I have a collection of books, often student edition classics, with notes and highlights from previous owners. These are my favorite books. The book is often given as an assignment, and the student reluctantly reads the book, with a bland cover image and assuming an even worse content. Here’s why they are my favorite books.
Let’s begin with the first few pages. Usually these pages are an expression of the students contempt towards the assignment. Typically there are doodles, often of a penis, with this book the owner has inscribed their judgment of the book on page one:
Tisk, tisk, have you not yet learned to never judge a book by its cover?
Next you’ll see some highlights, depending on how serious the student is towards the grade of the assignment. This person used multi colored highlighters, must have been rather serious:
There is a bit of notes as well, seems as though the student was following along quite nicely:
Now here comes the best part, the part that is the true twist in all literature, when we, the student, become actually engaged in the book, invested into the book, then…we enjoy it.
Yes, Jane Austen is quite halarious. But your marks are truly the light of the book dear:
There’s more:
It seems someone has found some pleasure in the book, enough so that it can be happily paired with tea or coffee:
These last two notes are the true “highlight” of this book:
Girl Puleese was this book truly garbage? I hope you enjoyed the notes as I have, also thank you previous owner for the free hand made bookmark that was found inside the book:
me explaining underwear to aliens: we have smaller, secret pants that we wear under our normal pants
This is so confusing to read as a British person
me explaining underwear to the British: oi lad we have smaller, secret chaps that wear below our normal chaps while we dump all your tea into the harbor
I think one of my favorite stories I’ve ever heard Mark Hamill tell is the one about how the first time he heard the score for A New Hope he got sort of jokingly offended because it seemed like every other character had a specific song for them and he didn’t and John Williams just looked at him and said “…The main theme is your song” and Mark was like “WHAT OMG” like he didn’t actually understand before that moment that he was the protagonist.
Nerdy Fact #1452: Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds has expressed interest in having the character explore his sexuality in future film sequels, stating it “would be great” for the character to eventually find a boyfriend.
