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What is the Best Essay you've ever Read?

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    As an avid reader, I have several essays that I enjoyed over the years.

    Black Men in Public Spaces by Brent Staples
    A Modest Proposal by Swift
    Once More to the Lake by EB White
    History by RW Emerson
    Shooting an Elephant By George Orwell
    The Little Man at Chehaw Station by Ralph Ellison

    But probably my favorite essay was The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
     
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    Everything by Russell.
     
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    Who?????
     
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    Kant We All Just Get Along: A look at Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative.

    By DonkeyMagic
     
    #5 DonkeyMagic, Aug 26, 2010
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    The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
     
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    [Music]What are you listening to? by Manny Ramirez.
     
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    Am I the only one who read that as "The Myth of Syphilis"?
     
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    Anything and everything by Gore Vidal.
     
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    "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink" by P.J. O'Rourke

    link
     
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    Cleverly thinly-disguised 'Reveal Too Much About What Made You Into You' Thread..

    Well done! :grin:
     
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    Cleverly disguised "i'm well read and interesting" thread. ;)
     
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    This.
     
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    I have a huge man crush on Atul Gawande and his recent essays on health care in the New Yorker.

    Check out "Letting Go."

    Not literary, but so, so important.
     
    #16 B-Bob, Aug 26, 2010
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    [​IMG]
     
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    I don't speak Spanish.
     
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    I was positive that this link was going to open up a thread started by SpaceCityKid. I was actually surprised when that was the true title of the essay.
     
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