The Book

[belamyi]

If you had to winnow your choices down to one single book, what would that be.

 

[smokeshadow]

so little time. . .so many choices

Hounded by Kevin Hearne: https://kevinhearne.com/books/hounded/

I'll give you another one tomorrow

 

[rareboy]

Unfair question.....but my first thought was this.

 

[belamyi]

^OMG I finally sold that (smaller portrait version ) only a few months ago...

 

[Alistair]

I’d have to think on it.

 

[Peloso]

The DSM

 

[belamyi]

^ You mean DSMoMD?

 

[Araucaria]

The DSM

^ You mean DSMoMD?

DSM-5, or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5

I realize that some people find it tempting to mine the manual for information to find out what's wrong with them, but I gave up on that idea long ago.

 

[HoodedRat]

Winnow my choice down to one single book? I couldn't even winnow it down to one hundred books.

 

[DepravedMuscleFTL]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Ok.. don't read my Bible everyday...

Winnow my choice down to one single book? I couldn't even winnow it down to one hundred books.

The Bible, the book for you!

 

[Peloso]

 

[HoodedRat]

The Bible, the book for you!

That's only 66 books, or 73 books for the Apocrypha version.

But it makes a good start; I could add the Talmud, the Vedas and the Upanishads, the Agamas, the Tao Teh Ching, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Avesta, the Dhammapada, Patajangali's Yoga Sutras, the Kojiki, the Guru Granth Sahib, and the Quran and the Hadith, the Book of Mormon, and the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for a bit of balance and variety.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

That's only 66 books, or 73 books for the Apocrypha version.

But it makes a good start; I could add the Talmud, the Vedas and the Upanishads, the Agamas, the Tao Teh Ching, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Avesta, the Dhammapada, Patajangali's Yoga Sutras, the Kojiki, the Guru Granth Sahib, and the Quran and the Hadith, the Book of Mormon, and the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for a bit of balance and variety.

How are you with the Popol Vuh and the Bardo Thodol?

 

[HoodedRat]

^
I have never read* either of those, although I do have copies in ebook form which I may get around to reading one day.

*Which is not to imply that I have read all of the other ones either.

 

[belamyi]

DSM-5, or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5

I realize that some people find it tempting to mine the manual for information to find out what's wrong with them, but I gave up on that idea long ago.

So D&SMoMD it is indeed

 

[smokeshadow]

Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_Armageddon_Reef

Told you I'd list other books

 

[Maklaar13]

One Hundred Years of Solitude. Read it about 10 times already in original spanish and english. Absolutely amazing.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^
I have never read* either of those, although I do have copies in ebook form which I may get around to reading one day.

*Which is not to imply that I have read all of the other ones either.

Popul Vuh was fairy tedious so I never finished it. Bardol Thodol being read on youtube was somehow like binge watching bionicle (if you are familiar with that LEGO toy and the bizarre corresponding television show). It smacked too much of monks combining every possible combination of mythological and real beings a all colors. I would hope that when I died I would not experience what comes down to a color detergent advertisement!

 

[rareboy]

One Hundred Years of Solitude. Read it about 10 times already in original spanish and english. Absolutely amazing.

Still in my top 10, 40 years after reading it.

But his other books.....I still quote passages from them as well.

This is why it was such a wicked question.