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[bubosquared]

Y'know, I love the Dark Tower cycle and all, but I'm beginning to remember why I usually only buy books in pocket edition. See, I do most of my reading on the train and the metro, and while walking home from the station in the evening, and let me tell you, Wizards and Glass, in paperback edition? Really, really fucking heavy and unwieldy, that is, and I swear to god, that thing could double as a handy blunt object with which to knock would-be muggers uncouncious. This would be a good thing, except mysteriously, I never get mugged. Hit on, yes, and burgled, but never mugged, so I don't need a weapon, I need a book I can handle!

I'm starting on Wolves of the Calla tomorrow. Which is a hardback.

Could somebody please come and try to mug me so I can at least get something good out of the volume of this book? Please?

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Bah; coward. :p

WotC isn't actually all that heavy, but to lug around on the train and metro, not to mention the reading while walking home thing that apparently really confuses my coworkers, it starts to weigh after a while.

[sileas.livejournal.com]

Reading while walking home? Dude, don't you walk against telephone poles and stuff? I walk against everything even without reading in a book ( uitstekende mailboxes zijn een pest in de stad ).

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Nope, no collisions with anything. It's a skill I've had since I was about ten or so. :)

[sileas.livejournal.com]

Damn, you're so lucky. I can only avoid dog turds, not telephone poles or richtingsaanwijzers.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

It's not luck, it's years of practise. :D

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*g* It's the other way around for me really. The more I practice at reading or doing something else while I'm walking, the more I walk into things.