We Quit Cigarettes

[Kiki]

Kiki -- the first book has an anime adaptation, but it was originally a novel. There are eight volumes total in the series, but only the first two have been translated into English.

I just can't do cartoons, dinosaurs, made up monsters, aliens, TARDIS things, Star Wars.... apes....

 

[Conan]

Cheater!!!

You know it.

 

[Conan]

I just can't do cartoons, dinosaurs, made up monsters, aliens, TARDIS things, Star Wars.... apes....

Just books about not dying OR dying... preferably in a brutal fashion.

 

[Kiki]

You should read The Hot Zone!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zonehttps://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Paperback-Richard/dp/B00ENTVN14

Does someone get sick in this one? He isn't allowed to read about illnesses.

 

[BantyChooks]

Those sound like big VCI books. I am sporadically reading Alberts' cell biology textbook, and a few other science books, mainly biology.

Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor? Very Clean Iguana?
I have a thermodynamics book I'm working on off-and-on, plus a sociolinguistics text. I own those, though, so I didn't count them as on my "recently" read list. The ones I mentioned are all from the library.

 

[CarpCharacin]

I wish I didn't have a V / NV discrepancy, maybe then I'd be better at math, LOL.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor? Very Clean Iguana?
I have a thermodynamics book I'm working on off-and-on, plus a sociolinguistics text. I own those, though, so I didn't count them as on my "recently" read list. The ones I mentioned are all from the library.

VCI = verbal ability, the only thing I'm not completely crippled at, LOL.

 

[BantyChooks]

How would I know? I never read the book. It won lots of awards.

I can't get into it at all. I also can't stand the pages of elf song that are not even in a real language.

You'd really hate The Silmarillion, then. That's basically just a bunch of songs.

 

[Kiki]

I wish I didn't have a V / NV discrepancy, maybe then I'd be better at math, LOL.

Use a calculator.

 

[BantyChooks]

I wish I didn't have a V / NV discrepancy, maybe then I'd be better at math, LOL.

Hey. I sucked at math when I was your age. I still do—it doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. Simply being too stubborn to quit will get you far, much farther than an innate ability will.