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Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: Alharacas Date: February 14, 2019, 7:38 am
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Don't know how many takers there are going to be for this
thread, but I'm currently re-reading "The Pillow Book" by Sei
Shonagon (for the umpteenth time), and I was just thinking: if I
ever had to pack for that desert island, this is definitely one
of the books I'd want to take with me. Which one/s would be
yours?
Or is it too dangerously close to "What's your favourite book?",
anyway? ;)
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: Truman Overby Date: February 14, 2019, 8:18 am
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=852.msg12531#msg12531
date=1550151521]
Which one/s would be yours?
[/quote]
How to Get Rescued From a Deserted Island {Who wants to wind up
like the crew of SS Minnow?}
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: Allie Date: February 14, 2019, 8:40 am
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Don’t ask me to choose a favourite book. I have a couple of them
and don’t see any point in choosing.
Anyway, if I had to take one book I love and had to stick to it
for some time, it’d be Les Miserables hands down.
First, it’s huge. The version I have counts on more than 1500
pages, so it’d keep me distracted.
The story is amazing and the pace, the descriptions, the
narrative… everything works. It’s pure literary mastery.
It also has poetry, history and music, elevating it to
masterpiece status.
The message is beautiful, inspirational and profound (some
Kleenex is highly recommended).
It just can’t get any better, right? Wrong! It does!
It’s in French, which is my favourite language.
On a side note, for more than obvious reasons, it’s not the book
I read most. The book I read most times is “Bright Lights, Big
City”, by Jay McInerney,
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: Aliph Date: February 14, 2019, 8:47 am
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Only one book on that island waiting forever to be rescued?
I need more:
I would like to take with me the green box my parents offered me
at my 15th birthday with the complete tragedies of Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides.
And the three kilos heavy, a meter large, Gesammelte Werke of
Sigmund Freud that I bought in Vienna for 30 euros.
And of course Dante’s Divine Comedy. I never read the Purgatory
because I missed my second year of the Liceo (high school) since
I was in the States at that time.
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: NealC Date: February 14, 2019, 9:06 am
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I'll bring the beer.
I have a feeling you will all be loaning me books.
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: Alharacas Date: February 14, 2019, 11:32 am
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No, not just one book! I said "which one/s", meaning it might be
one, or it might be several.
Nice one-liner, Neal, but a bit disappointing, at least to me.
Come on, what's it going to be? Sun Tzu? Clausewitz? Thucydides?
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: NealC Date: February 14, 2019, 12:07 pm
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Oh come on I am not that warlike. Beside I already read all
those and committed all appropriate parts to long term memory by
pain association.
I used to have books sitting by my night table, things I could
always read and fall asleep to. Sherlock Holmes, Strong Men
Armed, Shakespeare -- most of it was short and episodic. I
would love to read all of Dante, and finish Shakespeare. Maybe
a short story anthology. Maybe a really long history book, like
the one you are reading right now Alharacas. I took Public
Speaking instead of Literature in my last year of High School,
it was an experimental class. I dont think you can do that
anymore. There are some books I should have read then, I caught
up with a few (loved Catch 22 and Slaughter House Five), but
there are holes in my knowledge base still.
I really would beg, borrow or steal your books, so if the ship
was sinking, I really would head for the galley for trade goods.
It is the capitalist thing.
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Re: Books to take with you to that famous desert island
By: the lost minion Date: February 14, 2019, 1:17 pm
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Well, knowing I'd get lost in such a place, I would probably
shop for a good survival book. I value utility above all.
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