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What Would You Recommend?

metirish Jan 09 2009 12:08 PM

A person walks up to you in a bookstore or a library and tells you that he/she has never read a book ever and in fact just woke up last week from a twenty year long coma (now aged 22). What three books would you recommend for this person to read?

Edgy DC Jan 09 2009 12:11 PM

He could read at two?

metirish Jan 09 2009 12:12 PM

Banging my head over here , no the poor person could not read at two.

themetfairy Jan 09 2009 12:15 PM

No opportunity to ask the poor guy about his preferences (fiction/nonfiction/sports/crime drama/biography/etc.)? It's hard to answer this question without doing a reference interview first....

metirish Jan 09 2009 12:16 PM

He's been in a coma , he has no clue as to what this world is about and has no preferences , it was a silly thread.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 09 2009 12:20 PM

I'd recommend an instructional book that would teach the person how to read. I suppose he'd also need another book teaching him how to read the first book. So that's two books right there.

metirish Jan 09 2009 12:22 PM

I see the error of my ways now , good idea bad execution.. I guess he could just magically read , a leap of faith I know. fuck this thread.

themetfairy Jan 09 2009 12:51 PM

Don't be hard on yourself Irish - this thread has potential (so long as you don't mind some good-natured thread hijacking).

metsguyinmichigan Jan 09 2009 12:52 PM

Easy. "Mets By the Numbers" and, in a couple weeks, "Faith and Fear in Flushing." Dude's got a lot of catching up to do. Those are the best places to start. I'd love it when the post-coma person said, "Why does everybody think the Yankees shortstop is so good? Guy's got no range and is funny-looking."

Benjamin Grimm Jan 09 2009 01:06 PM

I think I'd start with the World Almanac and Book of Facts. (Do they still publish that?) I used to love that book! It was a very handy-dandy all-purpose reference. Now, of course, there's the Internet...

themetfairy Jan 09 2009 01:29 PM

Nice choice BG -

themetfairy Jan 09 2009 01:30 PM

Here's another nice ready reference tool -

Frayed Knot Jan 09 2009 01:59 PM

Hawkeye Pierce once said that the only book he read was the dictionary since he figured that had all the other books in it anyway.

holychicken Jan 09 2009 02:02 PM

I'd tell him not to bother with reading because all of the good books have already been made into better movies.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 09 2009 02:06 PM

The movie is never better than the book. At least, not if the book is any good. Maybe if you're talking about John Grisham books...

cooby Jan 13 2009 07:31 PM

Wow, ask a simple question... Here are my three picks: Washington Irving"s [u:3eepiy2f]Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon[/u:3eepiy2f] James Herriot's [u:3eepiy2f]All Creatures Great and Small[/u:3eepiy2f] (or any other of his) Lenard's Kaufman's [u:3eepiy2f]Jubel's Children[/u:3eepiy2f] Why the hell was this so hard for the rest of you to grasp?

DocTee Jan 13 2009 07:55 PM

The Bible, Koran and Book of Mormon. Either those or Private Parts, The Horse is Dead and 1984.

Fman99 Jan 16 2009 05:45 PM

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Shogun by James Clavell