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    No books for you!

    Not quite a copycat thread...


    If you could only read one more book the rest of your life, what book would that be and why?

    My vote is for Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote.

    It's a great book, which I have not found time yet to read.
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    Arturo Reverte's "The Club Dumas"
    or "The Scarlet Letter"
    or maybe even "Salome"
    better yet would be pen and paper, so I could make up my own stories...
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    • #3
      2001 a space oddessy
      "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
      'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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      • #4
        the Bible

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        • #5
          something very long. Like "encyclopedia galactica"
          I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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          • #6
            I can't think of anything humorous at the time.

            So I'll just say Vel's strategy guide

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            • #7
              My own autobiography. Boring like heck.
              I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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              • #8
                I would also chose The Holy Bible
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                • #9
                  I just have to wonder what kind of person would have the holy bible to be the last book to be read.
                  I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by aaglo
                    I just have to wonder what kind of person would have the holy bible to be the last book to be read.
                    someone who likes sex, violence, double cross, contradiction. hypocrisy, persecution, racism, sexism and genocide
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                    • #11
                      ...and a load of crap?
                      I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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                      • #12
                        War&Peace
                        Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by aaglo
                          I just have to wonder what kind of person would have the holy bible to be the last book to be read.

                          Someone who has done alot of wrong and is hoping for forgiveness
                          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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                          • #14
                            War&Peace I never read. But I just don't think I would have chosen that one. My brushes with pre-revolutionary russian writers have been painful.

                            Of the books I have read, there are several I could spend quite some more time with:

                            Bible (long, occasionaly boring, sometimes hysterically funny)
                            LotR (long, good story)
                            Don Quixote (both parts, long, very funny, my edition has a too small typeface, though)
                            Kringla Heimsins (powerful narrative, lots of blood and gore)

                            Winner:
                            Probably Arabian nights. Lasts a looong time, sometimes overly repetitive, but funny, good mix of long and short stories, nicely recursive tales, a few X-rated scenes.

                            C.

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                            • #15
                              War and Peace was great

                              I read it in 6th grade

                              Jon Miller
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