3 Books to Bring to the Bomb Shelter?

[waryan]

For whatever reason the world may be wiped out by a bomb and the three books you bring may end up being the only copies of that text in the new world post-bomb with a very limited population.

I'm going to have to get back to my own question later with more thought- Though one book would likely be "The Oxford Shakespeare".

[JBI]

The complete works of Shakespeare, The Theban Cycle, and The Comedia.

[sayer]

one book would likely be "The Oxford Shakespeare".


The complete works of Shakespeare, The Theban Cycle, and The Comedia.

:rolleyes:

[johann cruyff]

The three books I'd probably bring...The Brothers Karamazov,Remembrance of Things Past and The Death and the Dervish.

I have a feeling they wouldn't exactly be a priority in a bomb shelter though.

[waryan]

The three books I'd probably bring...The Brothers Karamazov,Remembrance of Things Past and The Death and the Dervish.

I have a feeling they wouldn't exactly be a priority in a bomb shelter though.

haha- agreed

[aeroport]

Complete Shakespeare (Riverside) is a must.
Collected Poetry and Prose of Wallace Stevens.
I would probably take The Brothers Karamazov as well.


:rolleyes:
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[kelby_lake]

i'd probs take shakespeare too. not sure what else i'd take. i could do a fahrenheit-451 and get everyone to learn a book off by heart so we could type it up :)

[manolia]

"How to survive in a bomb shelter" Volume 1-3 :D

[DapperDrake]

If we're talking fiction then i would make them three big books that I've not yet read.. So with that in mind:

Les Miserables
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov

Of course in reality I would be the last one into the shelter.. Dragging my bookcase behind me :D

[thegreenthing]

I would probably take something that might preserve historical knoledge, like history of the world, and something on practical science, and for the cultural part I might take Shakespeare as well

[sayer]

anything not from the Dead Old White Guy genre. if the empire dies, i want texts that will help replace and improve it, not reproduce it.

[amalia1985]

1) The Complete Shakespeare

2) Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

3)Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

[PeterL]

anything not from the Dead Old White Guy genre. if the empire dies, i want texts that will help replace and improve it, not reproduce it.

You mean that you'd take [The Iliad[/i], The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, or maybe The Enuma Elish?

[JBI]

anything not from the Dead Old White Guy genre. if the empire dies, i want texts that will help replace and improve it, not reproduce it.

I hope you can read all the other languages too. Either way, this is a personal question. If it was a nuclear bomb it wouldn't matter, you'd die from exposure. Either way, if they are the only copies, than chances are you are one of the only survivors. What difference does it make what race the author is.

[kilted exile]

1) Hard Times
2) The Reformation & counter-reformation: Europe's Great Houses Divided by Diarmid McCullough
3)A Pocketful of Python edited by John Cleese

[sayer]

What difference does it make what race the author is.

a lot of difference when 1 race and gender have been allowed to have a voice for centuries while others have been silenced.

[aeroport]

anything not from the Dead Old White Guy genre. if the empire dies, i want texts that will help replace and improve it, not reproduce it.

You aren't going to 'replace and improve' the 'empire' (whatever that is); you're simply looking for something to keep you company til you die.

[Virgil]

"How to survive in a bomb shelter" Volume 1-3 :D

:lol: Can I borrow that? :D Was it written by a dead white guy? :p

[JBI]

a lot of difference when 1 race and gender have been allowed to have a voice for centuries while others have been silenced.

Since they have been silenced, it would make sense that, being silent, they have not contributed to the development of letters. Because of that, from those time periods, it was dead white male authors who wrote all the major works. That being said, it essentially means that because of silencing, no great works (I am playing off of your argument here, not wanting to say that I agree with this) were written by non-white-male authors, in which case, you have run your selection quite thin. Either way, I see as taking Li Po, or the Mahabarhata with me the same way as taking Shakespeare. I just would take him since I know what I am getting, being able to read it in the original. But sure, he being dead and a white male makes his work mediocre, after you have admitted that because of the silencing the only possible great works in his time period were written by white males.

[dramasnot6]

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment
Frankenstein

[Rakthor]

Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

[andave_ya]

The Bible
The Brothers Karamazov
The Lord of the Rings

[NickAdams]

1. Finnegans Wake
2. The second volume of Samuel Beckett's works: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, How It Is; or the third volume: complete dramatic works (it's a coin toss).
3. The complete works of William Shakespeare, the Bible, the Ramayana or 1001 Nights (I would draw lots).

Hmmm ... a play would be fun to perform in the shelter, especially a play by Beckett.

[Joreads]

Hobbys for the house bound person.

[waryan]

I think it's time I invested more time in Dostoevsky, hah

[Whifflingpin]

Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"
"Tulku" by Peter Dickinson
Hakluyt's "Principal navigations & voyages .."

[bounty]

The Bible
The Brothers Karamazov
The Lord of the Rings

thank you andave, yes, the bible...

[Tournesol]

The Quran
A Concse Dictionary
Shakespeare

[As I read through the posts in this thread, I was wondering why no one had mentioned any of the Holy Books, then I saw andave did, and bounty seconded it! Cool!]

[andave_ya]

YEAH!! Can't miss out on the Holy Book! Cheers to ya!

[jgweed]

1. Being and Time, since I am working through it now.
2. Collected works of Plato
3. Collected works of Shakespeare