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  • #46
    There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze
    Tutto nel mondo è burla

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    • #47
      Starship Troopers
      I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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      • #48
        Homer's Odyssey and Illiad
        Hyperion + Fall of hyperion
        with a bunch of other ancient books

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        • #49
          There's also a fine line between displaying your literary knowledge by your fine choice of inclusions and displaying your utter cluelessness and pretentiousness by including trite, ill-written bollocks like The Silmarillon.
          Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
          Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Boris Godunov
            There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze
            I suggest we continue the discussion after you have actually read at least half of my reading recommendations.

            Sincerely,

            S.Kroeze
            Jews have the Torah, Zionists have a State

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            • #51
              Ahhh. Elitism, great as a substitute for those who have no actual taste.
              Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
              Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21

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              • #52
                I tried reading the Bible once... That's when I became an agnostic, since reading the Bible really showed me that I can't prove God.

                * wishes that people will ignore this post and not start a giant religion-agnosticism flamewar *
                This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHand

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                • #53
                  My favorite book is the Bible. Other books that I enjoy include the series on Lincoln by Carl Sandburg, and The Gathering Storm by Churchill. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was another good one and I like to study biology from different authors. Also I enjoy history in general but almost no fiction.
                  Last edited by Lincoln; May 12, 2002, 21:13.

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                  • #54
                    There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze


                    And it seems like he's crossed it.

                    Ahhh. Elitism, great as a substitute for those who have no actual taste.


                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #55
                      Stryer, Biochemistry (4th ed.)

                      Speaking of Erith:

                      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                      • #56
                        Seriously, PH, what would be a book you like? I get the feeling you're literature-wise uneducated

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                        • #57
                          I like a good old textbook. None of that fiction crap
                          Speaking of Erith:

                          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                          • #58
                            come on... there must be something like that you have read and like...

                            BTW, communist propaganda is also fictional

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                            • #59
                              Provost: you should try Harlequins.

                              I am glad to notice that some people on Apolyton like to read a REAL book. Most seem to prefer rubbish, but this also applies for the public at large.
                              well, i'm an english major..it's what i do! I like sophocles, but i tend to get very depressed when reading the oedipus trilogy. here's a good one though...The Oresteia...awesome stuff. also, for shakespeare fans, try The Tempest.
                              "Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boy

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                              • #60
                                Re: Re: so many books....

                                Originally posted by S. Kroeze




                                My favourites:
                                Homer: 'The Iliad', the greatest of all
                                The Bible -though a dark, dangerous and bloodthirsty book, the language is superb
                                Sophocles: 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'
                                Mahâbhârata, the epic of India
                                Tacitus: 'Annales', 'Historiae'
                                T'ang poetry by Wang Wei, Li Taibai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi
                                Béroul/G.von Strassburg: 'Tristan et Iseult' -the greatest love story ever invented
                                Dante: 'Divina comedia'
                                Shakespeare: 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'
                                Tolstoy: 'War and Peace'

                                honourable mention:
                                Cervantes: 'Don Quijote'
                                Schiller: 'Maria Stuart'
                                L.Couperus: 'De boeken der kleine zielen' (The Small Souls), 1901-03
                                Proust: 'À la recherche du temps perdu'
                                Tolkien: 'The Silmarillion'
                                get a life!!!

                                please don't tell me you actually think these are good books!!
                                Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                                Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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