and could only have one book with you, which book would it be and why? My choice would be "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". I love this book... I think it's a very deep and spiritual book and being lost on a desert island, I would be needing to make those connections within myself. Plus it's just a damn good book!
The Bible. It'd take ages to finish and since I'm not religious I could spend my time picking it apart, looking at all those theories...Yup, The Bible 'cause I could spend tons of time with it.
Dune... never tire of reading it, and I get something new from it everytime. It's a very good social/economic/religous commentary, but also a very entertaining story.
very cool idea.... Believe it or not I made it a point to sit and read the bible cover to cover once... helluva long read, but at least I can say I did it! If I could take just one book with me, it'd be a toss up between Douglas Coupland's Generation X or something by Anne Rice.
I would take James Joyce's "Ulysses." No actually, I would take the annotated guide to Ulysses: that has each line and the explanation and history behind each section.
Encyclopedia Brittanica Long, soft, strong and thoroughly absorbant....... (but to read i'd take tolkien )
First Choice - Umberto Eco's Island of the Day Before, After that Name of the Rose, Foucaults Pendulum or Baudolino. All damn good books that took me for ever to have the time to read and which keep me coming back to read another time.
"Friday" by Michel Tournier It retells Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe but gives the story a philosophical depth. All seen trough the eyes of his little help Friday. Its maybe the best choice if you're trapped on a desert island