Desert Island Books

[Red Katie]

Eight books? I would wear out eight books pretty quick. Better send me with eight hundred books. And what would I play an album of music on on a desert island.

The luxury item is easy. A bed.

[Elessarina]

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Album I'd take is Superunknown by Soundgarden.



Luxury item.

I'll have to think about that.

love Soundgarden

[Elessarina]

You're cast away on a desert island. You can take 8 books with you. Which books would you take and why?

You may also take one album of music and one luxury item.

Do we get the Complete works of Shakespeare and The God Delusion?

[Pappa]

Bumpage for new members.

[devogue]

Right. I'll do it properly...

Books:

Catch 22 By Joseph Heller
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Tootles The Taxi & Other Rhymes - Ladybird.

Film:

Withnail & I

Album:

Sweet Sixteen by The Fureys & Davy Arthur

[Clinton Huxley]

Right. I'll do it properly...

Books:

Catch 22 By Joseph Heller
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Film:

Withnail & I

Album:

Sweet Sixteen by The Fureys & Davy Arthur

Catch-22 "FTW" as they say. Yossarian and the whore.....

[Clinton Huxley]

Books:-

Endurance - Alfred Lansing - The epic tale of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition.
Flashman - George McDonal Fraser - not the best of the Flashmans but it has an awful lot to answer for...
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian's evocation of what he styles "Englands Trojan War" is peerless
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens. Sydney Carton, what a guy.
The Blind Watchmaker - The Dawk. Not his best but I got it for 20p secondhand and, like the Flashman, it has a lot to anwer for..
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock. Possibly my fave ever fantasy story. Or is is a meta-fantasy?
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - P.J. Farmer. Awesome entertainment
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks. Weird and wonderful.

Album:-
Fade to Black - Metallica. Pure, unadulterated riff-a-rama

Film:-
The Big Lebowski.

[Pappa]

It doesn't have to be a film, but any luxury item.

[Coito ergo sum]

1. The Coconut Lovers Cookbook -

2. Survival Guide -

3. Alternative Survival Guide...

4. The Big Book of Breasts...

5. The Complete Playboy Centerfold Box Set...

6. The Big Book of Masturbation....

7. A boatbuilding manual....

8. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces....

[PsychoSerenity]

I'll start with Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.



I'll have to think about the rest.

[SebastianP]

I find it odd that so many people love "Lolita", I think it's sick.

Umberto Eco said once that his DIB would be the phone book, so he could keep himself entertained by making up stories for each of the names.

For me, I'd say:
1984, Animal Farm
Howard's End, A Passage To India
Treasure Island, Kidnapped
The Hobbit, LotRs, Silmarillion
The Bible
Origin of Species, Descent of Man
Where The Wild Things Are
Doctor Zhivago
Ulysses
Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid

And lots of others!

[sifaka]

I'm really torn between two books, in fact I think I'll have to take them both:










Edit, there's a third one:

[Pappa]

I find it odd that so many people love "Lolita", I think it's sick.

Isn't it possible to love the story and think it's subject matter is sick at the same time?

[Shaker]

4. The Big Book of Breasts...

I have a couple of the books in this series. Are you quite sure that you can consider this a book to read?

[Shaker]

I find it odd that so many people love "Lolita", I think it's sick.

I'm not convinced that it's sick. In any case, if nothing else it's sick in a way more beautiful than has ever been written before.