Which book would you be?
I’m pretty sure I’d be one of the Far Side collections.
Fahrenheit 451
(grins, sees angry glares, backs away with hands in the air.)
1984
Dune.
Of Mice and Men
Staroamer’s Fate.
Well, OK. Maybe Ken Grimwood’s “Replay” or James Morrow’s “Towing Jehovah.”
The Catcher in the Rye.
Or, if that was already taken…
Bright Lights, Big City.
Catch-22.
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
What would I be?! I already AM the CTA, Metra, and Amtrak maps! Seriously, anyone in the office who wants to go anywhere by rail that they’re not familiar with, they come to me. Of course, it only encourages them that I can give the right answer about 99% of the time.
My “real” book answer: John Stith’s “Manhattan Transfer”, a great sci-fi novel about aliens stealing the entire island of Manhattan and how the occupants of the island cope with the situation and (I don’t think this is giving away too much) eventually triumph.
Oooh, ooh, dibbies on Stranger in a Strange Land.
Except that I don’t have a very good memory. I should probably pick a shorter one. Podkayne of Mars, then.
I don’t think it’s too bad to double up on Catcher in the Rye, Spoonbender. What if the other Catcher gets hit by a bus?
Justine by the Marquis De Sade
There is a famous collection of prophecies published in 1555 known as ‘Centuries’.
I can’t remember the author’s name.
“Brave New World”
OR
“Prufrock and Other Observations”
kaloshnikov, you’re a man after my own heart. The second book my gifted fifth graders will be reading this year is Fahrenheit 451, following which they are each required to become a living book. They each memorize a children’s book, word for word, until they can recite it perfectly without aid, and then get to tell their stories to the 1st and 2nd grade classes. I routinely have students memorizing the more advanced Dr. Seuss books (Horton Hears a Who and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are the most popular). Last year, a pair of girls did The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins. Track down enough of my former students from the past few years, and we pretty much have Dr. Seuss covered.
They also become living poems, memorizing and reciting a poem before the class every three weeks.
I would be a collection of Robert Frost poems.
Holy crap! I just read Fahrenheit 451 last (sophomore) year in high school! Kids are getting smarter and smarter…But then again I was reading Stephen King in 5th grade.
I would be Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book.
I’d be the all the Calvin and Hobbes collections.
Neuromancer, perhaps…