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book list i like books Thu Apr 3 02:31:05 2014 No.4731967 [Reply] [Original]

hello /lit/ you are stuck on an island with nothing but 10 books to read till you get saved
what would your list be order of books doesn't matter
enders game
othello
Gullivers travels
sandy Mitchell's aiphas cain book 3 and 5
the art of war
the bible( never read it must be good)
the forgotten legion book one
witches from ronald dahl
i am stuck between the odyssey or iliad

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 02:32:05 2014 No.4731968 >>4731967 Harry potter 1-7 Game of thrones Clash of kIngs Sword of swords.

Anonymous Thu Apr 3 02:38:08 2014 No.4731975

R u fukkin serious OP?
1. The collected works of Plato
2. The collected works of Shakespeare
3. The collected works of Homer
4. The collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche
5. The bible
6. Summa theologica
7. The thickest astronomy textbook I can find
8. The collected works of Thomas Pynchon
9. The collected works of James Joyce
10. The collected works of Sophocles

Anonymous Thu Apr 3 02:43:07 2014 No.4731980

>>4731967
Surviving on an island for dummies.
Provisioning for long distance oceanic voyages.
Learn navigation while surviving on an island.
Detailed charts between me and the nearest consulate.
How to build an ocean worthy boat while surviving on an island.
Self-medical care for dummies in isolation.

>>	i like books Thu Apr 3 02:45:07 2014 No.4731983 >>4731975 thats more then 10 books man

>>	i like books Thu Apr 3 02:46:07 2014 No.4731984 >>4731980 nice but you would be bored no after a while our you would temp escape

>>	i like books Thu Apr 3 02:48:05 2014 No.4731986 >>4731968 nice some fantasy keep the mind sharp till you name a coconut danerys and start shaggin it lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 02:57:08 2014 No.4731995 >>4731986 I wanna be a dragon too!@

>>	i like books Thu Apr 3 09:43:18 2014 No.4732585 >>4731995 hahahaha and shag danerys man i love lit

Anonymous Thu Apr 3 10:04:21 2014 No.4732624

The Pale King
Bible
Deipnosophistae
some big art book, maybe Raphael or one of Taschen's butt books
Summa Atheologica or else just Theory of Religion
Gravity's Rainbow so I can finish reading it
The Trumpet Shall Sound (study of cargo cults)
Frankenstein
all the miracle/everyman plays I can carry but actually probably something more culturally relative
all of Kierkegaard's journals in a giant book

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 10:08:21 2014 No.4732630 File: 149 KB, 413x394, Ara.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4732585 >>4731995 >>4731986 >>4731968

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 12:56:57 2014 No.4733028 >>4731967 1 Latin - English Dictionary 2 Metamorphoses 3 Ars Amatoria 4 Aeneidos 5 Lord of the Rings 6 De Bello Gallico 7 Complete Works of Plato 8 The Hobbit 9 The Silmarillion 10 Theogony

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 13:10:58 2014 No.4733055 how to survive on a desert island vol 1-9 the bible

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 13:12:57 2014 No.4733057 Anna Karenina Gravity's Rainbow Mason and Dixon The Silmarillon Infinite Jest Don Quixote Suttree 2066 Ulysses The Big Sleep

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 13:42:57 2014 No.4733109 >>4731967 1. How to survive on a desert island 2. How to build tools 3. How to build a raft 4. How to navigate on sea 5. Getting rescued for dummies

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 14:27:51 2014 No.4733203 i think if i brought as much sci fi or pomo as you guys are listing i'd go absolutely insane.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 14:34:51 2014 No.4733217 >>4733028 >Theogony >taking a pamphlet instead of a real book >Shigg McDiggler

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 3 15:46:07 2014 No.4733456 the world as will and representation - schopi history of art 1...4 - elie fauré hunger, mysteries, pan - hamsun meister eckhart compilation lichtenberg waste books

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 03:45:47 2014 No.4735266 File: 1.24 MB, 227x136, 1375175661721.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4733456 >lichtenberg waste books

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 04:27:36 2014 No.4735333 >>4733028 >>4733057 argg i hates it i hates it precious but you going to be stuck a long time so it doesnt matter i guess >>4733203 we are all a bit crazy it depends if you can have an episode and no hurt a coconut so what would you take

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 04:57:36 2014 No.4735388

Methods of water purification - A. D Wasser
Spotting Edible Foliage - G. Reen
Fashioning Spears and Fishing Equipment, Vol 1. - Joffrey Chorcer
Fruit fermentation and ethanol production - I. B. Drunk
Basic Electronic Principals - Mike Faraday
Intermediate Electronic Principals - Mike Faraday
Advanced Electronic Principals - Mike Faraday
Boeing 747 mechanics manual - David Roth
Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits - Bilbo Baggins
Data Communication fundamentals - R. C. Cargo

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 05:04:36 2014 No.4735394 dialogues of plato works of aristotle bible quran talmud summa contra gentiles summa theologica whitman - leaves of grass spinoza - ethics Last one is the thickest fantasy book I can find when I get bored of the other shit.

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 07:20:42 2014 No.4735713

>>4731967

LOTR trilogy (it's been a while since I read them, would appreciate the time to re-read)
The Stand by King (good, long beach read)
The Aeneid (OP, between Odyssey and Iliad, definitely go Odyssey for sheer entertainment value)
Infinite Jest (want to read it, and I'd certainly have time)
Against the Day (same as for IJ)
The Silmarillion
A River Runs Through It
The Bible

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 07:55:42 2014 No.4735769 >>4735713 Isn't the Lord of the Ring trilogy technically six books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 08:50:19 2014 No.4735909 >>4731967 >>4731968 >>4733028 Plebs

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 09:09:19 2014 No.4735954

>>4735769

Maybe. I don't know. But I'm counting them as three. If I were asked to revise the list to count them as six, I'd remove them entirely and add:

Suttree by McCarthy
Crime and Punishment (never read, but would like to)
TC Boyle's Short Stories (yes, it's a book, and a pretty long one at that)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 09:30:21 2014 No.4736007 Cezmi Ruh Adam Bible Şahname Don Quixote Kutadgu Bilig Tutunamayanlar Mesnevi the rest could be huge, detailed history books, especially about mediaval era.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 09:38:39 2014 No.4736028 >>4736007 oh, oh. Remove one of those history books and add Rubaiyat of Ömer Hayyam.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 12:40:24 2014 No.4736539 The Bible The Decline of the West Finnegans Wake The Golden Bough Moby-Dick The Canterbury Tales Imperium Mein Kampf Casino Gambling for the Winner Harvey Pennick's Little Red Book

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 15:26:59 2014 No.4737009

>>4735333
not cus of the content just cus ur on a desert island total isolation and completely primitive with sand in ur vagina probably cant start a fire and reading about sikk tech

ironically i'd bring books on film theory and cinema so when i go back i won't be totally retarded and can start working

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 17:54:36 2014 No.4737451 >>4735388 lol nice ethenol woot might not have face book but a still will do

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 17:57:36 2014 No.4737462 >>4737009 you sir are filled with truth and have inspired me to become like you i tip my hat o great one

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 17:58:15 2014 No.4737470 >>4736539 >The Decline of the West >Finnegans Wake >Mein Kampf Jesus christ Anon, get it together.

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 18:06:33 2014 No.4737503 >>4735388 wait a minute does this book exist i couldn't find it Fruit fermentation and ethanol production - I. B. Drunk

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 18:07:32 2014 No.4737507

>how to find out which foods are poisonous
>navigation for dummies
>fire building without a match
>plants: the guide
>how to make a makeshift first aid kit
>hunting for dummies
>woodworking for dummies
>surviving while lost
>how to make a signal fire
>how to make a bow and arrow
>the lord of the flies for max spooks

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 18:13:32 2014 No.4737541 i was wondering if this if this book is available making a companion out of island materials

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 18:17:32 2014 No.4737553 >Bible >Hagakure >The Ego and His Own >Tao Te Ching >some kind of survival manual >the five ASOIAF books that are out at this point I'm not joking even a little bit.

Anonymous Fri Apr 4 18:17:33 2014 No.4737559

Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Night Watch - Pratchett
Moby Dick - Melville
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
American Gods - Gaiman
the Diamond Age - Stephenson
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Cervantes

A good mix of cerebral books & light entertainment

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 4 18:45:32 2014 No.4737650 >>4731975 If I owned the boat that found you I'd circle the island calling you a pretentious twat and then boat myself away laughing.

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 22:04:44 2014 No.4738245 >>4737559 >ASOIAF which ones are these? >>4737559 >Night Watch - Pratchett this one is about vampires or something similar

>>	i like books Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 2014 No.4738251 >>4737650 hahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 5 03:27:45 2014 No.4738958 >The Road >A couple nietszche and wittgensteins >The count of monte cristo >No Country For Old Men >Blood Meridian >Brave New World >The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 5 03:35:45 2014 No.4738973 >>4738251 You're really facilitating discussion here m8

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 5 03:37:46 2014 No.4738978 >Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy >Complete works of HP Lovecraft >Mason & Dixon >Women and Men >The Holy Bible >Ulysses >Gravity's Rainbow >Don Quixote >The raunchiest issue of Penthouse magazine >A backup porno mag

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