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
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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
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.
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!
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.
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
haha, niceQuote:
Originally Posted by Miss Smilla
I am seriously planning on responding to this one - but I keep changing my mind. What books to bring to the Isle of Asa?!!
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
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:
welcome to the isle, Behemoth! Our library is growing!
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asa Adams
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.