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Nate C.
11-03-2005, 12:53 PM
You only get five books. For the rest of your life- choose well.
(Bible counts as one-all other antholgies do not-sorry, that's the rule. And yes, LOR is one novel, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy counts as five choices. Get it?)
JeffreyWKramer
11-03-2005, 01:08 PM
So, the PELICAN COMPLETE SHAKESPEARE, for example, would not be kosher? What about the three volumes of Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR?
Nate C.
11-03-2005, 01:14 PM
So, the PELICAN COMPLETE SHAKESPEARE, for example, would not be kosher? What about the three volumes of Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR?

I'm feeling evil. Gotta choose your plays. (although, I WILL allow poetry anthologies.)

And Foote should have written one really, long book. (Same for Gibbon.)
JeffreyWKramer
11-03-2005, 01:28 PM
And Foote should have written one really, long book. (Same for Gibbon.)

He did, just like Tolkien. It would have been prohibitively large in one volume.
Nate C.
11-03-2005, 04:38 PM
He did, just like Tolkien. It would have been prohibitively large in one volume.

Let me ask it this way- have you ever seen a one volume edition of Gibbon or Foote?

If so, (IF), then you can bring 'em.
Ed Cunard
11-03-2005, 04:49 PM
You know, I'd probably take five things I've never read. I'm a gambler that way--at the very least, everything will feel new at first.
Chevan
11-03-2005, 04:56 PM
The Vang: Military Form - Cristopher Rowley
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Stories of Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury (the huge one that's several inches thick)
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
Comes the Blind Fury - John Saul

And would all the Akira books count as one volume, or six different ones?
Joe Rice
11-03-2005, 04:58 PM
1. The Bible
2. Troutfishing in America
3. The Long Goodbye
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. A Bound Hardcover Flex Mentallo
EZMOHR
11-03-2005, 05:01 PM
1. The Stand by Stephen King
2. The Book of What If's
3. The Bible (Hey, I like it)
4. Watchmen TPB by Moore and Gibbons
5. Ancient Mysteries by Peter James
Donald M.
11-03-2005, 06:35 PM
You only get five books. For the rest of your life- choose well.

I'd choose to watch a lot more tv from now on.

Not ideal, but better than having to choose just five books, especially since I've never been munch for re-reading.

Hell, I've got a pile of more than sixty books sitting in my room waiting to be read.
Watchman
11-03-2005, 07:11 PM
Not sure.

Hard choices.

Watchmen.

Dunno what else.

Probably something on psychology/true crime/western.
howyadoin
11-03-2005, 10:23 PM
Summer of 42.

The World According to Garp.

Huckleberry Finn.

Alas, Babylon.

And Dune.





That was pretty easy, actually.
i_mmmchocolate
11-06-2005, 11:33 AM
You know, I'd probably take five things I've never read. I'm a gambler that way--at the very least, everything will feel new at first.


I thought the same too. That said, I'd probably choose the following:

Narnia: The Horse and His Boy (actually, I've read this)

Don Quixote

The Bridges of Madison County

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (read this one too)
leonaozaki
11-06-2005, 11:57 AM
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

Neuromancer, William Gibson

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Deathstroke
11-06-2005, 01:20 PM
You only get five books. For the rest of your life- choose well.
(Bible counts as one-all other antholgies do not-sorry, that's the rule. And yes, LOR is one novel, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy counts as five choices. Get it?)

Sorry, but if the Bible gets counted as one book, then all anthologies get counted as one.
howyadoin
11-07-2005, 12:13 AM
One Hundred Years of SolitudeThat's an amazing book. You should really read it now, instead of waiting till you're on a desert island.
Tages
11-07-2005, 12:47 AM
The Bible
The Sound and the Fury

...actually, for the rest I have to give it some thought.
Hombre
11-07-2005, 03:04 AM
You only get five books. For the rest of your life.


I would put on my shelf:

1. Ayn Rand's the Fountainhead

2. Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

3. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

4. John Steinbeck, East of Eden

5. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Roquefort Raider
11-07-2005, 06:34 AM
1- The encyclopedia britannica
2- The decline and fall of the Roman empire
3- The Iliad

and some lighter stuff:

4- The Silmarilion
5- Cyrano de Bergerac
Nate C.
11-07-2005, 04:04 PM
Sorry, but if the Bible gets counted as one book, then all anthologies get counted as one.

Sorry, Death, my thread, my OCD, anal retentive rules.
Tages
11-07-2005, 04:35 PM
Sorry, Death, my thread, my OCD, anal retentive rules.
But it's such a benevolent tyranny.
Babylon23
11-07-2005, 07:04 PM
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
War of the Worlds by HG Wells
i_mmmchocolate
11-07-2005, 07:16 PM
That's an amazing book. You should really read it now, instead of waiting till you're on a desert island.

What, you mean I have no chance of being deserted on an island in the immediate future?

I've plenty of good stuff on the book. I'll add it to my Holiday Gift List.
Jonathan Bogart
11-08-2005, 12:51 PM
Eh, the Bible's cheating. I've got the good parts memorized anyway.

The only way I've ever read Shakespeare is in the Complete Works edition I've had for years. I'm not cutting it up to suit you.
Pride and Prejudice.
Leave It to Psmith.
Okay, fine, The Lord of the Rings.

(This is an insane proposition, by the way.)

And ... oh, hell, one of the Pogo collections. Probably Romances Recaptured.