If there's a book that would be on your person and stop a bullet from hitting you what would it be? It would have to be quite hefty, keep in mind. The collected works of St. Aquinas, The Koran, Your Diary, Shakespeare, Kant, Dickens, Dante, or Kerouac?

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In eighth grade I used Anne McCaffrey:s collected works of The Dragonriders of Pern to shield myself from a punching bully. Not the most literary of volumes, but those eight hundred pages certainly made his fingers sting.
Still, it doesn:t depend on the book as much as the edition. One version might have tiny words on Bible-thin pages and another may be a large-print edition on voluminous paper with illustrations every three pages. A simple copy of the words "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" would be enough if it were chisled onto a marble slab.

55274 | posted by wilperegrine on February 25, 2003 at 20:53

The Aeneid

55029 | posted by Fafner on February 24, 2003 at 12:20