# It's International Book Week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232 "2013-09-19T14:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/41 "2013-09-21T01:43:27Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > Oh good grief. Is this an Auel? If so, I’m going to guess at the book. I’m going to be embarrassed if I’m right. _Plains of Passage?_ You got it! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/42 "2013-09-21T05:18:27Z")
“No one will shoot at the\* Felicity\*,” he said confidently, “and besides, most folks round here are loyal to his majesty.” ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/43 "2013-09-21T06:13:18Z")
In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/44 "2013-09-21T09:45:58Z")
“No, that’s why I gave you the socks.” ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/45 "2013-09-21T10:12:30Z")
“Up here it was the world crashing in: downstairs nobody had heard a sound.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/46 "2013-09-21T11:36:09Z")
“Faide Keep, like Ballant Keep, was constructed of a black, glossy substance, half metal, half stone, impervious to heat, force and radiation.” ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/47 "2013-09-21T13:16:27Z")
I mean, the dark can get pretty dark - sometimes you need a story. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/48 "2013-09-21T15:31:52Z")
“Suppose the three terms of a syllogism are: a) ‘you keep quiet’; b) ‘others will never hear you make a mistake’; c) 'others think you are wise.” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/49 "2013-09-22T00:35:20Z")
“The fight was short but bloody.” ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/50 "2013-09-22T00:44:07Z")
“But both Dahmer and Gein were prime examples of loners, outcast from any kind of society, people with sick fantasies of blood, dismemberment, cannibalism and necrophilia, as well as confused sexual identities.” I don’t think I want to explain why that is the closest book to me. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/51 "2013-09-22T06:49:02Z")
“I can see a tail sticking out from behind them.” (My 8-year-old left a Geronimo Stilton book on my bed) The nearest of my own books: “Thank you for coming, Admiral,” she said, and this time there was nothing halfway about his smile." This is actually the sixth sentence, but since the fifth sentence was really only a subordinate clause that the author inexplicably set off with a period, I just couldn’t post it alone. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/52 "2013-09-22T07:02:35Z")
“Your hearts can be at rest.” Which is unusual because it’s a non-fiction WWII history. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/53 "2013-09-22T13:17:46Z")
“The dynamics of (12) may be interpreted as a model of a population of players with an asynchronous timing of decisions according to which only a measure-zero subset of players decides whether to change its type (cooperator or defector) at each given time (so to induce a smooth, continuous time aggregate dynamics discussed by Gray and Turnovsky [1979]); more specifically, players who are called to revise their decision are willing to change their type if and only if, at the time the decision is made, their actual strategy does worse than the alternative one.” ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/54 "2013-09-24T02:26:07Z")
Page 52 is a full-page illustration, with no text. Let’s try the second-closest book… “He had been waiting.” (That’s the fifth _complete_ sentence - I ignored the half-sentence that started the page.) ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232/55 "2013-09-24T14:54:38Z")
“The burgeoning number of obscene valentines caused several countries to ban the practice of exchanging cards.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-book-week/669232.md?page=2)