Fancy Pance Elitist Underground

[sniffa]

what book wouLd you choose to memorize (onLy 1 choice) to save for posterity's sake? we got a great thread going on Fahrenheit 451 over at http://alfrankenweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12092

if books were to become outLawed, and you were part of the fancy pants eLitist underground (who were the onLy chance to preserve written history)...

which book wouLd you memorize?

Let's make it work. the books taken so far:

jessiebrewer76 - Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
mostomotus - 1984
bedtimeforbonzo - Polk, Garner and Stone's Basic Surgery
me - sun tzu's the art of war
the watcher - Catcher in the Rye
teddy roosevelt - animal farm
why3342 - hitchikers guide to the galaxy trilogy

so join the fancy pants eLitist underground... which book wiLL you save so future generations are not ignorant?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Catch-22

[sniffa]

6. good choice

[gWbush is Mabus]

2. hey sniffa, what do these words have in common?

Salinger
Polk
roosevelt
animal
galaxy
trilogy

[sniffa]

3. the L isn't capitaLized

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. man, i am obsessed with your OCD

i read all your threads just looking for "l"s
these are the first i have been able to find.
did u cut and paste 'em?

[sniffa]

5. yep

cut, cut, cut.. paste, paste, paste. :P

so uh, are you joing the FPEU?

[gWbush is Mabus]

7. FPEU?

French Presidency of the European Union - on google

if that is the question, then no



on edit: oh, fancy pants ---got it, no but i like: animal farm and 1984

[LynneSin]

8. Arthur Goldman's "Memoirs of a Geisha"

I love that book and it's wonderfully written.

[sniffa]

10. never heard of it

do you reccomend it to someone Like myseLf?

[LynneSin]

12. Probably not

It's an amazingly descriptive book about the life of a Geisha during WWII but it's not a slutty book but very very sensual and romantic.

Spielburg had considered making a movie out of it

[terrya]

9. Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" eom

[Burma Jones]

11. The Constitution and Federalist Papers

[AwakeAtLast]

13. Add Declaration of Independence

Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock I've got the preamble down pat! "...provide for the common defense...."

[sniffa]

14. very good choice

i Like seeing what comes out - books i never heard of, and books i shouLd have thought of first. :D

[AwakeAtLast]

15. O.K., I am serious now

To Kill A Mockingbird

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. The Bible

Though a good 20th century physics book might be helpful as well

[sniffa]

17. the bibLe was

gonna be top on my burning List.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Good thing I'll be having a copy in my head, then!

[Guy_Montag]

18. Could only be Farenheit 451 for society, but for personal reasons...

The Story of O

[SCDem]

19. The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

This book shows the rold of religion in society... and that this world is made of leavers and takers. Ahhh maybe I should read the book again I am getting so misty-eyed over the thought of the book and it profound last sentence.

[terrya]

21. Hear me out: "Mein Kampf"

People are already forgetting the horrors of Hitler and the Third Reich. "Mein Kampf" will be a reminder of the Holocaust.

[sniffa]

22. that was my 2nd choice

i was torn between "art of war" and that. i'm gLad someone picked it up.

[Hand]

23. Huckleberry Finn

If there's a great American novel, this was it!

[terrya]

24. Good choice. A classic. Twain should be remembered. eom

[Hand]

28. Yep...

That's where I got my sig line, BTW.

:hi:

[Book Lover]

25. Zinn's People's History (nm)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. The Origin of Species by Darwin

If that one's taken, "Tom Sawyer". (since Hand took "Huckleberry Finn")

Or "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" by Isaac Newton.

Or Einstein's Special and General Relativity. (papers rather than books, but let's consider them books)

[Pithlet]

27. Go, Dog. Go.

Because I already happened to have that memorized. We need books for the little ones, too, so that works out okay.

[livetohike]

29. Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire

eom

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

30. The Book of the Subgenius

Because future generations will need slack too.