Though seriously I wouldnt say anything.
QuoteProblem is, it wouldn't get the morons who've seen the movie but not read the book.
People have seen the movie?
About 3 more then finished the book. So it's like 9 people in all.
Quote from: Razgovory on October 18, 2012, 09:04:46 PM
About 3 more then finished the book. So it's like 9 people in all.
Quote from: wikipediaThe sales of Atlas Shrugged have since then sharply increased, according to The Economist magazine and The New York Times. The Economist reported that the fifty-two-year-old novel ranked #33 among Amazon.com's top-selling books on January 13, 2009 and that its thirty day sales average showed the novel selling three times faster than during the same period of the previous year. With an attached sales chart, The Economist reported that sales "spikes" of the book seemed to coincide with the release of economic data. Subsequently, on April 2, 2009, Atlas Shrugged ranked #1 in the "Fiction and Literature" category at Amazon and #15 in overall sales.[65][66][67] Total sales of the novel in 2009 exceeded 500,000 copies.[68] The book sold 445,000 copies in 2011, the second-strongest sales year in the novel's history. At the time of publication the novel was on the New York Times best-seller list and was selling at roughly a third the volume of 2011.[69]
A Game of Thrones :whistle:
Quote from: merithyn on October 18, 2012, 09:41:32 PM
A Game of Thrones :whistle:
We might as well just ask vM for a self-destruct button for Languish. :D
Right now, George RR Martin is devouring his 4 box of twinkles today.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 18, 2012, 09:25:41 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 18, 2012, 09:04:46 PM
About 3 more then finished the book. So it's like 9 people in all.
Quote from: wikipediaThe sales of Atlas Shrugged have since then sharply increased, according to The Economist magazine and The New York Times. The Economist reported that the fifty-two-year-old novel ranked #33 among Amazon.com's top-selling books on January 13, 2009 and that its thirty day sales average showed the novel selling three times faster than during the same period of the previous year. With an attached sales chart, The Economist reported that sales "spikes" of the book seemed to coincide with the release of economic data. Subsequently, on April 2, 2009, Atlas Shrugged ranked #1 in the "Fiction and Literature" category at Amazon and #15 in overall sales.[65][66][67] Total sales of the novel in 2009 exceeded 500,000 copies.[68] The book sold 445,000 copies in 2011, the second-strongest sales year in the novel's history. At the time of publication the novel was on the New York Times best-seller list and was selling at roughly a third the volume of 2011.[69]
I guess you missed it the first time, so I bolded it this time.
I finished the book. Wasn't hard.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 18, 2012, 10:01:53 PM
I finished the book. Wasn't hard.
Well, you share that quality with a handful of crazy people. Congrats!
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 18, 2012, 09:59:32 PM
Right now, George RR Martin is devouring his 4 box of twinkles today.
Twinkles?
The Bible. :cool:
Fifty Earls of Grey: Confessions of a Teatotaller.
:bleeding:
I would say 50 Shades... but everyone in London is within 10 feet of a copy. Like rats.
Quote from: Brazen on October 19, 2012, 05:26:05 AM
I would say 50 Shades... but everyone in London is within 10 feet of a copy. Like rats.
Those people will hopefully die of something stupid sooner or later, like drowning in the shower or falling to their deaths off a curb.
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
Ooh. Russian domination of Europe or Muslim. Who would it fall to?
Quote from: DGuller on October 18, 2012, 11:13:13 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 18, 2012, 10:01:53 PM
I finished the book. Wasn't hard.
:hug: I'll miss you.
You should pull the trigger now. My books are in storage. :P
Quote from: Razgovory on October 19, 2012, 07:27:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
Ooh. Russian domination of Europe or Muslim. Who would it fall to?
You would be surprised about it. Europe is not the US - people here do not normally own the Bible.
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 08:32:39 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 19, 2012, 07:27:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
Ooh. Russian domination of Europe or Muslim. Who would it fall to?
You would be surprised about it. Europe is not the US - people here do not normally own the Bible.
I don't know, there seems to still be a fair amount of ownership. I immediately wanted to discount these numbers because of who the study was for, but the research was actually undertaken by a well known market research firm.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802435.htm
QuoteThe percentage of respondents who said they had a Bible at home was 93 percent in the United States, 85 percent in Poland, 75 percent in Italy, 74 percent in Germany, 67 percent in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 65 percent in Russia, 61 percent in Spain and 48 percent in France.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/poll-u-s-more-bible-wired-prayerful-than-europe-s-christian-nations-32160/
QuoteThree-quarters of American respondents said they had read a phrase from the Bible in the past 12 months, found the poll conducted by GFK-Eurisko research group for the Catholic Biblical Federation, according to Reuters.
In comparison, only 20 to 38 percent of respondents from the other eight countries surveyed – Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain and Poland – replied they had read from the Bible in the past year.
At least that readership figure is somewhat in line with what Gallup found 8 years prior (didn't ask on ownership)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/2416/six-ten-americans-read-bible-least-occasionally.aspx
QuoteSix in Ten Americans Read Bible at Least Occasionally
I own a bible. And a Koran. :o
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2012, 08:52:34 AM
I own a bible. And a Koran. :o
Me too! :hug:
Actually, I have two bibles.
Quote from: garbon on October 19, 2012, 08:52:57 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2012, 08:52:34 AM
I own a bible. And a Koran. :o
Me too! :hug:
Actually, I have two bibles.
I have a set of New Testament Apocrypha. :pope:
Not that I've read them.
Not that I've read the canonical Gospels, too :blush:
L.
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:36:44 AM
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Again, this is also a mainly American phenomenon I think. I don't remember every staying at a hotel room in Europe that would have a Bible in the drawer.
Quote from: garbon on October 19, 2012, 08:51:16 AM
The percentage of respondents who said they had a Bible at home was 93 percent in the United States, 85 percent in Poland, 75 percent in Italy, 74 percent in Germany, 67 percent in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 65 percent in Russia, 61 percent in Spain and 48 percent in France.
So we kill almost all the Americans and Poles, most of the Russians but less than half of the French?
It seems Christmas is early this year. :frog:
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:14:55 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:36:44 AM
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Again, this is also a mainly American phenomenon I think. I don't remember every staying at a hotel room in Europe that would have a Bible in the drawer.
Maybe. Our big supplier, Gideon's, says that they are active in placing bibles in Europe and then globally said that they gave out 73 million last year.
Quote from: Pedrito on October 19, 2012, 09:00:20 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 19, 2012, 08:52:57 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2012, 08:52:34 AM
I own a bible. And a Koran. :o
Me too! :hug:
Actually, I have two bibles.
I have a set of New Testament Apocrypha. :pope:
Not that I've read them.
Not that I've read the canonical Gospels, too :blush:
L.
I've read bits and pieces. Inherited one from my grandmother and then had one for school.
Quote from: garbon on October 19, 2012, 09:17:45 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:14:55 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:36:44 AM
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Again, this is also a mainly American phenomenon I think. I don't remember every staying at a hotel room in Europe that would have a Bible in the drawer.
Maybe. Our big supplier, Gideon's, says that they are active in placing bibles in Europe and then globally said that they gave out 73 million last year.
I think maybe I was at a hotel room with a Bible in it once. I think it was in the UK. I left a complaint in the form you leave at the reception desk.
And why are you calling them "your big supplier"? Are you a fucking Bible salesman now?
Actually, it was one of the only times I ever left a complaint at a hotel. The other time was staying at the Hilton in Prague and I left what I thought was an anonymous review form, complaining the wide range of porn channels available on the hotel tv did not include any gay porn.
They sent me an e-mail apologising. Apparently, the forms were not anonymous. <_<
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:19:30 AM
And why are you calling them "your big supplier"? Are you a fucking Bible salesman now?
As in the group that supplies bibles in US hotels. :mellow:
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 08:32:39 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 19, 2012, 07:27:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
Ooh. Russian domination of Europe or Muslim. Who would it fall to?
You would be surprised about it. Europe is not the US - people here do not normally own the Bible.
Educated people do.
I've never seen a Bible in a Swedish hotel room. The New Testament is standard though.
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:23:33 AM
Actually, it was one of the only times I ever left a complaint at a hotel. The other time was staying at the Hilton in Prague and I left what I thought was an anonymous review form, complaining the wide range of porn channels available on the hotel tv did not include any gay porn.
They sent me an e-mail apologising. Apparently, the forms were not anonymous. <_<
Their gaydar works.
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:14:55 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:36:44 AM
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Again, this is also a mainly American phenomenon I think. I don't remember every staying at a hotel room in Europe that would have a Bible in the drawer.
It's a protestant phenomena, we have Gideons in scandinavia.
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 08:32:39 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 19, 2012, 07:27:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
Ooh. Russian domination of Europe or Muslim. Who would it fall to?
You would be surprised about it. Europe is not the US - people here do not normally own the Bible.
Yeah, Europe is not the US. It can't defend itself. No America, no free Europe.
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 09:14:55 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 19, 2012, 08:36:44 AM
Wouldn't you kill all the hotel guests?
Again, this is also a mainly American phenomenon I think. I don't remember every staying at a hotel room in Europe that would have a Bible in the drawer.
Having a bible from the Gideon's is reasonably common in German hotels as far as I can tell. I've seen catechisms as well.
Since the biggest literary atrocities have already been named, I'll add any chick lit nonsense book by Lauren Weisberger or Sophie Kinsella.
Also, the Lord of the Rings. Its readers blight my sight.
I spare the Hunger Games series, because even if it plagiarizes The Running Man it's still tweens murdering each other for fun and games.
Why are so many of you trying to kill all the wimmins? Don't you understand the laws of supply and demand? :huh:
Quote from: Martinus on October 19, 2012, 03:48:42 AM
The Bible. :cool:
It just occurred to me that Marty probably owns a bible. He probably looked for the closest book to name and saw it on his shelf.
The closest book was "polish military victories". It's a light read.
Pamphlets don't count.