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Is that intended to be serious, or is it some kind of ideological statement?Originally Posted by The Bear
The greatest book of all time really is War and Peace, followed by The Brothers Karamazov
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Although I do not believe in them, the greatest book of all time is probably that which has influenced/changed people's lives the most ie religious ones
The greatest book ever written whose author remains secret, because it is an autobiography, is the book of nature. Her pages are days, her volumes are centuries, her materials are matter and light. Her story is a long one and has no end. The story of nature is the story of life, a tale told by our Mother in the language we all understand. The language of experience.
Having said that religious books were the most important, I think that perhaps The Origin of Species is more important.
Agree. It's the bible for atheists, and the guide for most people who practise free thinking. For pagans it's no big surprise and has been acknowledged and placed on the continuum of searching for knowledge which is the central core of the North European nature paths.
War and Peace? Utter rubbish verging on the literary standards of Mills and Boon, how many times does characters get killed and then get miraculously resurrected in that book? It's ridiculous.
immanentize the eschaton!
Bit like the Bible, then.
Oh well that's Tolstoy's reputation destroyed in one stroke by the famous Bard of Birmingham!
To my mind the greatest "book" would be The Collected Works of William Shakespeare.
How can you say something which is manifestly evil is great?
The bible, an incomprehensible, self contradictory, shitboring, lying tome of gibberish, has been the main tool of a force which has reduced men to drooling moronacism and repulsive cowardice for 1700 years. Or rather enabled them to reduce themselves.
This thread bears that out, "what's the greatest book eva?" "The Bible! Testify brother! (That's another little step towards the post mortum big score)". No-one actually thinks the KJV is a good book, they just think the big fairy wants them to read it.
I'd rather read Jeffery Archer.
immanentize the eschaton!
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