Posted on 03/09/2007 11:22:35 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
"Then a light dawned when I got to the part where the nurse took the drip from his urether and put it into the drip into his arm. This was satire and very funny stuff."
I adored Catch-22!
every time I read "the dead man in Yossarian's tent" it sent me into giggles.
I used to use business cards for a PR/Promotions company I ran that had the following motto on them:
"And everybody made money" Milo Minderbender.
It knocked people out that had read the book.
"My favorite Nietzsche quote:
"One must have chaos in one's life
in order to give birth to a dancing star""
i LIKE that!
That needs to be cross stitched and mounted on my wall!
(raising 6 kids here)
My choice as well. Most over rated book ever.
""No way in hell am I ever picking up that thing again!""
The Lovely Bones.
"Come to think of it, "House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was a bear."
started it several times over the past 2 decades.
Did I ever get beyond chapter 2? I can't even remember, but I don't think so.
Ayup! (Used to anyway--cigars got me the nickname in college, eons ago.)
"It's not the easiest. Should some future notion ever strike you give it another look, try doing so from the standpoint of someone 2000 years ago struggling to describe a vision of things to occur thousands of years in the future when words don't even exist in ones vocabulary to describe what he saw."
one priest told us once the early christians used certain "code" words when writing to each other to obscure the meaning of the writings to outsiders. The idea being if a roman soldier managed to snatch a christian message, he wouldn't understand it and might refrain from turning them in or chopping off their heads.
Something like that (they weren't hiding in the catacombs for nothing!)
for ex: apparantly "Babylon" was the code word for Rome.
The beast described was most likely Nero.
I don't think he ever did say what the mark was supposed to be.
omg!!!
It's been so long since I've read it!
Milo Minderbinder the cook - how awesome!
you hit a homerun with that one!
1like I did, unfortunately. Was not successful. Learned more about tennis than I ever wanted to know.
On a similar note, I suppose, I could mention Underworld by Don DeLillo. There is a ~50 page introduction that is fantastic, and then the real story (?) starts and once it did I found each page at least twice as hard to finish as the previous.
Meanwhile, all the mentions of Foucault's Pendulum here make me sad. Brilliant, fascinating, and hilarious book. At times touching, even. I've read it at least three times. Conclude what you will :)
"I'd have to give the vote to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by the Renaissance Italian architect author Francesco Colonna. Its written in a rather convoluted Italian replate with Greek and Latin derivatives. It prefigures surrealism and is opaque and obscure. You have to know a great deal about ancient literature and languages, math and architectural elements to fully appreciate the work. And the writer's ornate expressions can get tiring at times for modern readers."
Have you read: "The Rule of Four [Hardcover] by Caldwell, Ian; Thomason, Dustin." This book (which has some similarities to the Da Vanci Code in style) was based on the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili". It's kind of a whodunit thriller based in the world of academia, mostly located on a college campus (Princeton). A couple of grad students wrote it, and were doing so about the same time that Dan Brown was writing his Da Vinci code, although the grads started writing their book before Brown did his. You should check it out. A kind of thinking man's Da Vinci Code. A fun book, and an interesting premise. I've already mapped out a sequel to the Rule of Four book in my mind.
Do it !
Let Nietzsche's words give you hope ! :)
Seattle area phonebook.
Real yawner.
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