I was at a dinner party thing last night and the host had a copy of The Omnivore's Dilemma by I Really Don't Care laying out on an end table in the living room.

And, yes, the presence of said book did unfortunately provoke some amount of conversation about it.

Don't be so literal.

Just because we replied doesn't mean we actually do it. We could be and are answering hypothetically, in the same manner that the word "you" can be taken into a hypothetical sense.

Hurray for inference!

As for the condom bit, I'd be less impressed and more embarrassed by my boner =\\\

ATTENTION PEOPLE THE THREAD TITLE IS AS SUCH BECAUSE I NEEDED A THREAD TITLE YOU COULD MAYBE USE THE THREAD TO DISCUSS BOOKS NOT THE ETHICS OF WERE OBJECTS ARE PLACED IN YOUR HOUSE WHEN VISITORS ARRIVE I DO NOT ACTUALLY PLACE BOOKS OUT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE TO SHOW OFF - HOWEVER THE IDEA OF DOING THIS IS PROBABLY AS "LAME" AS WEARING A BAND T SHIRT OR MAKING SOMEONE PICTURE THE BOOK IN THEIR MIND BY PROVOKING A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.

anyway who was it said they had cometbus?

I didn't take it as a literally meaning of saying you had books scattered around. More like, if you were a guest at someone's house, and they left to get you something to drink, you'd walk over to thier bookshelf and see what books they owned. Most people would skim over a bookshelf if they are in a room with one in it to get an idea of what the person has read.

If I wanted to impress people that I was well-read, I'd lead them to my bookshelves and show them my copies of:

Lolita
Speak, Memory
The Centaur
92 in the Shade
Geronimo Rex
Jesus' Son
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Naked Lunch
The Tibetan Book of The Dead
The Dhammapada
Volumes of poetry by Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens, and Wiliam Carlos Williams, along with a bunch of obscure university press poets.

Then they'd probably look at me and say something like, "Aw, shit, boy, can't you show me nothing better than that," and I'd feel really stupid.

you dirty, dirty, dirty boy!

:D

look at my avatar.

The books could be :
Marc Michiels monographie 99 03 - as it's the only art book I have, photographies.
Juraj Spitzer Biele oblaky - as I got it from my mother who bought it as a souvenir in Czechoslovakia in the early 60s; I don't understand a single word but there are pictures (must have been a movie). Looks like a grey depressed Heidi.
These two stand off and therefore show.
Eric Reinhardt Cendrillon could be used to impress too. At times it's 100% Parisian snob, at times it's utterly boring, and eventually you have well-thought well-written pieces - regarding the world traders dwell in (ring a bell?).

my favourite domestic toilet books...

and at the mo, on top of the bathroom cabinet is...

i really need to extend my reading list. i haven't gotten into a good book in ages.

My house's communal bookshelf is in the living room. There's oodles of wankestry in there. My particular favourites in terms of people coming round and thinking 'what a bunch of pricks' would be the massive 18th-century Bible, the 1940s Medical Encylopedia and the National Trust handbook. There's also a few coffee table art books on the actual coffee table.

the pony expression with starbridle, the sunflower escapades of farmer joe and his prizes within the gullies, green the night blight the speck (history of irish immigrants settling in the wake of cali gold rush), The Green Mile, and Terkithas: A guide to spontaneous word combination with an introduction by Hadrian Cortez the Malaysian Sycophant.

You know whose books I like? Chuck Klosterman. This dude really cracks me up.

good with the poetry! what uni press poets are up there?