You awaken in the middle of the night to pic related standing at the foot of your bed. Adrenaline streams through your body but you are unable to move. A guttural, inhuman voice suddenly invades your mind.
"Listen, mortal," the voice growls. "For reasons beyond your pitiful mind's ability to comprehend, you are hereby being banished to a featureless plane for 1,000 years. During this time you will not age, and afterwards you will be brought right back to this instant to continue your dismal, worthless existence. You may choose 10 books to bring with you. They will exist in a circle around you while you wait within the plane."
Realizing that you aren't dreaming, your mind quickly goes to work thinking which books to bring.
"Think carefully, vulgar creature. These books will be your only companions for what will seem like an eternity."
Ian Cox
First book:
The Early Church Fathers: Ante-Nicene Fathers, Nicene Fathers, and Post-Nicene Fathers in 108 volumes
Julian Cox
I'd punch that bitch nigga in the face
Adam Perry
Ten copies of Infinite Jest
Leo Sanchez
stoner by john williams because i masterbate 2 the part where he fucks his wife.
Dylan Clark
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Matthew Rogers
The Bible (For Religious Purposes and length) Moby Dick (For philosophical Reasons and length) Lolita (For wank material) Infinite Jest (For humour and length) Gravity's Rainbow because I can Lord of the Rings (To sate genre fiction needs + length) The Call of Cthulhu (So I have something to relate to) Hypersphere (So I have something to relate to) The Brothers Karamozov (MAYBE I'll have enough time to get it) A giant empty notebook + pencils so I can write a masterwork
Austin Roberts
with the notebook you can pretend to post on Veeky Forums all day
Jeremiah Cruz
Honestly I have actually read very little and in just starting getting into lit so here's what I'd pick >Complete works of Plato and Aristotle >Homer's the Oddessy and Illiad >Moby Dick >Brothers Karamazov >Complete LOTR collection >Lolita >Complete works of Shakespeare >Some bigass math textbook that will hopefully be able to teach me enough so I can make some major strides for mathematics >The same for physics >Massive notebook and a pen
Isaac Foster
I sleep the other way around, so it'd be a bit awkward, but anyway, my choice would be "10 books with infinite dimensions, sir" to break reality and free myself.
Ryan Wright
Lord of the Rings. Maybe with all that time I'd be able to find a single flaw.
Julian Carter
>They will exist in a circle around you while you wait within the plane
If I can't interact with the books what's the fucking point of choosing some. Just pick any ten, demon, and let's go faggot.
Wyatt Cox
dude why did i eat all that weed lmao
Gavin Parker
Full volume of the Bible Full volume of Cicero's works Full volume of Plato's work Pretty much any long compilation of seminal works
Also a hard-drive with all the internet saved on if permitted
Parker Collins
If the demon gives me some time to research, at least a few psych books so I could maintain my sanity for as long as possible
Kevin Anderson
Intern Medicine I Intern Medicine II >These two because when I come out I'll have come out completely prepared for the rest of my uni, but if this really happened I'd scour the internet for a book that'd combine the material of these into one and was thicker (they are thick enough already tho) Some humungous book on physics Some humungous book on mathematics >Shit's fascinating but I clearly have no time for this kind of stuff Exhaustive guide for C++ >Programming is my hobby but again getting into C++ is hard because I do mostly Python and have fuck all time Depending on the definition of a "book" and depending on how much I can bend the rules, either Wikipedia on a computer/tablet/as an e-book (super lax rules) Wikipedia in book form (similar but less lax rules), a shitton of handpicked articles printed out from Wikipedia into a real book (if the entity gives me time to gather the articles, have them printed out and assembled into a gigantic book), some big encyclopedia such as all of Encyclopedia Britannica within a single book (I'm sure some faggot already made this). Then I don't know, probably some stupidly big works or compilations of works of different authors. Depending on the rules I can compile them myself out of downloaded pdfs or some shit and print them out. And then a stupidly huge empty book with something to write in it, or an e-reader where you can also write in it. Watching out for retarded shit like running out of ink or charge. There has to be some way to record my thoughts even if it involves cutting myself and writing in blood or some shit like that.
I laugh at the idiots here who pick Lolita. Good luck understanding all the bullshit the author crammed into such a short book without extensive knowledge of it all. You're going to miss like half the shit that there is and not even annotated version will help you.
Niggers
Jace James
Did you not read my post?
I chose Lolita purely for fapping material.
Jose Smith
Then allow me to laugh even more.
Thomas Green
How to Escape from Demons Breaking Free from Dimensional Prisons Outsmarting Demons for Dummies The Secret Diary of the Demon Who Imprisoned Me Containing All His Secrets and Weaknesses How to Banish Demons 101 How to Really Astral Project Outside of the Dimension You Are Currently In to Any Other Dimension You Want How to Win Freedom and Influence Demons Sleep Paralysis for Idiots The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters Pornography Featuring the Demon's Wife, Girlfriend, and Mother
Ayden Taylor
La creatura...
Caleb Mitchell
KJV The Koran Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Faust The Divine Comedy Principia Mathematica, plus a guide so I can actually fathom it A book on advanced music theory Same for physics, but again I'd need a guide Mikhail Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy Encyclopedia Britannica
Robert Diaz
Bible Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae Plato's dialogues Marcus Aurelius' meditations
War and Peace Complete works of Shakespeare Illiad and odyssey Lord of the Rings Brothers Karamazov Of Mice and Men
Lincoln Smith
None. Being ageless in a featureless plane would provide the ultimate meditative experience. I fear books would only accelerate the inevitable loss of linguistic comprehension.