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It's one of my favorite books of all time. Tom Send a noteboard - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM
Every time I'm flipping through channels and I see the 1965 movie of the same name, I cringe. It would be sort of like stripping down War and Peace to just the Prince Andrei storyline and trivializing or omitting every profound idea in the book.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM 2219 Views
Myself, so far... - 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM 956 Views
Read Faulkner - 26/09/2009 09:05:22 PM 990 Views
He is on the list, you know. - 26/09/2009 09:46:12 PM 928 Views
Don't listen to Larry - 28/09/2009 10:02:33 AM 937 Views
Mann is okay, but... - 30/09/2009 02:21:50 AM 907 Views
Wow - 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM 936 Views
Oh. - 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM 1093 Views
Oh, yes! - 27/09/2009 03:56:09 AM 978 Views
I've read 36 of those - 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM 981 Views
Well, if Churchill can get it... - 26/09/2009 09:39:04 PM 920 Views
Nah.... - 26/09/2009 09:52:25 PM 1029 Views
Two years later, the total is up to 48 - 10/10/2011 05:18:36 AM 980 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is... - 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM 1076 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out... - 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM 950 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless? - 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM 1063 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are. - 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM 1094 Views
Read these: - 26/09/2009 09:43:26 PM 917 Views
Well. - 26/09/2009 09:51:11 PM 934 Views
Yes. - 26/09/2009 11:03:01 PM 964 Views
Let's see. - 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM 1059 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM 872 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time. - 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM 1007 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak... - 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM 934 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time. - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM 988 Views
I was just gonna ask about that. - 26/09/2009 10:23:44 PM 1043 Views
The movie destroyed the entire idea of the book. - 27/09/2009 03:00:54 AM 868 Views
I'll do it if I can have the rest of my life to accomplish it. - 26/09/2009 10:43:53 PM 939 Views
Only 10 of them. - 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM 978 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM 859 Views
What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM 985 Views
Hey, Dan, long time no see - 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM 1105 Views
Just bought a Marquez book *NM* - 01/10/2009 07:16:22 PM 391 Views
Not very many. - 27/09/2009 08:36:14 AM 1091 Views
It would take me a long time to finish this list. - 27/09/2009 03:50:02 PM 967 Views
A great deal of those... after a fashion - 08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM 1049 Views

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