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Ok /lit/ you are stuck on a desert island with only 3 Books

WHAT ARE YOUR 3 BOOKS?

Mine:
1. Romance of the 3 Kingdoms Unabridged
2. The Odyssey
3. The Count Of monte Cristo Unabridged

>> No.6076397

>The complete works of Shakespeare
>The Bible
>The Iliad

If I'm going to be a savage I might as well be a cultured savage.

>> No.6076405

1. Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, to gradually burn for tinder
2. Another copy
3. A third copy
Gotta be practical

>> No.6076422

Ficciones
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

>> No.6076433

>>6076405

>not taking three copies of the Book of Sand

>> No.6076434

Take 3 copies of the longest books available, to use their paper for fire

>> No.6076450

>>6076422
What do you like so much about Ficciones?

>> No.6076461
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>>6076433
>sand
>flammable

>> No.6076499

>>6076461

>Hasn't read Borges.

>> No.6076522

A single copy of Finnegans Wake

>> No.6076524

1. How to Survive While Stranded on a Desert Island and Other Improbable Scenarios
2. In Search of Lost Time
3. Ulysses

>> No.6076528

The Bible
Underworld
Europe Central

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>>6076499

>> No.6076550

>>6076400
The bible
One of those books that come with both the Iliad and Odyssey
And some super dense book, maybe Ulysses or Finnegans wake

>> No.6076580

>>6076395
1. The Damnation Game
2. Blood Meridian
3. I Drink for a Reason

>> No.6076645

>>6076433
Underrated post

>> No.6076651

>>6076395
The Law of success
The Book of five rings
My copy of Don Rosas uncle Scrooge Life and times for fun times.

>> No.6077479

>>6076395
KJV Bible
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Collected Dialogues of Plato

>> No.6077491

1. Complete Shakespeare (Arden Edition)
2. KJV Bible
3. Dream of the Red Chamber

>> No.6077495

>>6076395
Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix
The Maze Runner
The Hunger Games Mockingjay

>> No.6077499

>>6076528
>Underworld
WHY? WHY? NO! NO!

>> No.6077511

>>6076395
Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy
Miles: The Autobiography
The Complete Novels Of Franz Kafka published by Vintage.

>> No.6077520

Elements of Mathematics by Bourbaki (I just want to get a pretty big book about math, I don't know if this or the cambridge companion to math, I haven't actually tried to read this so I don't know how it would be)

The Golden Bough or Will Durant's Story of Civilization for nonfiction.

A La recherche for fiction

>> No.6077527

No Infinite Jest? really?

>> No.6077536

Moby Dick
The Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor
Mason & Dixon

>> No.6077570

In search of lost time
Book with Illiad and Oddyssey
Ulysses

>> No.6077605

the bible
an atlas/lexicon
catch-22

>> No.6077944

The desert island scenario leads to way too many "hurr durr I take how to build a radio or the complete encyclopedia for fire I completely miss the point of this question hurrrrr"
Better scenario. Your stuck in a space capsule orbitting earth. Food and water and all your needs are taken care of. You brought three books what are they.

Anyway, minr would be
Complete Shakespeare
Book of the New Sun
Complete Fiction of Borges

>> No.6078224

>>6077499
Because I have a copy of it sitting unread on my desk and I love all 4 other DeLillo books I've read.

Have heard mixed things but I might as well bring books I haven't read yet.

>> No.6078497

KJV Bible
The Glass Bead Game
The Kingdom of God Is Within You

>> No.6080112

1. Green Eggs and Ham
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
3. Goodnight Moon

>> No.6080116

>>6077944
The Complete Works of James Joyce
Infinite Jest
Republic

>> No.6080130

IJ
GR
U

>> No.6080141

>>6076529

>> No.6080151

>>6080141
I don't know how I forget the pic when it's all I wanted to post] yes I do, it's all the wacky tabacky

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>>6080151
Fuck me dude, its almost not worth it at this point. I'm done posting until I come down.

>> No.6080183

I'm reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms right now, and I just got into volume IV (~1750 pages/90 chapters in) and I'm struggling to find motivation to finish it, at this point all the cool parts have already passed by

>> No.6080194

One of them would be a book of magic so I can survive and summon infinite books

>> No.6080211

Bible - English
Bible - Greek
Bible - German

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>>6080141
>>6080151
>>6080155
ebin simply ebin

>> No.6080242

>>6080155
You do know how to delete right?

>> No.6080517

Didn't know where to ask, but if you could only recommend three books, listed in order of priority, that would get a person to understand and learn more about philosophy, when they've never really read philosophy, what would you recommend?

>> No.6080526

>>6080517
>Didn't know where to ask, but if you could only recommend three books, listed in order of priority,
-Odyssey
-Don Quixote
-Moby Dick
> that would get a person to understand and learn more about philosophy, when they've never really read philosophy, what would you recommend?
I would not. Philosophy is most useless. And if they're interested, three books is not enough.

>> No.6080595

>>6076395
Let's be real.
If you're stranded on a island, 3 books ain't gonna do shit. You'll get through any 3 books in a month, given absolutely nothing to do other than survive.

I'd just bring the largest three and use them for emergency firewood.

>> No.6080612

>>6076395
Obviously the first book I would choose is How to Carry More Than Three Books

>> No.6080667

3 print outs of that super long Smash Bros. fanfic to burn

or

Annotated editions of the following:
-Complete works of Shakespeare
-In Search of Lost Time
-Ulysses

>> No.6080863

>>6076397
>the Iliad
shut up

>> No.6080884

Considering the escapist nature of philosophical literature, I would drop the bulk of narrowly pointed books and grab some comprehensive shit.

1. Ulysses
2. Huckleberry Finn
3. Leaves of Grass
2.

>> No.6080888

In Search of Lost Time
Finnegans Wake
Gravity's Rainbow (my favorite book, endless re-read value)

>> No.6080915

ONE BOOK

- COMPLETE WORKS OF THE HUMAN RACE

>> No.6080922

>>6080915
You have two more books to pick.

>> No.6080928

Tai Pei
Tai Pei
and Tai Pei

>> No.6080930

>>6080922
NOVELS OF TAO LIN

POETRY OF TAO LIN

>> No.6081112

>>6076395
I will just pick an e-book.

>> No.6081252

>island survival book
>wood carving/boat building book
>sea charts, sailing and navegation books.

>> No.6081258

>>6081112

i would watch your reaction when you realize that desert islands don't have sockets to charge the battery

>> No.6082773

Shakespeare
Proust
An anthology of English Poetry

>> No.6083151

>>6077511
>miles the autobiography

Really? "Hi I'm miles Davis and I'm great and i used to make women prostitute for me and once i tried to throw myself off the second story in the hopes that it would knock me out because i was going through miserable heroin withdrawals"

>> No.6083214

Oxford Atlas of the World

Celestial Navigation: A Home Study Course

The Norton Anthology of English Literature 8th edition

>> No.6083226

The Odyssey
Essais (Montaigne)
Complete works of Shakespeare

...all with a thousand extra pages printed on dank meme paper or LSD blotters. Gotta have something to do other than read like a fucking nerd.