Five Must Have Books
my bible
LotR
Chronicals of Narnia (I have all 7 in one binding )
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
a big, thick, blank journal
Not fair, only five, but those would get me through I think. Reading everyone elses choices made me realize, however, how many classics that I have never read!
Can we bring anything else? I'd bring my ukelele....
LotR
Chronicals of Narnia (I have all 7 in one binding )
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
a big, thick, blank journal
Not fair, only five, but those would get me through I think. Reading everyone elses choices made me realize, however, how many classics that I have never read!
Can we bring anything else? I'd bring my ukelele....
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You know, if we all went to the same island, we could share books.
And start a band. . . .
And start a band. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Endless m00t, complete with library and band!!
And I agree, we don't need the subwoofer.
Wampus, I just reread The Hiding Place...it really helps me to appreciate what I have!
As for Narnia, that was my first love so to speak. I read them a couple times as a teen, whereas I didn't read LotR until I was about 22. But I them both.
And I agree, we don't need the subwoofer.
Wampus, I just reread The Hiding Place...it really helps me to appreciate what I have!
As for Narnia, that was my first love so to speak. I read them a couple times as a teen, whereas I didn't read LotR until I was about 22. But I them both.
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An all-geek Gilligan's Island. Hmmmm. Endless m00t on an island paradise? I could live with that.
Could we arrange to import a few of the passengers of Oceanic flight 815? Sayid, perhaps? We can't spend all our time reading.
Could we arrange to import a few of the passengers of Oceanic flight 815? Sayid, perhaps? We can't spend all our time reading.
Take my hand, my friend. We are here to walk one another home.
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LOTR- because it is the most meaningful book in my collection
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare because I like it and you can perform it (five plays in four years was a lot of fun)
The Iliad by Homer
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
On very large, very thick journal
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare because I like it and you can perform it (five plays in four years was a lot of fun)
The Iliad by Homer
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
On very large, very thick journal
"Ut Prosim"
"There are some things that it is better to begin than refuse, even though the end may be dark" Aragorn
"Those who commit honorable acts need no forgiveness"
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"There are some things that it is better to begin than refuse, even though the end may be dark" Aragorn
"Those who commit honorable acts need no forgiveness"
http://killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
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Let's see. Today I would say:
Norton Anthology of Poetry
David Copperfield
LOTR
War and Peace, in Russian (for heft's sake)
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
now I'll go find my previous list and compare.
result: 60% the same: Norton, David Copperfield, LOTR
but before I said Proust (A la recherche du temps perdu) and Mandelstam's poetry
hmm. I guess I'm a bit more frivolous today. I'll try again in a month.
Norton Anthology of Poetry
David Copperfield
LOTR
War and Peace, in Russian (for heft's sake)
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
now I'll go find my previous list and compare.
result: 60% the same: Norton, David Copperfield, LOTR
but before I said Proust (A la recherche du temps perdu) and Mandelstam's poetry
hmm. I guess I'm a bit more frivolous today. I'll try again in a month.
Same for me, Imp! When I think of any book being one of only five left to me to read, I break out in a cold sweat!Imp wrote:No matter what the composition of my list, it is never definitive for me!
I still read LotR annually, but I wouldn't want to read it weekly.
You're a better man than I, Teremia! I think I might pay money to not be stranded on an island with du temps perdu. Maybe it reads better in French ... well, and I've really only read Swann's Way, so I might be unfairly judging, but ... oi va voy, I don't even want to remember my own childhood in such detail, much less his.Teremia wrote:but before I said Proust
I think, though, that besides LotR, I could bear almost endless re-reading of Pound's Cantos, and The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. But after that, the abyss!
Most of us, I suspect, if stranded on an island, would end up writing our own books for amusement instead of reading others'.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
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You just think you don't.And I agree, we don't need the subwoofer.
I'm with Alatar. No collections beyond poetry anthologies (otherwise we'd be stuck with epics if we wanted poetry at all!).
Thus:
The Book of Job, preferably with Blake's illustrations.
The Canterbury Tales
A Rumi Anthology
The Tempest
A Book to be Named Later
Not LOTR. I have it in RAM.
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Sound priorities there, Impenitent.
Kudos to Mossy and Crucifer for including Neil Gaiman (and Terry Pratchett).
This is hard...
The Lord of the Rings
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
*~Pips~*
Kudos to Mossy and Crucifer for including Neil Gaiman (and Terry Pratchett).
This is hard...
The Lord of the Rings
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
*~Pips~*
There's a heart in every place, a tear for each farewell...
With the sinking of the sun, the rising of the moon.
With the sinking of the sun, the rising of the moon.