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Posted by kaminari (Member # 9622) on :

Ok, standard stuff. Deserted Island (deserted by whom?), just you, all eternity. What book would you have with you?

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

The Book of Mormon. For real.

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

Raft Building for Dummies.

Posted by Shepherd (Member # 7380) on :

The complete works of william shakespeare.

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :

How to Escape a Deserted Island in three days.

Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :

Written by the creators of "Lost"....

Swiss Family Robinson.

Posted by Demonstrocity (Member # 9579) on :

Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land. Entertainment & spiritual guidance in a single reading.

Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

The Hitchiker's Guide to the galaxy. The actual guide, not the novel, mind you. It'd probably have useful tips.

Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :

Juxtapose: You are aware that the full entry for Earth in the Guide is 'Mostly Harmless'. I do not think that you could strain much useful tips out of such a narrow description.
Otherwise, good choice.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

A) He never said the island was on earth. [Wink]

B) I more meant just good general tips if you're stranded. Then again, it didn't do Ford much good did it....

Ahh well, at least it'd still be neat reading.

Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :

Neil Gaiman -American Gods

Ni!

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Good Choice. AG rox!

The Harry Potter Series counts as one book.
It really does.

Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :

The DaVinci Code. Totally. [Big Grin]

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

Self Reliance and Other Essays- Emmerson

and if I can have one more:

ALCOHOL DISTILLERS HANDBOOK

Hmmm... I found this list while searching, I now want pretty much all of these books.

Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :

Is this a deserted island with an abundant supply of easy to access food and matches? Because otherwise I'd have to take a boy scout how-to survive in the wilderness type book.

But if you just want to know what one book I'd like to have with me if I could only ever read one book again ... I'd like to say it'd be my Quad (Bible, Book of Mormon, etc all in one) ... but I'd probably rather have Believing Christ by Stephen E. Robinson, or possibly The Chronicles of Narnia all-in-one hardcover in original published order - although I'm not sure that book exists. [Smile]

It couldn't just be a good book, it'd have to be one I'd be willing to read over and over and over. And I've been reading Narnia over and over for years and still keep getting more out of it.

Ooh, when Alvin Maker is finished and comes out all in one hardcover, I'd take that!

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

Any book from my highschool's library--cause that Librarian was one mean woman, and would track down an overdue book no matter where it was hiding. And she'd bring me back, just to serve the detention for daring to endanger one of her books.

Do you know how bad it is to serve detention when you're 42?

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

I like Dan's answer. [Smile]

I'd take the Bible, but if I had to choose something other than that (if say, religious texts are off the table) then Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which really is one book, just split up for publishing purposes so it all counts as one. Really.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

There can be only one.