This was me as a child, in spades. Though it was less throw, and more akin to smacking them with the book.

Winning a fist fight with a well known jerk? Being a coward I am, thwack my DoorStopper college book, powered by adrenaline. It's not the only pain that work, my friends actually realized "Something goes wrong" just by the loud thud. I earned the title similar to BadassBookworm after that ('''that one Book Worm'''), FakeUltimateHero I am, for sending said enemy with mid-scale brain concussion.

I've done this once, to a classmate in High School. On the head.

And then at a classmate in college, with my notebook, [=ALSO=] on the head.

I've done this before. Using the spine hurts more than just whacking them with the book, though.

Yep. This troper is keenly aware of the effectiveness of a decent-size paperback's spine as an improvised weapon.

It's physics, really.

This Troper Got this version combined with GroinAttack. It was hardcover. Worst. Application of a trope. ever.

This Troper's friend, GM, and fellow troper often wields his D&D manuals to great effect in settling rules squabbles, accompanied by a reminder that the Game Master is God.

This Troper once threw a Bible at someone, only to have it ricochet of their hand and hit someone else. Long story.

This troper acquired a new degree of sympathy for the characters on the receiving end of a Maka Chop after bopping their brother over the head with a paperback only for him to snatch the book and respond in kind. Do not underestimate the spine of the average paperback.

This troper, even before reading/watching SoulEater, frequently suggests and uses whatever manga books she has on hand as punishments for stupidity. Whether or not she uses the spine to exact judgement depends on her mood. New discovery: the spine of Bleach [=SOULs=] (the character book) smarts even with a light tap, despite its paperback existance. She may have to carry it around with her for easy access and threatening power (as well as a good self-defense just in case).

This troper was once cracked ''very'' hard over the head with a hardback copy of ''HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows''. It ''hurt.'' However, she obviously hasn't learned, as she continues to threaten to hit people with whatever she's reading. Which tends to be things like, oh, ''War and Peace.''

Pissed off at someone? Retaliate the Da_Nuke way: make them learn Tanenbaum's Networking Fundamentals the painful way! Especially harmful if you consider Da_Nuke has the hardcover version...

This troper's theology class had a Bible drop-kicking competition before class started. (No, we don't hate the Bible, it was just for fun)

Whenever my classmates on elementary and high school got on my nerves, I started to ditch out hits with the spin of my unabridged Oxford dictionary. They learned to run for the hallway after I picked it up fast, really fast.

At the Christian school this troper attended, the phrase 'The truth hurts' was often spoken just before someone was hit with a Bible. In addition, this troper regularly uses both paperbacks and hardbacks as improvised weapons.

This troper has a bad habit of beating people about the head and shoulders with her textbooks for screwing up in some way. Unfortunately for her victims, taking them away doesn't work, because she has nine of them.

You have nine copies of the same textbook?

This troper fondly remembers a time in seventh grade where she executed this trope in front of her entire English class and teacher. They had been separated into discussion groups, and my friend, being the pervert that he is, was frantically looking for the sex scene that happened later in the book. This troper, after trying to get his attention, finally gave up and whacked him over the head with the book. This habit has continued on ever since. What I found hilarious at that time was that the teacher didn't even scold me.

In a slight subversion, this troper's brother once spent several hours trying to get the cable box hooked up to the TV. He had just gotten to the "yelling at inanimate objects" stage when our mother handed him the installation manual. He looked at the book, threw it at the TV, and yelled "Work!" didn't.

This troper's class once did an end-of-unit quiz in which the rules were clearly laid down at the start. Unfortunately, an oversight allowed the filthy opposition team scum to look up answer in their jotters if they were quick, and the rules could not be changed. To demonstrate his utter contempt, he leaped up, took his own jotter, and hurled it into their ranks with a cry of "You can have it! It'll be better than your's anyway!". His team won, of course. It was a narrative necessity.

Two words, ladies and gents: Bible fight!

Incidentally, in [[strike:Finnish]] lots of places, vehement attempts to convert someone are commonly referred to as "hitting someone over the head with the Bible".

This troper has actually sustained a very bloody cut under the eye when his ImprovisedWeaponUser AxCrazy ExcuseMePrincess 100% Tsun sister literally threw a children's light novel at his face, shuriken-style (EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning, isn't it). And people wonder why I disliked Asuka Langley Soryu from her very first appearance...

Funnily enough, if you throw them just right, small thin books can make great projectiles. Dictionaries are great melee weapons. Do not get me started on newspapers...

Troper once had a thrilling fling-fight with her younger brother. The projectiles? Paperback copies of the Literature/{{Twilight}} series her cousin had recently bought for her, quite sure that she would like it. Obviously, she didn't.

Bravo, madam!

This troper has been known to turn hardbacks into maces, textbooks into clubs and paperbacks into projectile weapons. Now no one really messes with me if my nose is stuck in a book.

Common practise amongst this troper and her friends is to bop each other on the head with paperbacks if anyone is being dumb or annoying. Or even just as a sign of affection. We only inflict the full wrath of the spine if we're really ticked off.

Actually this is one of my proudest moments: in one English class, we were having a discussion concerning ontology; specifically, the idea that if we had been born to different parents, that would make us a different person than we currently are. I was finding it all very interesting...then one of my idiot classmates happened to say "I wouldn't want to have Chinese parents." Considering my ethnicity (actually hapa, but still) I was more than a little offended. The best part? My teacher gave me explicit permission to hit him! So I did, with a copy of ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies''. It was most satisfying.

This troper has a very, ''very'' low tolerance for smartsses. I put up with at least one obnoxious girl in every grade and my sister fills in the home role. Once in Spanish class I was reading a book and a girl said something demeaning to me. I began cursing at her and it didn't effect her and she said I needed to come up with better insults. Then I threw the book at her (a Karen Traviss book, the first of the Republic Commando series (thank you, Mrs. Traviss. You brought out the ''Mando'' in me)) and the spine hit her in the head. I wasn't even aiming for her and even I was surprised. When my teacher asked why I did it, I said the same thing I started this out with.

This troper was once in a fight where his assailant bashed him on the nose with a history book. Said assailant soon regretted this, as this troper then went IncredibleHulk on his ass.

This Troper uses Books as his default melee weapon. I can recall throwing textbooks at people who pissed me off in class. When me and my bros were LARPing, I always chose the book as the weapon, when asked why, I simply smacked him across the face with it. This only got better once I started reading ''SoulEater''.

This Troper does this very often. When I was reading WheelOfTime, people stayed away from me.

This happens at least twice a day in my English class, leading to someone complaining "When was the last time we actually ''read'' books in this class?"

This Troper and her friends have a game in which we go into an area and decide what would be a good weapon (if you were attacked... or not). We came to the decision that within the school library, 'Chronicle of the 20th Century' makes a very good weapon, though encyclopaedias make for better throwing (and more ammo).

This troper was ready to hurl his copy of ''{{Watchmen}}'' at the FanDumb making up the class he took with them. Preferably in their faces. If you took this class, you'd understand how much they really really ''really really'' '''really really''' needed it. (The TA even agreed...he himself threw out his copy of ''{{Watchmen}}'' due to those people. I know cause he's taking a class of mine right now, ha.)

This troper and her friend went to the library, where this troper complained at length about how they had only volume 5 of ''TheSandman'', which she's wanted to read for a while but doesn't have the funds to buy. Upon going home, they watched several movies and the friend commented on the proliferation of people named Neil in the credits. This troper said something along the lines of, "Maybe I'll make you read ''Sandman''; the guy who wrote it's named Neil." Her friend asked what else he was responsible for. This troper started to say something, then decided instead to just stall while she rooted in her purse for ''{Stardust}}''.... She will be the first to tell you that books in general make good weapons, as has been noted on this page.

The Count Of Monte Cristo. Original version. {{Doorstoper More than one thousand pages}}. Right in the head of an 12 year old boy who was an idiotic bully. This troper, about 6 years later, still believes he deserved that. That boy, today, probably still remembers...

This abnormally tall Troper taps people on the head from time to time, with any book she has on hand, to signify someone is acting ''particularly'' dumb. If she ever threw a book at someone, pretty much every adult she knows would be chewing her out for it.

There was only one exception to this, and it took place in sixth grade. The book: TheGirlWhoOwnedACity, quite possibly the worst book ever. It was thrown with great force at a classmate who had just asked if she would be willing to listen over his glowing review of the story and give her feedback. Fortunately, though, the teacher was out of the room and she wanted us to distract ourselves while she held a riveting conversation with her husband.

One time in this troper's history class, the class JerkAss was being rude to the girl sitting next to me. The girl said "I would hit you with this textbook, but that would be a sin". This troper jokingly suggested that she hit him with a Bible and she actually commented it was a good idea and proceeded to do just that with a Bible she had in her backpack. Bonus points for the fact that this troper managed to come up with an on-the-spot BondOneLiner after she hit the JerkAss with the Bible; #QUOTE#"So much for sticks and stones".

This troper had a tendency to use her manga as a stupidity warning in her computer science class last year to keep one of her more ... idealistic friends in line. She hasn't done this as often this year as she's read the library's entire stock of manga. She's currently hoping someone pissed her off badly, thoguht- she's reading a Sherlock Holmes compilation that weighs at least 6 pounds, and she's quite sure it would make a very satisfying thud.

In this troper's family folklore, smacking someone over the head (lightly) with a book is called "fastreading", as in, the recipient reads the whole book with one smack. This leads to many a BondOneLiner, and making sure that one uses the correct side of the book, so that the reader doesn't read it backwards.

Also, when discussing {{Doorstopper}}s, it will be ''always'' noted that you could kill a guy with it.

This troper's room kept being invaded by bees and wasps so she grabbed a large hardcover history of the Ottoman Empire and had at the big bugs.

This troper had a history of using school books and notebooks as either clubs or projectiles. Most memorably after an enemy called him his friend: threw a pencil case, missed, threw a notebook, right in the face!

In this Troper's high school psychology class, the kid that sat in front of him had a habit of telling groan-inducing bad jokes. We also happened to use heavy, hardback textbooks in the class. After one particularly bad pun: #QUOTE# '''Me''': Permission to strike him? #QUOTE# '''Teacher''': Granted. #QUOTE# '''WHACK'''

This troper , whenever particularly annoyed, will hold up whatever book she is reading and tell whoever is being a brat: "I have a hardcover fantasy novel, and I ''will'' hit you with it."

This troper once took out a hardcover book that was almost 1000 pages out of his school bag and threatened to hit someone over the head with it because they were annoying me. They got the message and promptly shut up. Unfortunately, I didn't have it when a sort-of friend was being a prick, resulting in me unleashing my razor sharp wit on him in front of about thirty people. Sadly, he never learns, as, about two weeks later, a friend yelled at him, telling him (rough words) that he was stressed out and was sick of his cuntish attitude. Said friend never swears.

This troper once threw a book at the wall when he was mad. It turned out to be a waste because while it was satisfying, the book was ruined.

Common weapon of choice for this troper and her friends. Book may vary (textbook, paperback, and hardcover have all been used) but it's almost always with the cover, since we don't really want to hurt each other. One friend said it best: "Books are apparently therapudic in more ways than one: you can read 'em, and if that doesn't work, go smack an idiot with one."

This troper got bullied a lot in school. This troper also had a tendency to read long novels. You pick up a few things. A CrowningMomentOfFunny resulted when I drove off someone who'd attempted to take my book away with a series of wide swings and a senior student who was nearby asked me if I'd consider trying out for the school cricket team ("You've got a fair arm").

Same here. Once on 9th grade my classmate stole the book I was reading, ran downstairs and left the book there. I ran after him, but when I returned to my usual place(where I had been reading that book), ANOTHER idiot was sitting there. I of course smacked him on his head with the book. Hardcover version of Alan Weisman's ''World without us'', btw.

This troper has a notebook with the covers made out of metal, specifically aluminium. Yes, thick, solid aluminium. Her classmates learnt very quickly not to annoy her.

The same troper also has a tendency to carry whichever DoorStopper fantasy novel she is reading at the moment around with her, which has proved to be an equally, if not more, devastating weapon (because then, she gets to hit people with full force without worrying about actually hurting them).