10 Desert Island Books

If you could bring 10 books in a desert island where you will be for some time what ten books will you bring.  This desert island already has the copy of the Old Testament, New Testament, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, and the whole set of Encyclopedia Britannica so you do not need to bring them.

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This is an interesting question since I like to read different books all the time- which ones have been important enough to me to take along.

1&2 A Search for God Books 1 & 2 from Association of Research and Enlightenment

3 Power of Now by Eckhart tolle

4 The Largest most complete book of Dream symbols

5 The largest most complete book of Symbol interpretation

6 Anatomy of Spirit by Caroline Myss

7 Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

8 book of medical plants and herbs

9 & 10 reserved for ??  (give me 10 minutes in the library -I'll find something)

 What are your choices?

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This would be my lis of ten books:

Einstein's Cosmos (Michio Kaku)

Tha Davinci Code  ( Dan Brown) 

Tha Way of The peaceful Warrior  (Dan Millman)

The Journeys of Socrates  ( Dan Millman)

Living on Purpose  (Dan Millman) 

Tha Dammapada  (Eknath Easwaran)

The Andromeda Strain  (Michael Crichton)

Fever  (Robin Cook)

How to practice The Way to a meaningful life. (Dali Lama)

Tha Way of Peace   (James Allen)

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here is a quick list - the list might change if I think longer, but here is 1st draft:

The Tao de Ching

Man and His Symbols(Jung)

The Douglas Adams series

Science of Mind(Earnest Holmes)

Empire Falls(Richard Russo)

Collected poems of Pablo Neruda

Collected Poems of e e cumming

The Tao of Physics

The Art of War

Collected Stories of Dr. Seuss

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I love this question.

My books would be….

1. Goobers by Linda Goodman

2. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

3. Women who run with the wolves by Clarisa Pinkola Estes

4. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

5. The Tao of Health Sex and Longevity by Daniel Ried

6. The English Patient by Michael Ondatje

7. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

8. Linda Goodman's Sun Signs/Love Signs, hope that can just count as one : )

9. How to Practice: The way to a meaningful life by the Dalai Lama

10. The Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

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oh shoot, i forgot some! I just noticed someone else's list had the Tao Te Ching and the Way of Peace, darnit, this list must be longer!

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Guess what, Lacey?  Since you are going at the same time as Vlady, he's already bringing The Da Vinci Code, How To Practice by the Dalai Lama, and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.  So you can scratch those off your list.  He also has The Way of Peace, so you can bring The Tao Te Ching.  That leaves you with two more choices…,  : )  Thank you for joining.  Let us know where you moved to, Switzerland? etc.,

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Wow. I don't know if can answer this one because there are so many books I want to read, so many books I've already read but would miss if I didn't take and, well, just SO MANY BOOKS!

 I guess I'd take the longest books possible so.

 The Collected Works of Ken Wilber (we'll just say all volumes rolled into one book)

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (we'll just roll up the volumes into one big novel again)

Mervyn Peake's trilogy (once again, we'll just call the trilogy one book .. hahahaha!!!  I'm cheating!)

A leatherbound copy of All J.R.R. Tolkien's works

A leatherbound copy of all Edgar Allen Poe's works

A leatherbound copy of all Charles Dicken's works

A leatherbound copy of all Steinbeck's works

A leatherbound copy of all Hemingway's Works

ok what am I at now?  8?

 OKay I have to get into spirituality now… let's see….  Meister Eckhart, Ramana Maharshi, all the Gospels, all the Ancient texts.

 oh no, now philosophy, politics, and… uh-oh.  I can't do it.  sorry guys!

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Maybe to go with the Mervyn Peake (I liked Gormenghast but it was TOO long for me) you could, if you were going for really long, bring the entire Robert Jordan Wheel of Time stuff rolled into one? It would provide you a great way to exercise with weights, too.

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1 godstalk pc hodgell
2 dark of the moon pc hodgell
3 stardust neil gaiman
4 hanta yo ruth bebe hill
5 snowcrash neil stephenson
6 illusions richard bach
7 equal rites terry pratchett
8 guards guards terry pratchett
9 another roadside attraction tom robbins
10 still life with woodpecker tom robbins

now i know i am going to think of at least 14 revisions i would make in the next 2 hours but i guess that i will just go with what came off the top of my head……

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The Collected Poems of Margaret Atwood, volumes I, II, and III
The Collected Fairy Tales of Hans Christian  Anderson
The Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Age of Reason Begins and The Age of Voltaire by Will & Ariel Durant
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Phillip K. Dick
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

and one blank book in which to capture my thoughts and sketches 

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Hmmmmm. 10 books to be stranded with…

let's see, first off would have to be

Wind In the Willows by Kenneth Grahame  

The Ring Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cancer Ward by  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Father Joe : The Man Who Saved My Soul
by Tony Hendra

Mabel McKay : Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius) – by Greg Sarris

The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman – by Bear Heart

Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding (Religion and Spirituality) – by Billy Mills, Nicholas Sparks

An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life 
by Dalai Lama, Khyongla Rato

The Zen Commandments: Ten Suggestions for a Life of Inner Freedom. – by Dean Sluyter

Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal – by Christopher Moore

love, CalmEagle

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I seem to be able to read these more than once:

Spiral Dynamics - Don Beck

Boomeritis - Ken Wilber

A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle

Living Enlightenment - Andrew Cohen

A Theory of Everything - Ken Wilber

No Boundary - Ken Wilber

Paths to God - Ram Doss

The Translucent Revolution - Arjuna Ardagh

Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Dessert Island books

Since I own many of these it makes me realize perhaps I should take them with me on vacation sometime. Gosh, just think, if we were on a desert island with our books we would become like the characters in Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451.”

 “Super Cosmos” by Jack Sarfatis
(because it will take me the rest of my lfe to understand it)

 The Art Scroll Siddur

 “The Sabbath” by Abraham Joshua Heschel

 “The Oxford Book of English Verse”

 “The Story of Painting” by Sister Wendy Beckett’s
(art book with full color pictures)

 If I was really packing up for the island I’d go to Rizzoli’s in New York and find an exquisite, really thick, oversized art book with full-page color reproductions.

“The Complete works of Shakespeare”

The libretto to Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Mikado”

The libretto to Peter Pan (the old Broadway show)

“Wind, Sand and Stars” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And for the tenth, I’d ask a close friend to choose a cherished book of hers to give me.

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Hi Samme and zaadzsters friends,

Good question and although I like reading, I would bring NO BOOK AT ALL.

I would perhaps look at the already available books in the desert, which are Old Testament, New Testament, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, and the whole set of Encyclopedia Britannica. No, I hope I wouldn't loose my time with these.. I can have them when I am back on the main land :-) 

I would rather use my time to be in the moment, to meditate longly, to observe my environment, switch on all my senses, to feel the nature, to be part of it, to watch the sun rise and set, changing the light, the colors, to listen the silence and discover all the sounds and sings in the nature….

What you think about it? If you insist I can still come up with 10 books from my “to read” list. But I realy mean it, NO BOOK in the island :-)  

With love,

Bilgi

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I would include Ben Okri's In Arcadia as well as his Astonishing The Gods :)

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Hmmm thinking is so slow……that s two. Let me add hmmm……anything by Ernest Holmes, A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson, Avatara Adi Da Samraj's Knee Of Listening….

A good Louise Hay. You Can Heal Your Life……..that s six. Let s see…Wayne Dyer's “Power Of Intention” , Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass, the Tao Te Ching….

And David Deida s Blue Truth. I ll be writing the tenth, it s a love story :)

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Oh shoot! An eleventh! David Icke s new book : Only Infinite Love is real, everything else is an illusion :)

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1. How to survive in a desert island
2. How to build a boat to get out of the desert island
3. How to make signals to boats near the desert island
4. How to send a message that will reach people outside the desert island
5. Desert Island for Dummies

I will dedicate the rest of the time to do something else than reading !!! but if I have to choose I will take

1 meditation book
1 an action book
1 romantic book
1 mistery book
1 conspiracy book

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Definately i will bring with me….

10.The

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Definately i will bring….

10.The Divine Comedy  9.”Delirio”(title in spanish) 8.”Vivir para contarla”(title in spanish)

7.The tibetan book of living and dying  6.”La Iliada (title in spanish)  5. Blue Jean Buddha

4. Dharma Punx  3.”El arte de vivir en el nuevo milenio” (title in spanish)

2.Peacefull Death, Joyfull Reabirth and…………..#1. Opening to our primordial nature(this book i written by my pearsonal lamas)

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Wonderful selection Thutop, at such a young age you are exhibiting traits that are admirable and you are doing wonderful wonderful job with the youths in your area.  Your number one book, “Opening To Our Primordial Nature”, that sounds interesting.  Maybe you could post your comments about that book in the Buddhist Dharma Books section of this pod.  I would like to learn more about that.  Thank you!

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I've never posted on one of these before but, hey, I'll weigh in on books anytime.

1.  The Bible
2.  The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
3.  The Harry Potter series (if it's finished when I get thrown on that island)
4.  The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
5.  The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
6.  Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
7.  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angeleau
9.  Dr. Seuss Collection
10. A Survival Guide

This was much more difficult than I thought.  I'd probably leave my clothes behind a grab more books!

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I would have to say:

Soul Love —- Sanaya Roman

Excuse me, your life is waiting—-lynn Grabhorn

Living in Joy—-Sanaya Roman

Spiritual Growth—Sanaya Roman

Conversations with God 1,2,3 —-Neale Donald Walsch

A Guide for the Advanced Soul (Oracle pages)—Susan Hayward

Diary of a Psychic—-Sonia Choquette

And a huge book of blank sheets for all the writing I would do

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1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding –> There's just something very “deserted island-ish” about it

2. Conversation with God  by Neale Donald

3. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

4. Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (because that's what I'm reading right now)

5. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

6. The Price by Nicolo Machiaveli (Because I never got to finish it)

7. The Law by Frederic Bastiat (I didn't finish this one either)

8. 1984 by George Orwell

9. A friends and family photo album (is that considered a book?)

10. An empty notebook, so I can write my thoughts and maybe make a movie out of it someday…. :)

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Sorry, the Prince by Machiaveli, not the Price….

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I think that qualifies as a Freudian slip :D

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1) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 2) Celtic Art by George Bain, 3) An anthology of world myths 4) Hana Yori Dango anthology (if we have a hypothetical desert island, I get a hypothetical anthology) 5) The Horse Goddess by Morgan Llewellyn, 6) The High King by Lloyd Alexander, 7) Son of Shadows by Juliet Marillier, 8) The Dark is Rising by Susan B. Cooper, 9) An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle, and 10) an English version of “Le Clan des Otori” by Liam Hearn. (I read it in French, and I think I'd like it better in my native language.) 

I won't be doing much deep thinking on that desert island. Although unlike the mega-drama found in Lost, I'm sure my mental energy will be focused on survival. :P 

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I love this question!  (Mostly because I'm NOT stranded on an island, and don't have to put it into practice…)

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. My volume of every Shakespearean play

3. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

4. Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson (someone else already put him, but I love him too!)

5. The Sparrow: Maria Doria Russell

6. His Dark Materials: Phillip Pullman (I'm cheating and putting three novels as one)

7. Coming To Our Senses: Jon-Kabat Zinn

8. Les Miserables: Victor Hugo

9. My volume of David Sedaris short stories

10. Book of poems by Billy Collins

I feel like I'm forgetting something…

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OK, since there are already a copy of the Old Testament, New Testament, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, and the whole set of Encyclopedia Britannica i would add for

Nr. 1:  “The Dhammapada” and for

Nr. 2:  “Tao te king”: Lao tsu 

 Then i would take most of my beloved bigsize novels: 

Nr. 3: “Lord of the Ring Trilogy”: J.R.R. Tolkien (1346p.)

Nr. 4: “The Hitchhikers Series”: Douglas Adams (1102p.)

Nr. 5: “The Magic Mountain”: Thomas Mann (982p.)

Nr. 6: “The Time of our singing”: Richard Powers (749p.)

Nr. 7: “The Shadow of the wind”: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (562p.)

Nr. 8: “Perfume. The story of a murderer”: Patrick Süskind (319p.)

Nr. 9: “Narcissus and Goldmund”: Hermann Hesse (305p.)

Nr. 10: “The Alchemist”: Paulo Coelho (172p.)

 So i think i had enough good stuff to read for a while ;-)

To be honest, i would take all of my library

nice to read your´s.

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Nice to see Adams, Coelho, Hesse and Mann having tea together over in your corner here.  Ah, Herman Hesse! What a giant! I re-read Narcissus and Goldmund a few years ago, and was enchanted all over again. Enchanted and dazzeled and in awe.

One of my favorite (of too many favorite) lines from Douglas Adams is “Zaphod loved effect.” As I remember, it goes on to say: “It was what he was best at.” I may have made that up, quien sabes 

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Wow.  What a compiled list amongst the group so far!  Some awesome reads noted.

Given the Sacred Texts are already housed on the island, I would bring the following 10 with me:

1.  The Tao of Pooh
2.  The Prophet
3.  The Alchemist
4.  A Prayer for Owen Meany
5.  S.T. Coleridge Collection

6.  Oxford Dictionary of English
7.  The Tao Te Ching
8.  In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
9.  The Dancing Wu Li Masters
10.  Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together

Well  That's what my list is today.  Tomorrow, some of the titles might be different!

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The Gift by Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

Pronoia by Rob Brezsny

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Earth Power by Scott Cunningham

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Arabian Nights by Richard Burton

The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking

The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (I know- already here, but I need my own copy!!)

Any of the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey

My Invented Country by Isabele Allende

Wow, is it difficult to narrow this list down to ten!

By the way, my favorite quote from Hitchiker's Guide is also one of my credos: “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” (spoken by the philosophers)

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A threatened man in an alley once pulled a gun and said “I'll kill you! I'm not afraid to go to jail, I'll re-read Proust!”

I understand the sentiment.

If I could only bring ONE book, it would be In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. I could disappear into that book and never come out again and I'd be perfectly content.

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I am going to have a little fun with my list …

1. It (Stephen King) whats a stranded island without a scary book.
2. Eating in The Raw Cookbook 
   
3. Lord of The Flies …. survival of the fittest.
   
4. Lord of the Rings
   
5. Choose your own Adventure books .. it's like 10 books in one.
6. DIY - Build Your Own Raft in 30 days …. no explanation needed.
   
7. Tibetan Book of The Dead
8. I Am That
   
9. Search of Lost Time … cause it's really, really, really long.
   
10. Moby Dick … classic.
    

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OH MY!!!

So many books, so many choices!

Please forgive me but I will have to really think this one through and post later…
in the meantime I will copy and paste ALL of the works others have recommended, you know, just in case I want to read them ( hint: I will! :-D).

For now, if I was on a desert island I would bring ten blank journals.

Since it is a deserted island, lets make them moleskines ;-)

oh, and I'll smuggle on a few (hundred) pens.

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I like the ten books on a deserted island idea. First, I would want to take some books I haven't read. Yes there are some books you can read again and again, but for some once was enough and I got the idea. Now, since I can kind of make up my own rules, I would like certain author's works to be air dropped in once they were finished. They wouldn't know I was there, but accidentally they fell out of the plane. (People in major cities know about how thinks just fall off of trucks.)

My list:

• 1.) All of Zen Master Seung Sahn's books - You can read them a hundred times and still get laughter and insight. He would probably say burn the books at night, and listen to the ocean.
• 2.) The Dark Towers - Ok, Zen Master being followed by Stephan King (I think that's a koan), but I'm on book three or four and it will probably take me the rest of my life to get through his series. Yes! The man needs an editor like he had in the old days. I might also find, he decided to write just one more for the series. The man can tell a story. They grab you and hook you in; sadly his endings lately have been pretty poor, compared to his older work.
• 3.) Any new books by Jasper Fford (author of “The Eyre Affair” etc.) The man is more than the replacement of Douglas Adams. His use of literature and humor are great. He surpassed Adams I think by his second book. I felt Adams started to almost “phone in” his last couple of books; I felt he wanted to write something else.
• 4.) All of Kurt Vonnegut's books, I've read them all and would read them again, bring on Kilgore Trout!!
• 5.) Any Steinbeck I haven't read yet, which is just a few. Oh I'll take “The Grapes of Wrath” for another read…
• 6.) Anything by Bentley Little, he writes horror and can tell a story that takes you in right away.
• 7.) Clive Barker, I know another horror writer, but he's not afraid to take you right into the abyss, and usually doesn't let up>>yes I am a masochist.
• 8.) Plays by Shakespeare
• 9.) Anything by James Joyce, I like his short stories best, but hey through in “Ulysses” I have a long time…(I think I spelled that wrong, but spell check said it's correct, so please don't blame me.)
• 10.) The “Weekly World News”, where else would I find what bat boy is doing or UFO's replacing George W. Bush. One has to keep informed.

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Hello All,

This seems like as good as a place as any to make my first post.  I don't think there is any better way to get to know people than to check out their book selves.  This is especially true of a collection of books they would consider essential or at least essential  when stranded.  I can't imagine what my list will say about me.

I like variety and re-reading so my first three books are fiction compilations;

Somebody has already brought some Clive Barker so I will start with;

1) Angry Candy - Harlan Ellison
2) Dangerous Visions - Edited by Harlan Ellison

Both great short story collections.

3) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl

Tough to pick just one Dahl though, so cheat and take a collection.

4) Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

A way to get two great writers for the price of one, I hope I don't keep people up at night with my laughing.

5) Any of Glen Cook's Black Company Books, don't make me choose - Oh for a comprehensive collection of this series.

6) The Way of the Actor - Brian Bates
7) The Urban Shaman - Serge Kahili King
8) The Artist Way - Julia Cameron

This will give me lots to do as far as personal development goes, hopefully someone will bring a Sark book and when we aren't just surviving, or struggling to get of the island, or reading we can spend lots of time playing!  Gosh, where does all the free time go.

9) Either The Morningside Papers - Peter Gzowski or Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean. 

Can't decide but definately one or the other, most likely the Stuart McLean book because I love a good laugh.

10) Some compilation of Canadian Plays

What with a captive audience and performers, it seems like a good time to spread the word about the exciting and interesting world of Canadian Theatre, if we have any free time.

I would hope to set up the Island library pretty fast so I can get access to some of the other tomes that were washed ashore with us.

Thanks for the ideas!

Love,
David

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1.  The Bible
2.  The Dictionary
3.  The Ragamuffin Gospel
4.  Of Love and Other Demons
5.  The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
6.  Dreaming in Cuban
7.  Love in the Life of Cholera
8.  Ruthless Trust
9.  Breakthrough Prayer
10. Open - in case a book is left, or i find some leaves or bark and a writing instrument to write my own book. 

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most are books i've already read but enjoyed enough to read again and again:

 1.  a learning anguage book of some kind (depending on which language i wanted to learn at that time)
 2.  the thousand names of the divine mother
 3.  do they hear you when you cry?
 4. the god of small things
 5.  the kite runner
 6.  the science of mind
 7.  return to love
 8.  ammachi: biography of mata amritanandamayi devi
 9.  tight spaces
10. empty journal

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Ha, I hadn't read everybody else's lists before I posted mine, because I wanted to do it without being swayed by other people's choices; I also put language-learning at the top of my list! In fact, my top FIVE were assorted language-learning books; I would not only have lots to learn but a totally good excuse for talking out loud to myself!

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What a great idea :-)   Most of mine are fiction:


1. The Golden Notebook
2. Prep
3. The English Patient
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. anything by Joyce Carol Oates
6. anything by Louise Erdrich
7. Never Let Me Go
8. The Thorn Birds
9. The Power of Intention
10. The Wisdom of the Enneagram

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This is a tough one, and my answers may change from day to day, but for now I'll say the following:
1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison
3. Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra
4. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
5. One River by Wade Davis
6. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
7. True Hallucinations by Terence Mckenna
8. The Excorcist by William Blatty
9. Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
10. Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker

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• A compilation of the works of J.D. Salinger. Having his short story a perfect day for banana fish is more important than catcher in the rhye.
• All of Pablo Neruda's Poetry.
• A collection of the poetry of Ingrid Jonker. (A South African Poet)
• Gabriel Garcia Marques' 100 years of solitude.
• Complete works of Paulo Coelho. (especially Veronica decides to die and the alchemist)
  
• Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams.
  
• Collected short stories of Roald Dahl.
• The latest version of National Geographic's collection of best photographs over the last 100 years.
• An atlas of the world as we know it at that stage.
• A book that teaches you french vocab, spelling, grammar etc.
  

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For comfort and joy on a desert island …
I would lose myself in the following books:

1. Momo
2. The Neverending Story
3. The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Quotations
4. The Wisdom of Baltasar Gracian
5. As a Man Thinketh
6. Walden
7. Real Moments for Lovers
8. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
9. Gift from the Sea
10. The Power of Now

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let’s see, if i brought along the 7 Narnia books and the 3 Lord of the Rings i’ve already exhausted myself. that doesn’t leave room for The Hobbit, the three mary stewart Merlin books or any Jane Austen … oh, this is tragic!

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You have to be creative as the others have been to the point of being sneaky as I can be when in terms to books.  Have you read the posts above, how creative these members can be just to sneak in some more books more than ten?  Classic, and creative!  Here's a suggestion and clue, I just bought the book 
8 Books in 1 - Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love and Friendship by Jane Austen*
Get the point?

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so the complete Western Canon of Classics - Oxford bound set - counts as one book? i think i’m getting the hang of this …

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10 books, eh? Lets see…

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
4. Anything by Scott Cunningham
5. The Complete Work of Shakespeare
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. Any book on Mythology
9. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
10. The Odyssey by Homer

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Hmm … great question.  Here are my ten:

1.   Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols. I - III, Edward Gibbon
2.   The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley
3.   Be Here Now, Ram Dass
4.   Five Acres and Independence, Maurice G. Kains
5.   Collected Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
6.   Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar
7.   Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition
8.   Lord of the Rings Trilogy, JRR Tolkein
9.   Culpepper's English Physician and Complete Herbal, Nicholas Culpepper
10. Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons

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Great sharing books, sharing the island cause your never alone right :).   i'll have to make a  bull horn, holla and find you to get the books.  Get some food ready cause I'm always nibblin.

Peace

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See there's the spirit.  SHARING!  All of you are so creative to make this exercise worthwhile and not feel lonely.  I know, I know, I made it hard for you folks to come up with your ten dessert island titles and I still have to come up with mine myself.  Pretty soon, pretty soon.

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Dang!

1. James Joyce's Ullyses (you can read that one forever and still find something new! LOL!
2. Be Here Now, Ram Dass
3. A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield
4. How to Survive on a Deserted Island, KIDDING!
4. 100 Years of Solitude, (in Spanish)
5. Finding God Through Sex, David Deida
6. The Point of Existence, A.H. Almaas
7. The Eye of Spirit (or Sex, Ecology, and Spirit), Ken Wilber
8. Neruda Poems
9. Something erotic (Best of Erotica, 2006?)
10. Island Living: A Decorator's guide (LOL)

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Man, this is tough!

1. Don Quixote
2. The Collected Works of Shakespeare
3. The Songlines (Chatwin)
4. Love in the Time of Cholera
5. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler… (Calvino)
6. Montaigne’s Essays
7. Huckleberry Finn
8. Airman’s Odyssey (St. Exupery)
9. Good Omens (Pratchett & Gaiman)
10. Boatbuilding for Dummies

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Hm, lets see :
1. Taipan by James Clavell
2. Chronicles of Narnia
3. Rainbow Six
4. Sophie's World
5. Tuesdays with Morrie
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything
7. The Power of One
8. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
9. The Alchemist
10. Tales of the Alhambra by Irving Washington

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Finally, here's mine;

1.  The Zohar (22 volumes)

2.  Srimad Bhagavatam (18 volumes) by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

3.  Autobiography of a Yogi  by  Paramhansa Yogananda

4. A Sanskrit English Dictionary 2005 Deluxe Edition: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages

5.  Philosophy, Psychology, and Mysticism (vol. 11) by Hazrat Inayat Khan

6.  The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (8 volumes)

7.  Rg Veda (8 volumes)

8.  The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, The Lamrim Chenmo (3 volumes) by Tsong Ka Pha

9.  The Flower Adornment Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra) by Ven. Master Hsuan Hua (22 vols.) Flower Adornment (Avatamsaka) Sutra is known as the “King of Kings” of all Buddhist scriptures because of its profundity and great length (81 rolls containing more than 700,000 Chinese characters). This Sutra contains the most complete explanation of the Buddha's state and the Bodhisattva's quest for Awakening. This Sutra is the basic text of the Avatamsaka School and is is one of the longest Sutras in the Buddhist Canon and records the highest teaching of Buddha Shakyamuni, immediately after nirvana (enlightenment).

10.  this is the hardest for me to choose the last one but here goes;
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche - a thick commentary book on the Lamrim Chenmo, an amazing and excellent book.

It is not that I left out Tao Te Ching and the poetry of Rumi, Tagore and Hafiz, it is just that I know them in my heart. 
Don't send a boat.  You can just leave me alone reading and meditating on this island.  I wish somebody will invent a crank-powered hair dryer.   I love this exercise!  Thank you, Samme!

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Let's see….

1. All of Marian Keyes fiction novels (Some escapism!)
2. The Complete guide to Homeopathy (Dammit can't remember the author *blush* will go home and check)
3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L Shirer (We can learn so much from Hitler's mistakes)
4. The Oxford Dictionary (One always has to improve one's vocab!)
5. A book on first aid
6. A book on edible plants and seeds
7. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
8. The complete poems of E E Cummings
Shew… I only have two options left…
9. The complete works of William Shakespeare (These would be enough to keep me alive without food for weeks!)
and finally…..
10. A book on Reiki - (While we're stranded we'd do well to balance our chakra's and cleanse our aura's!)

There… I think that's it…. :-)

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Another revision…I think I have all the books for the island now…still hope we can share the bounty!     ;  )

1.Seth Speaks, Jane Roberts
2.Aromatherapy a complete guide to the healing art, Mindy Green,Kathi Keville
3.Animal Speak, Ted Andrews
4.The Hand Sculpted house Philosopical and  Practical guide to building a cob cottage,EvansSmith,Smiley,Bednar
5.Energy Ecstasy and the seven vital chakras,Bernard Gunther
6.Sexual Energy Ecstasy secrets of the East and West, Ellen Ramsdale
7.Birth without Violence, Fredrick Leboyer
8.The medicine woman inner guide book, Carol Bridges
9.The 13 Original Clan Mothers, Jamie Sams
10.The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

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1.    The Complete Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
2.    The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
3.    Dracula by Bram Stoker
4.    The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
5.    The Complete Works of Yukio Mishima
6.    The Complete Works of Haruki Murakami
7.    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the film by Alfred Hitchcock -no dvd in the island : (
8.    The Complete Works of Ayn Rand
9.    The Complete Works of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Dorris Lessing  ; )
10.  The Complete Calvin and Hobbes comic script
This exercise is very therapeutic as it demands of us what are our passions and what we need to let go at least in terms of books.  Thank you for this!!!

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Zen, you cheat! A complete work isn't ONE book….  (o;

Does Amazon deliver to the island?

Hmmm I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes

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LOL, that's funny Nina, you are right, and I am guilty too!!!  Okay we may have to do intervention here and create a support group for Bookaholics Anonymous.  Anybody would like to write the 12 Steps for Bookaholic Anonymous?  You know the one that goes, “I admit I have a problem liking too much and buying too much and reading too many books, take it one book at a time thing.  Do not put it here, start it in another thread. 

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OK. I got a huge laugh from the  escape books dude! 

1. 1001 ways to cook fish- no,  maybe The Thousand and One Nights
2. Advice on Dying- the Dalai Lama
3. The Little Prince- Antoine du St. Exupery
3. The Complete Works of Richard Bach
4. Journal of a Solitude- May Sarton-  well, better make that The Complete Journals in a single volume.
5. Gift From the Sea- Ann Morrow Lindbergh
6. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind- Joseph Murphy
7. The Celestine Prophecy- James Redfield
8. The Cunning Linguist- Richard Lederer for serious humor
9. The Language of Color- Dorothee L. Mella
10. Poems That Stir the Heart- complied by Mary Sanford Laurence

I reserve the right to put up a new list.  Or altered one but not more often than every 7 days.
and yes, I am a No-Wish-To-Recover-BookAholic.

This is a great question and had me searching my shelves for some I have but had not read -yet.  Yes, I buy books I do not read immediately.  They have to be here when my signal to read them gets here a 12:12am and the bookstore is closed.

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Sorry Nina, can't help it.  I admit I am a bookaholic.
To prove the point here is my second list of 10 Desert Island Books;
1.  East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2.  The Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway (I'll ask a company to make it in one book ; )
3.  The Complete Works of Jack Kerouac (I can't help it, I need help)
4.  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5.  The Complete Poems of Lord Byron
6.  Fleur du Mal by Baudelaire
7.  The Night Listener
8.  The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles - just great
9.  The English Patient by Michael Ondaatjee - I'm a hopeless romantic
10.  A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Anybody else care for seconds?  Watch out for my third serving  : )

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Here is my 10:

1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

2. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haurki Murakami

3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

4. Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

5. Sophies World by  Jostein Gaarder

6. The Makioka Sisters by  Junichiro Tanizaki

7. Life an Enigma, a Precious Jewel by Daisaku Ikeda

8. Mere Creation edited by William A. Dembski

9. Youth in Revolt  The Journals of Nick Twisp by C.D. Payne

10. From the Dust Returned by RayBradbury

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A Heinlein
The complete Dune series- Frank Herbert
Silk Road- I can't remember the author…
On Dying and Living a Happy Life- HH the Dalai Lama
A Course in Miracles
The Collected Daniel Quinn
PC Hodgell's completed trilogy (Hey, I'm allowed to dream!)
the entire apocrypha, coptic, gnostic, and dead sea scrolls
Aristotle (All of it!)
The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and a mirror…

Namaste, Crow

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1. The Gift of being yourself

2. Furious Pursuit

3. The Ragamuffin Gospel

4. What's so amazing about Grace?

5. The Divine Conspiracy

6. Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

7. Hardcore Zen

8. One Taste

9. The Fight by John White

10. Inner voice of love by Henri Nouwen

when will we know the winners?

LOL

LYB

Seraphim

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So hard to choose–but so nice to be able to share:

1. In Watermelon Sugar- R. Brautigan
2. Still Life with Woodpecker- T. Robbins
3. I am the Messenger- M. Zusak
4. Wherever you go, there you are- J. Kabat-Zinn
5. Trouble with Poetry- B. Collins
6. Upside Down- E. Galeano
7. Life of Pi- Y. Martel
8. Sirens of Titan- K. Vonnegut
9. Deschooling society- I. Illich
10. Mr. Palomar- I. Calvino

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Prajnaparamtia Sutra - Perfection of Wisdom - source of the Heart Sutra. 
Surangama Sutra - If I'm on a desert island, maybe my copy will survive.
Jewel Ornament of LIberation - my favorite LamRim Text
The Razor's Edge - Maugham's story of a WW1 vet in search of the meaning of life
A Tale of Two Cities -Dicken's story of redemption and sacrifice
Cave in the Snow - True story of a Buddhist nun who spent 13 years in retreat
Walden - Thoreau's story of his own retreat
Collected Works of Franz Kafka - deep insight into human misery
Buddhacarita - Acts of the Buddha
Life of Milarepa - Rechungpa's narration of the life story of the Tibetan Yogi/Saint
                               who achieved enlightenment in 1 lifetime

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10 books for a desert island?  Hr…

1.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
    - To help drive me insane

2.  The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    - To keep me laughing as I went insane

3.  The Divine Comedy by Dante
   
4.  The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama

5.  A very extensive book on plants and herbs

6.  Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

7.  Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

8.  Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

9.  Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory

10.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wow, 10 really isn't enough…

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I've just joined zaadz so am unsure whether this is the place to post my '10 Desert Island Books'. Here goes -

1. Rilke's Late Poetry (Duino Elegies, the Sonnets of Orpheus, Selected Last Poems) -
    by - Rainer Maria Rilke

2. Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon - Pablo Neruda

3. Diary of Anais Nin - single book - volumes 1,2,3 - Anais Nin

4. The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses - (any year will do) - various contributors

5. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

6. The Cornelius Chronicles - Michael Moorcock

7. Inferno - The Divine Comedy - Dante

8. Writing Fiction - Janet Burroway

9. The Forbidden Rumi (the Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy and Intoxication -
     translation/commentary - Nevit O. Ergin/Will Johnson

10. The One and the Many - Rabindranath Tagore

can I have just a few more? pretty please? sorry for whining - I'm working on gratitude - so “thanks for the choice of 10, you could have said 1” 

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

The Conversations with God trilogy - Neale Donald Walsch
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
His Dark Materials - Philip Pulman
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
The Sandman Library - Neil Gaiman (I'll pretend that's all one volume, as enormous as that would be.)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Shakespeare's complete works

:D

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1.How To Survive On A Desert Island
2.One-Hundred Ways To Play Solitaire.
3.Any book on herbal medicine that's plants are indigenous to the island I'm on.
4.Grey's Anatomy
5.The best darn book of First- Aid ever.
6.The collected works of Proust(never read anything by him,I know, I should be ashamed).
7.A book on Astronomy.
8.Swiss Family Robinson(if there was ever a time).
9.The complete illustrated work of painters from 1700-2000.
10.Le Petit Prince

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I WILL BRING THE I CHING, MY BOOKS ABOUT DREAMS, DICTIONARY SPANISH/ENGLISH, MY  IPOD, A SONG BOOKS. MAFALDA COLLECTION, LA VIDA EXAGERADA DE MARTIN ROMAÑA, MAGAZINES OF ENLIGTHMEN AND WORDS AND NUMBERS GAMES.

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Whenever I consider this question, I am reminded of the Twilight Zone episode in which the man who only ever wanted to be left alone to read survives the end of the world by taking refuge in a library. Finally at peace to read at his leisure, he accidentally breaks his glasses. A grim but Serling-esque irony. Here's my ten:
Another Country (James Baldwin)
Dhammapada (any translation)
The Roald Dahl Omnibus
Plainsong (Kent Haruf)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Complete Stories of Shirley Jackson
The Prisoner's Wife (Asha Bandele)
Ella Minnow Pea (Mark Dunn)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

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i'd want to bring books i've never read. ones that were huge and from all over the world.
i'd bury them in the sand or stash in tree trunks, ration them, dig up just one at a time, read it slow and be careful not to spill.

i'd hold myself to a few pages a day, if i had the time…
and if i had more time and i'd had anything to write with, i'd scribble in the margins.

that way, every day i'd have a new discovery to look forward to, and new ideas to think about, and new ones to create.   i wouldn't want to run out of pages to read.

here's what i guess would be a good ten based on a list i put down awhile back:

-journey to the end of the night - louis-ferdinand celine
-ulysses - joyce (never finished)
-independent people - halldor laxness
-the Mahabharata
-remembrance of things past - proust
-complete poems 1904-1962 - e.e. cummings
-thousand and one nights
-season of migration to the north - tayeb salih
-the sound of the mountain - yasunari kawabata
-fairy tales and stories - hans christian anderson

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It really is so hard to choose just ten. Unlike some here, I will not cheat and mention complete works LOL

The Unbearable Lightness of Being-
The Kite Runner
A Tale of Two CIties
The Art of Happiness
The Celestine Prophecy
The Power of Intention
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Four Ageements
The Path to Love

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Hmmm…
Teach Yourself Russian
Teach Yourself Greek
Teach Yourself Finnish
Improve Your German
500 Spanish Verbs, Conjugated
Bound Scores to all 9 Dvorak Symphonies
One of those kids' books that has a little 2-octave electronic piano with plastic keys built in, and solar-rechargable batteries
The Childe Ballads
101 Solitaire Games
The latest edition of the World Almanac

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Oh god, just 10 books????

I do get the thing about choosing complete works etcetera. All I hope is that I'm stranded on a desert island with all of you so we will have enough to last me at least a month ;-)

I loved the suggestion to bring no books, and just be.

I also thoroughly agree with bringing pen and paper instead ( or in addition).

I was surprised at how many books you all have mentioned that I do not know, and I was horrified that one or two were going to be on the island with me (Da Vinci Code for one, I'm sorry, but I guess there is no accounting for taste).

Okay, so what can I contribute?

The Mind of the Cells by Satprem - for inspiration
All terma attributed to Yeshe Tsogyal and her disciples - for all things
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore - for perfection of novel
I heard the Owl call my Name by Margaret Craven - for more perfection of novel
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brian - for humour
The Linnet Bird by Linda Holeman - for my romantic heart
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce - for reminding
The Alexander Quartet by Mary Renault - for my childhood
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - for words to get lost in
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron - just in case


And I hope to be able to borrow whoever brings any Thich Nhat Hanh, Bashar, Seth, Ken Wilber, Eckhart Tolle and please will someone please bring the complete works of T.S. Eliot?

I'm sure I'll come up with another list. I do in fact have a list of my favourite novels to date, with brief descriptions. I think there is about 50 on the list. If you would like me to send it to you, just let me know!

Sandra

(hmmm, what was that about “just being”???)

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“And I hope to be able to borrow whoever brings any…”

And maybe I can borrow the books too ;-)

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Oh my!

It seems as though others are bringing many of the book s thatI would bring. No need to be redundant on my part.

Here's my list:  

1. Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon ~ Machaelle Small Wright. This book NEVER leaves my possession. This is one book that I don't want to risk losing.
2. Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking ~ Tom Brown, Jr. with Brandt Morgan.
3. Astral Dynamics: A NEW Approach to Out-of-Body Experience ~ Robert Bruce. I haven't read this book yet. But I figured that it would come in handy when doing some “exploring.”
4. Learning Their Language: Intuitive Communication with Animals and Nature ~ Marta Williams. Another book that I haven't yet read, but may be useful.
5. The Magic of Shapeshifting ~ Rosalyn Greene. Yet another un-read book that I would like to read.
6. Šiaurės Lietuvos Pasakos  (Northern Lithuanian Tales) ~ Matas Slančiauskas. I'm including this and the next 2 book because I want to improve my Lithuanian language skills. Lithuanian is the language that I grew up speaking before I learned English.
7. Lietuviškos Pasakos Įvairos, Antra Knyga  (Assorted Lithuanian Tales, 2nd Volume ~ Jonas Basanavičius.
8. A Lithuanian/English dictionary. 
9. The Book of Common Prayer.
10. The fattest sketch book ever! (And I'll have to “smuggle in” my colored pencils, drawing pencils, pens, and colored inks.)

Boy!

It was tough trying to pare the list down to just 10. Books 1 & 2 are the only 2 books that I have read cover-to-cover. (And  the last 3 are not really meant to be read cover-to-cover.)

So it'll be great to sink my teeth into something new. And once I'm done w/my books, I can go and borrow books from the other “castaways!”

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1) how to survive just about anything
2) raft building made easy
3) cooking for one
4) navigation by stars
5) fish you want to eat and fish you don’t want to eat
6) 101 games of solitare
7) Start where you are
8) Hut building for idiots
9) good snakes - bad snakes
10) Sand Castles Made easy

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Make yours a different 101 Solitaire from mine, so that we can trade books when we each get tired of our own!

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Ok, I’ll exchange that one for “making beer out of seaweed”

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

 1.  Any large collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons
 2.  Best Science Fiction Short Stories edited by Gardner Dozois 21st collection
 3.  The Fabric of the Cosmos  Brian Greene
 4.  Pride and Prejudice
 5.  Webster's Dictionary
 6.  Conversational Spanish
 7.  any current Anatomy and Physiology textbook
 8.  The Gunslinger Part 1  Stephen King
 9.  The Gunslinger Part 2
10. The Gunslinger (final)

meets 100% daily requirements of romance, adventure, knowledge and laughter.  I could live on that.        

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i love this question!  these are the books that would help me stay sane…

1.   delirio, laura restrepo (because i'm halfway through and it is already one of my favorites and there's no way i could possibly stop reading it right now!)
2.   a very large blank notebook to write in (or i will go insane)
3.   a spanish dictionary (i won't have anything better to do so i might as well learn a new word a day)
4.   lolita, nabakov
5.   ethics for a new millenium, the dalai lama
6.   the yoga sutras
7.   anna karenina (haven't read it yet, but what better time than while stranded)
8.   the color purple, alice walker
9.   the way forward is with a broken heart, alice walker
10. the alchemist, paolo coelho

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Only really want to add one to the excellent lists already here.

Canopus in Argos: Archives   a series by Doris Lessing.

These 5 “space fiction” books written in the 70's and early 80's are truly a great gift from her to us.  She took a lot of criticism for moving into this genre.

They're a Sufi inspired look at us - devastating, funny, piercing, thorough.  Though you really feel like it won't happen, you feel happy at the end because…

We humans give ourselves too much credit and not enough.

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1.   delirio, laura restrepo (which i'm in the middle of and if i have to go to some deserted island there's no way i'll stay sane if i can't finish this book)
2.   a very thick blank notebook
3.   the last of the harry potters (i know i know it's not out yet, so i can't be stranded until it's published)
4.   the color purple, alice walker
5.   the bhagavad gita (haven't read it yet, so maybe this is the time)
6.   something by the dalai lama to keep me grounded and sane
7.   animal dreams, barbara kingsolver
8.   a travel guide to whatever island this is that i'm stranded on
9.   lolita, nabakov
10.  eva luna, isabel allende

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Complete Roald Dahl works
God’s Breath
The far side gallery complete works, Gary Larson
The Lord of the rings Trilogy
all of Annie Lamonts works
The Power of Deliberate Intention-Abraham/Hicks
the Space Trilogy-CS Lewis
Leaves of Grass-Whitman
all my childhood letters from my best friend, Seana
The Bhagavad gita
a loaned book or 2 that I need to read
an book on how to survive in wilderness

??

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can we all get stranded together and swap??
because I forgot a few!
Integral Spirituality -Wilbur
Pablo Neruda poems…
ummm. I cnat stop at 10….
oh well…:-)

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When I was an English teacher, whenever staff meetings got out of hand, we’d play a similar game. But we added a twist. We called it, “Books I Am Ashamed Never To Have Read.” It’s much, much more revealing!

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That's very interesting.

How 'bout another twist on that question: “Book That I Am Ashamed or Embarrassed to Have Read.”

Everybody's got one of those lurking around.

When I'm in the mood for a “Shallowness Fix,” I grab a “slut book” (“Cosmopolitian Magazine”, in this case) and read the “Confessions” column.

Mind you, I won't spend my money one such a thing. I just wait until I go to visit my hairdresser. LOL

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Dear Eyebrowz,I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours!

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People have listed some really great and clever things in their lists of 10 desert island books, and I haven't felt that I have anything enlightening to contribute.

However, I'm not ashamed to share some things I am ashamed to have NOT read.

The Crucible - I wasn't in the English class that read it when I was in High School. Somehow, I just never ended up reading it.

Don Quixote - I read half of it and I just could not finish it. I tried, really I did. I am not a person who doesn't finish a book. I just could not keep reading it.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy - After I just said I don't NOT finish books, here is another one that went unfinished. I have tried multiple times to get into these. I have many intelligent friends who love these, but I just CAN'T get into them.

As far as things I'm ashamed to have read (and liked,) I LOVED Love Story (Erich Segal.) Totally cheesy, I KNOW. I think the first person narration is great - there is so much humor in the things he says and thinks. Sappy story, yes. I KNOW. It's totally a guilty pleasure and now you know.

Who's next?

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Things I am ashamed not to have read:
1.Anything by Proust,I know I should,I know I can,one day.
2.Anything on the reading lists in high-school.Thank-you Cole's notes,or so I thought, had a different sentiment when I went back to school.
3.Don Quixote,when I do read this book I will have Burt to thank(see profile).
4.Anything by Alice Munroe,I mean I'm Canadian,what am I thinking?Even my Grandmother read her.I am ashamed.
Books I am ashamed to have read,
I will not go into all the books but it will suffice to say that  large part of my early adulthood was filled with sex,drugs and Rock n Roll,HELLO Carlos Castaneda(read him for all the wrong reasons).
Anne Of green Gables,it would be O.K. if I still didn't need fix once in awhile(I mean I'm 42 when will the insanity stop?).
I won't go any  further for fear of being banished from this group,some thing just have to be kept  secret;-)

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As I do not aspire to be stranded on a desert island, I'd rather visualize myself curled up in my own cozy sanctuary with my most treasured books of all time–books that help me to understand this reality we call earth.  They would include the complete set of Seth/Jane Roberts' works (which including The Nature of Personal Reality totaled about twenty books). Added to the above-mentioned works would be The Living Word of Kuan Yin as Kuan Yin, Eastern goddess of compassion echoes the identical sentiment: that we are creators of our own reality.

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Hi all! I'm late to the party, but have to contribute. Trying to keep my 10 different, since we are going to all have a lending library anyway:

1)    Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
        A novel full of magic, heart and wonder.
2)   The Avram Davidson Treasury
       A collection of stories by one of the great writers. He is woefully underappreciated.
3)   The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art ed. by W. S. Penn
       The tirle pretty much says it all.
4)   Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
       Invaluable story of Friendship and Sacrifice. Still makes me cry.
5)   The Saga of Pliocene Exile by Julian May
       Skillfully written and engaging. Also complex enough to bear re-reading.
6)   Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
       Always entertains me, plus you can puzzle over which parts they thought were really              real.
7)   Macroscope by Piers Anthony
       Complex and mystical. I wrote a college paper on it called “Macroscope: A study in                Jungian indivuation.”
8)   The complete writings of Carl Jung
       I wasn't going to cheat, but I can't pick just one volume
9)   Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
       Toss up between this and The Shockwave Rider, but I don't think we'll be worried about         technology and Future Shock on our island.
10) Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
       Hard to pick just one of books. I have lighter entertainment pretty well covered, so I'll go         with her best even though it is dark.

Put me on the list for the Ellison, Tolkein, Lewis, Herbert, and just surprise me with one of the non-fictions every week or so. May I suggest that the horror fans get together around the campfire so we can read King, Barker, Lovecraft et al. out loud?

Steve

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

I see someone is already bringing Tolkein

I would bring:

 1)   Moon Blossom and The Golden Penny
 2)   What Seems Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
 3)   Green Grass Running Water
 4)  The Lovely Bones
 5)   The Secret Life of Bees
 6)  Love Medicine
 7)  The Beet Queen
 8)   The Bean Trees
 9)   The Kite Runner
10)  Like Water for Chocolate


This was hard to narrow down :((

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1.  The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
2.  Poems and Essays of E.B.White
3.  Walden
4.  The Woman Warrior
5.  Louise Erdrich…anything and everything
6.  Poems of Theodore Roethke
7.  Illusions
8.  Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
9.  Home Work
10.Mark Twain, complete works
I once had to move out of my home and into a small housekeeping unit in a motel…for three months. That was a similar exercise in what to keep.

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Cindy

“5.  Louise Erdrich…anything and everything” Oh yes!! I love her

“8.  Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant”  Who wrote this ? I am intrigued by the title.

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Re: 10 Desert Island Books

In no order I would have to take:

ACIM - A Course In Miracles
The Power Of Now -E. Tolle
Love, Freedom and aloneness - Osho
Karma and Reincarnation
Yoga Aphorisms of Panjali
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Communion with God - NDW
There is a river - The story of Edgar Cayce
and The Urantia book, because it has loads of pages and I want to read them one day, I like the made up words and the idea that Archangel Michael is the God of this particular universe…

Plenty to read with all the scriptures too… food for thought while waiting for rescue, or while building some sort of raft with coconuts…

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1. Osho Secrets
2. A thousand Splendid Suns
3. by the River Piedra I sat down and wept
4.Siddhartha
5. Law of Attraction
6.Chakra healing
7. Id have to pick one of my herbal medicine books
8. The Red tent
9. Mutant message down under
10.Plant Spirit medicine
I loooove to read anything and everything its my escape from reality

10 mighty fine Desert Island Books

Beachcombing at Miramar  Richard Bode
Soulshaping  Jeff Brown (because I know it was written in integrity, and because I need some spare time to find my spelling mistakes before the next printing)
Be Here Now  Ram Dass
The End of the Affair  Graham Greene
Writing Down the Bones  Natalie Goldberg
The Daily Racing Form
The Art of Sexual Ecstacy Margot Anand
The Essential Rumi
The Wild Eyed Red Head  by Paul Hemrend
Joy  by Alexander Lowen

10 mighty fine Desert Island Books

Beachcombing at Miramar  Richard Bode
Soulshaping  Jeff Brown (because I know it was written in integrity, and because I need some spare time to find my spelling mistakes before the next printing)
Be Here Now  Ram Dass
The End of the Affair  Graham Greene
Writing Down the Bones  Natalie Goldberg
The Daily Racing Form
The Art of Sexual Ecstacy Margot Anand
The Essential Rumi
The Wild Eyed Red Head  by Paul Hemrend
Joy  by Alexander Lowen

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

okay i gotta change mine now that people are adding collected works okay ready?
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
2.all Paulo Coelhos books
3.The Lovely Bones
4. the Book of Secrets by Osho
5. The Fifth Sacred Thing
6.Chakra Healing and meditation
7.Ask and it is Given
8.The Secret
9.Mutant Message Down under and forever
10.the Other Bible

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

This is the STRANDED version…….

1. The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra (to stay hopeful)
2. The Secret of the Golden Flower translated by Thomas Cleary(to keep from going crazy, and to hopefully achieve enlightenment before getting picked up by a ship)
3. Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendance by Lawrence Galian (so I can conjure up that ship)
4. The I Ching(so I can get a sense of when that ship is going to show up)
5. Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon(so I can visualize that ship as if it's ACTUALLY THERE!)
6. SAS Survival Handbook by Lofty Weismann(so I don't die before that ship comes)
7. A Blank Book
8.A Blank Book
9. A Blank Book
10. A blank Book

This is why, if I am ever on a cruise, I shall carry a very expensive pen in my zippered waterproofed pocket, along with 50 ink refills with the finest gel ink in them……

Now that's the stranded version……..oh, and I want a soccer ball, on which I can paint a face.

Now the VISITING version…….

Same as above, but without all the obssessing about a ship…………and skip the soccer ball…….no……… on second thought, I still want that……

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

This sort of question is torture on my book-loving soul. Perhaps I'm a masochist, then, because whenever I see a question like this, I HAVE to answer. (However, you made my life easier by putting O&NT on the island. So thanks!)

1. Dracula - Bram Stoker
2. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
3. Lost Letters of Pergamum - Bruce Longnecker
4. Peter Pan - JM Barrie
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
7. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
9. Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Window Across the River - Brian Morton

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1. Harry Potter series
2. Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer
3. My one-volume collection of Jane Austen novels
4. Jane Eyre
5. A book about wildlife
6. book about plants, trees, etc.
7. book that shows what foods are good to eat - food that won't kill me
8. book on first aid
9. joke book - have to have some laughs
10. empty journal

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

This is not so hard now that this island probably has the best books i could ever want to ready already available!
(:

1. there's a slight chance i [might] be going to hell–laurie notaro

2. the electric kool aid acid test–tom wolfe

3. crank–ellen hopkins [and probably the sequel “glass”]

4. junky–william s. burroughs

5. 1984–george orwell

6. misery–stephen king

7. the long hard road out of hell–marilyn manson [ who by the way is an amazingly smart man]

8. the house on mango street–Sandra Cisneros

9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas–Hunter S. Thompson [or anything by him]

10. Treasure Island–Robert Louis Stevenson [my favorite book of all time]

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1. Illusions by Richard Bach
2. The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
3. The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (and the Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
5. A complete collection of Calvin and Hobbes
   
6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
7. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
8. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
9. Spanish/English Dictionary
10. The Spanish translation of A Wrinkle in Time (to make use of that lovely dictionary)
    

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

1. Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
   
2. The Hollows series by Kim Harrison
3. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
6. Life of Pi by Yan Martel
7. Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris
8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
9. All the Shel Silverstein books
10. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
    

Re: 10 Desert Island Books

my books were

Siddharta by Hermann Hesse

The little Prince by Antoine St.Exupery

Mutant message down under by Marlo Morgan

The 5 books Jean Auel´s Sons of the earth

Iniciacion by Elizabeth Haich

Tao of health, sex and long life by Daniel Reid

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Indian Tales by Rabindranath Tagore

A book of Medicine Herbs and Plants

A book of observing the sky, stars and constellations