Which book would you leave in a hotel?

[oggbashan]

This is a report of
Books left in UK hotels

Which book would you abandon, or hurl in disgust?

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

This is a report of
Books left in UK hotels

Which book would you abandon, or hurl in disgust?

Og

Deliberately abandon or hurl in disgust, none. Forget because it fell off the nightstand where I put it before falling asleep and couldn't find it in the rush to check out, just about anything.

At least five of the books left behind are bestsellers that likely fall into that category of books that are misplaced and forgotten because they're not with the rest of the luggage at check-out time. I suspect that the others, like Simon Cowle's biography, are books that generally aren't worth keeping once they've been read. I'm an inveterate packrat, so I wouldn't deliberately leave those either, but I imagine a lot of people would.

 

[fridayam]

Anything by Martin Amis

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Definitely the Gideon Bible.

 

[Weird Harold]

This is a report of
Books left in UK hotels

Which book would you abandon, or hurl in disgust?

Og

On reflection, there is one group of books I would deliberately leave in a motel room -- those that I found abandoned by someone else. Of the ten books listed in the article, I'd definitely leave seven and probaly would leave the three "Girl..." books, too. None strike me as worth rescuing from abandonment.

 

[English Lady]

I'd hate to leave a book I didn't like incase some poor soul actually picked it up after me and tried to read it, they might never pick up a book again!

 

[Bebeslut]

Perhaps something by Richard Dawkins, hoping someone would pick it up and read it.

 

[Liar]

Just about anything.

I usually buy a random paperback and read on the plane and in the hotel when I travel for work. Once I've read it it's just extra weight to haul around, so I leave it for either the cleaning crew or the next guest.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'd hate to leave a book I didn't like incase some poor soul actually picked it up after me and tried to read it, they might never pick up a book again!

This is me as well. Friends don't let friends read John D MacDonald!

Besides, I've been in hotel rooms with nothing to read except the crap someone else left behind... it isn't a pretty thing.

 

[oggbashan]

I have supplied books to two local hotels.

Both wanted five hundred hardbook fiction books at a price of ten pence each. Most of the books I supplied were good condition Reader's Digest Condensed Books.

They told their guests that they could take any book away in exchange for a voluntary donation to the charity box.

I had to resupply both hotels within six months and they had raised hundreds of pounds each for local charities.

Recently I stayed for a week in a country cottage. There were about a dozen books in the bookcase when I arrived. There were three or four dozen more when I left, mainly from a local library's book sale offer of fill a bag with books for one pound.

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[Miss_Pixie]

I would leave the "House of Night" books, and the "Twilight" mess...

 

[Bebeslut]

I and millions of others disagree that John D. MacDonald is not a good author.
And I'll note this: when he died, The New York Times put his obit on the front page.

 

[Boota]

I'd leave books describing the disgusting things found in hotel rooms and severe problems of maids not cleaning properly. Leaving cumstains on the sheets and making the bed with old bedding. The resurgence of bedbugs in the hotel industry. I'm kinda evil like that.

 

[LaRocha]

Across the River and Into the Trees

 

[Stella_Omega]

I and millions of others disagree that John D. MacDonald is not a good author.
And I'll note this: when he died, The New York Times put his obit on the front page.

he was a good craftsman who had a real thing about raped women. Every one of the books I remember reading, the villain raped, that was how we knew he was evil. Every one of the raped women healed themselves on Travis 's healing penis. Unless you know, they suicided because they were such principled and innately good women that they could not live after being forced into sex with a bad guy.

Hookers are dumb, dull, beasts. And they never get upset because they've been raped. Not even mildly irritated.

Eventually, it occurred to me that this ever-so-womanly need to be healed was getting Travis laid, conscience-free at least once per novel... And that the "severe price" that back blurb always promised, was almost always paid by a woman, while Travis's anguished, in a manly way, for her sake..

This has come up because my daughter, a few weeks ago, said; "EEEWW, WHAT A CREEP!" and it turned out she was reading a book called "Darker Than Amber."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Perhaps something by Richard Dawkins, hoping someone would pick it up and read it.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA Why would anyone read Richard Dawkins?

 

[Handley_Page]

It depends upon whether I was being encouraging or facetious.

Encouraging: Men at Arms, Terry Pratchet. AND -
almost anything by George McDonald Frazer

Disgust: Tony Blair's book.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

This is me as well. Friends don't let friends read John D MacDonald!

Besides, I've been in hotel rooms with nothing to read except the crap someone else left behind... it isn't a pretty thing.

Hey I like Johnny, especially his color series. Haven't read anything by him other than that series, but I thought they were interesting and engaging.

Actually, I wouldn't leave any of those on the list as I would never have bought those in the first place. There are a few I have purchased and had difficulty getting into so they might be left behind, in the trash can though.

If I had found any of those listed in a room I was in, I wouldn't have had a second thought leaving them just where I found them.

 

[Handley_Page]

I and millions of others disagree that John D. MacDonald is not a good author.
And I'll note this: when he died, The New York Times put his obit on the front page.

Well, he wasn't exactly poor and starving in a garret, was he?.
And I used to enjoy Travis McGee.

 

[oggbashan]

I'd like to leave Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall just in case someone might love it as much as I do.

But I won't. Thomas Love Peacock's novels aren't easy to acquire.

Og

 

[LaRocha]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA Why would anyone read Richard Dawkins?

The Extended Phenotype is still required reading for anyone studying evolutionary biology, physical anthropology.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'd like to leave Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall just in case someone might love it as much as I do.

But I won't. Thomas Love Peacock's novels aren't easy to acquire.

Og

I would leave John Crowley's "Little, Big" for that reason.