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Thread: Essential Books to Impress Anyone Who Finds Your Lost Kindle

  1. Jan 15, 2015, 02:37 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by whatmeworry View Post
    And of course Sunliner by Oliver Clarke
    Tried that. Couldn't get into it

    Come on, give them a link to it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Amf View Post
    Surely a nice bit of Richard Strauss....?

    You got me!!! Now I can't figure out why I was thinking Wagner... weird.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Amf View Post
    Tried that. Couldn't get into it

    Come on, give them a link to it
    You're clearly immune to genius then. Even the venerable Eddie Platts of Time Factors fame enjoyed it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Statius View Post
    That's a fine list.
    Thanks, J. Others I would add:

    Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

    Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám (the Edward FitzGerald translations)

    Divine Comedy by Dante

    Of course, this is not including poetry from the usual suspects (Yeats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Noyes, Byron, Yeats etc).
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    I'd have the entire Loeb Classical Llibrary on there...plus I'm mentioned by name in one of the intros (in a small way I shall live on forever like Achilles!).
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    King James Bible, by God.
    A Fortunate Life, by A B Facey
    Lord of the Rings, by Tolkien
    Shibumi, by Trevanian
    The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger
    Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
    The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
    Shogun, by James Clavell
    Tinker Sailer Soldier Spy, By John Le Carre
    The Long Ships, by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson


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    The Feynman Lectures on Physics

    and for some lighter reading:

    The Flying Circus of Physics

    The World according to Garp - John Irving

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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    I'm certain there are a lot of great books listed here.

    I'm not as certain that a common thief that may be inclined to steal your kindle would be entertained by much more than Garfield however.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MHe225 View Post
    The World according to Garp - John Irving
    A Prayer for Owen Meany is a fav of mine.
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    The most intellectual thing on my Kindle other than the dictionary it came with is probably The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison. His original version. I read a lot of popular and genre fiction. I'm not likely to impress anyone.

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