I'm currently not reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. I actually enjoyed Da Vinci Code and quite liked Angels and Demons, but enough is enough.

I'm interspersing this with every book ever that has anything whatsoever to do with Michael Jackson. I'm simultaneously not listening to any of his records.

Earlier in the year I put John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let The Right One In on my not-reading pile, but didn't get round to not reading it. It turned out to be very good indeed.

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Nothing beautiful was ever made from gravel.

How DO you manage to find such head-slappingly obvious topics? Congratulations!

I am not reading any mysteries. In our house the division of labor is that I cook and my wife reads the whodunits. It works well.

I am not reading Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, despite having a subscription. Ugh.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Havant a clue, Mike!

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

I'm not reading Philip Roth's The Crime Against America. It's very good, I just seem to have "stalled" halfway through.

I rather suspect I'm not reading a book by the woman who won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. I flipped through it, and she's one of those writers who doesn't see the need for quotation marks or question marks. This may be because the translator does not, but I still find it worrisome.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'm celebrating my 40th anniversary of not reading Atlas Shrugged.

Satisfying.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Hey! I'm not reading Atlas Shrugged, too!

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Practically all of them.

In particular I'm not reading the Shadowrun rulebook, which is slightly bothersome as I'm supposed to be playing the thing in the tolerably near future.

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Science is like sex. Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
-- Richard Feynman

My not reading pile is pretty large, and contains all Harry Potter books and everything by Dan Brown - and several other things, naturally.

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I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, was in no way fair comment and was motivated purely by malice. I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.

Congratulations!

Perhaps we could start a Not Reading Ayn Rand book club. Our slogan might be "Who is John Roark?"

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Your presence in this thread was expected and welcome; the compliment was a bonus.

And I wanna join the Not Reading Ayn Rand book club.

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Nothing beautiful was ever made from gravel.

In addition to being a member of the Not-Reading Ayn Rand Books club, I'm also president of the Not-Reading John Norman Gor Books club.

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So many bugs, so little thyme.

I'm not reading Dostoevsky, though every year I do try (and fail) to remove him from the Not Reading list.

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"Call me old-fashioned, but I think fire is magic. And it scares me a lot."

--The State

Sadly, I have to content myself with being a founder member of the Wish I Hadn't Read More Than The First Two John Norman Gor Books Club. But I'm president of the newly founded Good Heavens Is John Norman Still Writing This Stuff Book Club.

Grant Hutchison

I'd be a charter member! I'd also join the Not Reading Dan Brown club. And I'd happily form a Not Reading The "Left Behind" Books club.

Other things I'm not reading include the tabloid news, celebrity biographies, and anything by a pundit.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Welcome!

Would there be much interest in an "I Wish I Could Unread Pratchett" club?

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Earlier this afternoon, I came across a book at the library, Spirit of Beardsley, with a foreword by George Melly.

I can't fathom, why I hurried past it.

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

I'm not reading any of the twilight series. I've heard many good things from others who haven't read it.

Ah, I'm not reading that. I'm not reading it because I so much enjoy not reading the Paranormal Romance genre, to which our local bookshop dedicates a large amount of labelled shelf space. There's enough there to keep me not reading for many years to come!

Grant Hutchison

It's posts like this that make me realise how positive people can be in an ostensibly negative thread!

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Nothing beautiful was ever made from gravel.

I don't plan to read any of the Shrugging Gods series.

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Life is like a box of chocolates. All of your choices are bad for you.

Who?

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Only if it has the sub title "So I can read him for the first time again".

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‘To those who regard “crime fiction” as some sacred icon which must follow a rigid formula, I will always be the man who writes 18-syllable haiku.’Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

There are celebrities whose autobiographies can be worth a read--Alan Alda and Steve Martin both wrote very funny ones. But no, few celebrity biographies are worth it. (Alas, the only pundit whose work I read died about a month ago, and I never read his punditry anyway.) However, yes, I'll join those two book clubs as well. Also the "I Wish I'd Never Read Twilight Book Club."

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

You lot are much better unread than me; I haven't even heard of some of the people you haven't read. Never mind not read them.

Perfect answer! Your membership fee is waived.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

I haven't read Captain Corelli's Mandolin three times. I tried to like it, but it got easier not to read it each time.

I'm not reading any books about Michael Jackson either. Also, I'm not reading anything with 2012 in the title.

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"One does not require alien ruins in order to absorb a profound sense of wonder and mystery from the moon. That our civilization had actually visited it is miracle enough." Jason Roberts

I am not reading The Economist. And that's every week!

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Like others, I'm not reading Ayn Rand, Dan Brown, or Twilight. I wish I could unread the Rama sequels. I've been putting off reading (but probably will eventually, I hope without regret, but am apprehensive) 2061 and 3001.

Nick

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Nick Theodorakis