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Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:20:33 2010 No.1238890 [Reply] [Original]

You are stuck on a deserted island. You can only have one book in your possession. Which book do you choose?

REMEMBER, ONLY ONE FUCKING BOOK

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:21:33 2010 No.1238894 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:22:33 2010 No.1238899 The Count of Monte Cristo

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:26:33 2010 No.1238904 >>1238890 Plato: Complete Works

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:31:33 2010 No.1238910 >>1238890 Whatever book which happens to contain the most Melville works.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:33:33 2010 No.1238915 All of Wheel of Time's books in one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:34:33 2010 No.1238916 File: 341 KB, 1312x976, macbook_air_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:34:33 2010 No.1238919 >>1238916 Is there electricity and an internet connection on the island?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:43:33 2010 No.1238931 File: 997 KB, 1280x2008, Superman Beyond 01 Page 022.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1238890

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:44:33 2010 No.1238932 The complete Sherlock Holmes? The Catcher in the Rye, maybe. I DON'T FUCKING KNOW

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:45:33 2010 No.1238934 The Odyssey

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:48:33 2010 No.1238939 Marienbad, My Love I'd probably go insane from the isolation, anyways. Minus well speed the process up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:48:33 2010 No.1238940 Cat in the Hat - Green Eggs and Ham

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:50:33 2010 No.1238943 Well, since I'd have nothing else to do I'd read In Search of Lost Time. With foraging for food and water and building shelter, I shouldn't get through it too quickly.

>>	777 !!iVYiD3gZfcf Wed Oct 27 02:51:33 2010 No.1238946 as a 'book' i choose ten thousands sheets of blank paper... yayayyayay!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:53:33 2010 No.1238952 The Complete Earth's Collected Fiction, the one-volume edition from 2020

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 02:54:33 2010 No.1238953 >>1238943 I think realistically speaking, if I was trapped on a desert island, the last thing I'd want to be thinking about is sodomy and snobbery in Belle Epoque France.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 03:00:33 2010 No.1238963 File: 23 KB, 400x300, gwyneth_paltrow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Complete Works of Shakespeare, though if I ever made it back to civilisation I'd probably be stuck speaking like an Elizabethan. inb4 SAS Survival Handbook

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:17:33 2010 No.1239104 House of Leaves or Gravity's Rainbow. Neither one of them are particularly favorites of mine, but they both offer a fuckton of narrative to analyze.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:27:33 2010 No.1239107 >>1238963 Ignoring your juvenile "inb4," some sort of survival guide would be the best choice and all of you are morons.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:29:33 2010 No.1239108 >>1239107 Does >>1238931 count?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:49:42 2010 No.1239119 >>1238963 Except you didn't ignore it, did you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:50:33 2010 No.1239120 >>1239107 Except you didn't ignore it, did you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 05:15:33 2010 No.1239139 siddhartha ;3, or mb the princess bride

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 05:19:33 2010 No.1239143 >>1238963 Good call. Being stuck talking Elizabethan style sounds like a benefit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 05:22:33 2010 No.1239146 >>1239107 Survival is generally taken for granted in deserted island scenarios...

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 05:35:33 2010 No.1239152 Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 05:41:33 2010 No.1239153 the best of /d/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 06:28:33 2010 No.1239211 The lord of the rings

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