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by Arkadiy
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7/27/04 10:14:36 AM
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New OK, what is the last 900 pages book
you found worth reading? What was it "about"?
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Post #166,286
by deSitter
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7/27/04 12:35:13 PM
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New Re: OK, what is the last 900 pages book
That's easy - fiction? The longest fiction book I've read is probably "Jean Christophe" and I can tell you in a sentence exactly what it was about (all 2000 odd pages). It's about what to do when, in the process of trying to make something new, you look deeply into your society and see the lies in it, and realize that ALL societies are this way - how to handle disillusionment and not become sterile?

Scott(s) told me exactly what the book was about in a much shorter sentence - a synthetic mythology.

The question then becomes - is it a unique one or a repackaging of existing one? A new mythology would certainly develop a large following.
-drl
     What is the "Lord of the Rings" about? - (deSitter) - (39) - July 27, 2004, 02:49:54 AM EDT
         Step One. - (static) - (6) - July 27, 2004, 02:54:59 AM EDT
             No. - (deSitter) - (5) - July 27, 2004, 03:09:56 AM EDT
                 Oh, really? - (CRConrad) - July 27, 2004, 03:30:01 AM EDT
                 Then I shan't tell you what it's about. :-) -NT - (static) - July 27, 2004, 03:31:33 AM EDT
                 I consider it to be among the best things written - (imric) - July 27, 2004, 07:15:25 AM EDT
                 OK, what is the last 900 pages book - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 10:14:36 AM EDT
                     Re: OK, what is the last 900 pages book - (deSitter) - July 27, 2004, 12:35:13 PM EDT
         Money -NT - (drewk) - July 27, 2004, 04:44:32 AM EDT
         Rings. -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 27, 2004, 04:50:09 AM EDT
             Lords -NT - (broomberg) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 06:47:04 AM EDT
                 Profit! -NT - (folkert) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 07:07:06 AM EDT
                     The trilogy is about The Ferengis? :-D -NT - (lincoln) - July 27, 2004, 04:39:10 PM EDT
         Good and Evil, Friendship, Power, stuff like that. - (Another Scott) - (18) - July 27, 2004, 08:29:43 AM EDT
             Attention folks, this is the right answer - (deSitter) - (16) - July 27, 2004, 12:25:43 PM EDT
                 Er... - (admin) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 12:29:28 PM EDT
                     Re: Er... - (deSitter) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 12:36:58 PM EDT
                         Fie on such a '04 Pedestrian desire, even in jest-iculation - (Ashton) - July 27, 2004, 05:00:46 PM EDT
                 No, THIS is the right answer: - (pwhysall) - July 27, 2004, 03:39:17 PM EDT
                 No, it's *not* the right answer. - (static) - (11) - July 27, 2004, 09:29:56 PM EDT
                     Re: No, it's *not* the right answer. - (deSitter) - (10) - July 27, 2004, 09:41:20 PM EDT
                         eh? LOTR is time spent away from drudge (reporting or work) - (boxley) - (4) - July 27, 2004, 09:53:55 PM EDT
                             just never warmed up to this kind of fantasy - (deSitter) - (3) - July 27, 2004, 09:58:02 PM EDT
                                 not so much fantasy as much as the world circa 400 AD - (boxley) - July 27, 2004, 10:02:08 PM EDT
                                 Simple - (bepatient) - July 27, 2004, 10:38:36 PM EDT
                                 Let's let Tolkien defend fantasy in his own words - (ben_tilly) - July 28, 2004, 04:51:54 AM EDT
                         That's what you should have said in the first place. - (static) - (4) - July 28, 2004, 01:08:25 AM EDT
                             What a strange synchronicity - (deSitter) - July 28, 2004, 01:19:51 AM EDT
                             Most pithily summarized. - (Ashton) - July 28, 2004, 02:03:27 AM EDT
                             Corrections - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 28, 2004, 03:33:36 AM EDT
                                 I stand corrected. - (static) - July 28, 2004, 03:44:17 AM EDT
             The ravages of war, - (Steven A S) - July 29, 2004, 07:05:10 PM EDT
         either read the dam thing or dont - (boxley) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 09:06:45 AM EDT
             Never saw a machine named that way... - (admin) - July 27, 2004, 10:30:01 AM EDT
         Short people, elves, and whupass. - (admin) - July 27, 2004, 10:32:24 AM EDT
         If you want the short version... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 11:09:20 AM EDT
             Don't feed smug sloth, you ninny. -NT - (Ashton) - July 27, 2004, 05:04:30 PM EDT
         You want to know what the buzz is about? - (Silverlock) - (2) - July 27, 2004, 07:58:35 PM EDT
             You've been waiting for a chance to use that, haven't you? -NT - (inthane-chan) - (1) - July 27, 2004, 08:00:48 PM EDT
                 Chenyin'-A right I have! -NT - (Silverlock) - July 28, 2004, 11:30:24 AM EDT

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