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By vadagh (Contact - View My Woyano)
Published Fri 20 Jul 2007, 451 Views, 10 Comments

Well folks we have had best films in the world announced:-)

 Now I ask whether or not you will rise to this.

If you were stranded on a desert island with only five fictional books to keep you company what would they be? (you already have the survival guides you need)

I'll start the ball rolling with 2 I couldn't live without and will add the others later.

1. Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith

2. Magician - Raymond.E. Fiest.

OK folks it is over to you, I hope we get some interesting additions.



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    japaneseboats ~ 17 months ago
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    This is really hard - just five! I am thinking about this...will be back!
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      clemmati ~ 17 months ago
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      I'm having problems too, I don't think I can single out 5. (Would collections of poetry be cheating?) I'm thinking about it...
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        japaneseboats ~ 17 months ago
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        My first choice: The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge which won the Carnegie Prize in 1947. I read it first aged 11 or 12 and was entranced. Then again in my early twenties when I 'stole' it from a library. ( I paid them back pretending I had lost it). I identified with the heroine who thought herself plain and her name was similar to mine.

        PS Having Googled the title I now find it is being made into a film with the prospective title of "Moon Princess", is nothing sacred? I weep into my pillow....
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          earsz ~ 17 months ago
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          Hard to say, only five _ but, generally, I don't read a book a second time, nor do I remember titles and authors, just the ideas. However, my list might include "The Little Prince" and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of aesthetics (technically, that's his multivolume "Philosophy of Symbolic Forms") , and three humongous books that don't exist: all of Rad Bradbury's writings, all of those by Iisaac Azimov, and all (or at least most) of Shakespeare/s plays.

          Why does everyone also ask about books? I'd miss books, but I'd rather have music if I'm to be limited to only xxxx on the proverbial island..
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            earsz ~ 17 months ago
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            Oh, and the Cassirer should include Susanne Langer's stuff as an extension *s*
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              Mark ~ 17 months ago
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              i would only want the one...

              "how to make a boat from stuff you can find on a desert island"
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                vadagh ~ 17 months ago
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                Fictional dude, you already have the survival stuff.

                Book 3 - The complete Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle /

                Next anyone??
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                  varga ~ 16 months ago
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                  Montaigne's Essays. (that's three books). Hmm... And "The diceman" of Luke Rhineheart... The third one will be a Swedish writer "A wolf seeks his pack" maybe it should be called in English, and his name is Lundell. Hm, well, I think that might be the ones who would keep me busy.
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                    clemmati ~ 16 months ago
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                    Proust (because I might finally read it), _The Comedians_
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                      Aims ~ 16 months ago
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                      Ummmmm....
                      I would have to bring 'Dubliners' by James Joyce as it has 'The Dead' in it, which, is one of the best short stories ever written.
                      I would also bring a funny book. David Baddiel wrote a hilarious book but I can't remember the name of it. It's got a great scene where the main character loses his pet frog. Later, his girlfriend comes over and he cooks her lasagne. He takes it out of the oven when lo and behold this frog jumps out of the lasagne into the girlfriend's face. I couldn't stop laughing about that for ages:D
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                        AdGuy
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                        This is my two cents...

                           
                        Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)

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