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!)
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
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
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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.
now why would you want carlos castaneda books... just what kinds of things do you suppose grow on this little islandOriginally Posted by Metanoia
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How to get off a deserted island for dummies?
ten paper backs with half naked guys on the cover!
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you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. there are days when spelling tuesday simply doesn't count. ~rabbit (winnie the pooh)
Anne Morrow Lindberg's "Gifts from the Sea" might bring some comfort.
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
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Scroll up a little.
Great minds...
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
lol
Yeah I saw that after I typed it.
Oh yes, fuel for the fire.
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.
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
Dostoevsky Forum!
Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday?6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yes, Man versus Nature.Dori, do you think there might just be a war on the island someday?
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
Dostoevsky Forum!
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
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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.
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