independent_thinker2002

Say you are stranded on a deserted island and you could only have one book.

If you could only have one book, what would it be?

Survivor's Science on an Island by Peter D. Riley

But for fiction it would be The Stand by Stephen King.

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rivrrat

Gourmet Cooking with Insects

Hmm... Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Fricken awesome book. Covers the range of emotion of human love, hatred, humor, endurance, kindness, evilness, life, death, youth, old age....

It's just plain awesome and it would take me awhile to get sick of it. If I wanted to cry, I could read it and do so. If I wanted to laugh, I could read it and do so. If I wanted inspiration, I could read it and receive it.

Or... The Complete Works of Shakespeare. That oughta keep me busy for awhile.

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Lachean

Damn... Either Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged or... Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted world.... What a dilemma...

I go with Atlas Shrugged! The only book that covers all of politics, economics, ethics, morality and philosophy.

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Tashah

I concur with Lachean...Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

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WI Crippler

I loved Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot. I can't seem to make my way through Demon Haunted World though. I am going to have to check out Atlas Shrugged as it has been recommended by friends and other people I regard as intelligent.

For a fiction work I would have to say Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind.

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talloulou

My God if I was stuck for an eternity on an island and only had Ayn Rand's elite superiority blabbing for comfort I'd put my own eyes out, really I would. Geez I'd take any honest to goodness cheesy sex novel over Atlas Shrugged if faced with tons of time alone.

WI Crippler

Is it really that elitist? If there is one thing I can't stand, its reading stuff by people that like to claim intellectual superiority over others. Whether it be on the boards or in a book.

But I'd still take it over crappy romance novels

americanwoman

My book would be a magical book that would contain any literature ever written. I could close my eyes and think of a book and open it and it would be the book I was thinking of. If I wanted something new I would put the settings to random, and kick back under the palm tree with my coconut and bananas and enrich my mind.

talloulou

Yes. It is the book title to toss around in smug crowds.

The writer definitely puts on airs.

Well, you'd be sorry. It's an interesting book but it's highly over-rated. Picking it as your sole choice of reading on a deserted island seems rather absurd. I mean nothing about it would be at all relevant to your current situation. Who needs a book about politics, society, money, ect whilst stuck on an island by themselves? The only thing it would be at all useful for is making you look smart if you ever got rescued and that would only work if the person rescuing you was an equally smug hifalutin bastard.

'Course it's possible that I'm just a dip$hit who wasn't smart enough to really appreciate it.

WI Crippler

Well thats how psuedo-intellectuals work. They dismiss those that disagree with them as unenlightened or ignorant. In some cases it may be true, but they assume it in every case.