17-02-2003 12:08									#1
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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.

	17-02-2003 12:15									#2
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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...

	17-02-2003 12:21									#3
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2001 a space oddessy

	17-02-2003 12:23									#4
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the Bible

Jon Miller

	17-02-2003 12:27									#5
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something very long. Like "encyclopedia galactica"

	17-02-2003 12:37									#6
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I can't think of anything humorous at the time.

So I'll just say Vel's strategy guide

	17-02-2003 14:34									#7
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My own autobiography. Boring like heck.

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I would also chose The Holy Bible

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I just have to wonder what kind of person would have the holy bible to be the last book to be read.

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quote: 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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...and a load of crap?

	17-02-2003 16:40									#12
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War&Peace

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quote: 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

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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.

	17-02-2003 21:25									#15
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War and Peace was great

I read it in 6th grade

Jon Miller

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Prima's Simcity 4 Strategy Guide

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Do Mad Libs count?

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Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables".

I assume you are refering to literature, because the Encyclopedia Brittanica (or other encyclopedia's) could keep you going for a while .

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I could reread it a trillion times and still be discovering and rediscovering delightful new bits of humour.

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"Nutrition Facts" from Fruit Loops by Kellogs.

	17-02-2003 23:03									#21
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I could reread it a trillion times and still be discovering and rediscovering delightful new bits of humour.

Why not take the whole trilogy? All five books are now in a convenient one-volume edition.

I'd also vote Les Miserables. How surprising that Imran would pick a book that heroicizes socialists!

	18-02-2003 00:06									#22
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If I really had that much time, I'd bring along the entire Wheel Of Time series - that would kill the time pretty well.
Although it might get tiresome, reading about these women constantly obsessing over how much bosom they're showing in their dresses....
When all's said and done, I sincerely think I'd take the scarlet letter

	18-02-2003 00:09									#23
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war and peace, encyclopedia britannica, lord of the rings, OED, doesnt matter really...

	18-02-2003 00:24									#24
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thief of time, terry pratchett.

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quote: Originally posted by monolith94 If I really had that much time, I'd bring along the entire Wheel Of Time series - that would kill the time pretty well. Although it might get tiresome, reading about these women constantly obsessing over how much bosom they're showing in their dresses.... When all's said and done, I sincerely think I'd take the scarlet letter

WoT can be read in a week easy

and it is not worth as much on rereads as the Bible or other deaper books (not to say that it is not worth rereading (I have done so ~10 times))

Jon Miller

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Why not take the whole trilogy? All five books are now in a convenient one-volume edition.

That's what I meant. The two Dirk Gently books, the Salmon of Doubt (one of the early printings with the Genghiz Khan story), and Last Chance to See wouldn't hurt either.

thief of time, terry pratchett.

Are you sure? I thought that it was one of his weaker efforts.

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I was looking for books that you have not read, that you would want to read before you die.

That's why I didn't vote for the bible, which I have had a chance to read parts already.

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Penthouse letters.

ACK!