"Its so big!"

[Filby]

I got some weird looks lugging around a hardcover copy of Aztec, yeah.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Hai, sou da yo!

*Japanese adult film impersonation* Totemo ookii desu ne. Kowaii desu.

Very big. Scary.

 

[Wombat]

The first time I read War & Peace I got odd looks, especially from my fantasy-loving friends.

Finally I turned to one of them and said, "Look, it's shorter than The Lord of the Rings and the names are no stranger!"

At that point he decided he needed to read it, too...

 

[shilsen]

No satisfaction, just amusement. I got funny looks in school when I'd be reading the Mahabharata during a boring class and told I was a "pseudo-intellectual". I thought it pretty amusing then that people figured I could care enough about their opinions.

I'm in a Ph.D. program in English now, so I don't get the impressed looks for big books. Only when someone is running around in a harried fashion and comes by my office and finds me reading the PHB

 

[Richards]

I remember getting funny looks in 8th grade when I brought Volume One of my two-volume The Annotated Complete Sherlock Holmes to a neighbor's Christmas party, and plunked myself in a corner to read.

Likewise, when I was reading a 1,000-pages-plus copy of Musashi a couple of years ago.

Johnathan

 

[Pants]

I remember whipping out A Storm of Swords in 11th grade and getting a host of 'Holy Sh*t!' remarks from my classmates.

I still get remarks like that from my friends when reading very large books.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I remember whipping out A Storm of Swords in 11th grade and getting a host of 'Holy Sh*t!' remarks from my classmates.

I still get remarks like that from my friends when reading very large books.

Heh, yup. I love reading thick books if just for the reaction. Ahhh, I love looking smarter than I really am.

 

[TDRandall]

I'm in a Ph.D. program in English now, so I don't get the impressed looks for big books. Only when someone is running around in a harried fashion and comes by my office and finds me reading the PHB

I must be reading this wrong. People who are studying for their doctorates in English or teaching the same are impressed by the PHB itself?

 

[reanjr]

The best I've had is the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, leather-bound, gold-trimmed edition with nice cloth bookmark. It's fairly large and looks impressive.

And on the cover there's a smiling planet sticking it's tongue out.

 

[NiTessine]

Yes, I got nicknamed "Musashi" after doing it once.
Not the worst of nicknames

I got named 'Shogun', for much the same reasons. Indeed, not a bad nickname, though it gets old quickly when a bunch of 15-year-olds shouts it at you every time you walk by.