Which Book Would You Take to a Desert Island?

[Kathleen]

I know lots of people who've read Sophie's World! I'm not one of them, but it's bound to be better than Republic. Why Republic?? I'd much rather read Aristotle even!

*Kathleen should be working on that bloody paper which makes up 60% of her grade in that class...

[Rattie639]

Plato's Republic makes me think and as an added bonus they sometimes give me weird dreams.

[Kathleen]

I suppose it's just me, but I found Republic rather annoying. I much prefer the early dialogues. I've always been especially fond of the Apology.

[Scarlet]

Sophie's World[weird philosophy book]

Man, I love that book! You're the only other person I know who's read it.

Well you know ME Ensie!! It's a great book but the book that got me into philosophy was "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"!

[Scarlet]

My hubby asks me to say that he'd take Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher,Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". Good luck to him! That is quite a book.....still he'd have plenty of time to fight his way through it.

[Ensie]

Sophie's World[weird philosophy book]

Man, I love that book! You're the only other person I know who's read it.

Well you know ME Ensie!! It's a great book but the book that got me into philosophy was "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"!

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[Iconoclast]

"Crossing the Atlantic in a Canoe Made of Palm Trees and Coconut Shells" Second Edition, Illustrated Version.

[Scarlet]

"Crossing the Atlantic in a Canoe Made of Palm Trees and Coconut Shells" Second Edition, Illustrated Version.

 Why is there a second edition? Did the author get shipwrecked twice? That's beyond careless.....Glad it's got pictures though, it'll help you to understand it.

[Pangy]

I think I'd have to take all of Bill Bryson's books merged into one (hey, if you can have LOTR trilogy, I'm sure this'd be fine). At least it'd keep me laughing and remind me that maybe it's a positive thing that I'm stuck on this desert island away from stupid humanity  

[Blue Steel Rats]

Stranded on a desert island, eh?  Well, then, I gotta go with U S Marine Corps Survival Manual!

[Eileen]

Mosby's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians.

It's this monster of a book, chock full of information but dull so you always "mean" to read it but never do.
I think a desert island would be a good reason to read it.

[Ensie]

Mosby's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians.

It's this monster of a book, chock full of information but dull so you always "mean" to read it but never do.
I think a desert island would be a good reason to read it.

But then what happens when your brain goes total neuron misfire on you and you're loony and start having highly intellectual conversations with the coconuts?

[swedishnightingale]

Yeah, all you philosophers and textbook readers, I'm going to be shallow -- I'll take my well-worn copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but since that's a graphic novel, it doesn't *really* count as a book, so I'll also take my nice Dover edition of H. Rider Haggard that has both King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain... unless there's a better AQ compilation out there, in which case I'll take that one.  

[jeannerat]

Probably The Hitchhiker's Guide- all five novels rolled into one.  There was a time when I felt "stranded" in a creepy suburb (which shall remain nameless).  I remember how much I could relate to that feeling of being out of place that Arthur Dent constantly experiences.  And the books are so funny that they kept my spirits up.