tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post113221096509033701..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Cue Carnac the MagnificentJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1132330796818959742005-11-18T11:19:00.000-05:002005-11-18T11:19:00.000-05:00Upon reflection I think the most influential book ...Upon reflection I think the most influential book I read in college was "Summer Camp Virgins" especially when the camp counsler tricks the young coed into her first M-F-F threesome... Beats Burke all to hell...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1132286279827490622005-11-17T22:57:00.000-05:002005-11-17T22:57:00.000-05:00Wouldn't it have been hilarious if he'd said "L'Or...Wouldn't it have been hilarious if he'd said "L'Ordre du discours" by Foucault or something? Or, most appropriately, <I>Babbitt</I>? Or would that give the game away?Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497182602254576542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1132264230452801162005-11-17T16:50:00.000-05:002005-11-17T16:50:00.000-05:00NYAH! I had to read Burke's Reflections on the Rev...NYAH! I had to read Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France for school, and piffle to Brooks. He hasn't read the whole thing. No, I don't think so. He only name-drops it anyway.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't trust anyone who says Reflections on the Revolution in France is his FAVORITE book anyway.<BR/><BR/>Then again, like Burke, he goes all gooey when faced with the Marie Antoinette types in our Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1132250450884390152005-11-17T13:00:00.000-05:002005-11-17T13:00:00.000-05:00I dunno, really. Everything I read influences me i...I dunno, really. Everything I read influences me in *some* way. I learn something I didn't know before, or I see something some way I didn't before. Isn't that, uh, the point of reading?<BR/>I may just be exceptionally malleable, I suppose. <BR/><BR/>As far as books that *profoundly* influence you, the people I know of who can immediately name one book that did that tend to name stuff like <I>TheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1132248915321636452005-11-17T12:35:00.000-05:002005-11-17T12:35:00.000-05:00I hate "what book influenced you the most" questio...I hate "what book influenced you the most" questions. I enjoyed Hobbes' Leviathan as well but I can't pick just one or two or three books. But then, maybe Brooks enjoys Hobbes because he (Brooks) is also solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Well, maybe not poor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com