Your question reminds me of The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last (20 Nov. 1959)"
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I would hope all the Torahs, Bibles and Qurans etc. would be used as kindling to start the fire.
The books worth saving would be the classics, the non-fiction and fiction. Along with all the poetry, prose, academic text books, engineering manuals, substantive magazines and periodicals that I like to read.
I may need a little help ... :rofl:
Thanks for your insightful comment:applause: I am feeling enlightened. My heart is dancing with joy:dancing:
But have I asked which book or books you would use as kindling to start the fire? As far as I remember, I simply asked only for the names of 5 books you would save from fire. Nothing more than that. I didn't even ask for the reasons for your saving those 5 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4. Even I have requested for not making any adverse comments about other people's choices. I think I did that very clearly.
I may not be as well-read as you are but as far as my knowledge about books goes, I can tell you that there are many classics, fictions, non-fictions, poetry, prose, academic text-books, scientific manuals, magazines and periodicals which can definitely be used as kindling to start the fire. I too have a list of all these books. If I start writing their names only then also the list would be nearly endless.
Why only the books, there are many things and events happening around the globe which can kindle fire. May not be an actual fire but the burning sensation of anger within oneself can definitely lead to an actual fire. That fire doesn't need the kindling of a book like the Torah or the Bible or the Quran.
When innocent Indians got beaten, bruised and battered and even killed in Australia only for being Indian (who doesn't have a white skin covering their flesh), those events kindled the fire of anger inside me and many fellow Indians like me.
When a turbaned Sikh man got pushed before a coming train in an American subway station by a white-skinned lady and he got killed and his body got immediately turned into a bloody pile of flesh, that event kindled the fire of anger inside me and many Indians like me. The lady who pushed him did not even know him at all. They were both just commuters. His only crime was that he was a dark-skinned man having beard and wearing a turban.
There are loads of events which I feel can kindle a fire. But my question was not about the fire. Mine was an innocent curiosity. I just wanted to know from the people here who read books about those books which are so dear to their heart that they would love to save them from the fire.
If you don't like reading, then the question of saving doesn't arise at all. I am not stupid that I won't understand that you will not save any of them. Then why waste your precious time and energy to write a comment stating that you don't think any book has got that much worth to be saved by you from a fire risking your precious life. I am intelligent enough to understand from your silence that books don't matter to you.
Thanks to all of you again for your precious comments and I apologize for wasting your invaluable time on such petty things like books.
