If you could only read one book for the rest of your life....

Since there are so many contenders;

Hobbes
Ptolemy
Galileo
Swift
Voltaire
Planck
Heisenberg
Dostoyevsky
Conrad
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Kafka
Waddington
Melville
Dickens
Eliot
Twain
Tolstoy
Pascal
Newton

I’ll have to choose my sentimental favorite Dune by Frank Herbert



Hotwater :2thumbsup:

 

the prophet, by kalil gebrahn.

although i also lean toward "yv88" trains and nature and solar and a kind of fumbling toward the idea of the internet before it existed and people didn't yet know the shape and form it would take, same for solar as it was conceived at the time, together is a hard combination to beat.

leguinne's always comming home is another i can go back to again and again and again and never get tired of the possibilities it inspires.

 

Been through a couple of sets.

Book of life.

 

As much as I enjoy reading fluff (as you know, Piaf ) I've read lots of serious stuff along the way.

At any rate, I would choose the Holy Bible, King James version.

Not only am I a believer, there are LOTS of interesting stories of literally all kinds in there. :2thumbsup:

 

Kahlil Gibran, good choice!

 

I love Kahlil Gibran.
The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah - heartbreaking

 

I'd take 'Savitri' by Sri Aurobindo.

I wonder if anyone else on here has even heard of it???

 

• Publisher: Deadbase; First Edition edition (November 1997)
• ISBN-10: 1877657212
• ISBN-13: 978-1877657214

 

I have been looking at this thread title for days now and I still don't have an answer other then.... the question makes me mad! No offense, haha but all I can think of when I see the question is that if I was put in that situation ever for real I'd be so mad and not know what to do with myself at times. I read all the time and I like all kinds of books. I like fiction-novels the best, of various kinds, but I could not pick one that I would be able to continue reading all the time forever as the only book...that would make me so sad... I'd have to seriously find something else to do for all the times that I entertain myself with reading. Idk, I'll still think on it but it's a sad question.

 

Well, now that I saw this post and my brain goes "duh"... I would pick the Bible. That's what I'd have to pick. That is one of the few choices that would both keep me entertained enough in times of sheer boredom and also to be able to read some of the more inspirational-calming passages in Psalms, etc in hard or stressful times would be great.

 

i'm not sure theres a book big enough that it could last a life time but I would probably pick something educational

 

That's tough.

Maybe The Idiot. Or something by Murakami, because I need some crazy randomness in my life.

 

I have, but I cannot admit to having read it.

I do however own a splendid hardcover copy of his 'The Life Divine', which I have read in small pieces during the past 5 or so years. It was one of the last "Eastern" metaphysical books I bought before my interest shifted into primarily history and ethnography, and it's a shame because Aurobindo is far from light reading; parts of his book are difficult to absorb and it is not because of his prose but because the concepts are difficult to grasp unless one is entirely focused. I have been meaning to read it in it's entirety for so long now, but there are so many other books which I end up picking up instead so it has been sitting on my bookshelf waiting. Eventually I will get around to it.

 

As far as a novel I have only ever read one, I cheated in school because I hated reading, seemed like someone wanted me to sit and be quiet for some reason, then later I decided to read one, cover to cover, it sucked. I wanted those hours of my life back but that can't happen.
I read medical books and herbal and natural health books, cover to cover often but as far as stories I just can't put myself to reading someone else's long story, would rather hear it.
I do read some magazines and I have hundreds of health books of all kinds, many I have read cover to cover and referred to many times after that.
I also have taken courses which meant I needed to read lots. That kind of reading felt like something I would use later when a novel just seemed like something I wouldn't care about later.
What's odd is my parents both read a lot like its a challenge to have read everything.

 

I dont to read which books but i know what i go after when my last moments,my old family album.we can see when we still a child and grow older and u will know that life is so precious