There's this book you have to read/movie you have to see/album you have to listen to...

[reynardo]

... and let me lend you my copy.

Courtesy of lokicarbis, who wrote:

Everyone's got one. A book or a film or a cd or whatever that they're passionate about. That they try to get other people into, often by loaning them their copy of it.

Or to put it another way, everyone has a book that they've given up on ever getting back from whoever has it now, and which they have therefore gone and bought another copy of. And which, all too often, this cycle has repeated itself with.

Or sometimes you've just bought a copy for someone else because you can't bear to lose your own one.

No set number - I'm just listing the ones I can think of, and if I can remember, the person who started me on it.

Real Gorgeous by Kaz Cooke, given to me by my best friend from school days and passed on by me to quite a few people, including at least 2 reading this now.

Grunts by Mary Gentle. Lent to me by Sean (a boyfriend 11 years ago), and passed on by me to many.

Bob Roberts, a movie by Tim Robbins. We just got our copy back last week, after it went missing for 2 years - I was *this* close to buying a new one.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces. A boyfriend at college was madly into it. Then, years later, I met a bloke at a party who used the cover to mull up on. If you've ever heard the album, you'd know how appropriate that is.

Some of these are life-changing, some just capture a particular mood, and most oyu need to be in the right frame of mind to listen to/watch/read.

So - what books/movies/albums have you lent out so often that you can't remember where your copy is and you've had to buy new ones (or bought a new one to lend out because you can't bear to lend out your copy)?

Comments

[moxie_man]

I actually don't tend to loan out books or cds or whatnot all that much.

A coworker recovering from surgery has most of my DVD cartoon collection at the moment (including the Bugs Bunny cartoon where that dasterly wabbit peddles Moxie™--Ballot Box Bunnny), but I know where she lives should she "forget" to return'em.

The only book I've ever recommended/loaned to someone else was Fred Mustard Stewart's The Magnificent Savages.

Brother Minion's friend's teenage daughter was complaining how she hated reading and needed something for an upcoming book report.

Hmmm...historical fiction of a shipping magnate family with swashbuckling, betrayal, sex"passion", intrigue, politics, and revenge without the hero stooping to the level of the one who betrayed him...I handed that book to her saying she'd like it. She doubted me, but took it. Eventually returned it and said I was wrong...she didn't like it...she loved it. Never learned what she got for a grade on her report.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

I don't really deal with CDs beyond putting all the songs on my hard drive, putting a few of those on the "iPod*" and sticking the disc and case in a drawer which is just about too full to have anything else in it. Fortunately, those giveaways from Savage tend to be in flatter cases. I can't remember if I left a couple with you, though.

You have to see this DVD, it's me testing for black belt... three hours out of the eight, anyway :P Did I ever remember to thank you for Dawn of Hawkwind?

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[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

(Not really an iPod, but the brand is synonymous with the type of product like Kleenex is to tissue or Vaseline is to petroleum jelly.)

[jodimelancholy]

Dick For A Day

I loaned this book to mother 10 years ago and she loaned it to a friend of hers and I never got it back. I keep meaning to order another copy.

It's a collection of essays about what a woman were to do if she were to wake up one morning with a penis. Some of the stories are great, some are boring-but overall a very interesting read. :)