[gurps] new flaw - Bookworm..

[midnightwind at comcast.net]

I've made some calculations in my life... In order for me to finish the unread books that I have before I die, I have sworn to only buy a new book after I've read two others.  Mostly, I've been adhering to it.

And yes, I'm reading five books right now- I bring at least three everywhere.  That does not include thumbing through Powers, and gradually getting to know it and other 4e GURPS books, nor the comics on DVD I posted about earlier.

An aside: Get this, in a 1967 issue of X-Men, there's this full page ad for a product called "Wate-On" featuring a Hollywood model in bikini with the amazing claim of "Never Be Skinny Again!  Gain Weight Quickly and Safely!"  Cracked me up more than the comic did!  How times change.

I think you could write up a bookworm disadvantage-- somewhere on the order of -5cps.  Must stop and look at book displays.  Cannot resist Bargain Books sections.  Must browse libraries if passes by.  Buys books on [fill in other quirks as subject] on failed will roll.  Encumbrance penalties from books.  Treats books like Gollum treated Precious.  Always reading.  All sorts. 

Another aside: Emmitt Smith-- Dancing With the Starts Champion.  I'm not sure whether to be happy or horrified (I like Emmitt).  I think I'll re-read Revelations first, just in case.

-vk

--
"The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes." --Marcel Proust

"We are not permitted to choose 
the frame of our destiny, but what 
we put into it is ours."  --Dag 
Hammersjold

"When the rate of change outside 
an organization exceeds the rate 
of change inside it, then it is 
not a matter of if, but when that 
organization will fail."  --Jack 
Welch

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "JL Hatlen Linnell" <jlhlinnell at gmail.com>
> On 11/15/06, DataPacRat <datapacrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/11/06, Silent Service <omegaoperative at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I used to keep a novel in my jacket pocket, a couple or a few in my
> > backpack, and my main contribution to my home's decor tends to be
> > stacks of books next to where I sit.
> ....
> 
> So I was thinking "How could this be more than a quirk?"   Then I took
> a glance at my walls, and thought ... should this flaw include some
> sort of compulsive purchasing habits?
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