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I love annotating!

You might really enjoy reading “S” / “The Ship of Theseus.” The annotations are a part of the story.

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My high school English teacher lent me her copy of Slaughterhouse-Five, and I couldn’t even give it back to her because of how many notes I’d made in the margins. Fortunately she was so excited I liked the book that she just let me keep it!

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Some people really love annotations in books. Personally, I don't write in my books or dog-ear them or anything, I take notes separately in a Google doc. Sorry, you can't read it!

I’m in the basement catching up on some TV series while hiding from my wife’s book club.

Well not hiding just away from the ladies.

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I find the annotations made by previous owners really distracting and avoid them at all costs when I’m buying used books.

Love professionally annotated editions, though!

If people are commiting horrific stuff based on "some special fairy tale" that fairy tale has surely got to be real damn compelling. Wonder what in it might be so powerful.

I was the same way so I totally feel you! Some books are just too precious to mark. I’m so thankful they made transparent sticky notes for this purpose

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When I was 12 I bought a copy of The Communist Manifesto for fifty cents at a library book sale. I knew that this was a book you were Not Supposed to Read so the allure was irresistible.

What I chiefly remember is the elaborate marginalia, obviously provided by a right-wing critic. It was all in green highlighter: because while he had started off using it to highlight passages he found particularly risible, he eventually took to using it to write his own withering critique along certain passages.

I wish I still owned that book. As I've grown older the political aspect of it interests me less and less, but reading one man's personal and wholly Quixotic crusade against Marx and Engels was actually pretty damn entertaining.

Heh, you have a point. The reason I linked to my own subreddit at the end is that I'm slowly trying to build it up as a place for like-minded people to discuss fantasy books. I'm probably going to take a break from Reddit for awhile (for reasons unrelated to the matter at hand), but posting on r/bookscirclejerk is definitely an interesting suggestion.

Same here. It's a major peeve of mine...

You do you but personally I hate writing in, highlighting, or otherwise modifying books, including folding pages.

Shitting on Tom Joad is worse than any nonce confusion

I have a wall of books. Sadly I am a book junkie. Everything is interesting, yet there are so many now sitting unread. I am Trying this year to start reading ones I know I don’t want or need to keep. Then I’ll move on to the keepers. So, my advice. Read what you have first.

Thank you for asking this! I am going to my first book club at my local book store tomorrow and am similarly anxious, especially since I'm very lukewarm on the book!

Regardless of where, you only need to talk when/if you are comfortable. As you get to know people and opinions you will likely feel more comfortable to speak and speak at length of your interpretations however if you don’t know you can change book groups numerous times! At some point you will feel good enough to speak and be welcomed by your thoughts. Keep going until you do!

I lucked out my 1st one. It was an odd group of women but after 2 book we totally connected. 2nd was dreadful and the 3rd was just ok. You either meld or not. Don’t worry if you move one

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Man I wish the list of things I don't find agreeable was this short. Life would be so much easier.

Right, because you're not anti-censorship. You're only anti-censorship for things you find agreeable.

I’m so sorry. I feel your pain. Well, I felt it for a few paragraphs.

One of my friends sent me the box set and I was like.....um.....thanks? Never read it.