Desert Island Books

[Patrick_Bateman]

Brits already know the rules, but we shall adapt them:

Choose 8 books to take with you.
Distinguish which book with which you hold the highest regard.
Choose 1 music album to take with you (You are already given the entire Beatles back catalogue and Complete works of Mozart.)
And finally one luxury item.


Let's do this.

[Patrick_Bateman]

Brits already know the rules, but we shall adapt them:

Choose 8 books to take with you.
Distinguish which book with which you hold the highest regard.
Choose 1 music album to take with you (You are already given the entire Beatles back catalogue and Michael Jackson's Thriller.
And finally one luxury item.


Let's do this.

Indeed let's do.

L'etranger - Albert Camus
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Complete Short Stories and Plays - Anton Chekhov
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

The Stranger means a lot to me as do all these books and a lot more I left off. I have not yet had the same feeling I had after finishing Camus' Magnum Opus.

To paraphrase and adapt a certain Chekhov quote
"Literature is my lawful wife, music is my mistress"
So this part is just as difficult.
Although I enjoy Art music and could easily say Rachmaninov or Chopin
I think I would much prefer to hear a familiar voice, comforting voice

I would either choose 100 Best Maria Callas or What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye.

Cheryl Cole as my luxury item. (A man can get awfully lonely)

[Patrick_Bateman]

Been done before?

[stlukesguild]

Books:

1. The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
2. The Bible (King James Translation)
3. Dante- The Divine Comedy
4. anon.- The 1001 Arabian Nights
5. Firdowsi- The Shahnameh
6. anon.- The Mahabharata
7. Proust- In Search of Lost Time
8. Cervantes- Don Quixote

The books I list are roughly in order of importance to me (although all but nos. 1-3 might change given another day). I chose the works that I believe would give me a lifetime of narratives and characters.

I already have the complete Beatles and the complete Mozart? I'd prefer the complete Rolling Stones or Miles Davis and the complete J.S. Bach... but working with your guidelines I would have to take the Complete Cantatas of J.S. Bach (Ton Koopman's or John Elliot Gardiner's recording).

My one luxury "item"? Scarlett Johansson.:blush::reddevil:

[togre]

Let's see...

The Holy Bible
The Complete Works of Jane Austin
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (This isn't cheating because I have these both in single volumes :)
The Lord of the Rings
The Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe (both are worthy on literary as well as practical value)
The Iliad
War and Peace (These last two I haven't read. Stuck on an island I would want the books I re-read the most, one or two I want to read and haven't yet and at least one I want to but never will--I couldn't survive not have something to strive for)

I'd take the complete version of Le Miserables, the one that is super complete.

Luxury item: toilet paper

[Alexander III]

Guys I think listing the Complete works of an author seems like cheating, I mean the complete works of dickens can entertain one for years alone :D.

1) La Divina Comedia - Dante
2) Les Miserables - Hugo
3) Don Juan - Byron
4) Pharsalia - Lucan
5) The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
6) A Season In Hell and Illuminations - Rimbaud
7) Prometheus Unbound - Shelley
8) La Vita Nuova - dante
9) The Cantos - Pound
10) Don Quixote- Cervantes

For music, it's a though choice between a collection of Vivaldi or a collection of Bob Dylan but I think Dylan wins.

And luxury Item...*drum roll*........Angelina Jolie

[dfloyd]

The Iliad and the Odyssey (Alexander Pope translations). It doesn't matter about music because you can't play cds or other albums on a desert island.

[Patrick_Bateman]

The Iliad and the Odyssey (Alexander Pope translations). It doesn't matter about music because you can't play cds or other albums on a desert island.

Play the game :D

[prendrelemick]

The Iliad and the Odyssey (Alexander Pope translations). It doesn't matter about music because you can't play cds or other albums on a desert island.

Tradition has it you get a wind-up gramaphone

[Alexander III]

Play the game :D

I lost the game !

[prendrelemick]

Pride and Prejudice
War and Peace
White teeth
Macbeth or Hamlet,.. Hamlet or Macbeth,.. which is best?...Only one way to find out..FIGHT!
The illiad
The Colour of Magic/The Light Fantastic
Lord of the Rings
Stranger in a Strange Land.

Record (A black round thing with a hole in the middle :rolleyes:) Beethoven's Pastoral symphony. (If I could swap my Mozart for Beethoven, I'd have Led Zep II )

Luxury Item Tesco home delivery membership, with Rosamund Pike as the driver..

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

The Bible w/ emphasis on the book of Jonah
Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Saltwater Fish
“Outdoor Survival Skills” by Larry Dean Olsen
“Kon Tiki” by Tor Heyerdahl
“Toilers of the Sea” by Victor Hugo
“Canterbury Tales” by Chaucer
“The Deserted Village” and “The Traveller” by Goldsmith
“The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn (I’ll finally have the time to finish)

Music: Bob Wills greatest hits album

Luxury item: Assuming I have a turntable for my album, I will go with a well-stocked fishing tackle box.

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[mortalterror]

1.Bible
2.Shakespeare
3.Portable Dante (Divine +New Life)
4.Firdawsi- Shahnamah
5.Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire- Gibbon (for change from fiction)
6.Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia edition
7.Catch-22- Heller (for laughs)
8.Either Norton's English Lit. Anthology or if not allowed Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

The Shakespeare would be the most important followed by the Bible.

While it would be cool to have that record sent out on the Voyager space craft, I'd rather have ACDC's greatest hits. If compilation albums are out I'll take Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

For a luxury item I'd either take a photograph of someone who loved me, or a comfortable chair. No, screw that sentimental ****. A lifetime supply of Jack Daniels!

[lowradiation]

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
James Joyce - Ulysses
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
David Foster-Wallace - Infinite Jest
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Complete Novels of George Orwell (I have the Penguin collection in one book)

The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow

[mal4mac]

The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
Montaigne - Essays
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Jude the Obscure - Hardy
Selected Short Stories - Anton Chekhov
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Cervantes- Don Quixote

Music - Bach - Keyboard Concertos - Perahia

Luxury - a bed

[stlukesguild]

5.Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire- Gibbon (for change from fiction)

Ooh! That's a good choice as well. I think I would actually take that over the Mahabharata... although in some ways I doubt its any less fictional than the other books on your list of mine.