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Discussing your Books and Collections - Librarian or Illiterate?

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SirIcyDragon [3407522]

Heyaaa everybody! I hope you have a beautiful day so far!

 

After my most recent Discussion Post, where we were talking about the piggy banks of Torn City, I decided to bring another interesting topic of conversation to you! Stay respectful (as always) and have a fun read!
(As per usual, the most interesting comments to me receive some free goodies! Scroll further down if you are just here to answer some questions.)

 

 

While it might appear to the public eyes, that I didn't touch my display case in a few months (I swear, I did...trust me.), that statement could not be further away from the truth! I'm a true Librarian (that is reading his first book after almost two years...)!

 

The Collection: After 1 year + subscription status, almost every appeared mission points book has been purchased (and rotated cheap items), this is the result!

 

As the expert sees, we got some real bangers laying around. I'm only yearning for one more book, before I shall cancel my subscription! (Just chedded himself?)

 

It doesn't matter if you understood exactly what I mean, are genuinely 60% blind on your left eye, or threw yourself into the discussion post without any idea about what's goin' on here.

I have questions for YOU!

 

But first, what do we need to know about these books?

(Remember, Torn isn't full of nerds or sth...)

 

  1. Books can only be used once (with very few for exceptions!)
  2. They are pretty overpowered items
  3. And therefore really difficult to get (F2P & P2W)
  4. Reading one can change your whole career (now imagine multiple :O)

 

 

QUESTION SECTION:
answer as many as you like

 

  • Which book is your favourite? And why?
  • What experiences did you make reading books in Torn? (if you did that already)

  • Did you have certain highlights / disasters that come to mind? If so, what do you remember?

  • Do you think books are balanced enough? What could be done better/should never change about it?

  • Is the difficulty to get the books you want fair in relation to their usefulness?

  • How difficult was it to gather all the books you currently have?
  • If you had to remove one book out of the game forever, which one would that be? And what would you have thought of as a consequence to the citizens?

  • What question regarding Torn's books would you like to add to the list?

 

 

 

 

That's gonna be it from me for now. Make your day lovely and discuss them books!

 

 

 

 

 

T.L.D.R:
- free goodies for some nice comments (with documentation)

- books involved
- I like feedback too

- A vote for you down below:

Mentions: Discussing The Piggy Bank - Your mysterious storage tool!

SirIcyDragon [3407522]

reserved for documentation

 

 

22:16:59 - 18/07/26 You sent some Xanax to RobberHood with the message: A little snack for your reading sessions
23:22:25 - 18/07/26 You sent some Xanax to __SmittySon__ with the message: This one's on me. I'm sure you won't have any troubles catching the cooldown timer ;)
10:58:26 - 19/07/26 You sent some Xanax to Zanz with the message: Interesting opinion on the books, nice :D
10:59:56 - 19/07/26 You sent 30x HEG to Saturn with the message: Don't spoiler me on the book! It's a banger tho I'm certain (get it...?)
10:00:55 - 21/07/26 You sent 25x Small First Aid Kit to vonManteuffel with the message: your fingers must hurt from all that reading

Jane_Eyre [3952891]

The only book I have read is the one which expands your friends, enemies and target lists by 100. 

It’s nice to see that I can add more people to my friends list, if only I had 120 friends in Torn 😂

DefilingDemon [700846]

Stat books are in my opinion the best (30% gains) however these are a double edged sword. There a book that's best used when you hit the HIGH billions.. by which point there not really as useful.  

 

The awareness book was pretty good but unfortunately I didn't land any SE's

Blender [2138539]

Yeah I'm in the same boat as Jane_Eyre.  I haven't set up the resources to take full advantage of the training books I've acquired so I've only read the +100 friends/enemies/targets by 100, +EXP book over world pop day, and Ignorance is Bliss just for the 99k happy merit since I got it after happy jumping was useful.

 

I may read fueling your way to failure over halloween to make good use of all the ecans I'll be chugging but we'll see.  If Eliminations comes back around I'll definitely be reading the max stealth book over that so I don't get retal'd every single hit.

RobberHood [2361494]

At this point I'm just trying to read them all, I've used 17 and prolly the most fun is ugly e or extra cans around halloween for the double whammy of more gym and more halloween, 2x SEs for awareness was good as well, and I drank a lot of alcohol to get to PA teams and was grinding that pretty hard back in the day

 

 

 

SirIcyDragon [3407522]

did you already get the newest book? Can't remember its name

Took a look in your statostocs and hot dang you spent a lot of time reading books, 3 and a half years

postie [2837388]

 

I doubt anyone has a larger collection of mostly useless books than I

(awareness book was an absolute bust)

__SmittySon__ [3830323]

My favorite book had to be “Ignorance Is Bliss”. Which I found on my door step on my 82 day in Torn. Being able to skip Happy Jumps range was game changing. To get the full benefit I did end up buying some DPs. I used FHCs the whole month, and set alarms not to miss a second after my drug cooldowns. Before every xanax I took, I said a little prayer not to OD, and somehow made it the whole month without one. I did miss one refill that I still beat myself up for. Besides that it was a “Perfect Torn Month”, and I feel I fully maximized the book every noob hopes they get!

 

My Reddit Post - last couple mins of using IIB - 283 days ago!


Literally have 36 mins left on this book! I had 0 ODs! Started around 974k total stats and will finish with just over 9.2m stats. So about 8.2m stats gained over 31 day.  I took FHCs the entire month and only missed one energy refill (not sure how I forgot but I did 🤷🏼‍♂️)! Skipped all wars, did no attacking, skipped all missions, and used all energy in gym.

 

Your stats have been updated! You have gained 2,960,100 strength, 3,405,260 defense, 326,796 speed, and 1,554,768 dexterity since your last manual update 1 month ago. You have gained a total of 8,246,924 stats.

 

 

 

Level100Coochie [2983838]

Getting ignorance is bliss early is pretty game changing and it's kinda crazy how much a better version of the early game relies on an rng find in order to experience it. 10/10 reccomend being among the lucky.