# What is your personal "bible"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849 "2023-03-07T22:32:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/41 "2023-03-09T00:35:27Z")
You seem to have an idiosyncratic writing style. But I guess using the right words is half the battle. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/42 "2023-03-09T17:58:54Z")
Nah, he just accidentally a word out. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/43 "2023-03-09T18:06:13Z")
This sentence no verb? Or exact [is] your verb. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/44 "2023-03-09T18:15:11Z")
The bible for growing trees and shrubs: > **[Manual of Woody Landscape Plants Their Identification, Ornamental...](https://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Identification-Ornamental-Characteristics-Propogation/dp/1588748685)** > > Manual of Woody Landscape Plants Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propogation and Uses \[Dirr, Michael A., Dirr, Bonnie, Stephan, Margaret, Sadauskas, Asta, Snyder, Nancy\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers.... Some pathologists would disagree, but there is no surgical pathology text better than Sternberg, even if Ackerman is the holy of holies. > **[Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology - 2 Volume Set: 9780323263399: Medicine...](https://www.amazon.com/Rosai-Ackermans-Surgical-Pathology-Set/dp/0323263399)** > > Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology - 2 Volume Set: 9780323263399: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com ---
**Author:** ![YellowDog51](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@YellowDog51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowDog51)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/45 "2023-03-09T20:55:43Z")
Strunk and White: “Elements of Style.” ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/46 "2023-03-09T23:13:23Z")
In my job: _The Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data_ (great for filtering the categories: lies, damned lies, and statistics) When I was actively playing: _The Art of Sacrifice in Chess_ (The book that got me from B player to Expert) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849/47 "2023-03-09T23:45:16Z")
[Beyond Good and Evil](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Good-Evil-Friedrich-Nietzsche/dp/1503250881) “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values](https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060839872/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KEGBUEO9F5UM&keywords=zen+and+the+art+of+motorcycle+maintenance&qid=1678405001&s=books&sprefix=zen+and+the+art+of+%2Cstripbooks%2C146&sr=1-1) “The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.” [Fight Club](https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Club-Brad-Pitt/dp/B0028O9W50/ref=asc_df_B0028O9W50/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509232126930&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4546614744788633540&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1014254&hvtargid=pla-1261231151979&psc=1) “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” “Only after disaster can we be resurrected." [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-bible/980849.md?page=2)