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[wheelieterp]

You are going to be on a small desert island for a year. There are no bookstores, and shipping to the island is a problem. Space is also a problem.

What books do you bring?

Ok.. Some specifics:

The island is 26 miles long and one mile wide. (Look it up: Providenciales in the Turk and Ciaco islands) there's sand and sea turtles, but no Barnes and Noble.

E-books from online are a viable option, but sometimes, I need books on paper for comfort; the act of turning a page or two lulls me to sleep at night.

Already in the library:

The Call of the Wild Jack London

My Antonia Willa Cather

The Brothers Karamazov Fydor Dosteovsky

Now... Your suggestions?

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[luckytiger.livejournal.com]

Franny and Zooey - J.D Salinger
Tokyo Montana Express - Richard Brautigan

[dodgingwndshlds.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh!! And I bet you know where I can get copies, too!!!

Now that I have all this free time.. We def. Need to meet up... How's thurs? I'll email you.

[watchingitburn.livejournal.com]

Suggestion #1: Anything book-ish you require, I can get a pretty sweet discount on (30% off 'New' / 50% off 'Used'), just to throw it out there.

Suggestion #2:
'Forgetting Elena' -- Edmund White
'Collected Short Stories' -- Paul Bowles
'Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' -- Haruki Murakami
'Mrs Dalloway' -- Virginia Woolf
'The Brief History of the Dead' -- Kevin Brockmeier

[asweetbri.livejournal.com]

The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Stand - Stephen King
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

I end up re-reading these books every so often, because they are long, intricate, and I always find something new in them.

[zevinboots.livejournal.com]

I would suggest a book that connects you to some kind of queer/leather mindset, if that is important to you. I find John Preston incredibly comforting, among other things.

[txkink.livejournal.com]

As cliche' as it may sound, I really loved "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. One of my fave scifi books is "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller.

[stewickie.livejournal.com]

The book you can always find on my bookshelf, no matter where I am? "To Kill A Mockingbird". I'm Southern bred and reading that book calms me. But for you? I'd say if you are going to write, you should make sure you have a good reference book......and any fiction that inspires you. Most of my referencing happens on-line....but, inspiration.....I gotta have a physical volume.

[brianpdx.livejournal.com]

I have REAMS and REAMS of paper at home (some of it all fancy and shit), so I say we find the text you want and burn up some printer ink!!

Come on over, download, print. Lather, rinse, whip, repeat.

[hossinseattle.livejournal.com]

Joe Keenan's "My Blue Heaven".

"Gray's Anatomy"

Janson's "History of Art"

[thisearthlyride.livejournal.com]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Written on the Body OR
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (you'll need SOME humor, after all!)

I'd probably also throw in a copy of Gone With the Wind just for the fun of it... But that's just me ;)

[stewickie.livejournal.com]

A list?

Hmmm... where to start?

George R R Martin's "Fire and Ice" series when you need intrigue, Charles De Lint when you need solace (My favorite is Memory and Dream if you can find it). Karen Travis' "City of Pearl" for some amazing sociological sci-fi, Robin Hobb makes a great summer read in her "Farseer" series.

You want more?

[kumazuki.livejournal.com]

Wow that is a tough one. There have been a few time in my life when I have said, "I wish I was a reader". I guess that is kind of strange for a language freak like me. About the only thing that I read are dictionaries and short-attention span articles. I probably could count the number of books that I have read all the way through, on both hands. So, my list:

A multi-language Dictionary
A 500 page blank notebook and a pencil.

[borderlandsbear.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:
Haruki Murakami's _Wind-Up Bird Chronicles_
Kate Atkinson's _Case Histories_
Katherine Nevilles's _The Eight_
Yxta Maya Murray's _The Conquest_
Edith Wharton's _The House of Mirth_
Charles Chesnutt's _The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales_

[danjite.livejournal.com]

Get Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart

Definitely.

Also, I recommend Neal Stehenson's Cryptonomicon.

from vee

[stewickie.livejournal.com]

ah....I thought of another that I liked...."Time Traveler's Wife".

Re: from Stew

[stewickie.livejournal.com]

Oooohhh! I second that one!