Sadly, I wouldn't be saved…

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

There is a very small chance that I might have: Native Son – Richard Wright

itsmyworld said:

I would probably be dead. I've been reading/"listening" to Stuff White People Like on my iPod. I wouldn't have a chance. Oh and yes, I'm a total cliche.

An iPod might be able to save you… I hope it saves you.

To quote beckett out of S1E1

" Dont you guy's read "  

Cheers TBBW

Tsurwolf said:

So what did he find in your pocket that stoped the 9mm slug at short range ??

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The thickest book on the shelf!!!  or in my pocket as it may be.

I'm thinking either of my Wally Lamb books (She Came Undone or I Know This Much is True) would have stopped the bullet (along with all the thick graduate-level text books I haul around).  On the other hand, since I just HAD to read HEAT WAVE when it first came out, I could have been killed while reading the book from my favorite TV show.   

I'd be dead. I usually read magazines.

I'd probably be dead, I've been carrying around Heat Wave!

Out of the 38 books I've read this year most of them are to thin to even think of stopping a bullet! The books on my shelf that would save me… Dracula, HP:Order of the Phoenix, Eldest or my Math textbook… Maybe if my textbook saved me I'd finally be grateful I have it! 

well i love reading nicholas sparks books. so i guess esposito already gave away what's gonna happen to me. haha.

unniw said:I'm reading Castle fan fiction on my mobile phone every day, commuting to and from work. And as my phone is usually in my back pocket (when not in use), I guess it will lessen the blow a bit when I get shot in the behind. But there will most definately be damage. Ouch. Which would be very fitting, as the latest fan fiction I read was about Castle getting shot in the behind

hehe.  i read that one too, so it's definitely possible your fanfic phone just might save your behind. 

This is so funny to read all those reply's

Being 63 gives me an edge, as i was born in Germany and had to learn english from scratch at 6 years of age. I guess that instilled some sort of pattern that stayed with me for the rest of my life.

Currently i would say that i have somewhere around 800 books in my libary ( 4 bookcases full and overflowing, some in carboard boxes in the garrage as well )

I spent 18 years in a mind numming job opperating an automatic machine that took 20 min to cycle, so had lots of reading time.

But the palin fact is i enjoy the mental excercise of creating the characters/scenes/action in my mind, talk about escapeism

English expression was and still is my best subject, the number of friends that want me to proof read is quite wierd ( rotten speller though )

Reading imparts skills that will stay with you forever.

Cheers TBBW

rvandsing said:

Tsurwolf said:

This is so funny to read all those reply's

Being 63 gives me an edge, as i was born in Germany and had to learn english from scratch at 6 years of age. I guess that instilled some sort of pattern that stayed with me for the rest of my life.

Currently i would say that i have somewhere around 800 books in my libary ( 4 bookcases full and overflowing, some in carboard boxes in the garrage as well )

I spent 18 years in a mind numming job opperating an automatic machine that took 20 min to cycle, so had lots of reading time.

But the palin fact is i enjoy the mental excercise of creating the characters/scenes/action in my mind, talk about escapeism

English expression was and still is my best subject, the number of friends that want me to proof read is quite wierd ( rotten speller though )

Reading imparts skills that will stay with you forever.

Cheers TBBW

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I'm with you, wolf.  I'm 61 and have always been a major reader.  I've read a gazillion books, but most of the time after I've read one, I'll donate it to the local library rather than keep it.  Otherwise my "home would overfloweth".  I spent 24 years in the Air Force, and just couldn't haul all those books with me from one location to another anyway.  Very rarely do I read a book a 2nd time…I figure there's so many I haven't read, why would I want to re-read something (except for some of the classics).  If I need to look up something in a book I've given away, I'll just go to the library and check it out. 

Thats cool hehe

Me! I just can't bear to throw away anything i have spent my hard earned money on, though i will confess to gifting some books that i did not like and would not want to read again.

I own a four bedroom house, and the only room thats realativly uncluttered is the "head", everything else has stuff i just can't throw way.

Cheers TBBW