Favorite Book

[tdarko]

you don't find faulkner to be a little long winded? man fury is decent but it was hell to get through.

[tdarko]

by the way i am loving your location right now. hail to the cyber pirate [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[nothumb]

Yeah, I have a high tolerance for long-winded early modern fiction. I don't know why it affects me so much, but it does. Something about the way the narrative forms were opening up, but old rules and styles were still evident. It just strikes me as such an interesting period.

NT

[captZEEbo1]

[b]Flowers for Algernon

[wacki]

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I still enjoy the books, because learning is what I enjoy most. There isn't enough time for me to read all of the scientific, computer, political, historical.... books I want to read, let alone the classic novels. So I make sacrifices. My book time is for learning, and my pleasure time is spent with friends. Time is such a precious thing. It's scarcity makes me yearn for immortality.

[andyfox]

Some of my favorite selections from The Devil's Dictionary:

Hebrew: A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior creation.

Forgetfulness: A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Commerce: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Piracy: Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Husband: One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Aborigines: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Heathen: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Erudition: Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

[thatpfunk]

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you don't find faulkner to be a little long winded? man fury is decent but it was hell to get through.

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I have to agree. I remember reading it in high school and thinking maybe I was still a little young to understand it.

Now I just feel as if he tries to do too much.

[tdarko]

yeah don't get me wrong, a lot of talent there and a good book but i wouldn't suggest this book unless you are an avid reader.

[kemystery]

haven't read since school but it was a fave

'The teaching of Don Jaun; a Yauqi way of knowledge' Carlos Castaneda

[-Syk-]

Not a huge reader. I enjoyed The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes.