Let's suppose you were to be stranded on a desert island and you could only take five books with you. Show/tell us your five, Veeky Forums I'll list mine since my phone camera is shit:
1. Homer--Odyssey (trans. Fitzgerald)
2. Haruki Murakami--Kafka on the Shore
3. Donald Keene--Anthology of Japanese Literature
4. M.L. West--Lyric Greek poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
5. T.S. Eliot--Four Quartets
Also, feel free to tell us why you picked what you picked.
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I would bring only my diary desu
My Diary
My Diary (Part 2: Desu)
My Diary (Part 3: Revenge of My Diary)
My Diary (Part 4: My Diary Returns)
My Diary (Part 5: The Epic Conclusion of Memetic Proportions)
George Eliot - Middlemarch
H.D. - Trilogy
Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun
Ovid - Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum)
Homer - Iliad (Fagles)
Gay
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian
ur face
This, this, this.
Gay
>Phenomenology of Spirit
>Dead Souls
>Petersburg
>Being and Time
>KJV Bible
Please let me take Swann's Way too
Moby-Dick
Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Niiiiiice.
this guy gets it
Should keep me occupied for a good while.
Niiiiice
KJV, disgusting.
It's the most important English translation of the Bible even if it isn't the most accurate. It's worth reading if you care about the Anglo literary tradition
Only real answer for Catholics.
underrated
Gravity's Rainbow
Paradise Lost
Swann's Way
Moby Dick
Invisible Cities
1.Rudolf Erich Raspe - Baron Munchausen
2.Lúcia Machado - O Escaravelho do Diabo ( it's national )
3.Homer - Odyssey
4.Dune
5.Milk and Vine
To those who have read swanns way, are the other volumes very important to read after that? Thanks I appreciate the help
At one post alone, not a chuckle.
But with this kind of follow through, I chortled.
kek'd
The Odyssey was waste of time, tbqh. Call me a pleb, I really don't care.
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Emery
Manual of Zen Buddhism, Suzuki
Don Quixote, Cervantes
The Feynman Lectures On Physics
Principia Mathematica, Whitehead/Russell
What an awful taste. Kys.
good taste
Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy
The Lesser Key of Solomon
Crowley's Book of the Law
The Picatrix
Grimorium Verum
Give me a few weeks study and whoosh! Back home in a flash, as if by magic.
>US Army Survival Manual, OR , SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea
>Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
>Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
>Survival Medicine
>The Man Without Qualities, OR, Parallel Lives by Plutarch
Wouldn't there be at least one text that would tell you how to make tents with some literary value? The Torah teaches you how to make loans.
>The Torah teaches you how to make loans.
citation needed
hmmm
maybe Robinson Crusoe?
Complete essays - Montaigne
À la recherche du temps perdu
The man without qualities
My diary
You tell me
Five books about how to survive on an island.
The Bible
Complete Shakespeare
Complete Plato
Plutarch - Lives
Thomas Aquinas - Summa
Do you think the summa would be interesting for a non-believer/agnostic/non religious person? Is it a universal work?
Surely you must take Robinson Crusoe?
Add the bible and one copy of playboy magazine and you got my vote.
Why the need of the playboy magazine when I can just imagine
or just fuck some random animals on the island
After a few months with no porn on an island seeing some bimbo in a magazine probably feels like Christmas. Porn ruined our imagination. im just being practical here.
Yea, maybe you're right. It's been a week or so since I decided to stop looking at porn. So far I don't have regrets. It's not difficult nor anything. I'm feeling good. Masturbation is always a good thing, though
Only if you are interested in philosophy. Most analytic philosophers don't mind reading him.
en.wikipedia.org
Literally use google.
Why would you want to be reminded of your situation?
Casanova, is that you?
wtf I hate Jews now!
>Fagles
1. Collected works of H.P Lovecraft
2. On War, by Clausewitz
3. The Odyssey
4. The Book of Five Rings
5. The Bible
Just of the top of my head, feel like these will keep me goin.
Lolita - Nabokov
Under the North Star - Linna
Brothers Karamazov - Dostojevskij
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared - Jonasson
Add The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Not to read it of course but to rip the pages and make paper boats when you get tired of reading.
you forget douay-rheims for english
The complete works of Shakespeare
The Metamorphoses (mandelbaum)
The Collector
Borges fiction
Maybe the Bible
> The KJV Bible
> Don Quijote de la Mancha
> Complete Works of Shakespeare
> The Divine Comedy
> The Iliad/Odyssey (Lattimore translations, pretending that an edition exists with both texts)
Just a further comment: I'd leave all philosophy in the dirt, except maybe Plato/Aristotle.
>Not volume 2 of ISOLT for its evocations of childhood
>complete Plato
>KJV
>Summa
>Divine Comedy
>On The Tartar Steppe
kek
why would I be tired though
Complete Plato
Complete Shakespeare
The Hobbit
The Oxford History of Britain
Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
>Principia Mathematica, Whitehead/Russell
As if you can understand that, lol
Stop pretending to be a sectarian you stupid child, you dont live in Derry in 1970, and if you did you wouldnt make that comment with a triple digit IQ. Stop it with the fake emotion, its not contrarian you're just a retard. No offense.
well what are the five longest books,,,?
The Magic Mountain
Collected Poems by Heine
An intensive Anne Frank biography
The Bible
Compete works of Augustine
The Crusades (by Thomas Asbridge)
Dungeon, Fire, and Sword
Complete Shakespeare
Douey-Rheims has had zero impact on the English language, it's been 400 years, get over it.