# You're on a READ poster;What book are you holding? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399 "2008-03-31T16:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/61 "2008-04-01T15:49:01Z")
_If on a winter’s night a traveler_ by Italo Calvino - a book _about_ reading. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/62 "2008-04-01T16:10:37Z")
[This one.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/98157122@N00/48652636/) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/63 "2008-04-01T16:57:16Z")
**A Spy in the Land of the Living**. It’s my own novel and since you can see it, right there on the poster, one assumes that it has actually been completed and published. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/64 "2008-04-01T17:28:30Z")
Either Sagan’s “Demon Haunted World” or "Good Omens by messrs Gaiman and Pratchett. Or “How to Goodbye Depression” a guide to curing depression by contracting the anus one hundred times per day. As much fun for the Engrish as it is for the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/65 "2008-04-01T17:30:40Z")
_Master and Commander_. And I’d have the rest of the series stacked precariously next to me. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/66 "2008-04-01T17:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Probably The Stand by Stephen King. I would, of course, not be sitting, in the picture. [/QUOTE] Ditto this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/67 "2008-04-01T18:07:07Z")
I’d be holding one of the following with the rest stacked up beside me, and the background would be stacks at the library: \*Torpedo Juice \* - Tim Dorsey \*The Stand \* - Stephen King _The Complete Works of the Brothers Grimm_ \*The Count of Monte Cristo \* - Alexandre Dumas \*Robinson Crusoe \* - Daniel Defoe _How to Eat Fried Worms_ - Thomas Rockwell ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/68 "2008-04-01T19:04:26Z")
The Barnes & Noble edition of _Vanity Fair_ with the original author’s illustrations or [this completely different book.](http://www.amazon.com/Want-Closure-Your-Relationship-Start/dp/B0013L8BOC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207076597&sr=8-1) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/69 "2008-04-01T22:28:10Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] _Master and Commander_. And I’d have the rest of the series stacked precariously next to me. [/QUOTE] I just got this visualization of a guy on one of these posters leaning on the stack of books you mention. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399/70 "2008-04-01T23:18:00Z")
I’m trying to read “How The Other Half Lives,” but Riis’s convoluted Victorian sentences make it a bit difficult. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-a-read-poster-what-book-are-you-holding/443399.md?page=3)