best book to read while doing a thankless, mindless, but lucrative job

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boredom is a demon. feed my brain please

― archipelago (archipelago), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

― archipelago (archipelago), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha pretty funny
it's just a summer temp job. would have done the whole unpaid-internship thing but it fell through
so i'm here. just would like a few good book to help me get through it

― archipelago (archipelago), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps given your screen name...?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Right now I'm alternating between Deliverance and Guns, Germs and Steel during the most mindless hours of my thankless but lucrative job (when I'm just scanning files and not doing anything that requires attention). Both books are good.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a philosophy book to help you (and us) decide if a lucrative job can really be thankless.

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

How about some Satre. Nausea springs to mind as I seem to recall that there's quite a lot about boredom in it.

― andyjack (andyjack), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

It depends on what you want. Fiction? Non-fiction? Something packed with incident, or something that mirrors the boredom you're feeling?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

yes read nausea.
and die.

― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

If the job is boring, you could potentially fall asleep while doing it. That is why I read horror novels while doing such jobs. Stephen King's Misery worked great last time.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost accentmonkey
definitely not something which mirrors my boredom...something fun to read, something invigorating (although not at the expense of depth or substance)? a little humor wouldn't hurt

― archipelago (archipelago), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

This seems a perfect opportunity to read all five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais. Or else Don Quixote. Or Tom Jones. Something very long, a bit difficult to get into at first, but a classic eventually sucks you in completely. These are superior boredom fighters.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

i should get back to rabelais. my mindless, thankless job doesn't have any reading time though.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I read Harry Thompson's This Thing of Darkness earlier this year. It's a whopping 650 pages of historical fiction and is very easy to immerse yourself in. I loved it, anyway.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product-file/03/bore3/product.jpg

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Friday, 23 June 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thankless and lucrative?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

I suggest Shantaram by G.D. Roberts, for the same reasons as Accentmoney's This thing of darkness (which I am reading myself at the moment). Shantaram is engaging, easy, interesting, and while you read it (it's quite long) you have the feeling that there is a door next to you where you can enter into another world.

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

William Weaver? I think I had him for Latin in college. Funny guy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost pj
by thankless, i mean it's neither edifying nor enjoyable

― archipelago (archipelago), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

i really think u should try stephen king...Anything... I'd recommend "IT". check it out it's cool plus so not boring..

― bam psycho (bam_psycho), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

i've been reading tender buttons at my thankless, mindless, not very lucrative job. actually the boss bought ice cream for everyone on the factory floor today, so i dunno whether to call it thankless. i mean, it was cheap ice cream. but still!

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

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― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Now I can't stop thinking of the Graham Parker song "Thankless Task," a textbook example of a crappy song where the career-coasting artist sings the clunkily-syllabled title over a vaguely reggaefied track.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

hook up a bro w/thankless/mindless/lucrative job where you can read?

(er, wait wrong board...)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/bookmed/28/1565843428.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. Everytime I read the word "lucrative" on this thread title, I think of this money post from nabisco

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I like "The Complete Prose of Woody Allen."

― Bibliovixen (Bibliovixen), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

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