# Today I Bought The Most Boring Book Ever Published.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 23, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069 "2004-08-23T09:47:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/1 "2004-08-23T09:47:01Z")
I was in a hurry and saw the book reduced from $70 to $12. I have another book by the author which is quite good, so I bought this sight unseen.
It is titled ‘Casualties Of The German Air Sevice 1914 - 1920’. It is that- a list of names. I thought at least there may be some detail about what caused the crash etc, but no. It is like reading a phone book.
I’m glad I saved so much money buying a book I have no use for. I can’t wait for the next white elephant thingy. 😛
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/2 "2004-08-23T12:30:10Z")
You obviously never read ‘Who moved my cheese?’
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/3 "2004-08-23T16:11:47Z")
Hey, anybody in there with the last name Roewe? I might have some distant relatives in there.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/4 "2004-08-23T16:16:55Z")
Heh-heh. Schößling.
Though I’d’ve thought you were referring that that book that contains the first million digits of pi.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/5 "2004-08-23T17:32:50Z")
Reading the thread title, I was thinking to myself “Big deal, millions of kids have to buy _The Old Man and the Sea_ for their reading lists.”
Your book actually looks interesting.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/6 "2004-08-23T17:44:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> ‘Casualties Of The German Air Sevice 1914 - 1920’
Hey I’m in the middle of that. Don’t ruin the ending for me.
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/7 "2004-08-23T17:47:26Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Hey I’m in the middle of that. Don’t ruin the ending for me.
My favorite scene is the one where Snoopy gets shot down and has to make his way back across enemy lines.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/8 "2004-08-23T17:51:47Z")
Many moons ago, overstock book stores were all the rage. I found a novel called _The Building_. The author (whose name I have thankfully forgotten) apparently had never heard of a neat little punctuation mark called “the period”. The story took place in a rundown New York apartment building. I’d gotten about 10-15 pages in before I began to go insane. I got rid of it soon therafter.
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### Author:  [@citrus\_x\_paradisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/citrus_x_paradisi)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/9 "2004-08-23T18:09:21Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Hey I’m in the middle of that. Don’t ruin the ending for me.
Zorf, Wilhelm
:eek:
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### Author:  [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/10 "2004-08-23T18:22:30Z")
I opened this expecting to see a discussion of _Atlas Shrugged_.
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### Author:  [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/11 "2004-08-23T18:55:47Z")
I thought this thread was about “My Life” by Bill Clinton…but then I remembered that the “My Life” is not even the most boring book written by the Clinton family. I can’t even remember Hillary’s book’s name. There is no way I was ever going to finish it.
/not a politcal post at all, just my opinion on both books “interest factor”.
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### Author:  [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/12 "2004-08-23T19:09:09Z")
I was expecting a thread on **Leviathan** by Thomas Hobbes.
Anyway, at least you didn’t spend the full $70.00
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/13 "2004-08-23T19:45:51Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#):
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> Hey, anybody in there with the last name Roewe? I might have some distant relatives in there.
No Roewe’s I’m afraid. Could it be a Roewe’s by any other name? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/14 "2004-08-23T19:53:01Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> No Roewe’s I’m afraid. Could it be a Roewe’s by any other name? :rolleyes:
I spent a good many years with that last name and nobody ever did that joke before. I actually laughed. Go Cicero!
You could try Ruva as another spelling, if you’re really bored. 🙂
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/15 "2004-08-23T19:55:07Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> No Roewe’s I’m afraid. Could it be a Roewe’s by any other name? :rolleyes:
Oh. My. God. It’s official - my first SDMB spit-take. Where’s that monitor cleaner?
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/16 "2004-08-23T21:52:09Z")
I just finished it.
The Kaiser did it.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/17 "2004-08-23T21:59:25Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Hey I’m in the middle of that. Don’t ruin the ending for me.
They all die.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/18 "2004-08-23T22:39:33Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#):
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> > [@Loach](#):
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> > Hey I’m in the middle of that. Don’t ruin the ending for me.
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> They all die.
Oh, so it’s like _Hunchback of Notre Dame._
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/19 "2004-08-23T23:07:27Z")
Well, at least it wasn’t “Italian War Heroes”. I’ve heard it’s only one page long.
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/20 "2004-08-23T23:22:16Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#):
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> They all die.
Which is really sad, because there’s a lot of potential in a story where everyone dies 😃
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