11-06-2009, 03:56 PM
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Take 15 Books to an island with you........
Not survival books or how to build a boat type of books. Pretend your survival is not at stake.
Just take your top 15 Best! Favourite! Most re-readable novels ever! It can be anything from novels to plays to poetry collections. Go! I'll post my choices soon..............
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11-06-2009, 11:14 PM
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence
The Time Machine Hitchicker trilogy in 5 parts hardcover All My Sons Calculating God Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture a big porn mag (screw you! I don't know how long I'm stuck here..) Watchmen Man of Steel Death and Return of Superman Absolute Kingdom Come Marvels Complete Calvin & Hobbes Complete Shakespeare War and Peace
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pull list; Superman,Action,Supergirl,WofNK, Secret 6,BatmanReborn books, WW,JLA,JSA,GL,GLC,Blackest Night,TeenTitans,PowerGirl,BoosterGold,Superman/Batman, Irredeemable,IDWStarTrek,Xfiles,DrWho,Incredibles, SherlockHolmes,TheBoys,TheMighty,XFactor,Super Powers,TinyTitans, Superfriends tpb runs to complete; 100Bullets,Lucifer, PunisherMax,Hitman,Preacher,Transmetropolitan, Invisibles,DoomPatrol,Bone,Boneyard,Y,Authority, Promethea,WalkingDead,StrangersinParadise,ExMachin a,DCShowcaseGiants |
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11-07-2009, 11:24 AM
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Location: Western North Carolina
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1.The Bible
2.The Wheel of Time series 3.The Lord of the Rings trilogy 4.The Illiad and The Odyssey 5.Heart of Darkness 6.Lonesome Dove 7.The Big Sleep 8.The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate) 9.Harry Potter series 10.At the Mountains of Madness 11.Mark Twain collection 12.Edgar Allan Poe Collection 13.Stranger in a Strange Land 14.Dune 15.The Hunter A sea chest full of books. |
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11-07-2009, 02:28 PM
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Here's Mudd in your eye
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In no order
The Bible Dune Encyclopedia Marvel Universe Collected Trade The Collected works of William Shakespeare Sketch Book The Philip K. Dick Collection (Library of America) (Hardcover) H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America) (Hardcover) Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales (Library of America) (Hardcover) Beloved by Toni Morrison To Kill a Mocking Bird Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: (Library of America) James Baldwin : Collected (Library of America) Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : (Library of America) Absolute League of Extraordinary gentlemen
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11-08-2009, 12:15 PM
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Alright, operating on the premise that I'm going to be stuck on that island for a while with no other source of entertainment, I'll need books that are both time consuming and re-readable. In no particular order:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Collected Fictions by Jose Luis Borges Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Underworld by Don DeLillo Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Recognitions by William Gaddis Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth Radical Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenthal England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage This was actually a really hard list to make. Also, I'm a historian, so I have to have some classics of my field of study in there. |
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11-08-2009, 01:00 PM
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I have thought mine over. It could change in the future. But for now. In No particular order. (I'll put numbers just so it's easier for me to write them and think.)
1) The Once and Future King--T.H.White. 2) To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper lee. 3) 1984-- George orwell. 4) A Tale of Two cities-- Charles Dickens. 5) The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand. 6) The Great Gatsby--F Scott Fitzgerald. 7) Kane and Abel--Jeffrey archer. 8) Of Mice and men--John steinbeck. 9) The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar wilde. 10) Dubliners--James Joyce. 11) It----Stephen King. 12) The Scorpian God--William Golding. 13) The Old man and the Sea--Ernest Hemmingway. 14) Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad. 15) The outsider--Albert camus.
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." "There is a Morrison, Grant be thy name!" |
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11-09-2009, 10:13 AM
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mind-bottling
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it really helps if i don't include any comic book books....
 and, right now, I'm not into some of my faves, more into my gaming habit, so.... 1. the Catholic Bible 2. a bunch of rpg books: 3. (above) 4. (above) 5. (above) 6. (above) 7. (above) 8. (above) 9. (above) 10. The Gold Bug Variations 11. Greyhawk Adventures, Book 1 12. (book 2) 13. Dragonlance Trilogy 14. (above) 15. (above) surely my list would change in a week or so...
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11-09-2009, 10:26 AM
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Vintage `81
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1. Dune
2. Alas Babylon 3. A survival manual of some sort 4. Still life with Woodpecker 5. The Bachman Books 6. The Great Gatsby 7. The Postman 8. Idoru 9. And their memory was a bitter tree 10. Bomb Queen: WMD 11. All Star Superman 12. The Bakers Boy 13. The Big Sleep 14. Shadowrun: Lone Wolf 15. Lord of the Flies
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11-10-2009, 08:54 AM
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PRKA
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I'm going for volume here, I think, and an excuse to really get through a lot of stuff...
1. The Bible 2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes 3. The Stories of John Cheever 4. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino 5. Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges 6. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present 7. Stories of Anton Chekhov 8. Complete Works of William Shakespeare 9. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems 10. Charles Dickens: Five Novels Complete and Unabridged (Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations) [this is a single volume somehow] 11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the big book w/ all books) 12. Complete Prose of Woody Allen 13. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 14. Bone by Jeff Smith 15. Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx
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Stuff shaking me... Whirring - The Joy Formidable Felipe Alfau "If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out." -- William Carlos Williams |
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11-10-2009, 12:21 PM
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Large Books I Know I Can Keep Going Back To
1. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson 2. Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James 3. New Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James 4. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (pere) 5. The Heart of Rock & Soul (1999 edition) - Dave Marsh 6. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 7. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter 8. The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson 9. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 10. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Large Books I've Started But Not Finished, But Liked Enough That I Know I'd Read Them If I Was On A Desert Island 11. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 12. The Reivers - William Faulkner 13. the Gormenghast trilogy - Mervyn Peake 14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 15. Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
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11-10-2009, 03:48 PM
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Merrily We Roll Along
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1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon
2. The Complete Works of Shakespeare 3. Pride and Prejudice - Austen 4. Arcadia - Stoppard 5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl 6. The Collected Works of Wendy Wasserstein 7. Jane Eyre - Bronte 8. Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery 9. His Dark Materials trilogy - Pullman 10. A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving 11. Was Superman A Spy - My Husband To Be 12. Sondheim: A Life - Secrest 13. Bible 14. The Great Gatsby 15. Koran
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It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final. - Hannah, Arcadia Last edited by Merey; 11-10-2009 at 07:04 PM. |
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11-11-2009, 12:29 PM
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The Usher of Destruction
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1. Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore
2. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut 3. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut 4. The Complete Works - Edgar Allan Poe 5. The Complete Works - William Shakespeare 6. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 7. The Nobody - Jeff Lemire 8. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd 9. Communion - Whitley Strieber 10. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk 11. Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle 12. Bridge Over the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle 13. Collected Works - Tennyson 14. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 15. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
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11-14-2009, 08:42 PM
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I got mad skills, yo!
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Quote:
fuck'n hell, - you have my bookshelf.
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11-19-2009, 05:02 PM
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Harsh no love for Dashiell Hammett the master of PI fiction :P
I will have to think over my 15.
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11-23-2009, 07:26 AM
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It's only a state of mind
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"When it comes, i won't notice, i'll be too busy lookin good" - Williams “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein "I don't believe in God, but i'm very interested in her" Arthur C. Clarke "Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level" Bill Bryson |
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