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!
1. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
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
10. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
I'm done-
Welcome, Tend, Jon1jt, Vintage. All great Lists.
I know how you feel Behemoth. You too Mono!
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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...
"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
You know I love it, Grace!!!Originally Posted by grace86
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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.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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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.
"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
Beautiful, Grace.
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Wow, very nice list...that may be my favorite serious one yet!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
"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
Indeed. It will make a fine part of the collection
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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...
-knowledge is power-
-if i have all knowledge and power, but with out love, i am nothing-
-what does not kill me makes me stronger-
-terminal velocity-
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.
Volumes of poetry, Shakespeare, Proust, and Joyce. That's enough material to keep me locked away on the island for a life time.
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")
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