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Oskar45
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Wrote the following at July 13, 2013, 7:48 a.m...

...suppose you are banned but are allowed to take just *five* books with you. Which ones would you choose? My pick:

- Penrose, The road to reality
- Smullyan, Diagonalization and self-reference
- Wentworth Thompson, On growth and form
- Goodheart & Cox, The magic garden explained
- Dante, Divine comedy

Of course, I would not want miss my gyrotwister either...

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Glitch
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Wrote the following at July 13, 2013, 9:21 a.m...

-- Interview With The Vampire
-- Faust
-- Good Omens
-- Dead Until Dark
-- The Bible.

I'd be entertained, enlightened, and have plenty of imagination with reading those to keep me company for a while

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Alver
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Wrote the following at July 14, 2013, 10:55 p.m...

- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Das Boot (yes, the one that became a movie, and yes, the book is still better

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- Ernest Claes, Bei Uns In Deutschland & Pastoor Campens Zaliger (local Belgian writer, early 1900)
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- Walter Moers, The 13 1/2 Lives of Capt'n Bluebear
- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

But gah, only five

so many good books...

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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 1:43 a.m...

BoatBuilding for Beginners - ISBN-13: 978-1891369292
Celestial Navigation for Yachtsman - ISBN-13: 978-0070059283
Coconut Lovers Cookbook - ISBN-13: 978-0941599597
Atlas of Remote Islands - ISBN-13: 978-0143118206
Man vs. Wild: Survival Techniques from the Most Dangerous Places on Earth - ISBN-13: 978-1401322939

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geo
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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 5:36 a.m...

Alver wrote:

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

love this book!!

even watched the movie

mine would be:
- Holy Bible
- then all books about surviving same as porter

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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 7:20 a.m...

- The God Particle, Leon Letterman
- The Inflationary Universe, Alan Guth
- The Hunting of the Quark, Michael Riordan
- The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan
- All The Words, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Oskar45
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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 8:42 a.m...

geo wrote:

Alver wrote:

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

love this book!!

even watched the movie

mine would be:
- Holy Bible
- then all books about surviving same as porter

I agree - "The Name of the Rose" is a terrific book, and the movie was fine as well [Connery and Qualtinger were just outstanding].

Regarding your book list - well, you'd chosen *six* books. Out of courtesy :-)

:-):-) I let that pass. After all, the Bible is without question the greatest crime & sex story ever dreamed up [see, e.g., Akerley, "The X-Rated Bible"], and, therefore, will make entertaining reading any time...

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theinonen
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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 9:08 a.m...

Holy Bible is the last book I would take anywhere with me.

When finally get away from useless things like religion, then why take it with you then?

Oskar45
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Wrote the following at July 15, 2013, 9:21 a.m...

theinonen wrote:

Holy Bible is the last book I would take anywhere with me.

When finally get away from useless things like religion, then why take it with you then?

TOTALLY agree with you!

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geo
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2013, 3:20 a.m...

speaking about the Bible, reminds me of two movies

(just for fun tho..)

1. Book of Eli: Just because of one book, but they didn't know that that last Bible was in braille

2. Love Guru: BIBLE = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth

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fu
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2013, 5:22 a.m...

just five is always a hard choice, it's summer and i'm working crazy hours. mix a drink for us mister oskar :)

-Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time)
-Kafka, Amerika / Der Verschollene (Amerika or The man who disappeared)
-Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers (together with Lissitzky's art for mayakovsky's work)
-Camus, Le premier homme (The first man)
-Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The man without qualities)

Oskar45 wrote:

- Dante, Divine comedy

Glitch wrote:

-- Faust

yep, these two would make my list too

Glitch
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2013, 6:10 a.m...

Oskar45 wrote:

theinonen wrote:

Holy Bible is the last book I would take anywhere with me.

When finally get away from useless things like religion, then why take it with you then?

TOTALLY agree with you!

I'm sorry, I thought the question was which five books I was taking with me

Oh wait, that was the question . . . Aww, did someone's feelings get hurt that the big bad Bible was mentioned?

Don't worry, on your island, you can take whatever books you want, as far away as you want.

theinonen
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Wrote the following at July 16, 2013, 7:09 a.m...

Yes, it is a free world and nobody is claiming otherwise. No need to get upset...

Holy Bible itself is not necessarily bad as some people may find some comfort in there. Only when people read and take it too seriously there is danger it can wrongly be used for bad things. Every book that is not to be taken literally is easy to interpret so that it advances someones own purposes.

I am not religious, so Holy Bible is just another book to me and I find a god that helps only those that help themself worthless. Maybe that says it all.

Oskar45
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Wrote the following at July 18, 2013, 7:32 a.m...

fu wrote:

just five is always a hard choice, it's summer and i'm working crazy hours. mix a drink for us mister oskar

-Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu (In search of lost time)
-Kafka, Amerika / Der Verschollene (Amerika or The man who disappeared)
-Mayakovsky, A Cloud in Trousers (together with Lissitzky's art for mayakovsky's work)
-Camus, Le premier homme (The first man)
-Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The man without qualities)

Depressed, finally he addressed our late-night visitor. "Sir Fu, obviously you indulge only in the lightest of literature. Methinks, even a small dose of pynchonomancy might cure you!", Holmes muttered, and reached out for his needle...

Actually, if you're into Proust - you might enjoy Pickover's delightfully weird "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves" [2005] :-)

As for drinks - how about a double Hendrick's + Fevertree, cooled not by (ice) cubes but by (frozen) supereggs?

BTW - come to think of it, I take the liberty to replace "The magic garden explained" by Bucky's "Synergetics, Vol. 1"...

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