[biker59]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

So what is the fifth book?

Janes Guide to Ship Building

[frostola]

Yes to Outlander, and I could read them over and over.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

You are going to a deserted island for year and you can only take five books with you.

What are they?

"Saltwater Fishing", "Trapping Sea Birds", "Cooking by Campfire", "Recipes for Seaweed" "How to Smoke SeaWEED", and "Removing Salt from Seawater". That's 6.

[44Apple]

Tender is the Night
Grapes of Wrath
Rabbit, Run
The Big Sleep
Prince of Tides

[Rainger99]

I just checked the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. It was limited to 400 novels published by Random House.

The top five are

1. Ulysses
2. The Great Gatsby
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. Lolita
5. Brave New World

They seem to love Joyce as they also have Finnegans Wake as #77!

Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I just checked the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century. It was limited to 400 novels published by Random House.

The top five are

1. Ulysses
2. The Great Gatsby
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. Lolita
5. Brave New World

They seem to love Joyce as they also have Finnegans Wake as #77!

Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House

We read Brave New World in College a long, long, time ago in a place far, far away. I used to think that I was a Beta, but maybe I really am just a gamma ?
.........I saw the Lolita movie - it was good FOR ITS TIME, but nothing compared to today's Cinementology.
.........Maybe new versions of these 2 movies would be interesting?

[Taltarzac725]

I found Ulysses to be almost impossible to read. Sentences that go on for pages.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (I had a really old hard-cover edition of this from the late 1800s but it got ruined in a hurricane)
An Anthology of Banned Books (by various authors) - 8,578 pages, in a digital file, which I'd use on my solar-powered e-reader
Whatever other 3 books contain the most pages, in paper. I'd read them and use the pages to help light fires so I could cook my fish on my deserted island. Hopefully I'd be rescued before I finished them all.

[Nucky]

WILSON!!!!!

Could we switch the book to another venue? I'd rather have access to TOTV'S. It's a mystery, it's also always a work in progress. I would love to have a Political Section in my Island Version of TOTV'S. I would have to moderate myself. I've been behaving for so long I think it's time to mix things up a little bit before I go for my three-hour trip on The Minnow!

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Nucky

WILSON!!!!!

Could we switch the book to another venue? I'd rather have access to TOTV'S. It's a mystery, it's also always a work in progress. I would love to have a Political Section in my Island Version of TOTV'S. I would have to moderate myself. I've been behaving for so long I think it's time to mix things up a little bit before I go for my three-hour trip on The Minnow!

I have been enjoying Tom Hanks movies for decades. Especially since his acting in Sully.

[collie1228]

It wouldn't make much difference which books I brought along. Within thirty minutes of arrival I would be saying, "Where in h*** are my reading glasses?".