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Post by WullieFort on May 26, 2020 14:30:49 GMT
Forget the music, what 10 BOOKS would you take with you?
Me thinking
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Post by WullieFort on May 26, 2020 15:23:01 GMT
BOYS FROM BRAZIL Ira Levin
FRENCH CONNECTION Robin Moore
THE LOVERS John Connolly
LAY DOWN MY SWORD AND SHIELD James Lee Burke
LA CONFIDENTIAL James Elroy
BLOOD'S A ROVER James Elroy
A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES (TRILOGY) Sir Steven Runciman
THE SILMARILLION J.R.R. Tolkien
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY John Le Carre
SPYCATCHER Peter Wright
PRINCE Machiavelli (because I have to read it sometime)
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Post by Zos on May 26, 2020 15:52:21 GMT
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas...Hunter S. Thompson
The Pyatt Quartet...Michael Moorcock (4 books)
The Magus...John Fowles
Head-On...Julian Cope
Foucault's Pendulum...Umberto Eco
Jerusalem...Alan Moore
Confessions (An AutoHagiography)...Aleister Crowley
And a complete set of Ed. McBain's 87th Precinct books for lighter reading.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 26, 2020 17:50:59 GMT
Love in the Times of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dune - Frank Herbert The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in four volumes - Douglas Adams Creation - Gore Vidal Some comprehensive book about art history, preferably with lots of pictures Some comprehensive book series about world history
And then some books that I haven't read but would like to if I had the time, which I would if I were stranded on a desert island: Don Quixote War and Peace The Tale of Genji (Japan, 11th century)
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 27, 2020 1:41:35 GMT
Crime and Punishment
The Maltese Falcon
HMS Ulysses
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning
1984
The Heart of the Matter
Rabbit, Run
Mildred Pierce
Tender is the Night
Flashman
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Post by WullieFort on May 27, 2020 6:09:15 GMT
True Grit - Charles Portis Fat City - Leonard Gardner Night of the Jabberwock - Fredric Brown A Coffin for Dimitrios - Eric Ambler Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry Shogun - James Clavell The Hot Rock - Donald E. Westlake The Rose of Tibet - Lionel Davidson Anathem - Neal Stephenson Miami Blues - Charles Willeford Lonesome Dove: One of the few times when a great book was followed by a great TV series.
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Post by Morgana on May 27, 2020 11:43:17 GMT
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Bible - sundry prophets
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
The Persian Boy - Mary Renault
The Sanity Inspector - Alan Coren
James Herriots books about being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales - I don't know if there is a compilation of all 3 or 4 books so if not, I'm over the limit.
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Post by amyghost on May 27, 2020 12:43:43 GMT
Any Jane Austen
Vanity Fair
Any Gore Vidal, as long as his collected essays, United States, is one of the volumes as well
The Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1984
The Collected Essays of George Orwell
The Oxford edition of the collected plays of Shakespeare
Robert Lowell's The Mills of the Kavanaughs (it would take a long stint on a desert island to fully decode that work)
The collected poems of Emily Dickinson
The collected poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
...and I can think of too many others, so I guess I'm gonna need a bigger desert island.
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Post by WullieFort on May 27, 2020 14:18:19 GMT
...and I can think of too many others, so I guess I'm gonna need a bigger desert island.
If I can get rid of the indigenous people and the convicts and the refugees...you can have Australia
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 29, 2020 9:20:07 GMT
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Post by amyghost on May 29, 2020 10:27:41 GMT
Me also thinking, but not very deeply - George Orwell - Essays George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman At The Charge and Mr American Gore Vidal - Lincoln, 1876, Empire and Hollywood Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger Jon Savage - England's Dreaming Robin Jenkins - The Cone Gatherers If I could count all the volumes of Vidal's 'American' series ( Burr, 1876, Lincoln, Empire, Hollywood, Washington DC, The Golden Age) as one book, that would be a definite desert island must. Probably the best works ever on America's past and how we got to where we are in the present. |
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Post by WullieFort on May 29, 2020 13:21:59 GMT
OK. Vidal's Octology will count as one book
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on May 29, 2020 22:06:43 GMT
A survival book for beginners and my Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts books.
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Post by mmexis on May 30, 2020 4:26:38 GMT
collected works of william Shakespeare
collected works of thomas hardy
1984
Love in the time of cholera/100 years of solitude
collected works of Nikos Kazantzakis
Norton anthology of english literature volumes 1 & 2
can't think of much else right now.
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Post by WullieFort on May 30, 2020 8:24:32 GMT
In addition to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Le Carre's classic take on the world of George Smiley and the "Circus", being stranded on a desert island would give me the opportunity to reread the whole of the Smiley saga.
Call for the Dead
A Murder of Quality
TTSP
The Honourable Schoolboy
Smiley's People
I feel that before settling down to enjoy these, I ought to buy myself some quality slippers and a pipe
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Post by Bargle on May 30, 2020 12:40:19 GMT
I'd be wanting to take sets, but that would be a lot more than ten books.
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Post by WullieFort on May 30, 2020 13:20:52 GMT
I'd be wanting to take sets, but that would be a lot more than ten books. Other people have gone for this: Complete works of Shakespeare Vidal's octology on America etc. |
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Post by theravenking on Jun 2, 2020 20:46:18 GMT
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
A Very Private Gentleman – Martin Booth
The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell
The Club Dumas – Arturo Pérez Reverte
The House On The Strand – Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters Trilogy – G. W. Dahlquist
The Complete William Shakespeare
The Complete E. M. Cioran
The Complete Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
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Post by Bargle on Jun 2, 2020 23:59:18 GMT
OK, why not?
The Complete Saki
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
All the Harry Potter Books
Foundation Trilogy
Abhorsen Trilogy
Support Your Local Wizard
Lolita
The Robot Novels (Asimov)
Asimov's The Complete Short Stories
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
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Post by WullieFort on Jun 3, 2020 7:19:36 GMT
AS I said to someone else before.
YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER ISLAND (or stay a Castaway for a long time)
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