# I have read every single word of... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714 "2001-11-28T15:43:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/41 "2001-11-29T16:14:07Z")
I’ve read just about everything by British novelist **Cecil Scott Forester** (author of the “Horatio Hornblower” series), including his war novels, sea stories, mysteries, and other stuff. I even dug up a Horation Hornblower story that has _never_ to my knowledge been reprinted since its initial magazine appearance – “Hornblower and the King”. The only work of his I wasn’t able to complete was his history of the War of 1812. For some reason, the author of my favorite Sea Stories managed to write a dull naval history. I’ve read everything that I know he’s written. I’ve read almost everything I know of by SF/Fantasy novelist **Jack L. Chalker** , one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve even read \*\*An Informal History of Scrooge McDuck[/b} and **The Devil’s Voyage** , his sole historical fiction (about the U.S.S. Indianapolis). I only know of one of his books I’ve missed. I’ve read all of mystery novelist **Toni L.P. Kelner’s** books, but not all her short stories. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/42 "2001-11-29T22:19:25Z")
There is a collection of Vergiliana that contains spurious attributions, questionable attributions, snippets, the _Katalepton_, and other fun stuff. Most of it, to be perfectly honest, is interesting predominantly for its antiquarian value. It’s got nothing on the Eclogues, Georgics, or the Aeneid. I haven’t read them all in Latin in their entirety. All of the Eclogues, Georgic 2 and 4, and about a half dozen books of the Aeneid. There’s still plenty more left to go. And I’ll pass on the commentary on the _Principia_. I know when I’m out of my element. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/43 "2001-11-29T22:28:23Z")
> [@](#): > > **adam yax:** Did you read [Philip K. Dick’s] Exegesis? I picked that up once in a bookstore and got tired head pretty quickly from it. I’ve read the published portions. Interesting stuff - like _Valis_ and _Radio Free Albemuth_ without the pretense of providing a coherant plot. Speaking of _RFA_, have you read Dick’s [correspondance with the FBI](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/pkdick1.shtml) that he referred to in that novel? ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/44 "2001-11-29T23:41:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*\*Originally posted by tracer \*\*\* > > The KJV is one of the translations that lacks the Apocrypha.\*\* Not so. Although it’s not generally printed alongside the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, academic editions of the Authorised Version do include the Apocrypha. Oxford World Classics do a good solid edition for about a tenner, edited by Carroll and Prickett. If I were to go off and hunt down all the information on this subject and the 2000 year debate which has surrounded canon… why, I might end up writing more than the essay on Islam I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of hanging around the SDMB. Suffice to say, the Apocrypha is in the KJV, it’s just left out a lot. ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/45 "2001-11-29T23:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by delphica \* > \*\*I’ve read a whole bunch of the words of Maud Hart Lovelace, who is primarily known as a children’s author. I’ve read all her published books, as well as a substantial number of her short stories that were published in women’s magazines such as Ladies Home Journal. I’ve also read a fair amount of her unpublished words – some of her diaries and some correspondence. But I realize this is sort of a geeky thing and very few people have heard of her. > \*\* Hey, delphica, if you don’t mind my asking, where did you find her diaries and letters? Are they in an archive collection? I’d love to see them. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/46 "2001-11-30T00:44:51Z")
John Grisham’s works. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/47 "2001-11-30T01:07:21Z")
((( **clayton\_e** ))) I’m so sorry, dear. But the important thing to remember is that just because something bad has happened to you, that doesn’t make you a bad person. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714/48 "2001-11-30T02:59:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by D Marie \* > > Hey, delphica, if you don’t mind my asking, where did you find her diaries and letters? Are they in an archive collection? I’d love to see them. \*\* Maud Hart Lovelace destroyed most of her diaries (how awful!), but some parts remain. They are enchantingly similar to the social stuff that goes on in the Betsy high school books. The Betsy-Tacy Society and the Blue Earth Historical Society in Mankato, MN have the portions that remain (and I confess I’m not clear on who exactly has ownership of what, because there seem to be a lot of joint efforts). Harper-Collins had an excellent display in their NY offices of her diaries, dance programs, photographs, and letters two years ago to celebrate the series. I also had the privilige of meeting her daughter Merian before her death a few years ago. A resident of New York, Merian had many things that belonged to her mother, and she was delighted to share them with fans of Lovelace’s work. There are actually two organizations dedicated to her writing, the Betsy-Tacy Society and the Maud Hart Lovelace Society, and members of both organizations have collected quite a number of her letters and have tracked down short stories that haven’t been published in over 50 years. Feel free to email me if you would like more info on either of these groups and their activities! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-read-every-single-word-of/95714.md?page=2)