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The best book you've ever read...

"Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther

I read this as a teen.
It was the story of a young man being diagnosed with cancer and dying as told by his father.
It's one of the few books tot his day that I can remember the title and author of.

"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer, is number two.
 
Mycroft said:
Atlas Shrugged
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Saw that coming.

Collection: Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Fiction: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Non-Fiction: On the Origin of Species

Poetry: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
 
Poetry

Curiosity by Alastair Reid

Curiosity

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.

Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.

Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.
 
Minerva said:
"Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther
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Love the title.
I graduated high school in 1973 but I can still recite that John Donne poem.
Minerva said:
I read this as a teen.
It was the story of a young man being diagnosed with cancer and dying as told by his father.
It's one of the few books tot his day that I can remember the title and author of.

"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer, is number two.
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Biography.

Remember the fuss about the book Primary Colors, originally attributed to Anonymous? Turns out the book was written by Joe Klein. Klein also wrote a biography of Woody Guthrie.

I've read many bios and Guthrie's is far from the most significant. But Klein's Woody Guthrie: A Life, is beautifully written. It's always stuck in my mind as a truly memorable biography. If anyone's into Woody, I highly recommend it.
 
Loulit01 said:
Biography.

Remember the fuss about the book Primary Colors, originally attributed to Anonymous? Turns out the book was written by Joe Klein. Klein also wrote a biography of Woody Guthrie.

I've read many bios and Guthrie's is far from the most significant. But Klein's Woody Guthrie: A Life, is beautifully written. It's always stuck in my mind as a truly memorable biography. If anyone's into Woody, I highly recommend it.
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