I am very, very, pretend-I-typed-very-1000-times confused. Why are you savng Rand?
For which to clobber flying &tc. monkeys, of course. We’ll need some weapons-grade writing for that.
Sorry I got here a little late. If **QtM *is taking care of rescuing the Red Book (Lord of the Rings), I will ensure the **Silmarillion **survives.
If someone has that and we are living under a ruthless dictator I would shoot for either the **Anarchist’s Cookbook **or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. However as I see my esteemed colleague **Silenus **has covered the vital cookbook, I then ensure the Hobbit survives.
Jim
- I have the actually Red Book single volume version at home if needed.
They can’t read, dude. They’re monkeys.
(Why is no one grabbing anything by Asimov? Or, better yet, Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? That’s something that you could put use to and yet would fall through the cracks more easily than Anarchist’s Handbook).
Since 1984’s taken care of, I’ll go with Pet Sematary. Just in case we ever develop powers that can raise the dead, I’d like a reminder of why that’s a bad idea.
Got you by two minutes and almost word for word.
See, we can stop this despot at least! 
Stupid simulposting.
Being a right bastard, FabC would obviously have already put your home library through the wood chipper while you watched and forced you to use the empty space for Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs.
The movie, not the TV series. Dozens and dozens of copies of the movie.
Occasionally I have to stop posting to do my job; I have a training class I’m giving an arithmetic test to.
How do you graduate from high school and have a year of college without understanding the difference between “least common multiple” and “greatest common factor”?
Nobody is picking the Good Doctor because his work is of lesser value when preserving the means and will to overthrow our Hated Oppressor. Of greater immediate use is material with practical applications, along with works to keep the imagination and fire alive.
Maybe we could get a group of people together, and each one picks up a volume of a 1936 Britannica.
Carl Hiaasen’s Nature Girl.
What? I’ve got like 50 pages left to go.
Robert Ludlum’s “The Matarese Circle”. I find something new to enjoy every time I read it. A tale of cat and mouse skullduggery where you are never sure who is which, for at least the first half of the book.
And disable any robots that are ordered to diagram the sentences.
Well you better line up an industrial grade wood chipper, it can take a while to chop up my library. I would be very tempted to save one of the two volumes that make up the Outline of History by H.G. Wells. I just discovered the full 1920 version is available online as one book. Perhaps I could simply print and retain that one.
If you’ll tell me where you found that online, I’ll promise to use my influence over the God-King to make sure you get to save TWO books.
Try this link, it should work: Outline_of_History
Tres kewl! My copy is all of 2 feet from me as I type this (1940 printing, 2 volumes).
Thanks.
I have to check the date on mine, it is probably the same edition as yours. It is a wonderful little mini-history class all in itself and I think the primary reason I still love world history. It game me my love of history. I’ve read it cover to cover three times and it gave me a decent framework for my knowledge of history. I am probably do to read it again. I should be read once a decade I think.
People’s Plants - a guide to useful plants of South Africa.
Watchmen trade paperback.
And, when the flying monkeys aren’t looking, Id tuck my Planet Hulk hardcover in my pants. Who am I kidding, “tuck.” That’s where I always keep it.
I can’t decide between Joy of Cooking, and Watership Down…
but I do suddenly have a hankering for braised rabbit…