You're stranded on a deserted island, and you can only bring one book.

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   lovetherainposted 14 years ago

   what would it be?
   
   it could be your favorite novel, something useful, like "how to Build a Boat Out of Driftwood", or something entertaining, like an adult magazine. Your choice!

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      luabuposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The complete works of Shakespeare and tell the life boat people to take their time.
      Luabu says hi!

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      qwarkposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      ...none!
      I'd figure out a way to write my own.
      Qwark

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      AEvansposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The DaVinci Code, I could read it over and over again.

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      Brenda Durhamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      The Koran.
      Because I already have the jist of the Holy Bible in my heart/mind.  So I could always burn that Koran and know that a whole carpload of civil rights activists would find me reeeeal soon and give me a ride back to the mainland.
      
      
      ROFL

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   manlypoetrymanposted 14 years ago

   War and Peace...I would finally have the time to read through the whole thing!

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      lovetherainposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I brough a book on Plato once on a long car trip, so I would finally force myself to read it:)

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      C.J. Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Don't waste your time. He's a bore. It's about Russia. LOL

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         WryLiltposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         So you've read War & Peace start to finish? Or you just don't like Russia?
         
         Having read it twice, I'd have to say that it's a very good read that has been insulted for its size far too much over the years and is in fact very worthy of being taken to a desert island.

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   Mark Ewbieposted 14 years ago

   A colouring book for me.

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      Patty Inglish, MSposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I like that.

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   The biggest, fattest, most comprehensive, dictionary I could find (the kind that has lots of other stuff to look, besides just definitions).  A big, fat, dictionary with lots of stuff in it offers all kinds of "open-ended" word play, memorizing, browsing, and general "verbal entertainment" and odd kind of reading pleasure. 
   
   Besides, I could also use it as a little stool to sit on (to make myself feel a little more as if I were in a civilized living situation), a little step-stool (which might be helpful with some things involving trees), an anchor belongings if the island got windy, and any number of handy purposes.
   
   Yes, such a book would be cumbersome and heavy - but, heck, where would I be going anyway?  Of course, it might make handy "firewood" if I thought any helicopters might be coming by...   Oh, also - the more pages, the more "note paper" there would be if I had reason to want to leave, send, messages anywhere in some way (maybe a Hansel and Gretel type of path if I needed that.)

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      Sue Adamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      messages go in a bottle into the ocean

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   logic,commonsenseposted 14 years ago

   Bamboo Rafts for Dummies!

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   humagaiaposted 14 years ago

   "How to make your own factor 50 from coconuts"

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   rebekahELLEposted 14 years ago

   easy, a blank journal!

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      Mark Ewbieposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's probably the top answer.
      
      What do you guys do?
      
      +1

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   Eaglekiwiposted 14 years ago

   The Phone Book!
   
   ( If you can imagine I'm stuck on an island ,then I can imagine I have a cell-phone)

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      Lisa HWposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I actually thought of a phone book too - but I wasn't imaginative enough to imagine a cell phone.  I was just thinking a phone book offers lots of potential for word games, idle nosiness, memorizing numbers - and the rest of the stuff a dictionary (from my first post) offers.

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      Denise Handlonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Ha !  I like that   Very clever!

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   maven101posted 14 years ago

   The complete works of John Keats...

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    melporposted 14 years ago

    It will be my old "Boy Scout Manual".

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    Pcunixposted 14 years ago

    Mark Twain.  It doesn't matter which, though Connecticut Yankee is a good choice.
    
    Unless a MacBook counts as a book..

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    Mark Ewbieposted 14 years ago

    Given that everyone here has written a hub on how great the Kindle is (don't deny it) - I'm surprised no one has mentioned the, er, excellent qualities of the item.
    
    So a Kindle for reading and some weighty manuscript for toilet paper perhaps.
    
    Sorry.  Bit up myself there.

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    WoodsmensPostposted 14 years ago

    Playboy archive shhh rememeber I'm the only one on my stranded island. I hear it's really good reading with great articles.

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    Home Girlposted 14 years ago

    "How to survive on a deserted island."
    Somebody should have written it.

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       Sue Adamsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       They have, Robinson Crusoe by ? anyone know the author?

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          Home Girlposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Real, not fictional. Robinson Crusoe is a fictional character of Daniel Defoe.

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    Sue Adamsposted 14 years ago

    The Little Prince by Alexandre Saint Exupéri

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    Ninjah Kittenposted 14 years ago

    I'd bring any book I can find that's by Anne Rice.

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    Ron Montgomeryposted 14 years ago

    Did the Gilligan's Island professor ever write a book?

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    sunny5555posted 14 years ago

    I would bring my bible. I could read it until the day I die.

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    Denise Handlonposted 14 years ago

    For me-probably a 'how to survive' manuel of some sort... I know, pretty boring.

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    Hugh Williamsonposted 14 years ago

    "Final Exit" by Derek Humphry.  I can't find it at the library...nobody ever brings it back.

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    Denise Handlonposted 14 years ago

    A photo book of all my friends and family     people I'd miss.

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       2uesdayposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       that is a very good idea.

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       richtwfposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Denise - That's a brilliant idea indeed. I'd never have thought of that one!

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    pilesnowayposted 14 years ago

    a king or a coelho would be great. Or dc comics:D
    
    Or dhup BOOK(bok)kee or beef BOOK choy. I think those BOOKs are good for my tummy...anyway, those are Korean dishes...lol

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    know oneposted 14 years ago

    Assuming I'm stranded alone, The Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It's one long book really, and good for the long, lonely nights ;-)

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    richtwfposted 14 years ago

    The Bible

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