"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. :brow:

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

[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??? :D
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 :lol:
......
.....
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!!! :lol: Four legs good, two legs bad!!! :lol:

[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??? :D

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!!! :lol: Four legs good, two legs bad!!! :lol:

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

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

[Asa Adams]

Great book eh, Buddy?

[bazarov]

Great book eh, Buddy?
Yes, teacher allways gives good advice! :lol:

[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.

[Asa Adams]

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.


Number ten is my favorite of your choices, Mono, lol!

[Manfred]

The best thriller I've ever read.

Indeed, the best one I've ever read, too. Even though you know what the ultimate outcome must be, it seems impossible to stop reading. I finished this novel in two days.
I selected it for this thread because of the excitement level. After all, it must get rather boring on a desert isle after the first couple of weeks.

[Asa Adams]

I selected it for this thread because of the excitement level. After all, it must get rather boring on a desert isle after the first couple of weeks.

HA, I can't imagine oh boring it would be...and lonely.

[Idril]

I say we all try to aim for the same desert island, that way we would all bring 10 books each, we could build up an impressive library and have company to boot. It's a win/win situation.;)

[Admin]

Just to be silly...

US Army Manual FM 21-76 Wilderness Survival (http://www.wilderness-survival.net/)

Seriously though... would be a useful book to have with you., 200+ pages on how to survive in the wilderness.

[Asa Adams]

admin graces my thread...I am blessed :lol:

[literaturerocks]

encyclopaedia brittanica (just have always wanted to read it a-z but never would have time but on a desert island...i would have time)
the divine comedy
how to get off of deserted islands for dummies by tom hanks (the star of castaway)
the complete idiots guide to calling a coconut wilson and the psychological advantages of calling him spalding or reebok
das boot(the boat) i forget the author
i would also like a computer and a lifetime supply of food but i guess that would be cheating...plus i would have to feed spalding too :D

[Logos]

das boot(the boat) i forget the author
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_G._Buchheim) wrote it, and an excellent movie too :D

[literaturerocks]

yes thats it i was looking for it for my dad at the bookstore today..i remember that name . he said he would like to read it as he had seen the movie. i have not yet seen the movie but i would definately like too. i suppose my local library has it.:) thank you for the author logos.:D

[Asa Adams]

Logos, you didnt put what you would read. What would you read on the desert isle? So far we have quite a few people here! Even Admin!

[mtpspur]

1, The Bible (King James version prefered)
2. Matthew Henry's 1 Vol Commentary to the Bible (since I can't take all 6 unedited volumes)
Fun reading
3. The Continental Op - Dashiel Hammett (hopefully an edition that has more then 6 of the stories in it
4. The Ivory Child--Rider Haggard (has ALL his themes in one novel)
(Runner up--She and Allan-unless it's Wednesday)
5. Captain Blood--Rafael Sabatini (Hands down my favorite novel)
Runners up St Martin's Summer or Chivary)
6. The Betrayers - Donald Hamilton (Favorite Matt Helm novel)
Runner up--Murderers' Row
7. Quiller's Run - Adam Hall (favorite Quiller novel)
8. Teeth of the Dragon - Walter Gibson (favorite Shadow novel)
(Runners up--The Golden Masks or Queztal)
9. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
10. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (for that love/hate I have for Scarlett--Rhett is NOT coming back--she wore him out at last
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[Asa Adams]

Nice list Mtpspur! :nod:

[Miss Smilla]

Hmm, lets see.....

1. LOTR trilogy - JRR Tolkien
2. Wild Swans - Jung Chang (probably the most important thing i've ever read)
3. Complete Works of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy (or actually, a volume containing both anna and war and peace. That may be cheating, but i'm sure it exists somewhere on the planet. If not, i'm not going to need any money for the rest of my life, so i can afford to have one printed specially for the occasion)
6. Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
7. While i'm cheating, i might as well throw in a complete works of Arthur C. Clarke. Is gonna be one HUGE edition!
(ummm, this is so difficult, lol! i guarentee you the second i submit this i'll go "Oh ****! forgot this or that!")
8. I suppose the list just wouldn't be right if i didn't include a photo album with all my pics plus extra pics of family and such.
9. The Worlds Largest Sketchbook (drawing materials inculded)
10. And i suppose i'll have to be sensable and include the aforementioned wilderness survival manual.

Interesting exercise, have discoverd where some of my loyalties lie!

[Miss Smilla]

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! knew it!
Forgot Cloudstreet by Tim Winton!

[Miss Smilla]

And Highways to a War by Christopher Koch!

[Miss Smilla]

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

[rabid reader]

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.

[Mary Sue]

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

[Asa Adams]

Mary Sue, Rabid Reader, and of course, Miss Smilla; Welcome to the isle of Asa!

[Miss Smilla]

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.

[Whifflingpin]

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

[Asa Adams]

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.

haha, nice

[grace86]

I am seriously planning on responding to this one - but I keep changing my mind. What books to bring to the Isle of Asa?!!

[pqb57]

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

[Asa Adams]

I am seriously planning on responding to this one - but I keep changing my mind. What books to bring to the Isle of Asa?!!

Lol. It is a terrible decision. Asa is a stinker!

[Behemoth]

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! :nod:

[Asa Adams]

welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!

[mono]

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. :D

[Behemoth]

welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!

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.

[TEND]

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 :D )
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.

[thevintagepiper]

1. Bible
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Peter Pan (that book gives me crinkles up and down my spine....can't get enough of its simple delightfulness)
4. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
5. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6. The Princess Bride
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. The Blue Sword
9. Rose Daughter
10. Worst Case Scenario ;)

I'm sure I'll change my mind at least once!

[jon1jt]

1. On The Road, Jack Kerouac :banana:
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand :confused:
3. Boredom, Alberto Moravia
4. Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
5. The Plague, Albert Camus
6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
7. Jonathan L. Seagull, Richard Bach
8. As We Are Now, May Sarton
9. Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton :banana:
10. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller :cool:
I'm done-

[Asa Adams]

Welcome, Tend, Jon1jt, Vintage. All great Lists.

I know how you feel Behemoth. You too Mono! :nod:

[grace86]

I think I might post my ten in pieces hehe, because I have managed to come up with a few.

1. The Bible
2. Don Quixote (laughter, tears, and morals oh my!!)
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Something from Henry Rider Haggard - King Soloman's Mines probably

I will come back later!!! Oooh Asa you make me think too hard grrr...

[Asa Adams]

I think I might post my ten in pieces hehe, because I have managed to come up with a few.

1. The Bible
2. Don Quixote (laughter, tears, and morals oh my!!)
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Something from Henry Rider Haggard - King Soloman's Mines probably

I will come back later!!! Oooh Asa you make me think too hard grrr...

You know I love it, Grace!!!

[stlukesguild]

1. Dante Allighieri- The Divine Comedy
2. William Shakespeare- Collected Plays
3. John Milton- Paradise Lost
4. Cervantes- Don Quixote
5. The Bible (King James Translation)
6. William Blake- Collected Poetic Works
7. J.L. Borges- Collected Fictions
8. Kafka- Collected Short Stories
9. Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
10. Proust- In Search of Lost Time (as I'll have found all the time I'll ever need
I'll finally be able to complete this one ;).

[Asa Adams]

welcome stlukesguild! TO ZI ISLANNNND, MUWAHAHAHA......(Evil creepy german accent!!)

[grace86]

5. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
6. Paradise Lost - John Milton
7. Something educational (I am thinking about the Priest from The Count of Monte Cristo, he had all those books in his cell....So I might pick some sort of book to learn something new)


Three more to come later Asa.

[Asa Adams]

Beautiful, Grace.

[TEND]

1. Dante Allighieri- The Divine Comedy
2. William Shakespeare- Collected Plays
3. John Milton- Paradise Lost
4. Cervantes- Don Quixote
5. The Bible (King James Translation)
6. William Blake- Collected Poetic Works
7. J.L. Borges- Collected Fictions
8. Kafka- Collected Short Stories
9. Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
10. Proust- In Search of Lost Time (as I'll have found all the time I'll ever need
I'll finally be able to complete this one ;).
Wow, very nice list...that may be my favorite serious one yet!

[Asa Adams]

Indeed. It will make a fine part of the collection

[JustinColorado]

1- the complete Tolkien
2- the odyssey
3- tertium organum - Ouspenski
4- the complete set of Louis Lamour
5- vol 1 - 5 of the complete works of Michelangelo
6- history of science all 5 volumes
7- sociology and the world's religions
8- the complete volume set of the history of philosophy (1-9)
9- complete collection of books by Tom Brown
10- a printed version of The Archive of World Poetry - over 5,000 classic poems


and some way of writing and writing and writing.. maybe a solar powered laptop in a water tight case...

[LadyWentworth]

Well, in no particular order:

*The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
*The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
*The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
*Jane Eyre....Bronte
*Persuasion....Austen
*Maurice....Forster
*The Phantom of the Opera....Leroux
*A Tale of Two Cities....Dickens
*The Chronicles of Narnia....Lewis
*The Complete Little House Collection....Laura Ingalls Wilder

If I could sneak any more in, I would like to take all of Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories. :) And maybe Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", too. :)

[JBI]

Volumes of poetry, Shakespeare, Proust, and Joyce. That's enough material to keep me locked away on the island for a life time.

[islandclimber]

Pablo Neruda- Complete Works
Borges- Labyrinths
Marquez- Collected Short Stories
Dostoevsky-Great Short Works
Dostoevsky- The Idiot
Joyce- Finnegans Wake (with all those years I might be able to finally follow)
Cervantes- Don Quixote
Wilde- Complete Works
Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Complete Far Side


(and as they are just small books I would have to smuggle in Albert Camus "the fall" and Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading")

[LadyW]

1.) Dummies Guide to Escaping a Desert Island
2.) Bible (Just in Case)
And if all else fails...
3.) Atonement - Ian Mcewen
4.) Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
5.) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
6.) Pride & prejudice - Jane Austen
7.) Dracula - Bram Stoker
8.) When He was Wicked - Julia Quinn
9.) An Offer From a Gentlemen - Julia Quinn
10.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (couldn't resist!)

[Metanoia]

1. LOTR Trilogy-JRR Tolkien
2. Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
3. Complete works of Shakespeare
4. Great expectations-Charles Dickens
5. Nicholas Nickleby-Charled Dickens
6. Carlos Castenda series
7. Complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelly
8. Pride and prejudice-Jane Austen
9. The odyssey-Homer
10. Leaves of grass-Whalt Whitman

[kratsayra]

I'm probably going to do this and think of better things later.

1. Omeros - Derek Walcott
2. Glendower Country - my grandmother wrote this book
3. The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
5. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
6. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
8. a dictionary - why not learn lots of new words?
9. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
10. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

All of these are either books that I find comforting in some way or books that I think I could find a lot of new and interesting things in if I had the time to read them over and over again. And in some cases, the books fulfill both requirements. :)

[islandclimber]

6. Carlos Castenda series


now why would you want carlos castaneda books... just what kinds of things do you suppose grow on this little island;) ...

[Ryduce]

How to get off a deserted island for dummies?

[intoxicatedsoul]

ten paper backs with half naked guys on the cover!

[byquist]

Anne Morrow Lindberg's "Gifts from the Sea" might bring some comfort.

[Dedalus_45]

In no particular order:

The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Anna Karenina
Gullivers Travel's
Gravity's Rainbow
Being and Time
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The complete works of Shakespeare
Anthology of world poetry

[LadyW]

How to get off a deserted island for dummies?
Scroll up a little.
:lol: Great minds...

[Ryduce]

lol

Yeah I saw that after I typed it.

[Dori]

10.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (couldn't resist!)

Oh yes, fuel for the fire. :p

From the books I own, I would take:

1. The Holy Bible (KJV)
2. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
3. The Brothers Karamazov by D
4. Les Miserables by Hugo
5. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo
6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
7. The Essential Thucydides (a complete annotated edition, with maps and stuff, of The Peloponesian War)
8. Chaucer's Collected Works (in Middle English)
9. The Will to Power by Nietzsche

and...

10. The biggest book I can find, hollowed out, with matches, flint & steel, bandages, pocket knife, etc. inside the book. ;)

[Janine]

6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday? :lol:

[Dori]

Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday? :lol:

Yes, Man versus Nature. ;) It seems Nature would naturally have the advantage, so I need some guidance to tip the balance. :p

[Dark Muse]

1. The Black Stallion seris, cannot thing off the top of my head who wrote it, but I started reading it once and really liked it, but never got to finnish it. (is that cheating to call it one book?)
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins-Scott Odell
3. The Legend of Nightfall-Mickey Zucker Reichert
4. At least one book that I have not already read by Morgan Llywelyn (I would probably just close my eyes and randomly pick one if I could not bring her whole collection)
5. Women in Love -D.H. Lawrence, because I have not read that one yet, and really want to.
6. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
7. Paradise Lost - Milton
8. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
9. World Without End - Ken Follett
10. A journal/sketch book

[Simao]

The Odyssy and Divine Comedy. I want those because they are extremly long and since I am gonna spend alot of time in the desert might as well kill some time with these readings. I'd also take The Brothers Karamazov because I want to read it again. I'd take War and Peace, the long long very long version lol. Hmm, what else? Oh, I'd take a "learn how to spean French in ten years" book. Also, Crime and Punishemnt.
I've always wanted to read Love in the time of Cholera but I couldn't get past the first fifty pages or so. Books get very boring to me when they have little to no dialoug.

[capek]

I don't know about 10, but two I'd definitely take would be the Mahābhārata and the Mathnavi. Those two alone would keep one busy for a while.

[Homyrrh]

Since this is, ahem, obviously a matter of size, I shall take a Kindle. And only an Amazon Kindle...

[Dori]

Since this is, ahem, obviously a matter of size, I shall take a Kindle. And only an Amazon Kindle...

Why not the iLiad? :p I would take that over the Kindle.

How long to expect the battery to last with no means of charging it on the island?

[Julian Koller]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Arabian Nights
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Tao Te Ching - Lao-Tzu
The Analects - Confucius
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy

[Etienne]

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

You're right stoic philosophers would probably be useful in such a situation :lol:

[jon1jt]

Marchus Aurelius would have made a wonderful contemporary new age guru.

[Etienne]

What was that about?

[jon1jt]

What was that about?

Strange college days flashback or somethin. I dunno.