09-05-2012, 11:51 AM | #1 |
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Books They Couldn't Pay Me to Read: What About You?
What books couldn't they pay you to read?
Here are two of mine: "Celebrate," Pippa Middleton's party-planning guide. I never cared for celebs using their names to promote pap. And... "The Secret Race" by Tyler Hamilton, former teammate and pal of Lance Armstrong, who now spills the juice about the Tour de France champ's use of performance enhancers. Sleazy. Paul Levine |
09-05-2012, 12:05 PM | #2 |
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Any book by a politician, especialy "The Downing street years" by Margarate Thatcher
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09-05-2012, 12:36 PM | #4 |
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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens.
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09-05-2012, 12:44 PM | #5 |
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Depends, how much are they paying?
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09-05-2012, 12:54 PM | #6 |
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Classics! Or what others see as Great Old Books!
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09-05-2012, 01:32 PM | #7 |
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I can be bought. Suggest something for me to read and and appropriate amount of money to...
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09-05-2012, 01:39 PM | #8 |
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Lots of them. Any "Personality" ghostwritten books. Any books by or about a living politician. Pseudo-science books. Self-help/how I made a million books.
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09-05-2012, 02:34 PM | #9 |
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland Fifty Shades of anything else |
09-05-2012, 02:35 PM | #10 |
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Teen paranormal romance.
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09-05-2012, 02:50 PM | #11 |
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Any book "written" by a celebrity.
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09-05-2012, 03:23 PM | #12 |
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I'm have a hell of hard time figuring out just how I would determine what I wouldn't be willing to read for any amount of money, without A) actually reading at least part of it first for nothing ... and B) any amount of money??? Just how high are we talking here?
I'd read damn near anything someone plopped in front of me (word for word) if they payed me, say... $50 a book—up front (even that number is very negotiable). I'd read that someone right the hell out of house and home. Probably quit my day job. Just as long as my evenings were still free to read what I enjoy, of course. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-05-2012 at 03:25 PM. |
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Even then, I'm just not willing to go out on a limb and say that I know (with 100% accuracy) exactly which books I could never like without ever having read them. I'm one of those readers who often doesn't know what he likes until he finds himself liking something he always assumed he wouldn't like. And then I'm pissed because I could have been liking books like them for a long time. Yeah... I'm like that. I try to never say never. Quote:
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