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Ziryab

Sep 11, 2012

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#101

My thickest chess book: H. J. R. Murray, A History of Chess (1913).

I read it often, but am a long ways from reading it clear through. It serves more as a reference work.

rupert2112

Sep 12, 2012

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#102

ivandh wrote:

dbeuscher wrote:

rupert2112 wrote:

dbeuscher wrote:

I cannnot remember specifically, but a few come to mind:

Treasure Island Catechism of the Catholic Church Bible (I guess that is actually 73 books...) Foundation, by Issac Asimov (I could also claim the Foundation Series, which is about 18 books...) Moby Dick

There are 66 books in the protestant Bible, 39 OT and 27 NT, there are seven additional books in the Catholic Bible. I have a Catholic Bible, although I have only read the King James and the New English, The only book I have read out of the Apocrypha, or the deuterocanonicals to you, is Wisdom. Catholics and their oneupmanship, .

It has nothing to do with "oneupmanship". As a Catholic, I happen to hold to the belief that all 73 books are inspired. You are welcome to believe otherwise if you wish. Why do you attack me for believing as i do?...

It was just a little joke about the Catholic bible having more books, it wasn't sectarian violence.

No worries, I am going to hell anyway for not following Catholic docterine and not belonging to the Catholic Church. They have more books AND all the seats in heaven.

Doggy_Style

Sep 12, 2012

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#103

Yes! I remember docterine when it was sold in a large bottle, with a swing stopper.

Good for what ails you!

p.s. Or was that docterade? age addles one so awfully.

dmsynck

Sep 12, 2012

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#104

Okay, I am kind of cheating because I haven't actually started reading it yet and it is in 3 volumes. Shelby Foote's almost 3,000 page history of the American Civil War entitled "The Civil War - A Narrative".

odisea777

Sep 12, 2012

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#105

red-lady wrote:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - one hundred years of solitude

did you like that book? I had to read it for a lit class once. HATED IT!! I could barely force myself through it. What do you think it was about?

red-lady

Sep 12, 2012

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#106

Hmm... I'm not sure if I liked it to be honest. I prefered 'Love in time of Cholera', that is for sure. But if you ask me about the book I loved the most, that is without doubt 'Embers' written by Sandor Marai. I don't think it is very well know outside Europe but it is a masterpiece. It leaves you being a different person, if you know what I mean.

I quote:

"No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence."

and also:

“But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.”

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#107

nategauth wrote:

fabelhaft wrote:

I recall that I thought it was very good, however I read it in my pretentious youth when I liked intellectual stuff of the sort I try to avoid nowadays.

what an ironically pretentious comment

Wow, it's the old switcheroo! Still, I liked what you said, fabelhaft.

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#108

Ziryab wrote:

If you want to count a series of books, how about Faulkner's series set in Yoknapatawpha County?

Crap, I knew somebody was gonna mention Falkner!

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#109

Ziryab wrote:

bigpoison wrote:

Nope. I believe you're thinking of Huck Finn.

I've read that a couple of times. It was the great American novel of the nineteenth century. The Brothers K is for our era.

It was pretty good. Nothing special.

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#110

Ziryab wrote:

Moby-Dick offers insight into many of the main currents of American history from the date of its publication until today. That's far better than Nostradamus. Moby-Dick explores the nature of men, Nostradamus offered vague and cryptic poetry open to interpretation.

Funny, all I saw in Moby Dick was a lot of vague and cryptic poetry. Its reading should be a required form of punishment maybe, but little else.

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#111

ivandh wrote:

It has nothing to do with "oneupmanship". As a Catholic, I happen to hold to the belief that all 73 books are inspired. You are welcome to believe otherwise if you wish. Why do you attack me for believing as i do?...

It was just a little joke about the Catholic bible having more books, it wasn't sectarian violence.

"Okay, Huguenots and everybody, get back in your huts!...the show's over..."

theoreticalboy

Sep 13, 2012

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#112

ab121705 wrote:

yeah, Ayn Rand was a brilliant philosopher, not a novelist, but probably couldn't make a living, so she wrote huge novels to make ends meet

lol

And how come nobody has told us what happens when you give a mouse a cookie?!

bigpoison

Sep 13, 2012

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#113

Theo's a brilliant philosopher.

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#114

So was Vincent.

Or maybe you mean Brother Theodore?

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#115

(poison has asked me to explain those last two references.)

Theo & Vincent:

Brother Theodore:

theoreticalboy

Sep 13, 2012

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#116

Blast, Clifton has learned the secret of my future self!

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#117

I remember Ayn Rand (on the Tomorrow show, I think it was) saying that she hadn't changed her philosophy since she was 5.

bigpoison

Sep 13, 2012

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#118

Wow! she didn't learn much?

AndyClifton

Sep 13, 2012

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#119

That's the power of lifelong rectitude.

theoreticalboy

Sep 13, 2012

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#120

Why, this philosophy is so simple, even a five-year-old could understand it...