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RE: Saving Literature
August 10, 2013 at 12:05 pm
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(August 10, 2013 at 12:01 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Nothing older than you.
But that gives someone like Min. a much larger selection that someone like me, so I'm going to cheat just a tiny bit.
'A Scanner Darkly' by Phillip K. Dick
And since someone already mentioned the Hitchhiker's series, I'm going to go with...
'Neuromancer' by William Gibson
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Saving Literature
August 10, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Adam Levin's The Instructions and Nicole Kraus' The History of Love.
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RE: Saving Literature
August 10, 2013 at 1:11 pm
"The Road" by McCarthy
"The Satanic Verses" by Rushdie
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RE: Saving Literature
August 10, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Stieg Larsson's 'Millenium' series.
I really don't do much modern fiction. Plenty of older gems to consider first.
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RE: Saving Literature
August 10, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Twilight
50 shades
A tv guide maybe
Not that I want that to be the case, but there's a copy in every house. THIS is what will survive, what future generations or aliens will know of our culture. Despair.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
