# I obviously didn't want you to see the title of my book...

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 14, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-obviously-didnt-want-you-to-see-the-title-of-my-book/188312 "2003-07-14T04:26:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-obviously-didnt-want-you-to-see-the-title-of-my-book/188312/41 "2003-07-16T22:22:19Z")

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What’s worse is when people aren’t content to learn the name of your book, they want you to tell them all about it. If I wanted to have a conversation with someone, I wouldn’t be holding a book in front of my face.

Once when I was a kid I was reading an anthology of dragon stories called _Dragons, Dragons, Dragons_. One of the day care ladies apparently decided I’d rather have an inane conversation with her than read my book.

“So Little Lamia, what are you reading?”  
“A book.”  
“I know that silly, what’s it called?”  
“_Dragons, Dragons, Dragons_.”  
“Oh. What’s it about?”  
“Dragons…dragons…and then some more dragons.”

Eventually she got the hint and left me alone.

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**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-obviously-didnt-want-you-to-see-the-title-of-my-book/188312/42 "2003-07-17T18:30:40Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rick \*  
> \*\*The only time I can recall not wanting someone to know what I was reading was when I was on an airplane coast to coast reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
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> The homicide detectives use some very black humor to maintain their sanity, and I kept laughing out loud at what I was reading.  
> \*\*

That is a very funny book. It’s one of my favorite long-trip books.

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