Lots of folks voting for the Bible here. Not a bad book if you follow what Jesus preached but then most Christians don't. On the other hand considering the wars waged by the blind followers of the Bible and for that matter other religious books, zealots swinging it about like a blunt weapon justifying hate, mayhem and destruction toward the unfaithful over the past 2000 or so years, the Bible should be on a list alright but as a "testament to our accomplishment".....hardly?

Dr Seuss

Disgrace

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mrtbshaw wrote:THE WORLD IS ENDING?????????

It actually ended last night....didn't you notice that everything and everyone had been destroyed, and then replaced with exact replicas?

It was a practice run for December.

extol4000 wrote:Agreed. Everything that man can (& has) accomplish(ed) is in the Holy Bible.

Sadly, however, most of it is and represents a huge embarrassment to ourselves.

leharris wrote:The BIBLE. The only book that can save the world.

No book can save the world.

Uh-oh, Woot! is thinking about Ragnarǫk AGAIN. This does not bode well for the next WootOff. It has been conclusively proven, however, that there is no impending Zombie Apocalypse. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/growls/156969235.html

The Bible KJV

also: The Book of Mormon

"If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" by O.J. Simpson.

I'll be busy downloading Project Gutenberg to my Kindle and making sure I have a 12"x12" solar cell and converter in my bag...

brumagem wrote:I doubt anyone who voted for it have read War and Peace (also, Anna Karenina is better).

I'd save Huck Finn, with Catch 22, Candide, and Anna Karenina as close runners-up.

I read War and Peace (including the two epilogues) and Anna Karenina, and I voted for it and would vote for it over the highly over-rated AK any day of the week. So there goes your theory.

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I voted for War and Peace, but, if I hadn't, my fiction choices would be Don Quixote, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or the Chronicles of Narnia.

I'd also like to thank everyone for not saying The Alchemist. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Economics in one lesson.

well, i am a 50-something geek, then, because the simpsons tells more than just published words--it excites multiple senses simultaneously. ok, so does a book, but feeling the heft of a book, smelling the dusty pages tells me nothing about the book's historical context any more than an e-copy.

but, i wonder, how many wooters who bother to do the survey will answer "the bible" or "the koran" or "the book of mormon" or "the torah" or "dyanetics"...(i know at least one geek for each of those texts, too!)

1984, so nobody decides it would be good to ever try to repopulate the earth.

I would take the Bible

the Bible

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CharlesP2009 wrote:Would I be considered a terrible person if I said I hadn't read any of those books?

Nope. My guess is that you'd be a very honest one.

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katsby1983 wrote:I'd also like to thank everyone for not saying The Alchemist. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The Alchemist. :D

Well I would surely want some unknown non-human intellegent race to know we were able to accomplish slavery, incest, race hatred, religious intollerance, homicide, fratricide, patricide, matricide, genocide, infanticide, filicide, regicide, urbicide, animal sacrifice, human sacrifice, and wonton destruction of all make and model. In the name of love, of course.

So yeah, The Bible. You can select the version.

Coming to the party late; no one will read this. Nonetheless: Rationale of the Dirty Joke. Both volumes.