Instead of Gideon bibles
Instead of Gideon bibles

Poll: Instead of Gideon bibles

Total Members Polled: 24

The blind Watchmaker. (Dawkins): 42%
Roadcraft: 33%
Wealth of Nations. (Adam Smith): 12%
The road to serfdom (Hayek): 4%
Das Kapital (Marx): 8%
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Dr Jekyll

Original Poster:

23,820 posts

290 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Inspired by the 'make the world a better place' thread. Suppose all Gideon bibles in hotel rooms were to be replaced, what would be the best book to replace them with?

Pothole

34,367 posts

311 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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The Stand

Bacon Is Proof

5,740 posts

260 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Little Inn in Kirkmichael (just outside Pitlochry, Scotland) had Bravo Two Zero which amused me a little.

Killer2005

20,589 posts

257 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Either New Scientist or Razzle.

LordJammy

3,114 posts

218 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Why aren’t colouring books an option?

dundarach

6,223 posts

257 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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How about a sign saying 'no one is ever happy anymore, bring your own fking books' stuck to the bottom of the drawer....


frisbee

5,591 posts

139 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Boris Johnson's long awaiting biography of Winston Churchill.

Mars

10,090 posts

243 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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I have loads but these spring out at me immediately...

Watchmen - Alan Moore

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

The Hitchhilker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy in five parts - Douglas Adams

Cosmos - Carl Sagan


MC Bodge

29,624 posts

204 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Sapiens

GliderRider

2,919 posts

110 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Wilt by Tom Sharpe

normalbloke

8,856 posts

248 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Viz.

bristolbaron

5,374 posts

241 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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The Quran. The reactions would be immense.

csd19

2,344 posts

146 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Aesop's Fables

tjl

392 posts

201 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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GliderRider said:
Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Good shout !

InitialDave

15,082 posts

148 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Good Omens

GCH

4,140 posts

231 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Hustler

Digger

16,824 posts

220 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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Nothing.

I need to store my st in that drawer!

ATG

23,701 posts

301 months

Monday 17th January 2022
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bristolbaron said:
The Quran. The reactions would be immense.
Illustrated/cartoon version for maximum fireworks

anonymous-user

83 months

Tuesday 18th January 2022
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Replace it with origin of species, or a brief history of time, or something else along those lines. Or a map as so many people Iknow haven't got a clue where anything is (I blame sat nav, schools, the parents, covid, brexit and Chinese spies)

peterperkins

3,440 posts

271 months

Tuesday 18th January 2022
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An atlas so people can learn/see where everything is.