# Book(s) You read that you're pretty sure nobody else has read **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645 "2012-05-02T15:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/101 "2012-05-23T06:58:03Z")
Some years ago I read **Angels of Sunlight** , a novel concerning rock climbing and marijuana smuggling in Yosemite NP. I don’t remember the author’s name, and have had no luck finding it on line. Anyone read it? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/102 "2012-05-23T11:37:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I don’t expect that I’m the only Doper who’s read Plato’s _Republic_, but I reckon there’s a very good chance that I’m the only one who has read it in the original Greek. (Jeebus but it was nearly 30 years ago.) I don’t think I read the whole of Lucretius’ _De Rerum Natura_, in Latin, but I certainly read large chunks of it. I’ve read both, in English translation(s). Long ago I read parts of Caesar’s _Gallic War_ , Plautus’ _Menaechmi_ and Martial’s _Epigrams_ in Latin, but my Latin’s rusted into near-immobility now. Thank Zeus for the Loeb Classical Library. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/103 "2012-05-23T13:26:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In the last 30 years, I’ve only known one other person who had read Kurt Vonnegut’s _Slaughterhouse Five_ **and** _Mother Night_. Is anyone here familiar with both works? Read the first, saw the film adaptation of the latter, starring Nick Nolte. I remember enjoying it, but the only real things I remember about it were the voice of Henry Gibson as Eichmann, and the Vonnegut cameo. My addition to the list: _The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father_ by Roy Lewis. Enjoyed it so much I stole it from the lending library where I found it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/104 "2012-05-23T13:39:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > but my Latin’s rusted into near-immobility now. Likewise, alas. > [@](#): > > Thank Zeus for the Loeb Classical Library. Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/105 "2012-05-23T13:56:41Z")
_The beginning of Cyrillic printing in Cracow, 1491 : from the Orthodox past in Poland_ by Szczepan Zimmer ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/106 "2012-05-23T13:58:04Z")
The Federal Acquisition Regulations. Even the Government Contracting Officers I deal with don’t seem to have read it. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645/107 "2012-05-23T14:04:27Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Most of Nabokov’s stuff besides _Lolita_ and _Pale Fire_, my favorite being _Ada_. When I took out Ada in 1992, it was still on the shelf despite last having been checked out in the late 1970s. Read that one. Not sure what the girl saw in old Van. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-s-you-read-that-youre-pretty-sure-nobody-else-has-read/620645.md?page=5)