/lit/ - Literature

>>19368542
The Torah

Bible
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Bhagavad Gita
Books on surviving on an island
Books on first aid

>>19368542
Five books about being stranded on an island.

>>19368542
5 of Shakespeare's works so I can endlessly entertain myself putting on plays with inanimate objects.

>>19368542
The Bible
Book about surviving on island
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

>>19368542
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
4 volumes of hardcore porn

Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Histories
The Anabasis of Alexander

Bible
Brothers Karamazov
Lord of the Rings so I can learn to recite the songs/poems
Book on island survival
Odyssey

>>19368542
A Child Called "It"
The U.S. Constitution and Related Writings
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Money Master the game: 7 simple steps to financial freedom
The C Programming Language

Books are not going to comfort me in this dire situation. Survivalist lit I suppose would be best

Bible
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
White Fang
Moby Dick

You didn't say that the books couldn't be split into volumes, so:

The Bible - most influential book in history
Oxford English Dictionary - for spelling
Encyclopaedia Britannica (last printed edition) - general knowledge
The Story of Civilization (all 11 volumes) - history of humanity
Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition - grammar

Should be enough reference material to create stories for a lifetime.

>>19368542
>Ok /lit, you're going to be stranded on an island for the rest of your life
I already live in Australia
>and you only get to bring 5 books
Well obviously 5 lost classical works, because Australia has good libraries.

when desert island discs did this they gave you the bible & complete works of shakespeare for free otherwise everyone's answer would be the same

>>19368772
watch your back you dumb fucking cunt, we are watching

>>19368971
does >she really anger you that much? kek

>>19368978
He sounds like a big fan

>>19368997
dont go out at night

>>19369000
Don’t look directly at the moon

>>19368542
The Holy Bible
Quran
The Green Book by Gaddafi
Beware the World to Come
Mein Kampf

>>19369020
Why not just wish for actual toilet paper?

>>19368978
Butter is unfortunately suffering the namefag's fate: as time goes by, the chances of being on the receiving end of the namefag's wrath approach 100%, and people are apt to hold a grudge over a single slight rather than to cherish a dozen niceties.

>>19369023
someone is going to knock you over the head at night you fucking dyke, and gut you

>>19369026
How can anons be so thin skinned?
There’s zero advantages to it.

>He hasn't already memorized:
A skeletal framework of the Bible and all the Psalms (thereby producing a custom cyclical Breviary recited daily in parts

A structure of heuristics to analyze the world categorically (obtained by a diligent study of the complete works of Aristotle and Plato)

Memorization of significant chemical tables and diagrams from the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

A thorough comprehension of Latin and Greek and its grammatical metastructures to enable you to create a Grammar of any language you encounter on the island

>>19369026
think everyone dislikes trips on 4chan for all the obvious reasons as to why someone would use one (so obvious there's really no need to list them over again). and then when someone tries to be funny & isn't you just get rinsed in the replies a/w

>>19369055
The oral lore will only serve as a means to convert the population into a pre-industrial monastic culture
(with minor nuclear defense/determent capabilities)

>>19369057
books on converting a local populace to a Christian lifestyle?

>>19369088
Look mate I've been trying to look at what the Jesuits did, what kind of books the Jesuits used and whatever. What they were thinkin going into Paraguay. Same with other missionary orders entering into the New World and establishing missions and whatnot. Still very ignorant on the subject. I know that a lot of them were sourced from Uni of Salamanca, Coimbra, etc....so all those missionaries (a lot of them professors of logic/math/etc...) were trained in an Aristotelian education. The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum is mostly Aristotle and Cicero and whatnot. I'm going to be reading a lot more about what this Missionary/Scientific intellectual tradition was like. We know that these missionaries studied the areas they encountered, wrote botany books, compiled native lore, created grammars for their languages, etc...I have yet to identify exactly which books in particular they'd carry around with them. Again, Paraguay, California missions, etc...seem very interesting. Don't forget Ethiopia and Japan. Jesuits man

>>19369098
damn thats super interesting, make a thread when you know some good missionary books

>>19369103
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio_Studiorum
Just branch off this rabbit hole and you can see what went on in the minds of Jesuit missionaries. See if you can find out what seeds they had inside of them which enabled the orders to establish missions and universities all throughout South America and other places. I too am looking for the set of books in particular which they would consider necessary prior to the establishment of a Mission (Jesuits and Franciscans). Remember Jesuits were educated in a particular manner for 12+ years in Europe before they were shipped off to mission lands. I assume they carried stuff like the Imitation of Christ, a Breviary, and whatnot. They wrote letters (Jesuit Relations) and maybe by looking into those I can get an idea of what they read

>>19368571
Bro you could have just taken his collected works and 4 other books too

Bible
The Enneads
The City of God
1001 Arabian Nights
Don Quixote

Can't go wrong with the entire 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia (NewAdvent) which is Catholic in the universal sense of the word not just the religious sense. Having those physically would be interesting

>>19368542
complete works of shakespeare
Anton Chekov complete stories
The Brothers Karamzov
Harry Potter 4
War and Peace

>>19368542
asterix in switzerland
asterix in britain
asterix and the soothsayer
asterix and caesar's gift
collected works of elmer batters

>>19368542
Five volumes of Russian jokes and anecdotes

>>19368542
In Britain we have a radio show called Desert Island Discs which does this with records. The celebrity guests also get one book (I think they're given Shakespeare & Bible as default). Here are twenty /lit/ favourites (in alphabetical order) and the celebrities who picked them (in chronological order). Your job is to match book to celebrity. (Obviously we don't look things up: that would be dishonourable.) I think there's about three one might reasonably guess, and the rest are completely impossible.

All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
Collected Works — Anton Chekhov
Collected works — Marcel Proust
Dialogues — Plato
Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
Ethics — Spinoza
Finnegans Wake — James Joyce
Histories — Herodotus
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Moby Dick — Herman Melville
Old Testament (in Hebrew and Greek) — Unknown author
Paradise Lost — John Milton
Poems — Emily Dickinson
Poems — Hart Crane
The Brothers Karamazov & Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand
The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
Thesaurus — Roget
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
Winnie-the-Pooh — A. A. Milne

Alec Guiness (1960)
Anthony Burgess (1966)
John Huston (1973)
Oliver Reed (1974)
Bing Crosby (1975)
Luciano Pavarotti (1976)
Tennessee Williams (1978)
Patricia Highsmith (1979)
Donald Pleasence (1980)
Princess Michael of Kent (1984)
Enoch Powell (1989)
Stephen Hawking (1992)
John Updike (1995)
André Previn (1996)
Nicole Kidman (1998)
John Malkovich (2002)
George Clooney (2003)
Daniel Barenboim (2006)
Michael Caine (2009)
Roger Waters (2011)

>>19368624
cringe

found the 19 year old

>>19369527
kingsley amis picked the OED
dno any of the 20

I would bring This is Mohammad by Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Muslih, specifically the 5 meter-tall, 1500kg volume on display in a mall in the UAE. I would use it to crush myself to death.

>>19369559
Yes, in 1986 Kingsley Amis picked the OED. (He was on in 1961 as well, and that time, he picked the Poetry of Robert Graves.) I'm surprised more people didn't go for the dictionary actually. Only a few did. Terry Gilliam, Alan Coren, Tom Lehrer.

>>19368772
On Desert Island Discs a few celebrities have gone for that sort of thing but not many. I guess it's a question of how realistically you want to play the game. The closest to what you said:

J K Rowling — SAS Survival Guide
Margaret Thatcher — The Survival Handbook
David Niven — British Army survival manual

My guess is you won't be wildly happy at being associated with any of these. (#1 isn't a lesbian, #2 wasn't a commie, #3 wasn't a woman). But to cheer you up, Sandi Toksvig did pick something practical (The Ashley Book of Knots).

>>19369575
is the '61 recording about? on the website?
>Terry Gilliam, Alan Coren, Tom Lehrer
fuckinell not in good company there is he

>Virgins never actually lived on a desolate island for an extended period
Losers.
Here is a genuine list of books I took with me:
>Heine - Reisebilder
>Bible
>Moby Dick
>Huckleberry Finn
>La ou les chemins nous menents (found it there; don't judge me)

>>19368542
How to ferment and distill spirits

>>19370055
>found it there
couldn't have been very deserted if one was found there
How long were you on the island? Why bring so few books?

>>19369585
If the question was more accommodating, say, stranded in an island resort, I’d pick books from my queue or are currently in the middle of.

>>19370947
watch your back

>>19370958
You would die painfully if you were serious.

>>19370055
yeah pretty sure he didn't mean a fortnight in corfu fella

>>19370947
>books from my queue
>books I'm in the middle of
That would be OK for a "stuck in an airport for six hours" situation. You're basically saying "I'm not going to let this inconvenience break my stride." But if we're talking the only books you're ever going to read again ever, it's a bit different, regardless of whether your practical survival needs are catered for.

>>19368542
5 e-readers and 5 solar chargers in case they stop working

>>19371031
I don’t have a bible, best ever book. I love plenty, would read many of them over again, but I yes, I don’t want to break my stride. Guilty.

>>19368542
In the realms of the unreal
Bible
In search of lost time
island survival for dummies
the longest dictionary there is

>>19368542
>you only get to bring 5 books
Pic related
Moby Dick
Leaves of Grass
Histories of Herodotus
At Swim-Two-Bird

Final answer.

>>19370973
I said WATCH, your BACK.

>>19371221
Stay in large crowds in open spaces.

>>19368928
>because Australia has good libraries
lmao

>>19372433
Look up SLNSW SLVIC and NLA. The universities have a sharing agreement to buy at least one of everything between them. And there’s a good catalogue for all libraries in Australia.

>>19368542
bro if im stuck on an island im not even going to bother reading. im just gonna drink coconut milk, buttfuck monkeys, and start fires to attract planes.

>>19370882
half a year.
It was an archipelago and there were plenty of inhabited islands. All third world though, so the inhabited ones didn't serve for anything but buying some chinese canned foods and snacks once a month and then stealing a french girly YA book when I had read through all my books repeatedly.
> Why bring so few books
Because I had to carry it all on my back as I went.

Bible
Summa Theologiae
Ulysses
Divine Comedy
Complete Shakespeare

>>19368542
The Bible (default)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (default)
The Divine Comedy (have been meaning to read this)
Paradise Lost (favorite book)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (encyclopedic, heard that it's funny with good prose, and been meaning to read)

>>19368542
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918
Essays of Montaigne (M.A. Screech Penguin edition)
Moncrieff's Proust
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Five blockbuster books covering the greatest and most readable poetry, novel, drama, history and philosophy. Sorted.

>>19368542
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918
Essays of Montaigne (M.A. Screech Penguin edition)
Moncrieff's Proust
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Five blockbuster books covering the greatest and most beautiful poetry, novel, drama, history and philosophy. Sorted.

>>19369369
based comic enjoyer

>>19369536
Perhaps you would like to suck my dick nigger

>>19371073
you fucking suck, you retarded whore.

>>19368542
Not including books that would help me thrive on or even escape from the island, this question is more interesting if you just include that we have the ability to take care of ourselves on the island:
Moby-Dick
The Bible (I’m not a Christian but I haven’t read the bible so I might as well read it as I haven’t done so before and I’m on the island for the rest of my life)
A book that collects all of the musketeers adventures, including the really really long one.
A really voluminous blank notebook (I’ll use something on the island to write and draw, presumably charcoal from a fire I make).
A really long history of the entire world