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« on: April 15, 2003, 03:42:10 PM »

All right, since we are on this island that supplies electricity (so we can watch movies and cook those damn fish without a fire)..... what 5 books would you want?

1) Crime and Punishment- my favorite book ever, plus its loooong
2) The Green Mile- Man i love that book
3) The Constitution - I can come back and be a damn good constitutional lawyer
4) A tale of Two Cities - Dickens is a fun and long read
5) any series of Spider Man comics, after you read them, you can burn them (not the good ones though)

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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2003, 04:59:43 PM »

I don't consider this a rip-off . . . I'd say it's more of a tribute.

(Okay . . . you're right . . . it's a rip-off).

Anyway . . .

1. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
2. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film - Michael Weldon
3. The Psychotronic Video Guide - Michael Weldon
4. King Rat - James Clavell
5. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Honorary mentions:

6. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
7. Incident at Twenty-Mile - Trevanian
8. Pronto - Elmore Leonard
9. Dirty White Boys - Stephen Hunter
10. Deliverance - James Dickey

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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2003, 06:31:25 PM »

Hitchhiker's Guide - Doug Adams
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Any H.P. Lovecraft anthology
The compiled edition of Brian Lumley's Titus Crow series (yeah, it's cheating)
Jurassic Park

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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2003, 06:50:28 PM »

This topic definitely calls for stories that are uplifting. If I'm gonna be on a desert island, I don't want to be depressed the whole time. Here's mine

Einstein's "General Relativity"
Dante's "Divine Comedy"
The "Iliad" and "Odyssey," both in their original Latin transcripts.
An "English-Latin, Latin- English" dictionary : )

If I'm gonna be reading something on a desert island, I definitely want a repeat reading value on my books. These fit the bill quite well. I especially like my last 3 choices.

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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2003, 08:56:46 PM »

Oddly enough, Scott's right.  You can have endless amounts of fun with an English-Latin Latin-English dictionary.  Many hours were whiled away in high school with one of those babies.  I used to know how to say "Cthulhu for President: Why choose the lesser Evil" in Latin.

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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2003, 09:18:18 PM »

"Borgel" by Daniel Pinkwater - You probably haven't heard of it, but it's amazing-- technically a children's book, it's one of the most whacked-out things I've ever read. I found it when I was wee, and it honestly changed my life (read: warped me permanently)

The Book of the Subgenius - Same reason I picked Repo Man & Mulholland Dr.-- It's just so damn dense that I'd never get through it!

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" and the National Lampoon's "1964 High School Yearbook Parody" - Two of the finest (and perhaps overlooked) bits of published humor of all time, IMHO.

I'm tempted to include VideoHound's Guide to Cult Flicks & Trash Pics (which I rarely travel without), but it'd just make me want to see more movies than just the 5 I picked earlier.

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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2003, 07:43:30 AM »

'Catcher in the Rye' by JD Salinger. It just a damn great book.

'Hitchhiker's Guide' by Doug Adams. The full 5 book edition. Cheating a bit but life ain't fair, is it now. I've only read a little of it so far, but it's already great, and it's a pretty huge book.

'Book of the SubGenius' by JR Dobbs. What would an island be without it's own random religion. Maybe the local indigenous peoples, cut off forever from all civilization would find the book, think it a gift from God, or Bob if you will, adopt it as their religion and me as theiir prophet.

I'm struggling now, because it's very rare that I actually read novels. Since leaving school nearly all of my reading has been in the purpose of self-education, so I read a lot of politics, psychology, sociology and music business theory.  And I'm happy to say all of those would be useless on a desert island.

I think realistically the last two books would have to be one huge porn thing and some kind of survival guide.

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« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2003, 07:55:13 AM »

Ha, Evan3, as any fule knows, "The Devils" is much better than "C& P", and funnier, too.

My 5:

1)  Lord of the Rings.  I've re-read this every few years since I was 11 and find new ways to look at it.  I don't care if it's popular now because of the film - I was there first!
2)  Gravity's Rainbow.  Thomas Pynchon is The Man.  Unimaginably dense and convoluted.
3)  The Kraken Wakes.  Uplifting and entertaining misery!
4)  Watchmen.  I'll make to with the graphic novel until Terry Gilliam makes the film.
5)  The Russo-German War (A. Seaton).  Military history at it's most readable.

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« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2003, 08:36:38 AM »

Pete B6K wrote: 'Catcher in the Rye' by JD Salinger. It just a damn great book

I must hang my head in shame for forgetting CATCHER IN THE RYE . . . what a great book. I must say that every paragraph,every sentence . . . damn . . . every WORD in that book is perfect. The depth of the main character is amazing and the story is mesmerizing. This is TRULY a book that you cannot put down once you start reading it.

Wow. This makes me want to go out and buy a copy so that I can read it again.

Another absorbing book that I forgot is THE CAINE MUTINY. The movie is great, but the book is SOOOOOOOO much better.

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« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2003, 10:33:00 AM »

I would have said "Catcher in the Rye" because it's one of my favorite books, but it's too short. It's such a fast read, even in it's perfection, but it would take no time at all to finish, and I think that after I read it four or five times in a row, I wouldn't want to read it again for another 4 years. For a desert island, it's gotta be long, and hard to read.

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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2003, 10:40:48 AM »

Definitely the LoTR trilogy, packaged in one big book with The Hobbit and The Silmarillion to boot.

The Illuminatus Trilogy, which I have as one big book.  Good, warped, funny science fiction. . . or is it so outlandish that it is actually true.

I'll also vote for Dante's Devine Comedy, though Inferno comes first and is the best.  Why is it much more fun to read about someone putting his enemies in Hell than his friends in Heaven.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.  Might as well throw some political theory in there.

I do have a make-things-from-nature book, the title escapes me at  the moment, definitely need that over the Anarchist's Cookbook.
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« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2003, 03:10:29 PM »

Yes, I must agree that Catcher is one of THE best books I have ever read. Need to get around to reading more Salinger I guess.

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« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2003, 09:06:47 PM »

i haven't read what other people said yet so I may be repeating:

(not really in any order)

1. All I need to know about filmmaking I learned from the toxic avenger
For obvious resons :D

2. Movie Megacheese
Just has some of the funniest lines I've read out of a book!

3. Syrup
Great great book about a guy named SCAT who gets a great idea to make a new pop beverage but gets double crossed by his friend, and eventually makes a movie that is based around his pop. I loved this book

4. A Simple Plan
I'm reading this one right now for school, A lot different than the movie but I really like it.

5. I want to get the book MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN BOOK by Lloyd kauffman and i'd probably put it here.

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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2003, 03:07:17 PM »

Package deals are the way to go:

LOTR (include the prelude "The Hobbit")
The collected works of William Shakespeare
The unabridged Mark Twain
The complete works of Aristotle
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2003, 09:25:22 PM »

I own the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, and it is so much fun to read. I love how they give such lengthy and long-winded definitions to a certain topic like "metaphysics," even though it IS very broad. Any time I want to sound hyper intelligent (more intelligent than I am now. Haha.... sigh) I'll string some of the words from the encyclopedia and make a completely nonsensical word. Ex. Incorrigible lambda notation, or Plato's nominalistic moral dilemmas on the natural law theory of the existence of God. See?

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