Attention All Posters


I don't know if this has been attempted before, but I think we should establish a long standing thread of what book each poster would memorize if they had to pick only one with which to restart a barren society.

Mine: THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C.S. Lewis.

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Since there's no way I could possibly memorize even a short book then I won't let book length affect my decision.
I'll pick The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Sucker's 4000 pages long but it's worth a read or three!


We come into this world naked, screaming, and covered in blood. Why should the fun end there?

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Either "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, or "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (that one's shorter.)

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Crap man, you beat me to it. ;)

OK, in that case... "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami.

But I guess it wouldn't do to memorise the English version, and I don't speak Japanese, so as a second choice I'd go for "Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek" (crusade in jeans) by Thea Beckman, one of the classics of Dutch children's literature, and one of the reasons I started reading in the first place so many years ago.

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Either "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley or "Bend Sinister" by Nabokov.

FAT PENGUINS! Just wanted to say something that would break the ice

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how about Finnegans Wake, so we could all get free Guiness in vast quantities to understand it.

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Good choice there Mylilprincessaly, although calling it a translation is stretching things a bit, it's more like an entirely new book. I'd go for "One Hundred Years Of Solitude"; a bit of humour, a bit of tragedy, plus it would preserve a bit of the Bible and all the other major works that it references.

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"The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien, I already memorized most of them :P
But look at somebody else to be "the Silmarillion"

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The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Oooh, I'd have to go with Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar".

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I've already memorize most of Harry Potter, so I'd choose that ^_^
But other than that? "A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawking and "Beowulf" would be on my list!

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The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov ...not ALL the foundation books, that might be a bit hard to remember..

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"Lolita." And "Princess Bride."

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Great Expectations-Dickens. Or any of his novels.

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I'm going to have to go with 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka.

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L'étranger de Camus.

Snakes, as you know, live in mortal fear of ... tile.

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