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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn a Fahrenheit 451 situation where books were being totally
eradicated and you were asked to memorize one book to preserve it, which one would you pick?
I would pick Camus' "The Fall."
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)because after three kids I've already got it...you're welcome.
If I had to pick a grown up book I'd have to say Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut because I really loved it.
kairos12
(12,812 posts)I also thought of Dr. Seuss and "Oh, the Places You'll Go."
jmowreader
(50,440 posts)I'll memorize "Slow Burn" by Orrin DeForest because I liked it and no one else is going to memorize it.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I just couldn't decide which. Now you have made the decision for me, and both books will survive
Mr.Bill
(24,095 posts)by Hunter S. Thompson
I dibs On The Road by jk
sarge43
(28,939 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)By Pynchon
Or memoirs of billy the kid
By michael ondaatje
Tom_Foolery
(4,688 posts)It's the perfect novel.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Or possibly the entire Wheel of Time series since I read them so many times already.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)My next choice would be "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)There were some really good stories in that one.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Because in that situation, it's probably the most important book ever written. To preserve it is to preserve the means to destroy that precise totalitarian oppression and subvert censorship.
Massacure
(7,497 posts)newcriminal
(2,190 posts)or Harry Potter.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)hunter
(38,261 posts)That way if I was forgetting something I could totally make shit up.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I read it when I was a teenager and loved it.
kairos12
(12,812 posts)you against all the phonies.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)You can do it to say 'fuck' and it's art.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)because it's a classic that deserves to be preserved (said to have started the Symbolist movement) and because others may not choose it because of its eccentricity.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)or some other Vonnegut.