If you could pass on only one book to the next generation, what would it be?
Camilla Send a noteboard - 01/04/2011 10:29:47 AM
I came across this at the Guardian, and it made me think about things like canonicity for a moment. I figured the best way to get it out of my head would be to turn it into a survey here and make you think about it instead.
I cannot help seeing it as a two-part question.
The question is, if you could only pass on one book to the next generation, which would it be. But I feel there is a difference between books that have already been handed down and given the status of classics, and the books you have come across on your own (to a greater extent) because you were alive when they were published.
So.
If you could only hand on one book that has already been handed on to you, which would it be?
If you had to choose one book among the books published in your lifetime, which would it be?
I cannot help seeing it as a two-part question.
The question is, if you could only pass on one book to the next generation, which would it be. But I feel there is a difference between books that have already been handed down and given the status of classics, and the books you have come across on your own (to a greater extent) because you were alive when they were published.
So.
If you could only hand on one book that has already been handed on to you, which would it be?
If you had to choose one book among the books published in your lifetime, which would it be?
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If you could pass on only one book to the next generation, what would it be?
- 01/04/2011 10:29:47 AM
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The Kama Sutra 
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- 01/04/2011 01:35:42 PM
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- 01/04/2011 01:35:42 PM
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Well, it WOULD help insure that there would be at least 1 more generation after that... *NM*
- 01/04/2011 07:49:30 PM
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GRRM's SoIaF, maybe they will live long enough to see the series ended 
- 01/04/2011 07:59:58 PM
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- 01/04/2011 07:59:58 PM
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Norton's Anthology *NM*
- 01/04/2011 08:44:18 PM
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Lord save me. *NM*
- 01/04/2011 08:46:13 PM
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quantiy over quality
- 03/04/2011 07:16:13 PM
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Re: quantiy over quality
- 03/04/2011 07:18:13 PM
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I was mostly pissed that I had to $60 for it and everything we read was available for free
- 03/04/2011 11:27:24 PM
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I'm tempted to say 1984
- 02/04/2011 01:32:22 PM
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Yeah, that seems like the obvious choice for me as well... but in my lifetime, no idea either. *NM*
- 02/04/2011 06:23:54 PM
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I'd go with Brave New World, actually.
- 02/04/2011 10:36:20 PM
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I think Huxley has a better understanding of human nature and less politcal motive
- 03/04/2011 04:48:19 AM
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Some parts of Orwell's dystopia did in fact come true, though.
- 03/04/2011 03:07:07 PM
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you really need to read Brave New World
- 03/04/2011 07:14:04 PM
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We agree again. *NM*
- 03/04/2011 07:45:06 PM
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stop that your scaring me *NM*
- 03/04/2011 11:27:52 PM
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I can berate you for writing "your" instead of "you're" if it makes you feel better. *NM*
- 03/04/2011 11:30:14 PM
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Can't recommend many published in my life that I've read;the Sprawl Trilogy if I can count a series.
- 03/04/2011 12:18:30 AM
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