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What is the most convoluted, opaque, impenetrable book you ever read?
Blind Eye Jones
Posted on 03/09/2007 11:22:35 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
What is the most convoluted, opaque, impenetrable book you ever read?
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: books; zenandtheartofmotorc
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
The Voynich Manuscript.LOL, did you read it in the original language?
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posted on
03/10/2007 5:09:36 PM PST
by
null and void
("If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." - Charles F. Kettering)
To: jalisco555
LOL. The best selling unread book ever. My copy is sitting in a closet somewhere. I think I might have read the title page. I read the whole thing, and I think I might have gotten a few things he was saying. For the most part, my brain just doesn't work that way.
To: Blind Eye Jones
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posted on
03/10/2007 5:54:36 PM PST
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: LibKill
"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", by Douglas Adams. I LOVE anything by Douglas Adams.
To: Neuromancer
The part of Zen that has alway stuck with me was the part about problem solving and gumption traps and that when trying to solve a problem, the little details that beg to be noticed. It's a must read for scientists and software engineers.
To: Blind Eye Jones
445 posts and Dante doesn't get a shout out? I must be remedial or something.
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posted on
03/10/2007 6:13:05 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Error processing tagline. Abort, Fail, Retry?)
To: DejaJude
I LOVE anything by Douglas Adams. As do I. But "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was impenetrable, opaque.
I expect that only the author could explain it to me. Unfortunately he is no longer with us.
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posted on
03/10/2007 6:42:04 PM PST
by
LibKill
(RudycRAT is lying his way to power. Look at his record. He's 100% DemocRAT.)
To: zook
It was in "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo, describing the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. I haven't read the book in French, but the English translation I have did not retain the 800-word sentence, mercifully!
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posted on
03/10/2007 6:55:28 PM PST
by
6323cd
("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
To: Xenalyte; Allegra
I could not for the life of me figure out why Salman Rushdie was in so much trouble.I felt the same way until I loaned Satonic Verses to a muslim that I worked with.
He was appalled after only 20 or so pages if I remember right. I don't really remember what his problem was as he was an uninteresting person. I could not understand his perspective any more than I can understand why lemmings follow their "leaders" off of cliffs.
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:00:40 PM PST
by
Eaker
(You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
To: Nachoman
"Purgatorio" is my favorite bit of the "Divine Comedy". Depends on the translation you read, some are better than others.
450
posted on
03/10/2007 7:01:50 PM PST
by
6323cd
("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
To: 6323cd
Oh yeah! I remember that now!! Wish I still had my old Ripley books!
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:01:56 PM PST
by
zook
To: Blind Eye Jones
To: John Valentine
I love Kierkegaard.
= )
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:07:12 PM PST
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: Blind Eye Jones; All
Has anyone here, anyone at all, read Michael Perry's "Population: 485"? I won't say any more, as this thread is the wrong context for it!
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:15:13 PM PST
by
6323cd
("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
To: Blind Eye Jones
What is the most convoluted, opaque, impenetrable book you ever read? I don't think it scores so highly on convoluted or opaque, but Eugene Sue's The Wandering Jew is close to impenetrable just for its tedium and for its length.
To: Old Professer
We had spaghetti at our house three times last week!
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:21:24 PM PST
by
Silly
(plasticpie.com)
To: Tinian
The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass.One of my all-time favorite books. Sheer poetry. Love it, love it, love it.
I'm with all the folks on the Faulkner and Joyce kick, tho'... own 'em all, attempt 'em all, never finished one.
: \
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:25:00 PM PST
by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: AnnaZ
I had no luck with "Finnegan's Wake", but I loved "Ulysses"! Can't believe the bad rap it's getting here!
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:30:24 PM PST
by
6323cd
("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
To: Blind Eye Jones
Tried reading The Silmarillion some years ago. Marvelous text, but too much for my then younger brain to follow. Will have to try again.
R. Buckminster Fuller's _Synergetics_ was fun to just open, read a few sentences, go "what the...?" and close it without a clue what he was saying.
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:49:23 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
To: Allegra
My mistake,..different thread
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posted on
03/10/2007 7:58:31 PM PST
by
Cvengr
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