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Originally posted by uzless
Attaboy...Fiction is for chumps
Really?

Do you watch films?

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Originally posted by scherzo
And you are the most discriminatory person I know.
scherzo, I don't think badly of you. Why, I hardly think of you at all.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
scherzo, I don't think badly of you. Why, I hardly think of you at all.
Pppphhhhh ... (scoffing sound)

Sure. I'm probably #2 on your hate list.

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One of my favorites is The Anarchist's Cookbook. I have it next to my Bible.

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Originally posted by Badwater
One of my favorites is The Anarchist's Cookbook. I have it next to my Bible.
Intriguing location ... and the Bible is definitely a cookbook, just not for anarchists. It's best recipes are deep-roasting gay people and atheists.

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Originally posted by scherzo
Intriguing location ... and the Bible is definitely a cookbook, just not for anarchists. It's best recipes are deep-roasting gay people and atheists.
Maybe for some but my copies do not allow for that.

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Originally posted by Badwater
Maybe for some but my copies do not allow for that.
It just goes to show that even a recipe book can be dangerous in the hands of maniacs. Burn them all ...

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Originally posted by Badwater
One of my favorites is The Anarchist's Cookbook. I have it next to my Bible.
I never really took it seriously. What's particularly useful in it, do you find?

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Catch 22.
Funniest book ever written. The way everything turns in circles is incredible.

Young American soldier: "Don't you know it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees?"
Old Italian brothel owner: "You're so young. It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees."

The ragged trousered philanthropists
The book that nearly started a revolution in trenches of WWI.
It puts forth the argument for socialism and is a heart wrenching picture of the working classes in the early 20th century.

Trinity
I'm not sure why I love this book so much. Maybe because it clarifies the rift in Ireland to some extent. Maybe because the main character struck me as a true hero. I think it was the first book I ever read that ended in the way it ends.

Foucault's pendulum
Best ending I've ever read. And it's such a piss take on conspiracy theories it's classic.

Lord of the rings
Beautifully written and a must for every fantasy gamer in the whole wide world. The novel upon which most other fantasy novels are based and never bettered.

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anyone mentioned frank herbert's dune?(all six books)

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Originally posted by Zahlanzi
anyone mentioned frank herbert's dune?(all six books)
Hopefully not.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Hopefully not.
why?

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Originally posted by Zahlanzi
why?
Part one was excellent. Part 2 and 3 were utter rubbish, needless rehashing of the first story, long, boring, dull and not enticing enough to read any further.

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Man, there are few things in literature as beautiful as 'For whom the bells toll'.

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Originally posted by Seitse
Man, there are few things in literature as beautiful as 'For whom the bells toll'.
I was always partial to Hem's "The Sun Also Rises." His collection of short stories, "A Movable Feast," is one of my favorite books.