And A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (havent read that one yet, but my parents have been reccomending it)
Ok, i'll stop now.
lol
And A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (havent read that one yet, but my parents have been reccomending it)
Ok, i'll stop now.
lol
In the undergrowth
There lives a Bloath
Who feeds upon poets and tea.
Luckily, I know this about him
While he knows almost nothing of me!
- Shel Silverstein
1) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- If I am stranded on an island I am going to need a laugh
2)HG2G #2
3)HG2G #3
4)1984
5)Pluto's Dialouges
6)Collection of W. H. Auden's Poems
7)Collection of Lord Byron's Poems
8)Belle Jar- Sylvia Plathe
9)Collection of J.D. Salingher's Short Stories (His Short Stories are probably the best I have ever read)
10)Animal Farm.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
- Orwell
Read of my Shepherd
Lord of the Rings
Strangers on a Train (great book....always wanted to reread it!)
Rebecca
The Brothers Karamazov
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Absalom, Absalom ( Faulkner novel that reads like a twisted whodunit!)
The Vampire Chronicles (yeah I know...Anne Rice...junk food for the mind)
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft (I like weird!)
The Jeeves Omnibus
The Forsyte Saga
Mary Sue, Rabid Reader, and of course, Miss Smilla; Welcome to the isle of Asa!
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
Miss Smilla sets about building her tree house a la Swiss Family Robinson and adds a library wing for all the books everyone is bringing. Hammocks too.
In the undergrowth
There lives a Bloath
Who feeds upon poets and tea.
Luckily, I know this about him
While he knows almost nothing of me!
- Shel Silverstein
1. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon
2. History of England - Macaulay
3. Principal voyages of the English Nation - Hakluyt
4. Mathematics for Deck Officers - Munro
5. Admiralty Manual of Navigation
6. Palgrave's Golden Treasury
7. Nostromo - Conrad
8. Foucault's Pendulum - Eco
9. Tidewater Tales - John Barth
10. The Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
haha, niceOriginally Posted by Miss Smilla
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
I am seriously planning on responding to this one - but I keep changing my mind. What books to bring to the Isle of Asa?!!
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
1. Bible
2. LOTR Trilogy
3. Ulysses
4. Animal Farm
5. Lord Jim
6. A Farewell To Arms
7.War And Peace
8. Paradise Lost
9. The Great Gatsby
10. Catch-22
Lol. It is a terrible decision. Asa is a stinker!
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
1. Tami Hoag A Thin Dark Line sigh..gotta love trashy crime novels
2. Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
3. Homer The Odyssey
4. Shakespeare Complete works
5. Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
6. Douglas Adams The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7. Brian Friel Translations
8. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
9. Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades
10. Julian May The Trillium Series (Black Trillium, Blood Trillium, Sky Trillium) Ok so technically that's three books, but there must be a collective edition...)
Right! Off to the island then!
"Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
Though feeling a little indecisive, on my 'stranded' top 10 list, I may want to replace one or two of the books with either or both Anna Karenina and War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I cannot choose which, but, so as to sneak those two books in, I could probably fit some of those smaller novels I listed under my shirt, or something.
Thanks!Great idea for a thread, by the way. I thought it would be simple but the more I thought about it, the harder it got lol.
"Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
Alright, time to add in a list, I'm bored of just reading everyone else's lists...
1)Franz Kafka - The Castle/The Trial (I have a big book with both novels in it)
2)James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
3)Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
4)My Collected Short Stories of William Faulkner
5)Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
6)One of those books of Edible Roots and Plants
7)Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Critique of Pure Reason
8)Heinlein - Starship Troopers (So Entertaining
9)Something by Nietszche can't decide....probably Thus Spoke Zarathustra
10)Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Just a bunch of entertaining books, favorite books by favorite authors, and a few difficult books which like others have stated I'll finally have enough time to properly disect and attempt to understand.
"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
-Walt WhitmanThey have their worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.
-Jack Kerouac
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