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| Anonymous | Bonnie's ten books for the desert island | 0 | Mar 3 2007, 6:18 AM EST by Anonymous | |||
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If I were stranded on a desert island with only 10 books to read, these are the ones I would want:
1. Tao Te Ching ~ by Lao Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell 2. The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version 3. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions ~ by Karen Armstrong 4. The Complete Gospels ~ edited by Robert J. Miller 5. High Tide in Tucson ~ by Barbara Kingsolver 6. The Chosen ~ by Chaim Potok 7. A Prayer for Owen Meany ~ by John Irving 8. Songs of the Humpback Whale ~ by Jodi Picoult 9. Worlds in Collision ~ by Immanuel Velikovsky 10. A Short History of Nearly Everything ~ by Bill Bryson That's the book list, and each one is a single volume. I do, however, also require a good-sized box full of yellow legal pads and another box full of pens. Fine-point Zebra pens with blue ink would be nice. Although I'm first to arrive on this deserted island, I'm sure other people with books will float ashore because I would be on a cruise with other readers, of course. Some of them will bring along those books on How to Build a Boat, How to Survive on a Desert Island, and How to Build a Strong Shelter, with bookcases of course. |
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| Anonymous | Desert Island Top Ten | 0 | Jan 28 2007, 8:59 PM EST by Anonymous | |||
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1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Wild Sports and Natural History of the HIghlands by Charles St. John 3. Winter from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by HGO Blake 4. Early Spring in Massachusetts from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by HGO Blake 5. Summer from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by HGO Blake 6. Autumn from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by HGO Blake 7. Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton 8. Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome 9. Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 10. Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton |
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| Anonymous | Desert Island Books | 0 | Jan 26 2007, 3:28 PM EST by Anonymous | |||
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Today the list is this:
English Passengers Matthew Kneale Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Raintree County Ross Lockridge, Jr. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles The Time Traveller's Wife Audrey Niffenegger The World According to Garp John Irving The Foxfire Book |
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| leany17 | On a desert island.. | 3 | Jan 8 2007, 4:35 PM EST by TemlynWriting | |||
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Thread started: Dec 13 2006, 5:05 PM EST
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Its just too hard to pick without long thoughts about this.. but amongst them I would like a book about how to build a raft from things found on a deserted island!
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| AvivaMagnolia | Grace Paley's Uncanny, Funny Voice | 1 | Dec 26 2006, 12:20 PM EST by indyfilmz | |||
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Thread started: Oct 21 2006, 10:26 PM EDT
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What - no Grace Paley? I don't have a "Top 10" list for my desert island vacation yet, but...I KNOW I'd take Grace Paley. There's no one else who can make me think I'm surrounded by a crowd of friends and family. Her characters and their voices are vivid...no, livid! with life, even when they're just sulking around. I've never read "realer" dialogue, either.
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| Anonymous | desert island | 0 | Dec 26 2006, 12:05 PM EST by Anonymous | |||
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Thread started: Dec 26 2006, 12:05 PM EST
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1. collected stories of Bernard Malamud
2. collected stories of Mary Gordon 3. Gatsby - Fitzgerald 4. Lolita - Nabokov 5. Blindness and Seeing - Jose Saramago 6. To Kill a Moclingbird - Harper Lee 7. Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies 8. Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth 9. Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond 10. I'm cheating: BIG grammars of French, Spanish and Latin with quizzes so of course I'll need lots of paper for test-taking This was really hard. Had to leave out Song of Solomon, Pride & Prej., fat book of vintage noir, Independent People by Halldor Laxness. |
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| nunnals | desert Island books | 0 | Dec 22 2006, 8:58 AM EST by nunnals | |||
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Thread started: Dec 22 2006, 8:58 AM EST
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1. Pride and Prejudice by Austen
2. Anything Terry Pratchett (Discworld) 3. Killer Angels by Shaara 4. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 5. Known World by Edward Jones 6. A Conspiracy Paper by David Liss 7. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien 8. Middlesex by Eugenides 9. March Geraldine Brooks 10. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood |
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| Anonymous | Desert Island Books | 0 | Dec 20 2006, 3:50 PM EST by Anonymous | |||
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Thread started: Dec 20 2006, 3:50 PM EST
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1. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
2. The Complete Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot 3. The Bible 4. Gone With the Wind 5. The Collected Poems of Federco Garcia Lorca 6. The Complete Poems of Pablo Neruda 7. An Unabridged Dictionary 8. Complete Collected Works of Shakespeare 9. The Tao Te Ching 10. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack |
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| Anonymous | Top 10! | 0 | Nov 30 2006, 9:39 AM EST by Anonymous | |||
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Thread started: Nov 30 2006, 9:39 AM EST
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In no particular order (OK, the order I thought of them, so there's probably some psychoanalytical order, but I don't know what it is)...
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe - The Shining - The Silence of the Lambs - The Bible - Grace for the Moment - The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy - An Empty Journal (sorry, I'd need one and it's a book!) - Water for Elephants - Little Women - SAS Survival Handbook It was easy to pick 9, harder to pick the last 10.... |
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| Anonymous | ten books | 0 | Nov 11 2006, 8:42 AM EST by Anonymous | |||
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How to pick ten?My mind won't leave it alone now.Should have picked this, how could I leave out that? Going through other lists and making a new list of those I need to read. Incredible that some people never read anything.
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