Desert Island Challenge - You Get One Book. What is it?
Mates,
Staggering to the end of OT season, with fall creeping closer than I realized with a weather change due here up north and us harvesting livestock and hay right now. I have a question for the mgoglitteratti. As well read of a group as I can imagine you'd find on the interweb I will guess there is a very wide spread on what you all have read.
Assume the following: You are ship wrecked on a desert island with enough food/water to live. Also assume for those of any particular faith, that you get that book (Bible, Torah, bhagavad gita, etc.) so don't include that one in your answer. And no, you can't download it or use your Kindel.
Question: You get one book. Which one do you pick?
XM
Bo's Lasting Lessons
There's gotta be a chapter in there on starting a fire or putting out a fire.
I don't re-read books usually.
So either a full LOTR type of condensed series into one. Or a building/survival guide on plants and basic engineering. A hut may keep me alive but a giant structurally sound treefort with drawbridge style ramp and aqueduct for running fresh water and solar heating stored hot water etc will make my desert island experience drasitcally improved.
I would pick a book with a lot of nudity girls in it. If I am the last man standing, I am more worried about my social life, then my intelligence.
How to build a boat out of items one might find in a desert.
I was in attendence for nearly every Permian game chronicled in the book/movie.Very fond memories for sure. Great book and movie!
Go MOJO!
Go BLUE!
Hollowed out. Inside, waterproof matches, iodine tablets, beet seeds, protein bars, NASA blanket, and, in case I get bored, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." No, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Question: did my shoes come off in the plane crash?
Same here. Dunder Mifflinites unite!
The God Delusion.
To know how well that works out for ya!
Good luck.
August 3rd, 2017 at 11:58 PM ^
August 3rd, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
This way i decide to test the rope sooner.
If it floats, that would be a genius pick.
Whitman anthology. I already have the survival skills given what I do for fun, so no instructional tome required.
Hated to see this comic go. Get Fuzzy was also good and got me through the let down of no more Calvin and Hobbes.
2001: a space oddessey
I loved that Moonwatcher dude
MTV would like a word with you.
I'll go with the Bible as you just can't ever finish it as everytime you read it, it may speak to you in a totally different way.
Either you didn't read the instructions or you're really wanting a different version than the one you're provided per the original post (King James vs. New International perhaps?).
Oh shit! Yes I did a poor job of reading the instructions. And I would not want a King James version - I'm not smart enough for that one.
I'm gonna cheat and say The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
This has been a brutal OT.
Can I cheat and say "Song of Ice and Fire" - nevermind. I just said it.
For me the obvious answer would be the bible, but since you say I already have that I would pick something lengthy. Since I'm limited to one book I would hate for it to be something short that doesn't take long to read. I've never read War and Peace so I'll pass on that one. Did not find Moby Dick that thrilling. I did enjoy the Lord of the Rings series, and since I've seen that trilogy combined into one book, I'll pick that as something that's both entertaining and would keep me occupied for a long time. Not saying it's my favorite book of all time, but just one that is both entertaining and long.
I'm gonna want something very long and re-readable. Let's go with the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.
Not going to have dem internets or a woman on that island.
history of western philosophy
checks out
And practice survival soon. You won't have time to learn from a book what you need to know in the field. I'm sure.
if your stuck on an island with unlimited food and water (as OP suggest), time is kind of the one thing you do have