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[xp_darcy]

Alright, I asked this on twitter originally but I want as many opinions as possible.

You're on a date with a person who tells you the title of their favorite book. You leave immediately. What's the name of the book?

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[xp_wildchild]

The Road, Cormac McCarthy.

It's just so fuckin' depressing. Like I wanna say I get it but mostly I wanna be like Cormac are you OKAY?

[xp_darcy]

I never had to read this, but "fuckin depressing" is not generally my taste.

[xp_topaz]

On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Anyone who unironically calls that book ingenious or revolutionary needs to get far, far away

[xp_wildchild]

Like, I liked it when I read it but now I'm re-thinking it because I think at the time I was like Road Trips are cool and Jazz makes you Seem Cool and now I'm like I'd hate everyone in that book

[xp_spectrum]

Anything by Ayn Rand. Woman was Satan incarnate and anyone who guides their lives by her books is a gigantic asshole waiting to dump all over you.

[xp_cypher]

Came to say Atlas Shrugged, content to be beaten to it.

[xp_loa]

I was gonna say The Fountainhead but you just smartly said "anything that bitch wrote" — which, yeah, fuck that shit

[xp_darcy]

Yeah, those are on my list of "do not dates"

[xp_blackcat]

Came here to say this.

[xp_daredevil]

oh, I'm late to this party, but this is my answer too

[xp_darcy]

A Murdock is never late, he arrives precisely when he means to? :D

[xp_daredevil]

and is always fashionable.

[xp_cypher]

Any book where the protagonist is a cautionary tale but is nonironically idolized by insecure manchildren (Fight Club, Catcher In The Rye, American Psycho)

Ready Player One.

Fuckin' Twilight.

[xp_tarot]

Is Ready Player One the green eggs and tortillas book?

[xp_cypher]

[voice to text on]
Scene: Dr. Grim's office.

Dr Grim: *casually* Hey, what do you think of that book Ready Player One? I heard they made a movie out of it?
Me: Oh my god FIRST OFF-

*twenty minutes of rant later*

Me: ...that was a loaded question wasn't it.
Dr Grim: So you know how we have this recurring thing where you talk about how you're worried that your power makes you a mimic and you're just mirroring people around you with nothing of your own?
Me: ...at least I can say I'm not Ernest Fucking Cline?
Dr Grim: Session over, go get yourself something spicy.

[voice to text off]

[xp_loa]

Monica made a better reply than I could have, so probably Harry Potter or As I Lay Dying by Faulkner??

[xp_cuckoos]

50 Shades.

I should specify that we have never read it, but there was a time when literally everyone we passed on the street had, and for some reason most of them were thinking about it.

Stop thinking about it. For the love of fuck, just, please. Stop.

~SPICE

[xp_tarot]

All five of you?

I am reminded to ask you if you have updated your medical provider with new information.

[xp_cuckoos]

We feel very strongly about this. We thought it was appropriate.

[xp_cypher]

Because it's horribly written, because it's Twilight fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off, or because it gives people very unhealthy impressions of what kink and romance is?

[xp_cuckoos]

Just for having to read this and realizing many things about you we wish we didn't, I deserve a raise.

~P

[xp_blackcat]

Safe, sane, and consensual, kids.

[xp_darcy]

If anyone says they learned all they need to know about "the scene" from it... run.

[xp_jubilee]

Atlas Shrugged

[xp_darcy]

we go back in time, we put rand in a box, we drop the box into a volcano

[xp_wildchild]

And then we SMASH that box! WITH A HAMMER!

[xp_darcy]

as long as we don't smash it so much that rand escapes

[xp_daytripper]

I've got one - the Piers Anthony Xanth books. Someone - can't remember who - suggested them to me when I was working on my reading, thinking magic and puns would be my sort of thing. But the whole obsession with little girls' underwear got too bloody creepy for me.

[xp_darcy]

Oh my... yeah. I haven't read those, but that is damn sure creepy.

[xp_wildchild]

He’s an actual pedo defender. Creepy dude, idk how he hasn’t been me too’d

[xp_darcy]

ewwwwwwwww

[xp_blink]

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

Alas, not about the band.