If you were stranded on an island for the rest of your life, what 5 books would you bring?

The Critque of Pure Reason
Euclid 's Elements
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses
David Copperfield

The Swiss Family Robinson (hilariously enough, the first novel I ever read)
Whatever survival guide is actually decent (how to build traps and kilns and mudhuts and shit)
Journey to the West
The Three Musketeers + sequels
Shogun
Pern Series

>Shakespeare (all of it)
that's not how this works, fuckhead

Traditionally one gets the complete works of Shakespeare and the KJ Bible for free.

Just the tv guide

oxford study bible
complete works of shakespeare
moby-dick
brothers karamazov
war and peace

Ugh, literally all of those were written by old white men. Could you GET any more problematic?

the bible
an atlas of the world (looking at maps really calms me)
hemingway's collected short stories
thor heyerdahl - fatu hiva
marcel proust - in search of lost time

>Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann
>Moby Dick -Herman Melville
>Island in the Stream (kek) - Ernest Hemingway
>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
>Edgar Allan Poe's entire works (it fits in one 400 page novel)

5 blank sketchbooks.

I have my own stories to write.

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Boat Making
Sailing
Wildlife of the Pacific Islands
Encyclopedia Britannica (all of it)
Survivalism Handbook

What if you're not in the Pacific.

Well chances are I would be, and if Im not it could still be somewhat useful.

Also, if im not in the pacific it should be easier to get back to the mainland so I'd be ok.

I like KJV (I was raised on it) and ESV (that's the version my pocket Bible is), but I'm unfamiliar with NRSV and NASB happens to be the first Bible I read all the way through. I'm partial to it. Also, it is a very literal translation.

KJV Rainbow Study Bible would probably be my next choice.

what about the concept "stranded on an island for the rest of your life" do you not get?

>SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition
>Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Eighth Edition
>Euclid's Elements
>The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition
>The Thickest, Most Lurid, Most Depraved, Single Volume Collection of Pornography I Can Find

I think the smart thing would be to pick books I haven't already read. So I'd take with me Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, AEgypt, Magic Mountain and Brothers Karamazov.
That oughta keep me fulfilled till I starved to death.

If OP wanted to ask what our 5 favorite books are he would have asked that, but he specifically asked for "stranded on an Island" books.

All the retards ITT who are getting bibles and Shakespeare would die in a week so you should complain about them not me

go watch some ted talks on youtube, you plebbit fagtron

I hate both actually, stop projecting.

The premise of this thread is nonsense so I took in a different (read: better) direction.

Dune
Robinson Crusoe
Count of Monte Cristo
Mein Kampf
Old Man and the Sea

All the retards ITT who dont bring practical books wont actually have time to read their crappy books because they'd die in a week

You know what's funny? You think you're being clever and original here, but actually you're just being facetious.

Just wish you could spell Iliad

Im actually taking the OP seriously, why specify we are stuck on an island if it doesn't effect our choices?

Five books based on deserted island survival, converting saltwater to freshwater, building functional flotation devices, typical weather patterns of the tropics with political maps, and a guide to local/underwater wildlife including their migratory patterns.

It's a simple, comprehensible scenario designed to help people decide what books they consider most valuable to themselves without asking the question outright. You're not original. You're not clever. A million people before you have suggested "HUR HUR HOW TO BUILD A RAFT" and many more will no doubt follow after you. It's inane, facetious, and adds nothing to the discussion.

The Bible

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Complete Poems of John Milton

Complete Poems of John Donne

The Riverside Chaucer

are you on the spectrum, m8?

>stuck on an island but cant bring useful books, must get some bullshit fiction that you wont be able to rad because you'd die of starvation in a week
>comprehensible

Its retarded, if he wanted our favorate books he should of asked that. Maybe those million of "inane" people are right and you're just a moron?

no i got tested

I am now wondering why you're on the literature board if you can evidently neither read nor write competently.

>if he wanted our favorate books he should of asked that

I got a perfect score on the reading SAT mate

yet you can't read properly, impressive

KJV Bible
Consolation of Philosophy
The Way of Man
Summa Theologica
120 Days of Sodom

Maybe the SAT is wrong... or you are. Hmm
Jesus wont stop you from starving to death

I gave myself enough material for both of the two possible ways I'll be spending the rest of my days.

Holy shit this post is sad. It's not about originality. It's about wanting to survive on a deserted island. How insecure can you fucking be.
>you posted survival manuals, IDIOT! THATS NOT ORIGINAL
Not shit fuckwad, but I'll be equip to survival my desertion while you're dying reading classic literature because it's original to try and survive instead.

Fucking sad baka

near 50 replies in a 5 books stranded island thread and no one mentioned Robinson Crusoe

NRSV was my first and i think it was a good choice, but I've only read selected books. For my next (hopefully thorough) read I've sampled both the ESV and the NASB and i can't pick between the two. There's also the elephant in the room, of course (KJV), which i cannot keep ignoring for much longer; however I want a version that's both literal and in clear, modern English (my second language).
Anyway, this is not the thread for this so thank you for sharing the reason behind your choice.

>Women and Men, Joseph McElroy
>Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
>The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
>The Recognitions, William Gaddis
>Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
I would want books I could get lost in.

Hey, helpful notice - this is the LITERATURE board. /out/ is down the corridor.

>inb4 it's a scenario designed to help you pick your favorite books

Yeah, you're right. I forgot you don't read survival manuals, they just radiate their knowledge into their surroundings lmfao fucking embarrassing

>I'll be equip
haahhaahha fucking retard

There's like three typos there you moron

I always interpreted this question as, "which books would you be okay with reading over and over until either you died or you managed to escape?" Am I wrong? Would it be easier if OP had just asked that?

laughed out loud, these guys are fucking retards who wouldnt survive a day on the island

Yes, there is no reason to bring desertion on an island into it unless that is important to the decision

Is this a trick question, faggot?

>e-reader with all the classics and bi me already downloaded
>charger and portable solar panel

Git gud, faggot

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5 copies of rupi kaur's milk and honey, obviously

5 vintage Playboy mags

No one is this autistic

There is no way this is a real person

You must be new here

i hate books

The New King James Version Bible. It's not necessarily the best, but it's easy to read, so I like it.
The Complete works of Plato
Don Quixote
Essays by Montaigne
The Complete Works of Shakespeare

It sounds like fun to make fake people out of sticks, and then have them reenact Shakespeare's plays. Although if I were stranded on an island I'd probably spend most of my time making a nice house, trying to make a boat, and some form of fishing rod. If the island is big enough, and God hasn't forsaken me entirely, then I might be able to find an iron ore deposit; that would be a game changer.

>Jesus won't stop you from starving to death.

Actually, He will. Read the Bible, there's several stories about it.

I like you.

>butthurt

The Torah
The book of Flying
Dostoevsky's short stories
A hero of our time
Oblomov