"Stranded on a desert Island" Book List

[Asa Adams]

I am not too sure if this has been done yet, However i couldn't find it in the "search this forum" section.

One of my Profs and I once sat and had a drink and we discussed the top Ten Books we would like to have on a desert Island, If we could only read ten books or pieces of Writing for the rest of our life time.

Here is my excruciating List.

In no particular order.

1-Barneys Version - Mordicai Richler
2-The Hobbit- Tolkien
3-Odyssey- Homer
4-Great Expectations- Dickins
5-The Bible (Learn something New every read.) Non religious reading.
6-1984- George Orwell. (Remind me of what Im not missing in society....false hope, lol.
7-Animal Farm-Orwell.
8-Collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson- Book 1
9-A photo book of my family and friends.
10-AND FINALLY ANYTHING BY V.C. ANDREWS.....(Thoroughly Absorbent Toilet paper...)

What would you choose?

[Countess]

1). How to survive on a deserted island. (Author Unknown)
2). How to build a ship to get off the deserted island. (Author also Unknown)
3). How to convince Orlando Bloom to go with you to the deserted island (Author un... you know).
4). Idiot's guide to the Karma Sutra for people with back problems.

Okay, I can't be serious today. Sorry.

[Asa Adams]

hahah, this doesnt need to be serious. that was pretty funny actually

[Shannanigan]

I like countess' list...

may I add a couple of books to read before Orlando Bloom shows up? It's have to be some massively huge short story colelctions...I don't think I could deal with novel after novel over and over again, I'd have to have a million short stories to read instead of ten big ones....

so perhaps "100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment" "Concert of Voices," ...and perhaps I'll trade in the rest of the books for a laptop with unlimited battery life (solar powered perhaps?) and the Pirates of the Caribbean DVD's...

[Asa Adams]

I know,I know....But play along...If you had to choose 10, what would you choose?

[bazarov]

Hey buddy, too much of Castaway???
1.Bible
2.Brothers Karamazov
3.Art of war
4.Don Quixote
4.Robinson Crusoe
5.Fathers and sons
6.The Godfather
7.Story about good and evil
......
.....
I can't think of anything else, probably some history books. And yes, thanks for comparing me with Stalin. I don't preffer Trocky either, but he would be much acceptable in this situation!!! Four legs good, two legs bad!!!

[PeterL]

There are three types of books that I would want to have. The first would include books that might be useful in the situation: The Boyscout Manual, Robinson Cruso, The Swiss Family Robinson, The Island of the Day Before, and so on. The second class of book would be classics that I haven't read or would like to reread, which includes a large stack of books. The third type of book would be things that might fill my time, when I wasn't doing anything useful, including the complete works of many authors from de Qunicey and Poe to the complete works of Robert B. Parker.

I would also want a PC or a large supply of paper, so that I could do some of the writing that I don't usually have time for.

[Asa Adams]

Hey buddy, too much of Castaway???

I can't think of anything else, probably some history books. And yes, thanks for comparing me with Stalin. I don't preffer Trocky either, but he would be much acceptable in this situation!!! Four legs good, two legs bad!!!

Ah finally. I was wondering when you would get that! Lol....Not like Trotsky? Not the Exile writer type?? lol Oh Baz!

[Manfred]

The "Flashman" series, by George MacDonald Frasier. I can read those over and over, and still get a laugh out of them.

Frederick Forsyth's great thriller, "The Day of the Jackal."

"The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood," by Howard Pyle.

"Treasure Island," by RL Stevenson

"Elmer Gantry," by Sinclair Lewis--in order to retain some humility.

[bazarov]

Frederick Forsyth's great thriller, "The Day of the Jackal."

The best thriller I've ever read.

[bazarov]

Ah finally. I was wondering when you would get that! Lol....Not like Trotsky? Not the Exile writer type?? lol Oh Baz!

I didn't read it for couple of days, so it took me to finish it, not to understand it Four legs good, two legs better!!!

[Asa Adams]

Great book eh, Buddy?

[bazarov]

Great book eh, Buddy?

Yes, teacher allways gives good advice!

[Idril]

In no particular order:

LOTR trilogy
Forsyte saga trilogy...and I'm counting those as one book because you can purchase them in one volume
Crime and Punishment
Demons
War and Peace
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...again, the whole thing because you can buy it that way.
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Neverwhere
Master and Margarita
...and one more...I can't take the pressure of picking that last one so I'm going to leave it open so I can know that I'll always have that last option.

or would that be considered cheating?

[mono]

Countess' list would probably sounds a lot like my ideal list, too, only without Orlando Bloom, and more like . . . Claire Forlani or Gwyneth Paltrow. My secondary list:

1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (no better time to understand it now!).
2. Some kind of anthology to Romantic poetry.
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
4. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence.
5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
7. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez.
8. Critique Of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (again, no better time to understand).
9. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger.
10. The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.