Desert Island Top Ten

[Solly]

If you were stranded, what top ten books would you want.
You already have the Bible (with concordance), if a Christian, chosen religious text if not, or specified text if not religious at all.

Moi:

John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
J H Alexander, More than Notion
Dante, Divine Comedy
W Huntington, Kingdom of Heaven taken by prayer
J Owen, Christologia
J Owen, Grace and duty of being spiritually minded
W Gadsby, Gadsby's selection of hymns
J Metcalfe, Psalms of the Old Testament (rendered for singing)
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therese of Lisieux, Story of a soul.

[GrayPilgrim]

The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 vols.)
John Flavel "The Mystery of Providence"
Schreiner "Romans"
A Guide to Modern Shipbuilding :tongue:
Oberman "Luther: Man Between God adn Devil"
The Trinity Hymnal
Owen "Original Sin"
Owen "On Indwelling Sin"
Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird"

[The Curtmudgeon]

Yikes! I can only have ten!? I don't think I like this desert island! :help: Scribbles message in a bottle: "Amazon.com, send catalog by next available albatross"

Anyway, let's see if I can pare it down to 10 :huh:


Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe :smile:
Mysterious Island :smile:
Swiss Family Robinson :smile:
Expository Sermons on Revelation (W. A. Criswell)
The Scarlet Thread Through the Bible (Criswell)
Baptist Hymnal (at least, there'll be nobody around to complain!)
IVP Bible Background Commentary (two volumes, OT and NT)
A recent Sears Roebuck catalog, or else the Manhattan or LA phone book :lol:


The (let's keep this place tidy now) Curtmudgeon

[NeilUnreal]

1. A World Lit Only by Fire, William Manchester
My favorite history book.

2. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Political satire, philosophy, and theology – all in one handy volume!

3. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R.Tolkien
My favorite fantasy.

4. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
To finally solve the mystery: Is Dick Datchery really Helena Landless?

5.The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Donald Knuth
Lots of sample problems to keep from being bored.

6.Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
Absolutely the funniest thing ever written.

7.Bulfinch’s Mythology, Thomas Bulfinch
A children’s adaptation was one of my favorite books while growing up.

8. A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Book of the Dead, E.A. Wallis Budge
Inaccurate, but fun!

9. Zen and Japanese Culture, Daisetz T. Suzuki
Hours of reflection on every page.

10. How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Bradford Angier
Helpful on desert islands as well ;)

-Neil

[Patroclus]

1. One volume Divine Comedy
2. Riverside Shakespeare
3. Riverside Chaucer
4. One Volume LOTR
5. Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1
6. Selected poems of John Keats
7. Complete works of T.S. Eliot
8. Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1
9. 1984
10. One Volume Chronicles of Narnia

God bless Norton.

[jstaples4jc]

Wow, gives new meaning to the whole "Survivor" thing. :wink:

1. Trusting God, Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges
2. Desiring God by John Piper
3. The God Who Justifies by James White
4. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
5. A NASB Bible
6. "Underboss" Daredevil trade paperback
7. Any Amazing Spider-Man trade paperback
8. One of the LOTR books
9. My Bauer, Danker, Arndt, and Gingrich Greek Lexicon
10. My Greek New Testament (Either UBS4 or NA27 would suffice)

Wow, that was tough! lol

In His Grip,
Julie <><

[jstaples4jc]

Oops, missed where you said I already have a Bible. In that case, replace #5 with my Mounce Greek Grammar.

Hey, at least on a desert island I'd have a chance to catch up in my Koine Greek studies. :wink:

Julie <><

[Solly]

Gee, how could I miss LOTR. Perhaps that should be required text also.

I have noticed the one volume collected works from several of you guys. :hrm:

[Patroclus]

I have noticed the one volume collected works from several of you guys.

Hey, you made no rule to the contrary. Just because I have more books to read than you does not give you license to be jealous. I didn't cheat either--those are all books in my library.

[Solly]

That's alright. I was thinking about my one volume Keil and Delitzsch, and one volume Encyclopedia Brittanica. :teeth:

[Patroclus]

Oops... I don't have the complete works of T.S. Eliot. I have sen it at a used bookstore though. I know it exists.

[GrayPilgrim]

Can you reccomend a good treatement of The Wasteland?

[The Curtmudgeon]

Yesterday @ 08:24 PM NeilUnreal:
5.The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Donald Knuth
Lots of sample problems to keep from being bored.[/i]

Neil, have you read Knuth's Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About? Great read! Also, his 3:16 book is just absolutely beautiful.

The (God + computers: you gotta love it!) Curtmudgeon

[NeilUnreal]

Curtmudgeon re. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About?

I've got it, but I haven't read it yet; I'm greatly looking forward to it! I bought it last year and saved it to read on my Christmas vacation, but then was too busy. I should add it to the "What aren't you reading?" thread :lol:

Have you ever seen "The Potrzebie system of Weight and Measures"? It's an early satire piece written by Knuth for Mad magazine?

(Bizarrely enough, "Things a Computer Scientist..." caught my eye in the bookstore because the picture of Knuth on the front cover looks enough like my dad to be his brother.)

-Neil

p.s. What kind of programming do you do?

[Patroclus]

Can you reccomend a good treatement of The Wasteland?

Not at this time. The sad thing about being a lit major at the undergrad level is that so many great works are covered in survey coruses, meaning: just the bare bones son--don't get greedy.

I would imagine that a good treatment would not be hard to fidn, however, since it is commonly known as the most important English poem of the 20th century.

[Ryokan]

1. A good book on boat building
2. Idiots guide to Training Parrots
3. Something on spear fishing
4. a book on sailing
5. The Joy of Eating Bugs
6. Robinson Crusoe
7. A big dictionary with soft pages, (for my rest room)
8. a book on meditation, cause what else am I going to do
9. A book on carpentry
10. This months Playboy(hey, it gets lonely on deserted Islands)
:teeth:

[Solly]

YOu forgot "1001 things to do with sand" & "Palm Trees: love 'em or hate 'em, you can't eat 'em"

Oh, and "Dangerous insects and snakes, and how quickly you can die from their bites"

[djnoz]

Hehe, this is fun
1. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (single volume)
2. Robert Jordan – As much of his works that can be packed into a single volume
3. Willian Powell – The Anarchist Cookbook (in case I run into any hostile primitive civisations)
4. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
5. 1984 – George Orwell
6. The “Dungeons and Dragons” 3rd edition rules (in case I bump into someone else as bored as I am)
7. William Gibson – Neuromancer
8. An atlas
9. Any manga title
10. A big fat cookery book.

[The Curtmudgeon]

Today @ 09:33 AM djnoz:

2. Robert Jordan – As much of his works that can be packed into a single volume


Er, that would be ... one.

The (one of my RJ books broke its spine in protest the first time read) Curtmudgeon

[Ryokan]

Very true Solly, very true. Also "Sand: Friend or Foe?"

[geochron]

04-16-2003 @ 10:11 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=69107#post69107)
GrayPilgrim:

Can you reccomend a good treatement of The Wasteland?

It's not what you are after, but Martin Rowson's cartoon version is brilliant (and I don't go for cartoon books usually).

In the British version of this, you get the bible, Shakespeare and an encyclopedia. So leaving them aside my top ten might be...

"Tristram Shandy" - Laurence Sterne
"The Book of Dreams" - Jack Vance
"Catch-22" - Joseph Heller
"Pale Fire" - Vladimir Nabokov
"Against Method" - Paul Feyerabend
"Lies my Teacher Taught Me" - James Loewen
"The Long Goodbye" - Raymond Chandler
"The Complete Saki" - Saki
"The Good Soldier Svejk" - Jaroslav Hasek
"The Tin Drum" - Gunter Grass.