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 Post subject: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:04 pm 
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Not sure if we ever did this before, but what would your books be if you were shipwrecked on an island and could only have ten?

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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:15 pm 
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The Bible
Mayfair
Penthouse
Escort
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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:17 am 
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:lol: I take it the Bible is for a crafty jimmy-floyd and the other 9 are for moral sustenance.

The Dummies Guide to
building a raft
making fire
fishing with sticks
signalling ships (with morse code appendix)
drinking one's urine
making houses out of coconut trees

Well you get the picture. :wink:


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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:44 am 
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Would have to be the longest books I could find for a desert island... Ulysses by James Joyce (I'd need to be on a desert island to finish it).


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The Lord of the Rings
The Thomas Covenant Chronicles
7 Terry Pratchett Discworld novels
What to eat on a Desert Island


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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:58 am 
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jaffka wrote:
The Bible
Mayfair
Penthouse
Escort
Razzle
Men Only
Fiesta
Club
Hustler
Private



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For me:

The Bible. I'm not Christian, but it's a hell of a book nonetheless.
Proust, In Search of Lost Time. Perhaps I would finally finsih the thing.
Peter Handke, Repetition.
Kafka's Diaries.
Collected Shakespeare.
Collected Rilke.

I think that would be enough.

Pretentious tw–t.


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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:21 am 
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Is The Bible really a hell of a book?

CUlturally important to our society, yes. In a literary sense, in a similar vein to plenty of classics, but just not as good. Ovid's Metamorphoses, all the cool stuff of the Bible, better written, and way less preachy! Imagine the self loathing after a good desert island bout of onanism!

Anyway, My desert island book and luxury are always the same.

Book: How to drive a speedboat
Luxury: A speedboat.

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Did you want petrol with that, cos i think you just ran out of wishes...;)


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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:52 am 
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Do any of you ever read books more than once? Never done it in my life.
So, my list would be all the books that are still in the study unread.
If I were ever to read a book for a second time though, it'd be a toss-up between Notes From a Small Island and To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Bryson's books are always good second, even third time around.


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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:12 am 
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Bruce Rioja wrote:
Do any of you ever read books more than once? Never done it in my life.
So, my list would be all the books that are still in the study unread.
If I were ever to read a book for a second time though, it'd be a toss-up between Notes From a Small Island and To Kill a Mockingbird.



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Lord of the Rings
Thomas Covenant Chronicles.


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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
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Gary the Enfield wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Do any of you ever read books more than once? Never done it in my life.
So, my list would be all the books that are still in the study unread.
If I were ever to read a book for a second time though, it'd be a toss-up between Notes From a Small Island and To Kill a Mockingbird.



Yes.

Lord of the Rings
Thomas Covenant Chronicles.


Did you have to retake your O level? :mrgreen:

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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:54 am 
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I too reread books that I like. I've read Dune 3 times I've enjoyed it so much.

For what its worth, I'd have 6 definites....

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dune
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Don Quixote
1915
Remember Arnhem


The rest I might add later as thy come back to me.

I read mostly non-fiction btw.

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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:22 am 
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A big, HUGE, neverending book of lyrics ... with the basic melodies set out. Otherwise I'd rapidly be singing "dum, dee-dum, de-dee" to almost everything.

Ditto of an encyclopedia and yet again of an Atlas. The biggest fck-off one in existence. Not so I could escape, but so I could focus on what was where, remember & plan or the future. Plus, I suppose a "how to" handyman tips type one ... being on a desert island an all that. Finally a ginormous book of crosswords ... with answers in the back as otherwise that odd one or two you simply can't get would kill me off over time.

The, yep ... for fun ;
Lord of the Rings
Bill Brysons ... Short History of Nearly Everything
The collected Smiley Novels of John le Carre
Bring on the Empty Horses by my dopelganger, David Niven
Nicholas Nickleby

Luxury ... a (solar powered, so ner-ner ne-ner ner) sythesiser/keyboard

(I assume a working laptop & internet access aren't available)

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See, I am with books like I am with holiday destinations. I'm never going to see all the world but I'll die trying. As such, I never go back to anywhere regardless of how good a time I've had there.

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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:29 am 
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Bruce Rioja wrote:
See, I am with books like I am with holiday destinations. I'm never going to see all the world but I'll die trying. As such, I never go back to anywhere regardless of how good a time I've had there.
... miserable fecker !!

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bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
See, I am with books like I am with holiday destinations. I'm never going to see all the world but I'll die trying. As such, I never go back to anywhere regardless of how good a time I've had there.
... miserable fecker !!


Shut it, Corporal Miller! :P

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Bruce Rioja wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
See, I am with books like I am with holiday destinations. I'm never going to see all the world but I'll die trying. As such, I never go back to anywhere regardless of how good a time I've had there.
... miserable fecker !!


Shut it, Corporal Miller! :P
"Hmm, not very hygenic. Shocking taste in undies, too".

It could have been scripted about you I bet.

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bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
See, I am with books like I am with holiday destinations. I'm never going to see all the world but I'll die trying. As such, I never go back to anywhere regardless of how good a time I've had there.
... miserable fecker !!


Shut it, Corporal Miller! :P
"Hmm, not very hygenic. Shocking taste in undies, too".

It could have been scripted about you I bet.


Except it was made five years before I was born, old boy. ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Desert Island Books.
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Wandering Willy wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Do any of you ever read books more than once? Never done it in my life.
So, my list would be all the books that are still in the study unread.
If I were ever to read a book for a second time though, it'd be a toss-up between Notes From a Small Island and To Kill a Mockingbird.



Yes.

Lord of the Rings
Thomas Covenant Chronicles.


Did you have to retake your O level? :mrgreen:


:grin:

I've read it 5 or 6 times and never tire of it.


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