1. What was the first book you ever threw across a room?

    Mine was Fargo Rock City, which I flung across a hotel room in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Resort in 2001. 

    (Source: twitter.com)

Notes

  1. notveryraven answered: I don’t throw books or anything for that matter, I’m sorry
  2. gimp-z reblogged this from maura and added:
    Hehe!! love this one!! :)
  3. gimp-z answered: I haven’t!! lol
  4. artyucko said: :) #FUCKING KLOSTERMAN
  5. simonlegend answered: An algebra textbook, probably
  6. peabs answered: Likewise, though at Wilderness Lodge in 2003.
  7. raleighwoodrockstar answered: Bridge to Terabithia … in the middle of sobs…at like age 11
  8. unicornbl00dd answered: Crime and Punishment
  9. ahimelo0v-96 answered: el principito xD
  10. zanmcquade said: Twilight. Only book I’ve ever thrown.
  11. gaysagainstgaga answered: I think it was Queering Christ by Robert Goss
  12. rubenfeld answered: I actually liked that book — when I read it freshman year of college. My first was Treason.
  13. imathers answered: Nick Hornsby’s 31 Songs (or Songbook)
  14. rendit answered: Man you guys read a lot of shitty books, huh?
  15. warmandpunchy answered: i don’t usually throw books! BUT I THREW ‘ANTHEM’ AND THEN TOOK IT BACK TO THE LIBRARY
  16. simulatedfloridiansnow answered: I threw Eldest across my school library when I realized it was a r giant lord of the rings fanfiction.
  17. barefootblazer answered: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. After I’d seen the movie countless times and nothing in the movie matched the bokk. A bad time for films
  18. richardlawson answered: Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime. Threw it across a dorm room while reading it for a theater class.
  19. onemanbandstand answered: The Phantom Tollbooth, in third grade. I’ll never forget hating a “Jump To Conclusions” island.
  20. maviswillsaveus reblogged this from maura and added:
    I’m in the middle of Fargo Rock City and I have several times come close to doing this. I can’t remember the last time I...
  21. isabelthespy answered: i’ve never actually thrown a book across the room, now i feel left out. although the one i would have is really heavy (the world is flat)
  22. minou answered: JT Leroy, “The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things,” hurled across my living room in Royal Oak, Mi, circa 2004. Later returned to Border’s.
  23. marjoree said: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975.
  24. airgordon answered: “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War,” across the People Magazine mail room. ,
  25. cureforbedbugs answered: Hmm, maybe Jacques Attali’s “Noise”?
  26. shelterfromthenorm answered: I don’t know that I’ve ever thrown a book across the room, but if I read it for the first time today, it’d probably be Catcher in the Rye.
  27. lemae-mays answered: the book witches by roald dahl
  28. wiitns answered: the bell curve. in the library. eight grade.
  29. theremixbaby answered: I didn’t through Fargo Rock City anywhere, but it did make me lay on the floor of my bathroom in the dark for a while
  30. kayleydiaries answered: Twilight. It was shit.
  31. katherinestasaph answered: Does it count if I stomped on it with stilettos? In that case, Machiavelli. (For a class, obviously.)
  32. ankhwilliams said: Rousseau’s The Social Contract. I was having a rough go of things in general then.
  33. nadesouza answered: seilá :S
  34. likesdinosaurs answered: Little Women.
  35. growltiger answered: Julie and Julia! Flung acros a hotel room in Beverly Hills!