Which book would you read if the world really is to end on 21st Dec 2012

[krishna_lit]

We all heard of the jibber jabber about the doomsday 21st Dec, 2012. Let's for one moment take it as true, then tell me which book would you read now if the world is to really end that day?

[Desolation]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon...It's the book that screams "Must Read" the most to me, I've been saving it for years for the right moment to read it. I would really hate to die without reading it at least once.

[Volya]

Finish the one I'm reading at the time.

[Delta40]

I'd spend my last moments on earth reading? Are you *&^% ($* crazy???

[PeterL]

In fact, an era will end, which is why I have proposed a new calendar for the era that will follow the end of th present era. I will have finished it by then, but I think that Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. would be appropriate for that day.

See my blog for more about the new calendar.
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12712-The-New-Era

[AuntShecky]

We all heard of the jibber jabber about the doomsday 21st Dec, 2012. Let's for one moment take it as true, then tell me which book would you read now if the world is to really end that day?

Looking at today's date, I'd say whatever it is, it would have to be a short one!

Hope you don't believe a word of it! Have you seen the shows on the basic cable networks whipping up the paranoia? The History Channel, for instance, is really stretching the definition of "history," to be spending all these broadcast hours on batcrap. And by the way, the cable networks don't believe it themselves; otherwise the car commercials wouldn't be pushing "Three-year leases."

Talk about "disingenuousness!"


I'd spend my last moments on earth reading? Are you *&^% ($* crazy???

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

[OrphanPip]

I'd keep on with what I'm doing now, I'm trying to re-read all of Shakespeare's histories and Ovid's Metamorphoses before the start of next term. Making decent progress, I could finish Ovid by the 21st, but the histories would be a stretch.

[ladderandbucket]

TS Eliot seems appropriate for the end times. I don't claim to understand a third of what he's on about but it sounds like an elegy for the world.

[LaMaga]

I'd be too hysterical to read.

[Buh4Bee]

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. I so enjoyed this book as a solitary reader. It was one of the most enjoyable reads.

[Varenne Rodin]

Well, I never read Harry Potter.

[krishna_lit]

Well, I never read Harry Potter.

Then this is the time for you to do so.. else you'll regret after going up there, into heaven or hell ;)

[Corona]

The Bible, just to pray! :D
Jokes aside, I guess I may try reading Beckett's Trilogy, but it should require much more time than I have in that case!

[aaron stark]

The Bible, just to pray! :D
Jokes aside, I guess I may try reading Beckett's Trilogy, but it should require much more time than I have in that case!

I think that reading Beckett wouldn't be very inspiring/hopeful as for a possible afterlife, if that would be what you're looking for during your last week on Earth :p

[mal4mac]

I agree with those saying they would finish what they are reading now. Why aren't you reading *as if* the world might end, anyway? I'd happily go out reading Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"...

[Anton Hermes]

Armageddon for Dummies.

[kev67]

I probably wouldn't start anything too thick.

[Pierre Menard]

Something apocalyptic in tone, but not literally about the apocalypse, something like Yeats' 'Second Coming'.

I'd just sit there in the foetal position, rocking back and forth constantly re-reading it I think.

[kelby_lake]

I'd probably be swotting up on the apocalypse.

[aaron stark]

In that case, Byron's Darkness would be nice as well. Such a dark poem, yet so fantastic

[Delarge]

I would propably read the maya Popol Vuh to find out why the world is in fact ending

[Snowqueen]

Faust by Ivan Turgenev and hopefully I’ll finish reading it by the end of this month.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Given the few days left, I'll resort to my old friend Goldsmith and his Deserted Village

[lawpark]

Maybe the better question is: if you need to run for your life this Friday, which one book will you take with you? No, your Kindle does not count.

[Rores28]

Infinite Jest... in 3 days.

[Gregory Samsa]

The Bible. Never read it.

[blackbird_9]

Like Buh4Bee, The Sun Also Rises would be a contender...in addition to Gatsby and Othello.

[Jassy Melson]

A very short book

[dfw]

maybe ulysses
gravity's rainbow
infinite jest