Bakers Dozen

[anyrose]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart

[astorian]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits

[astorian]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart

[notfrommensa]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)

[astorian]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)
9. Jacqueline Susann

[Nonsuch]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)
9. Jacqueline Susann
10. John Simm

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)
9. Jacqueline Susann
10. John Simm
11. Captain Jack Sparrow

[Little_Nemo]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)
9. Jacqueline Susann
10. John Simm
11. Captain Jack Sparrow
12. Jaclyn Smith

My favorite Angel.

[astorian]

People with the initials “J.S.”

1. Jerry Seinfeld
2. Julia Stiles
3. Captain John Smith of Jamestown
4. Jon Stewart
5. Jane Seymour (actress or wife of Henry VIII - you decide)
6. Jimmy Smits
7. James Stewart
8. Jordan Spieth (Young Phenom Golfer)
9. Jacqueline Susann
10. John Simm
11. Captain Jack Sparrow
12. Jaclyn Smith
13. Jean Stapleton

New Topic: A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.

[Nonsuch]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace

There’s just tooooo many people in that book.

[Little_Nemo]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu

Okay, it’s a seminal work on legal theory and that’s a subject I’m interested in. But I just can’t get through this book. I can’t even get through chapters. I have a hard time getting through many of the paragraphs.

I mean, c’mon:

These rules are a fixed and invariable relation. In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity: each diversity is uniformity; each change is constancy.

Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making; but they have some likewise which they never made. Before there were intelligent beings, they were possible; they had therefore possible relations, and consequently possible laws. Before laws were made, there were relations of possible justice. To say that there is nothing just or unjust, but what is commanded or forbidden by positive laws, is the same as saying that, before the describing of a circle, all the radii were not equal.

We must therefore acknowledge relations of justice antecedent to the positive law by which they are established: as for instance, that, if human societies existed, it would be right to conform to their laws; if there were intelligent beings that had received a benefit of another being, they ought to shew their gratitude; if one intelligent being had created another intelligent being, the latter ought to continue in its original state of dependence; if one intelligent being injures another, it deserves a retaliation; and so on.

And this is on the first page.

[buddha_david]

@Little_Nemo

And this is on the first page.

I feel asleep twice just trying to read that excerpt. :eek:
A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I’ve enjoyed other works by Dickens, but this one eludes me.

[Cunctator]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

[Idle_Thoughts]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
8. 1984 by George Orwell

[Shodan]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Regards,
Shodan

[astorian]

@Shodan

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9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Regards,
Shodan

I was sure you’d say ***The Brothers Karamazov!
***

[Dendarii_Dame]

A “Classic” Book You’ve TRIED To Read More Than Once And Could Never Get Into

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I’ve tried it 4 times over the span of 40 years. I will not try again.
2. Moby-Dick
3. War and Peace
4. The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu
5. The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
10. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville