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.
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)
Liam Anderson
George Eliot - Middlemarch H.D. - Trilogy Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun Ovid - Metamorphoses (Mandelbaum) Homer - Iliad (Fagles)
Matthew Gonzalez
Gay
Zachary Rodriguez
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
Juan Sanders
ur face
Anthony Turner
This, this, this.
Tyler Cook
Gay
Brandon Lee
>Phenomenology of Spirit >Dead Souls >Petersburg >Being and Time >KJV Bible
Please let me take Swann's Way too
Adam Rodriguez
Moby-Dick Brothers Karamazov Don Quixote Tristram Shandy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Joshua Lopez
...
Colton Taylor
...
Caleb Carter
Niiiiiice.
Hudson Ortiz
this guy gets it
Jacob Smith
Should keep me occupied for a good while.
Dominic King
Niiiiice
Luis Gonzalez
KJV, disgusting.
Jace Scott
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
Jack Diaz
Only real answer for Catholics.
Xavier Gonzalez
underrated
Camden Ross
Gravity's Rainbow Paradise Lost Swann's Way Moby Dick Invisible Cities
Blake Brooks
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
Easton Jones
To those who have read swanns way, are the other volumes very important to read after that? Thanks I appreciate the help
Kayden Brown
At one post alone, not a chuckle. But with this kind of follow through, I chortled.
Robert Hughes
kek'd
Blake Adams
The Odyssey was waste of time, tbqh. Call me a pleb, I really don't care.
Sebastian Nelson
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Emery Manual of Zen Buddhism, Suzuki Don Quixote, Cervantes The Feynman Lectures On Physics Principia Mathematica, Whitehead/Russell
Hudson Edwards
What an awful taste. Kys.
Carter Young
good taste
Jonathan Rivera
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.
Samuel Hill
>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
Isaac Campbell
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.
Caleb Gray
>The Torah teaches you how to make loans. citation needed
Hudson Bailey
hmmm maybe Robinson Crusoe?
Jaxon Bailey
Complete essays - Montaigne À la recherche du temps perdu The man without qualities My diary You tell me
Kayden Murphy
Five books about how to survive on an island.
Asher Young
The Bible Complete Shakespeare Complete Plato Plutarch - Lives Thomas Aquinas - Summa
Jordan Baker
Do you think the summa would be interesting for a non-believer/agnostic/non religious person? Is it a universal work?
Hunter Phillips
Surely you must take Robinson Crusoe?
Jason King
Add the bible and one copy of playboy magazine and you got my vote.
Matthew Morris
Why the need of the playboy magazine when I can just imagine
or just fuck some random animals on the island
Brody Peterson
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.
Jackson Jenkins
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
Chase Bailey
Only if you are interested in philosophy. Most analytic philosophers don't mind reading him.
Why would you want to be reminded of your situation?
Luke Fisher
Casanova, is that you?
Camden Wilson
wtf I hate Jews now!
Aiden Ortiz
>Fagles
Kayden Flores
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.
Jackson Howard
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
Jaxon Harris
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.
Alexander Scott
you forget douay-rheims for english
Brody Rogers
The complete works of Shakespeare The Metamorphoses (mandelbaum) The Collector Borges fiction Maybe the Bible
Liam Martinez
> 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)
Tyler Cox
Just a further comment: I'd leave all philosophy in the dirt, except maybe Plato/Aristotle.
Jason Allen
>Not volume 2 of ISOLT for its evocations of childhood
Adam Lee
>complete Plato >KJV >Summa >Divine Comedy >On The Tartar Steppe
Joseph Carter
kek why would I be tired though
Caleb Watson
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
Christian Hill
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.
Joshua Thompson
well what are the five longest books,,,?
Jason Scott
The Magic Mountain Collected Poems by Heine An intensive Anne Frank biography
Ayden Thomas
The Bible Compete works of Augustine The Crusades (by Thomas Asbridge) Dungeon, Fire, and Sword Complete Shakespeare
Jacob Thomas
Douey-Rheims has had zero impact on the English language, it's been 400 years, get over it.