If you lived in the "Fahrenheit 451" world, what book would you be?

[mcscajun]

And how long do you think it would take you to become the book?

I've got dibs on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. :)

It's a short work, and I already know so much of it, so maybe six weeks, provided I had NOTHING else to do?

[flamingyouth]

1. "A Criminal History of Mankind" by Colin Wilson

I think it could come in handy in a world like that.

[Midnight Rambler]

2. I call "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Give me a couple of days with all the proper materials, and I think I'll be just fine.

:smoke:

[mistertrickster]

3. Hamlet--plays in blank verse are easier to memorize, heh

[neuvocat]

4. I think I would be the Foundation Trilogy.

Pretty ironic, I realize.

[Abelman]

5. Catch 22

by Joseph Heller.

Or maybe a Chuck Palahniuk book.

[mcscajun]

21. I vote for Catch-22

If my vote counts, anyway. :)

[swag]

6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[mourningdove92]

7. The Melendy Family by Elizabeth Enright

Call me silly, but it is a wonderfull 3 book series for children. I re-read it at least once a year.

[mcscajun]

15. I re-read LOTR once a year, but damn! I couldn't be the whole trilogy.

Actually, each of the volumes is broken in two, so maybe we could get Six people to take on the work. It is critical to have it around. :)

[davidinalameda]

8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

silly

[7th_Sephiroth]

11. order of the phoenix, brother

[MarianJack]

22. If Not the Book I Mentioned in Post # 19,...

...I'd take "Prisoner of Azkaban"

[davidinalameda]

23. we now need someone for Goblet

and someone for Chamber and we'll have the entire series up to this point

[trof]

9. Tom Sawyer

I'd do my best.

[mitchum]

10. Madame Bovary

[FuzzySlippers]

12. Gack! I could never memorize a book.

I can barely remember my own phone number. But assuming I could, I would probably be my favorite novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles.

[benburch]

13. The Hobbit.

:-)

[mcscajun]

17. Bravo!

:)

[redsoxliberal]

14. 1984

[mcscajun]

18. Great choice!

Talk about your critical works.

[Solly Mack]

16. Chapter House Dune

[MarianJack]

19. Something by Anne Tyler.

She's my favorite author. My favorite by her is "Saint Maybe", so probably that one.

[PollyH]

20. If I were a book

I would be Wuthering Heights --- all dark and stormy and passionate.

[MrScorpio]

24. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Yep!

[Terran]

25. Easy: "The 42nd Parallel", by John Dos Passos

It would a very appropriate book to be in a fascist world, too. I have no idea how long it would take--I can't even imagine accomplishing something like that.

[SarahB]

26. Hmm...

Story of O.
Delta of Venus

:shrug:

[carpetbagger]

27. I'd grab me some of that transcendentalism.

Emerson's essays could sustain me. If those are taken, I'd go with Theodore Parker.

If those are taken, I'd go with TR Fehrenbach's "Lone Star". Someone will have to provide the background as to how it all came about. Anyway, I'd get to spend my days musing over great lines like:

"Nature was always hard, and frequently at war with itself. Over the whole land the sun burned, not the distant, friendly orb that filtered light through European forests, but a violent, brassy engine that browned the earth and made the hillsides shimmer with heat."

[CanuckAmok]

28. "More Where's Waldo"

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[mcscajun]

32. Hmmm....we wonders how you'd memorize that one,

aye, we wonders. :)

[Dukkha]

29. The Catcher in the Rye

I think I could memorize that one, or at least the cliff notes.

[charlyvi]

30. Lolita---Vladimir Nobokov

Or Anna Karenina--Tolstoy

[mcscajun]

33. Prevert! J/K

Really. You're not a prevert, nor a pervert. :)

At least, not so far as I know.

[Book Lover]

31. Cleaning and Perserving Bindings and Related Materials

Because someday we'd want to print books again.

[mcscajun]

34. A very wise choice.

:)