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abbyroadme
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| DeepBlueRug wrote: | | I'd memorize "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The Catcher in the Rye", love em! |
Same here! I love both of those books! |
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asenath
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| Kasdeja wrote: | | gogo wrote: | Kasdeja:
banned, banned, banned!
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath- banned for language and depictions of migrant life and viewed as socialist propaganda
Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- banned for people’s misunderstanding of Twain’s view of race
Kafka’s The Metamorphosis- banned for political/nationalist objections, mainly in Europe
These are some amazing works. |
I know. I think it's sad when things like this are not promoted reading in school. I had to read them for my advanced literature and my reading for college courses. I always shop at the banned book table, I find some great works there.  |
The first two we read in high school, so I'm surprised to find out that some schools aren't allowing kids to read them. We had a bunch of tests on both, even.
Anyway, I would probably memorize The Scarlet Letter, just because of the lessons this proposed society could learn from it. That, and it's one of my favorite books of all time. |
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| lordgreystoke422 wrote: | | C'mon guys..I know this board is littered with avid readers..what book would you choose? |
I hinted at my easy answer earlier (Neuromancer by William Gibson, for those who don't know where "Wintermute" comes from) but I'd probably go with something like Beowulf... Actually, I should go read Beowulf again... Hated it in school (because I hated reading) but now that it's no longer required, I'd probably enjoy it 
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Keevy06
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Ummmm... oh man...
The Catcher In the Rye - JD Salinger
What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
An Ordinary Man - Paul Rusesabagina (the movie Hotel Rwanda was based on his story)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Child Called It - David Pelzer
But If I had to choose just one - and since DeepBlueRug is memorizing The Catcher In the Rye - I think I would pick What Dreams May Come and then ban the creation of a movie version *blech*
Edit: DAMNIT! 1984!! I knew I forgot something... If I can't memorize it then someone else should!
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thatismynoodle
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This one is a thinker.
Candide Voltaire
Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde
Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne
Demian Herman Hesse
I would have to pick from that list. |
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heyiknowsyou
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Mine's not classic or anything, but i believe someone should save the fun stuff too. I'd memorize the entire Harry Potter series... of course if J K Rowling was still alive, she'd probably have that handled...
If not HP, then a couple of Dick Francis novels.
ack. theres too many i'd want to save.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| heyiknowsyou wrote: | Mine's not classic or anything, but i believe someone should save the fun stuff too. I'd memorize the entire Harry Potter series... of course if J K Rowling was still alive, she'd probably have that handled...
If not HP, then a couple of Dick Francis novels.
ack. theres too many i'd want to save. |
"If JK Rowling were still alive"? I hope you're talking future, because she had better be working on the last book!
Harry Potter would be a fun book to memorize...try doing all seven. That'd keep you busy.
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| Alimaria wrote: | The bible.
That would be intence but totally worth it. |
You beat me! What an exceptionally important book for so many, with so much history behind it. It would be essential, along with other religious texts. However, I am certain that any religious group with a holy book would come together to ensure that their texts were committed to flawless memory.
However, you've rid me of the burden, so I choose to memorize a few cautionary tales:
1984 George Orwell
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
brain food (for the Everyman):
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R. Hofstadter
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain John J. Ratey (but perhaps only because I am currently reading and enjoying it.)
Poetry:
Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, and Poe.
Anyone willing to memorize Discworld for me?
Edited: for clarification.
Edited again to mention that now I am forced to read through this thread, note the books NOT in my library upstairs, and add them to my purchase list. I really must stop buying books. I have a mortgage, ya know. |
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I never thought of memorizing compilations of poetry. That would be awesome--because most poetry sounds better spoken.
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Tale of Two Cities. Favorite book, and love authors who got paid by the word.
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DontHaveAClue
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I'll let you save the English literature, I'm taking care of the french. And definitely, I'm going for poetry. I would try to memorize these 3 books:
Les chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautreamont
Une saison en enfer (A season in Hell)- Arthur Rimbaud
Les fleurs du mal (The flowers of Evil) - Charles Baudelaire
because with the three them, I believe a lot of other books could be rewritten. (BTW, these three books have been banned in their time also.) |
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison.
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Ziola
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Its really hard to say which book(s) I'd memorize. Where The Sidewalk ends of course (who doesn't love kids peotry about boogers and such  ). But when I get to a "big-kid book". I'm really torn. do I go for something deep and meaningful that will help the betterment of the human race, or do I just memorize the entire Anne of Green Gable series, cause they remind me of much simpler times? |
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orvetti
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| The Oxford English Dictionary. That would keep my mind bizzy... |
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