Desert Island List

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 06:05 AM

Einstein said that any given person stranded on an island somewhere would long for their 10 favorite books. reading that made me want those 10 books, from everyone! so.............

imagine that you're stuck on a desert island. you find a mailing box washed up on shore (ala Castaway) and inside of it is an iPad. (sadly, no internet) downloaded to the device, however, are your three favorite movies - or books - or CDs - or games.

so spill. pick a category (movies, books, CDs, games) or add one of your own. post the best of your best, as many as you like, as often as you like. let's see what we can inspire one another to watch - read - listen to - or play!

3 desert island books: The Freeway (by Dori DeCamillis), The House of Mirth (by Edith Wharton) and Lilith's Brood (by Octavia Butler)

next!

Martina · 09-23-2012, 08:05 AM

Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Joy in the Morning -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Best of Wodehouse -- P.G. Wodehouse
Mansfield Park -- Jane Austen
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Masnavi -- Rumi
Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry -- editor Frederick Nims
(I taught this book many times and came to love the poems Nims selected.)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Conan Doyle
A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life -- Santideva (Maybe I would become enlightened on a desert island -- no distractions. It's possible. Might as well try.)

More poetry than I would have thought. And no Faulkner. Well, I need to be comforted and entertained on a desert island.

Not counting these among my ten because, although I would want them with me, I probably would not read them for pleasure:

The Boy Scout Manual
A Guide to Edible Plants

cinnamongrrl · 09-23-2012, 08:10 AM

ooohhhhh FUN! Making me meander through my mind

Ok...books...I would SO want to cheat and just bring a kindle...but if I have to play nice.... books would be:

1. Little Women...its my go to feel good book....I have to always have a copy ...not like Catcher in the Rye sort of need but...anyhow...

2. I like to have a book of poems by both Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson... I'm very devoted to my New England roots

3. I suppose practically I would like to have a book on surviving in the wild....if that's cheating too much then my Backpacker magazine.....

Movies:

1. Last of the Mohicans

2. Fried Green Tomatoes

3. Dirty Dancing

CDs

1. Red Hot Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magick

2. anything by Lady Antebellum

3. Led Zeppelin's complete collection

I will probably feel the need to add to this as I think of more

Venus007 · 09-23-2012, 08:14 AM

Books for me. . .
"The Lord of the Rings" Tolkien (Yes they do make it in 1 big book)
"Jitterbug Perfume" Tom Robbins
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte

Martina · 09-23-2012, 08:17 AM

I misread the OP. thought we were doing ten. Sorry.

always2late · 09-23-2012, 08:22 AM

Geez...only three??? It's so hard to narrow it down!

1) Bag of Bones - Stephen King
2) Colony - Anne Rivers Siddons
3) The Complete Works of Rumi

Of course...I am now looking at the list and changing my mind. Just three books is a tough choice for me.

TimilDeeps · 09-23-2012, 08:31 AM

Wondering how long the battery is going to last in that iPad . . .

I'd have James Taylor, Staind, and one CD of kick ass gospel.

Movies i'd have Everything is Illuminated, Fargo, and Despicable Me

only need 1 game BF3

CharmingButch25 · 09-23-2012, 08:37 AM

My movies are well kind of girly ones lol dont judge

Fried green tomatoes
Gone with the wind
The best little whore house in texas

Sachita · 09-23-2012, 08:57 AM

If only given three total I am afraid I would select music that has sound tones like Tibetan Chakra Meditations and other meditative music. Maybe a nice jazz sound track. At least by stimulating my mind I can activate my imagination and heal.

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martina

I misread the OP. thought we were doing ten. Sorry.

eh. who cares? it's YOUR island baby! (complete with electricity, coffee and toilet paper of course!) Gilligan got coconut cream pie fer pete sake! you can have 10 anythings!

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TimilDeeps

Wondering how long the battery is going to last in that iPad . . .

I'd have James Taylor, Staind, and one CD of kick ass gospel.

Movies i'd have Everything is Illuminated, Fargo, and Despicable Me

only need 1 game BF3

two words. currant bush

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CharmingButch25

My movies are well kind of girly ones lol dont judge

Fried green tomatoes
Gone with the wind
The best little whore house in texas

i'm gonna challenge you on the use of this word my friend.

i'm tres girly and i hate all 3 of these movies so let's not define them using that word, ok? my idea of exceptional girl movies is a trifecta of Memento followed by The Prestige and all tied up with a bow by American History X. three exceptionally "girly" movies because they were brilliant and i'm a self identified girl and i LOVED THEM.

so now i'm gonna exert my secret OP rules and make you choose 3 more!

CharmingButch25 · 09-23-2012, 12:35 PM

Your right my apologies I should not have used that word
three more lets see

The lucky one
Children of men
A pocketful of miracles
Ohhh one more
Hello Dolly

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CharmingButch25

Your right my apologies I should not have used that word
three more lets see

The lucky one
Children of men
A pocketful of miracles
Ohhh one more
Hello Dolly

oooooooh! Children of Men! good one!

always2late · 09-23-2012, 12:59 PM

Movies (again having a tough time limiting it to just 3, but here goes):

1) Amelie
2) Fargo
3) Young Frankenstein

Martina · 09-23-2012, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomad

eh. who cares? it's YOUR island baby! (complete with electricity, coffee and toilet paper of course!) Gilligan got coconut cream pie fer pete sake! you can have 10 anythings!

ANYthings??? That's better than I do NOT on a desert island.

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martina

ANYthings??? That's better than I do NOT on a desert island.

yep. "anythings" at all

Nomad (who is standing by her propensity for made up wordities because she is the super hero of vocabularyishness.)

Kätzchen · 09-23-2012, 02:15 PM

Music: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Book: The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Movie: Sleepless in Seattle (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)

Nomad · 09-23-2012, 02:19 PM

Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser
Moby - Play
Ozomatli - Live at the Fillmore

Teddybear · 09-23-2012, 02:20 PM

If I was stranded I would want the following:

The Bible
The Shack
The Bachuman books( I think I misspelled it. Stephen Kings books he wrote under another name)

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always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Geez...only three??? It's so hard to narrow it down! 1) Bag of Bones - Stephen King 2) Colony - Anne Rivers Siddons 3) The Complete Works of Rumi Of course...I am now looking at the list and changing my mind. Just three books is a tough choice for me. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

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Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,283 Times in 4,166 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I misread the OP. thought we were doing ten. Sorry.

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