If you were stranded on an island for the rest of your life,

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>>9669493
Can we count multi-volume books or book-series as one book?

...I'm gonna. Here we go:

>The Bible (Thomas Ryrie NASB Study Bible)
>Major British Writers, an anthology in two volumes
>Plato's complete works, Hackett Publishing
>Kant's Three Critiques
>In Search of Lost Time, all seven parts in two volumes, Marcel Proust

inb4 survival guides and engineering manuals

Shakespeare (all of it)
Moby Dick
Rabelais (at least the first 4 books)
Virgil (Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics)
Don Quixote

poopy doopy

5 shindol doujins

>>9669493
Illiad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Helen in Egypt
Metamorphoses

I just wanna daydream about the trojan war until I die anyway.

A book that contains all other other books except itself

>Dubliners
>Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
>The Bible KJ
>Dracula
>Crime and Punishment
Choosing complete works is kinda hack... pls no bully

>>9669493
I wouldn't bring anything to read if I were stranded on an island. My wobbly physical health and lack of exercise, combined with my natural laziness, lack of survival knowledge and defeatist attitude would ensure I'd dedicate less time to reading and more time to slowly agonizing in the sun.

>>9669592
Why did you choose the NASB Bible versus, say, the NRSV, the KJV or the ESV?

The Critque of Pure Reason
Euclid 's Elements
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses
David Copperfield

>>9669493
The Swiss Family Robinson (hilariously enough, the first novel I ever read)
Whatever survival guide is actually decent (how to build traps and kilns and mudhuts and shit)
Journey to the West
The Three Musketeers + sequels
Shogun
Pern Series

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>>9669879
>Shakespeare (all of it)
that's not how this works, fuckhead

>>9670051
Traditionally one gets the complete works of Shakespeare and the KJ Bible for free.

Just the tv guide

>>9669493
oxford study bible
complete works of shakespeare
moby-dick
brothers karamazov
war and peace

>>9670366
Ugh, literally all of those were written by old white men. Could you GET any more problematic?

the bible
an atlas of the world (looking at maps really calms me)
hemingway's collected short stories
thor heyerdahl - fatu hiva
marcel proust - in search of lost time

>>9669493
>Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann
>Moby Dick -Herman Melville
>Island in the Stream (kek) - Ernest Hemingway
>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
>Edgar Allan Poe's entire works (it fits in one 400 page novel)

5 blank sketchbooks.

I have my own stories to write.

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>>9670544

Boat Making
Sailing
Wildlife of the Pacific Islands
Encyclopedia Britannica (all of it)
Survivalism Handbook

>>9670561
What if you're not in the Pacific.

>>9670581
Well chances are I would be, and if Im not it could still be somewhat useful.

Also, if im not in the pacific it should be easier to get back to the mainland so I'd be ok.

>>9670027
I like KJV (I was raised on it) and ESV (that's the version my pocket Bible is), but I'm unfamiliar with NRSV and NASB happens to be the first Bible I read all the way through. I'm partial to it. Also, it is a very literal translation.

KJV Rainbow Study Bible would probably be my next choice.

>>9670584
what about the concept "stranded on an island for the rest of your life" do you not get?

>SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition
>Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Eighth Edition
>Euclid's Elements
>The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition
>The Thickest, Most Lurid, Most Depraved, Single Volume Collection of Pornography I Can Find

>>9669493
I think the smart thing would be to pick books I haven't already read. So I'd take with me Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, AEgypt, Magic Mountain and Brothers Karamazov.
That oughta keep me fulfilled till I starved to death.

>>9670653
If OP wanted to ask what our 5 favorite books are he would have asked that, but he specifically asked for "stranded on an Island" books.

All the retards ITT who are getting bibles and Shakespeare would die in a week so you should complain about them not me

>>9670699
go watch some ted talks on youtube, you plebbit fagtron

>>9670712
I hate both actually, stop projecting.

The premise of this thread is nonsense so I took in a different (read: better) direction.

>>9669493
Dune
Robinson Crusoe
Count of Monte Cristo
Mein Kampf
Old Man and the Sea

All the retards ITT who dont bring practical books wont actually have time to read their crappy books because they'd die in a week

>>9670561
You know what's funny? You think you're being clever and original here, but actually you're just being facetious.

>>9669927
Just wish you could spell Iliad

>>9670795
Im actually taking the OP seriously, why specify we are stuck on an island if it doesn't effect our choices?

>>9669493
Five books based on deserted island survival, converting saltwater to freshwater, building functional flotation devices, typical weather patterns of the tropics with political maps, and a guide to local/underwater wildlife including their migratory patterns.

>>9670805
It's a simple, comprehensible scenario designed to help people decide what books they consider most valuable to themselves without asking the question outright. You're not original. You're not clever. A million people before you have suggested "HUR HUR HOW TO BUILD A RAFT" and many more will no doubt follow after you. It's inane, facetious, and adds nothing to the discussion.

The Bible

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Complete Poems of John Milton

Complete Poems of John Donne

The Riverside Chaucer

>>9670805
are you on the spectrum, m8?

>>9670816
>stuck on an island but cant bring useful books, must get some bullshit fiction that you wont be able to rad because you'd die of starvation in a week
>comprehensible

Its retarded, if he wanted our favorate books he should of asked that. Maybe those million of "inane" people are right and you're just a moron?

>>9670829
no i got tested

>>9670852
I am now wondering why you're on the literature board if you can evidently neither read nor write competently.

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>>9670852
>if he wanted our favorate books he should of asked that

>>9670856
I got a perfect score on the reading SAT mate

>>9670862
yet you can't read properly, impressive

KJV Bible
Consolation of Philosophy
The Way of Man
Summa Theologica
120 Days of Sodom

>>9670870
Maybe the SAT is wrong... or you are. Hmm
>>9670873
Jesus wont stop you from starving to death

>>9670877
I gave myself enough material for both of the two possible ways I'll be spending the rest of my days.

>>9670816
Holy shit this post is sad. It's not about originality. It's about wanting to survive on a deserted island. How insecure can you fucking be.
>you posted survival manuals, IDIOT! THATS NOT ORIGINAL
Not shit fuckwad, but I'll be equip to survival my desertion while you're dying reading classic literature because it's original to try and survive instead.

Fucking sad baka

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near 50 replies in a 5 books stranded island thread and no one mentioned Robinson Crusoe

>>9670591
NRSV was my first and i think it was a good choice, but I've only read selected books. For my next (hopefully thorough) read I've sampled both the ESV and the NASB and i can't pick between the two. There's also the elephant in the room, of course (KJV), which i cannot keep ignoring for much longer; however I want a version that's both literal and in clear, modern English (my second language).
Anyway, this is not the thread for this so thank you for sharing the reason behind your choice.

>Women and Men, Joseph McElroy
>Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
>The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
>The Recognitions, William Gaddis
>Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
I would want books I could get lost in.

>>9670889
Hey, helpful notice - this is the LITERATURE board. /out/ is down the corridor.

>>9670889
>inb4 it's a scenario designed to help you pick your favorite books

>>9670896
Yeah, you're right. I forgot you don't read survival manuals, they just radiate their knowledge into their surroundings lmfao fucking embarrassing

>>9670889
>I'll be equip
haahhaahha fucking retard

>>9670929
There's like three typos there you moron

>>9670699
I always interpreted this question as, "which books would you be okay with reading over and over until either you died or you managed to escape?" Am I wrong? Would it be easier if OP had just asked that?

>>9670889
laughed out loud, these guys are fucking retards who wouldnt survive a day on the island

>>9671050
Yes, there is no reason to bring desertion on an island into it unless that is important to the decision

>>9669493
Is this a trick question, faggot?

>e-reader with all the classics and bi me already downloaded
>charger and portable solar panel

Git gud, faggot

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>>9671060

>>9669493
5 copies of rupi kaur's milk and honey, obviously

5 vintage Playboy mags

>>9671060
No one is this autistic

>>9670852
There is no way this is a real person

>>9671138
You must be new here

i hate books

>>9669493
The New King James Version Bible. It's not necessarily the best, but it's easy to read, so I like it.
The Complete works of Plato
Don Quixote
Essays by Montaigne
The Complete Works of Shakespeare

It sounds like fun to make fake people out of sticks, and then have them reenact Shakespeare's plays. Although if I were stranded on an island I'd probably spend most of my time making a nice house, trying to make a boat, and some form of fishing rod. If the island is big enough, and God hasn't forsaken me entirely, then I might be able to find an iron ore deposit; that would be a game changer.

>>9670877
>Jesus won't stop you from starving to death.

Actually, He will. Read the Bible, there's several stories about it.

>>9670827
I like you.

>>9670699
>butthurt

The Torah
The book of Flying
Dostoevsky's short stories
A hero of our time
Oblomov