Saving For Posterity

[RavingPenguin]

DVD: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so long as people will take it in jest and not fact.
Book: Sun-tzu's Art of War, Just because I can read it over and over and still learn something new.
CD: Stevie Ray Vaughn's Greatest hits, because the man was a guitar god.
Game: Majora's Mask, because it tells an excellent story.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

No wonder we have so many flame wars about religion with comments like these...

From a writer's standpoint, it is just not well-written.
Since I don't believe in anything written inside of it, that just leaves the writer's standpoint.
You don't just introduce fourty new characters with a brief sentence!
Genealogy is boring.

Regardless of your opinion on its writing style, the question wasn't "What book would you bring AND which one you wouldn't because it sucked so much."

I also find it a interesting how you expect a book, that was written a couple thousand years ago, to meet your contemporary literary expectations.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

DVD: Princess Mononoke. I love me some Ghibli.
CD: A Sense of Purpose by In Flames.
Book: Gaunt's Ghosts The Saint Omnibus by Dan Abnett.
Game: Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

Dvd: Bronson ( got it a few days ago ti's amazing"
CD: ~Best of 20 years by Poison
Book: Murder extortion and carrot cake by Bateman
Game: Sega ultimate collection, that way is still on one disc but its more than one game =p

 

[Lord George]

DVD: Grease because its awesome and will be used as the basis for our new society of musical greasers and dancers.
Cd: Ohh Probably Queen's greatest hits.
Book: How to survive a nuclear Holocaust (I have an old one from the cold war scare time woo)
Game: A disk packed full of old ROM's and emulators containing most of the N64 games, hooray.

 

[AMCization]

DVD: My Quintin Tarantino Box Set
CD: Lostprophets- Probably Liberation Transmission or Start Something.
Book: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (So everyone can remember a better china)
Game: Warcraft 3 and expansion, because it seems we could probably start a pretty decent LAN in this underground/water civilization we have going

 

[Aunel]

DVD: Monty Python: the holy grail.
CD: Master of puppets, or my iPod.
book: D&D3.5, then all the survivors can play a geekish game.
game: something big, maybe Jade Empire, or Bioshock.

EDIT: the Final Fantasy omnibus, with all the FF games, if they ever release that.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

Regardless of your opinion on its writing style, the question wasn't "What book would you bring AND which one you wouldn't because it sucked so much."

I also find it a interesting how you expect a book, that was written a couple thousand years ago, to meet your contemporary literary expectations.

So it was poorly-thought-out on my part.
As if you've never done something stupid.

And why shouldn't I? I'm not reading it a few thousand years ago - I'm reading it now.
If it's not good, then it's not good.

This isn't about me.

That's like saying I think all the works of Shakespeare suck simply because I loathe his Old English writing style. It seems a little petty that I should be so demanding even though those works were written for that day and age. Curse you Shakespeare!

Besides, if you hate genealogies so much, there's tons and tons more in the Bible than those. Also, I recommend a different translation if you really just can't get past the style in yours. May I ask which translation you are reading from?

 

[Space Spoons]

DVD: A Christmas Story
CD: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Original Soundtrack
Book: 1984, with a sticky note attached to the cover that reads "NOTE: DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN".
Game: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC Version). It's the game that never ends, especially with the huge modding community that exists for it.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

This isn't about me.

That's like saying I think all the works of Shakespeare suck simply because I loathe his Old English writing style. It seems a little petty that I should be so demanding even though those works were written for that day and age. Curse you Shakespeare!

Besides, if you hate genealogies so much, there's tons and tons more in the Bible than those. Also, I recommend a different translation if you really just can't get past the style in yours. May I ask which translation you are reading from?

That's because everything is about me.

I won't go so far as to say they suck, but they're uninteresting if you can't understand what's going on - which makes sense. If you're watching a movie in French but you don't speak the language, you're probably not going to enjoy it much.

My problem is that it's a really shitty way to open a book. And why do it?
Are all of those characters important?
Are any of them important?

I dunno. Whatever translation they use in Hispanic churches where everyone speaks English, I guess.

...A friend dragged me there. I had nothing to do because the ceremony or whatever was in Spanish.

Which book of the Bible are we talking about here?

 

[bodyklok]

DVD- The Watchman
Book- Sun Tzu The Art of War
CD- My mix tap
Game- COD4 if God Of War III isn't out yet.

 

[Jirlond]

DVD: My Spaced boxset
Book: American Psycho
CD:Nevermind (even though i like Bleach, In Utero and Incesticide more, Nevermind unarguably made the bigger impact on soceity, and so the same for the new one!)
Game:Timesplitters 2

Can never leave spaced! best bargain ever 2 seasons for £2

 

[Standby]

DVD: My Spaced boxset
Book: American Psycho
CD:Nevermind (even though i like Bleach, In Utero and Incesticide more, Nevermind unarguably made the bigger impact on soceity, and so the same for the new one!)
Game:Timesplitters 2

Can never leave spaced! best bargain ever 2 seasons for £2

Hells yeah man, the future needs comedy.
And £2!? That's quite possibly the best bargain i've ever heard of, where did you get it?

 

[Jirlond]

HMV - The last 2 of em me and my mate bought then and now they are back to £5 a season!

OT:
DVD: Black Books
Book: Harlan Ellison 50 year retrospective
CD:Red hot chilli peppers - Californication
Game:Metal Gear Solid 3

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

Which book of the Bible are we talking about here?

The...first one?
I just opened it up and started reading at the beginning.

It was a year or two ago, and since it wasn't terribly important to me...

Anyway, the point is, I find it a poor book.
And since the only value it has to me is as a book, I would not take it along.
As a book, it sucks.
Maybe if I believed a word written in it, it would have some added meaning that would excuse the poor writing, but I do not.

It was just depending on what book of the Bible it was, I may be able to explain the significance of the genealogy and why it was there in the first place. However, I don't think you would have been interested to begin with.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that it's not the easiest thing to read and can understand how it would have no significance to you, it's just I have a hard time understanding how one can come to the conclusion that something is bad without having that much experience in the matter.