# 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:** 12
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/21 "2004-08-23T23:23:36Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Well, at least it wasn’t “Italian War Heroes”. I’ve heard it’s only one page long.
That’s one page longer then “French War Heros”. 😃
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/22 "2004-08-23T23:25:02Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#):
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> Heh-heh. Schößling.
> Though I’d’ve thought you were referring that that book that contains the first million digits of pi.
Aren’t there really people out there that are extremely interested in Pi out to the nth place? I always wondered what was the point.
But then again, I’ve also felt that math people like that tend to be a little strange.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/23 "2004-08-23T23:41:01Z")
It might be boring, but I’ve heard that the book was popular enough to spawn a sequel.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/24 "2004-08-23T23:58:35Z")
> [@HPL](#):
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> Aren’t there really people out there that are extremely interested in Pi out to the nth place? I always wondered what was the point.
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> But then again, I’ve also felt that math people like that tend to be a little strange.
I’m sure there were lots of people looking for patterns in the numbers, or trying to prove it was a rational number after all, or whatnot.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/25 "2004-08-24T01:09:45Z")
> [@](#):
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> Roewe
I don’t know how serious you were, but Roewe is likely Röwe. The umlaut very often gets transposed to a trailing ‘e’ for English.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/26 "2004-08-24T07:04:18Z")
I thought this was going to be about Ayn Rand. (it’s been a while since we had a good Rand bashing thread).
Can you tell I’m NOT a fan of Rand?
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/27 "2004-08-24T11:08:33Z")
Hey, it costs £27 at [Amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1902304330/). You got a bargain. It’s ranked 409,714 on the sales list, so it’s flying off the shelves.
> [@wolfman](#):
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> I don’t know how serious you were, but Roewe is likely Röwe. The umlaut very often gets transposed to a trailing ‘e’ for English.
And it’s not pronounced like “Rowe”, so **Cicero** ’s joke, great as it was, wouldn’t cut it in Germany…
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/28 "2004-08-24T11:20:35Z")
Hey, it was 5.30 in the morning when I made that lame pun. Anyway, I think Tuckerfan made a worse joke in this thread…
And no Rowe or Ruva. There is a Ruwe however.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/29 "2004-08-24T11:21:39Z")
BTW Tuckerfan, the post above means I appreciated the awfulness of your joke. 😃
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### Author:  [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/30 "2004-08-24T13:08:49Z")
And here I thought this thread was going to be about _The Satanic Verses_, which I bought when it first came out to see what all the controversy was about. Little did I suspect that it would be unreadable dreck.
> [@Cicero](#):
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> 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.
Put it on eBay at the price you paid for it. That sort of title sells pretty well there.
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### Author:  [@nancyflute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nancyflute)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/31 "2004-08-24T15:29:26Z")
> [@HPL](#):
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> Aren’t there really people out there that are extremely interested in Pi out to the nth place? I always wondered what was the point.
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> But then again, I’ve also felt that math people like that tend to be a little strange.
That’s funny! Reminds me of the time my oldest son, who has been desribed as having “a profound understanding of math,” came home from school one day (he was twelve at the time) and very seriously said, “Mom, I wonder if there’s something the matter with me. I was gazing out of the bus window and suddenly realized that I was counting every house that had a prime number on it!” :eek:
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-bought-the-most-boring-book-ever-published/261069/32 "2004-08-24T15:36:29Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
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> Hey, it was 5.30 in the morning when I made that lame pun. Anyway, I think Tuckerfan made a worse joke in this thread…
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> And no Rowe or Ruva. There is a Ruwe however.
Might be one of mine. Wouldn’t be surprised if my relatives found other stuff to do than get blown out of the sky in WWI. Hiding out and drinking would be my guess. 😉
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