Ok guys i asked what i should read, maybe I should ask what you would read..
Simple question,
If you were going on a 10 day cruise and you could only fit one book in your bag, what book would you take?
Kevin
Ok guys i asked what i should read, maybe I should ask what you would read..
Simple question,
If you were going on a 10 day cruise and you could only fit one book in your bag, what book would you take?
Kevin
Kindle
For when you can only fit one book in your bag.
Oh man i should have seen that coming
You beat me to it, Dirtbag, except I would have put Sony Reader as that is the version I have acquired, specifically for travelling!
I don't need a kindle...
You see, it works like this... other people have puncture repair kits and spare wheels and things in their car in case of emergency. I just have a copy of Hamlet, and the knowledge that it will keep me amused until the universe sorts the problems out...
So yes, I always have a copy of Hamlet somewhere close to hand, and it hasn't failed me yet!
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
I once went on a day trip and wanted to take the complete letters of Oscar Wilde, it's a very thick and heavy book, but my wife wouldn't let me...she was the one carrying the bag!
I find it nearly impossible to take one book, even for a short trip. If we are going away for the weekend I spend ages planning what I need to take while the wife lazily get's on with packing everything else and sorting the kids etc, so I'm not the best person to ask. If in doubt: Shakespeare, but which one? Take them all?
Don't take them all!
A complete works is too heavy (in all respects) for a ten day cruise, unless you are going anywhere near Iran...
Hamlet will suffice.
Out of the two dozen version out there I'd take the "RSC Shakespeare" ISBN-10: 0230217877 - it's quite light (in every sense) but has good footnotes & readable support material... But any version would do...
Last edited by mal4mac; 12-02-2009 at 08:40 AM.
My Norton Anthology of Poetry.
Walden
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
I would be sure to take my ....
Check book.
Seeing as it's only 10 days, I'd just take the book I was reading at the time. Hopefully it'd be a long one, but if not, 10 days isn't a long time.
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
I'd Take Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad
I would probably take some Oscar Wilde... and that idea of his letters is quite interesting to me, maybe its time to check Amazon for Christmas shopping.....
Stop asking where is God and keep asking where the hell is human!
Walden, no question about it.
Just because I can't will myself to read it at home.
Would take my own book, giving me time to edit it... Hehehehe.
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