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Poll Question: Which book is your favorite?
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    Posted: January 29 2012 at 17:04
Well I was an English Lit major, long ago. I would list the authors I have read but I'd come off like some pompous ass, sort of like William Buckley, who basically had the intellect of a grapefruit (no offense meant to grapefruits).

But...Homer, The Bible, Chaucer, Shakespeare. That is The Canon.

All my favorite contemporary authors, save Pynchon, have killed themselves in fairly recent years. Hunter S. Thompson. Gone. David Foster Wallace. Gone. It seems the really intelligent ones just finally say "f**k it" and check out on their own terms.


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Points: 2866 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2012 at 12:35
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Sheavy Sheavy wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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Who on earth is Buckley?

Only one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century.


A hardcore conservative who wrote a book about Yale?

Oh that sounds wonderful

If I want something to contemplate suicide over
 



Soooo if you posted that to convince me otherwise sorryLOL
Or you want me to committ suicide, if so shame! I've done nothing to youCry
 
Lol. Neither. Just thought you'd find that..... interesting....
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Seeing the last option, I started searching for your posts. LOL
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Originally posted by Sheavy Sheavy wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Who on earth is Buckley?

Only one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century.


A hardcore conservative who wrote a book about Yale?

Oh that sounds wonderful

If I want something to contemplate suicide over
 



Soooo if you posted that to convince me otherwise sorryLOL
Or you want me to committ suicide, if so shame! I've done nothing to youCry
edit: being a political nerd I already knew who Buckley was, so yeah that opinion is not new to me or made up on the spot...I already knew how much I disliked him!


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I just came in here to post that. He was an intellectual dwarf and a shockingly terrible human being.

People found intelligent mostly because:
A) He exuded arrogance
B) British accent


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - January 29 2012 at 09:16
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Who on earth is Buckley?

Only one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century.


A hardcore conservative who wrote a book about Yale?

Oh that sounds wonderful

If I want something to contemplate suicide over
 
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Who on earth is Buckley?

Only one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century.


A hardcore conservative who wrote a book about Yale?

Oh that sounds wonderful

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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2012 at 17:42
Well it's only like 100 pages. I'm not sure that indicates its quality.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Candide was incredible. Read it in one day.
La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle!

- Napoléon Bonaparte
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It is very hard to name a book. The Most original book I came across though (and the most expensive one I ever bought; it cost 289 DM at the time I bought it) is the "Codex Seraphinianus" by Luigi Serafini.


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Points: 2866 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 23:07
I haven't read most of these, but I voted anyway Big smile. I stopped reading Don Quixote because I just couldnt get into it, I hate Harry Potter, and The Odyssey and Heart of Darkness are close, but I'll give it to Heart of Darkness because it the horror, the horror. Haven't read any of the rest, although I've read some of Bukowski's poetry.
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Points: 2866 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 23:04
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Who on earth is Buckley?

Only one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century.
 
I thought that was Ray Bradbury or Tom Wolfe.
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Out of these, The Odyssey. Back in the HS days but I recall enjoying it. 


Though I never heard of the Golden Ass I voted for it just cause
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An arduous non-fiction work of modern science is literature? Great theory, but nobody actually wants to read the damn book. 
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Originally posted by fuyuakiworld fuyuakiworld wrote:

WHERE IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????
terrible, terrible book.
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Originally posted by fuyuakiworld fuyuakiworld wrote:

WHERE IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????


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:)
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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WHERE IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????

Edited by harmonium.ro - December 29 2011 at 08:59
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Of the book options, I chose Candide, as it is an outstanding satire on Leibniz. Strange list.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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