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Pick any scenerio: you're on a deserted island or whatever and can only take one classic with you which would it be and why. For the purpose of this thread we'll consider anything written prior to the previous, oh, thirty years. Mine btw is Robinson Crusoe. I'll tell you why when I have more time.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One of my favorites.
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To Crack a Coconut

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How too carve a canoe out of a tree.
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pompom;489089 wrote: :wah:



I'll cheat a bit and have The Oxford Book of English Verse - in a way all (well, a lot of) human life is there, from 1250 to 1950, in a form of writing that most appeals to me. :-6


You'll just be talking to the monkeys after a month pom pom so you might reconsider. Comic books maybe.
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Adam, dear...you realize this is an impossible question! ONE? How about ONE author? :sneaky:
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I would want a Bible, but for a classic book: The Iliad. My very favorite classic.
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Adam, do you have some plans to be deserted on an island in the near future?
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Winnie the Pooh....................

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Lulu2;489164 wrote: Adam, dear...you realize this is an impossible question! ONE? How about ONE author? :sneaky:


It's a really small island.
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Oh, fine! And does this "really small" island have a library? :wah:
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Yeah, it consist solely of the one classic you brought with you. So which is it?
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SIGH....oh, all right, then....Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." It has everything.
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I would choose Gibbon "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" unabridged, or perhaps the collected works of Shakespeare, or then again, perhaps "Finnegan's Wake", because if I was stuck on a desert Island I would probably read it at last. Wait, what about "War and Peace", or maybe even Lord of the Rings, oh god, I dunno, probably Gibbon. :thinking:
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(I have this image of Galbally, strolling along the shore, acting out all the parts of "Lord of the Rings." :wah: )
My candle's burning at both ends, it will not last the night. But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--It gives a lovely light!--Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Lulu2;491399 wrote: (I have this image of Galbally, strolling along the shore, acting out all the parts of "Lord of the Rings." :wah: )


"Get off the road Frodo, the black riders are coming!"

Indeed. :thinking:
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"Kiss me, fair Arwen!" "Oh, Aragorn! I've missed you so!";)
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may i have the complete works of Dickens? or just one volume? :-3
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Lulu2;491409 wrote: "Kiss me, fair Arwen!" "Oh, Aragorn! I've missed you so!";)


Oh no, its the love scene, I'd better get back to Marcus Aurelius and Trajan! :wah:

I'm reading Robert Fisk's book on the middle east right now actually, its astonishingly good, even though I don't always agree with Robert Fisk's attitude, his book is an amazing testimony of what has been going on in the middle-east since the mid 70s. a cracking book. Its called "The Great War for Civilization" (The Conquest of the Middle East).
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lady cop;491415 wrote: may i have the complete works of Dickens? or just one volume? :-3


Not a bad choice actually, keep you occupied anyway!
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ADAM! These people are CHEATING!
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Lulu2;491712 wrote: ADAM! These people are CHEATING!nobody likes a snitch :p
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EXCUUUUSE ME! Howcome I can't take more than one book and THEY can?????
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Nobody saw nothing, right? ;)
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lets see if i can spell this right. Nostradomous
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Tater Tazz;491920 wrote: lets see if i can spell this right. Nostradomous


Close. Nostradamus (his Latinized name), he was actually French and had a French name. Can't be bothered to see what it is.

There are a lot of books on him alright. His quatrains are actually not that long, but they are in medieval French and a bit of Latin, (any translations are questionable and usually done to suit some agenda or other), so you could do with a English-Medieval French-Latin dictionary as well. Maybe you could have a crack in interpreting them yourself on the Island, you couldn't do any worse than the jokers who have already done so! ;)
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boyscouts survival guide in the woods........:D
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May I take the Oxford English Dictionary, please, in a readable format (I don't mind using the supplied magnifying glass if I have to, but it's a bit squinty that way). I can't imagine I'd ever get bored with it. A pre-war Brittanica would be an alternative for much the same reason, something around the twelfth edition.
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spot;492014 wrote: May I take the Oxford English Dictionary, please, in a readable format (I don't mind using the supplied magnifying glass if I have to, but it's a bit squinty that way). I can't imagine I'd ever get bored with it. A pre-war Brittanica would be an alternative for much the same reason, something around the twelfth edition.


Encylcopedia Britannica, good call, and not one filled up with all that modern drivel.
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I think I mentioned that it was a really, really small island. You might want to bring a book that weighs less than 20 pounds. And the encyclopedia, as riveting a read as it is, is not really a classic is it?

P.S. (For LuLu's eyes only - all the rest of you look away) You can slip an extra book under your beach towel but only you. Don't ell anyone else.
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HAH! Won't they think it's odd when we show up with towels weighing a hundred pounds?
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Adam Zapple;498720 wrote: I think I mentioned that it was a really, really small island. You might want to bring a book that weighs less than 20 pounds. And the encyclopedia, as riveting a read as it is, is not really a classic is it?

P.S. (For LuLu's eyes only - all the rest of you look away) You can slip an extra book under your beach towel but only you. Don't ell anyone else.


Flippin hell you are strict! OK, I am taking Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" then. No, I am talking the Diaries of Samuel Pepys, (in paperback) I always meant to get around to reading them.
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Either The Count of Monte Cristo because I'd be trapped on Chateau d'If like Edmond, or The Great Gatsby because I have been in love with Fitzgerald since before I saw his photograph. :o
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Heck with a Classics, I will take a survival book that covers how to start a fire, what plants are eatable, and like Sweet how to build a boat and get off the small island and then read a classic...:D I don't see me sitting around reading a classic book if I don't have food or water.. Come on now..:-6
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Great! I want to be on Carla's island!
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You two are hereby voted OFF the island.
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:-2 :-3 You don't like "To Kill a Mockingbird?"
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Al righty then I will stay home and read a Classic..:wah:

[QUOTE]You two are hereby voted OFF the island.[/QUOTE]
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WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"

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"Kon Tiki?" :wah:
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Good choice Lulu..:wah:

[QUOTE]"Kon Tiki?" [/QUOTE]
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WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"

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(Adam will be SORRY he booted us off his island!)
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Yes I would think so..:wah:

[QUOTE](Adam will be SORRY he booted us off his island!)[/QUOTE]
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WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"

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To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
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I brought that one, Ciao Bella & you may read it! Guess you get to choose another. (But keep your mitts off my copy of "Kon Tiki!):wah:
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Lulu2;540231 wrote: I brought that one, Ciao Bella & you may read it! Guess you get to choose another. (But keep your mitts off my copy of "Kon Tiki!):wah:


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OK! I volunteer to manage a book exchange here on the island!
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