Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and...

[untateve]

You can only bring one book and one album/cd (yes, a cd player will be available). What do you bring?

Abbey Road is the CD I bring. The book is a tougher choice, but today I choose Dune.

[Fanny May]

Book "How To Get Rescued Quickly" by I.M.Handy
C/C "1812 Overture" - It's already the only thing in my car. I never seem to tire of it.

[Czarcasm]

Book-Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein
Music-Cosmic Wheels by Donovan

[Annie-Xmas]

Book: A dictionary
CD: Any Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthology.

[Minxsmom]

I would choose Dune as well, but probably because I am currently rereading the book for the 400th time, because I just saw the movie again.

The CD is a tough one (I don't actually own any CD's - I refuse to buy a CD player - could I bring a tape?). It would probably be one of my "Best of the 80's" type tapes.

[kiffa]

I assume that there is some power source, otherwise why have the CD unless just to look at it. I would trade in my book for a laptop fit with sat communication and a blank CD so I could burn my favorite songs on the CD and read books on netlibrary.com. Eventually, and hopefully, someone would catch up with me for all those unpaid satcom bills right?

[Saint Zero]

CD: Either my MP3 collection on there or Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
Book: Desert Island Survival :)

[PRISM02]

I do not own a CD player either, so may I take another book?

I select 'My Side of the Mountain' and the 'Boy Scout Hand Book.'

[Kiki]

CD: Monster Ballads cause it has variety
Book: Gone with the Wind. I've read it about 10 times and seen the movie about 20 and I never get tired of it.

[ThisYearsGirl]

Book-SlaughterHouse Five
CD-I don't actually own this CD, but I see commercials for it all the time. I think it's called "Modern Rock," but it's basically all the stuff that was alternative before Nirvana (REM, Pixies, B-52s, Jane's Addiction, My Bloody Valentine).

[Nacho4Sara]

Book: "Insomnia" by Steven King. It's long, it has action, it also has a deeper side. I've read it three times but I look forward to reading it again.

CD: Whitney Houston Greatest Hits. It's actually 2 CDs, but the case looks like one so hopefully I could sneak both in. If not, it would be the "Thrown Down" CD of the set so I could stay in shape dancing.

[Goose]

CD-Marshal Mathers LP by Eminem cause it cracks me up
Book-Annotated Dragonlance Choronicles because they can be read a thousand times and never get old.

I also want my island near Fanny May so I can borrow her copy of How To Get Rescued Quickly.

[Jello]

Book: Catch-22
CD: The Fragile, by Nine Inch Nails. I've had it for six months and I listen to it almost every day and never seem to tire of it.

[Crusoe]

Book: The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
CD: Moon Safari, Air

[Mr. Cynical]

Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and...
I would make certain to bring enough apostrophes to go around.

[aha]

Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and...


Not sure about the CD and book, but I know what I would eat.

The Sand-which-is there.


You have to say it real fast.

[Argeable]

Book: The book of Survival or 101 tasty sand treats , which is yet to be written.
CD: Almost definetly Sergeant Pepper's, but maybe a multiple volume anthology of something....

[Danielinthewolvesden]

Euell Gibbons "how to stalk the blue eyed scallop"( gathering, cooking & enjoying beach comestibles)

CD; "the SAS survival handbook" (yes, it is on a CD for your PC)

I may be a bit bored, but I'll be alive. :D

[LocalLoop]

Hrrm..

Book - "Goedel, Escher, Bach - The eternal golden braid"
Might actually be forced to figure the damn thing out. It's like looking through a fogged window and getting glimpses of wonders.

CD - Hmm I guess a toss-up between Tool "Aenima" and Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense". Aenima may be too current to be considered relevant to ya'll, but it speaks to me...

[dragonlady]

CD Calore King - Tapestry
Book - my journal

[Kiva]

Um, do books on CD count?

Book: The Demon-Haunted World
CD: The Last Camel Died at Noon on audio CD

[JBurton99]

Book: 101 ways to cook worms :D
CD: Metallic the Black Album Play that loud enough
and somebody is bound to hear it and complain about
the noise from that blasted island.

[Flutterby]

Book:Um Thats tough for me since I have so many books I enjoy we'll go with Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

CD: This is almost as tough. It would either be Play by Great Big Sea, Cats soundtrack or Mirrorball by Sarah McLachlan.

We can all trade books right? Sort of like one huge lending library? Then we would never get bored with our single book and cd..

[DRY]

Book: Gone with the Wind. I've read it about 10 times and seen the movie about 20 and I never get tired of it.


I wonder how many guys can claim they've read Gone with The Wind, where it wasn't a school assignment or something like that.

I have, and I'm not a femme! (Uh, not that there's anything wrong with that...)

I read it only a couple years ago, and I have to admit that I was really self concious about it. When I read it on my lunch hour at the mall near work, I'd cover it with a bag or newspaper :eek:

Anyway, re the OP, I don't own a CD player. As to the book, something really long:

Complete Works of Shakespeare
Issac Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Issac Asimov's History of the World

are all good candidates. Particularly the third, because I've read a fair percentage of the first, and I've read the second cover to cover.

[LouisB]

Book: "How To Construct An Ocean-Going Vessel From Readily Available CD Player Parts"

CD: The audio version of the above book.

Dry, I read GWTW about once every three years.
I first read it at about age 12 and I am 60 now-----

[DRY]

Dry, I read GWTW about once every three years.
I first read it at about age 12 and I am 60 now-----


Didn't think I was the only one. But would bet that there aren't many others.

Note to self. Crack GWTW open more often. Use Rhett Butler dialogue as pickup lines. Can't hurt at this point in your life.

[soulsling]

well with all of you there now, i suppose it isn't so deserted, so i would throw a party :D all deserted islanders welcome!

[handy]

Book: "Eating CD's for fun & survival"

CD: blank 2x4x8x RW.

[SteelToes]

Never owned a CD. Not much for books. How about a nice girlie magazine and a harmonica?

[SqrlCub]

Book: I would choose something like the Complete Anatomy of the Sea Slug that has at least 3000 pages and is only available in hardback. The reason being is that I would tie a big rope to it (that I would magically make out leaves or something) and use it to bash all trespassers to unconsciousness. I would then have a ready supply of foodstuffs especialy once the police hear about it in the neighboring islands. (Assuming it is close to other islands.) The police would make a nice tasty treat especially when my new book/rope technology overwhelms them. Hah! They thought their puny guns would outmatch me. "I will learn dem, I will learn dem real gud," said in a backwoods manner.

CD: If I could make up a CD it would be some audio porn CD featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Wilfred Brimley, and Santa Claus. "Come down the Chimney Santa," said Wilfred Brimley. "No, leave the presents over there, Santa," Ed exclaimed excitedly. "You two have been naughty boys," Santa said seductively. "Now you must be punished," Santa continued as he eyed both Wilfred and Ed who are now giggling like school girls who act coy when they know they are willing to see the grand immensity for the first time. etc.

If I couldn't choose that CD, I would trade the CD player and CD in for a decent guitar and several thousand packages of guitar strings. I would get a good deal.

;) To the mods, notice there is nothing that is dirty in this email. Please don't delete like you guys do every time I mention my Santa fetish.

HUGS!
Sqrl

[vanilla]

Book: The Bible
Album: anything by Billy Joel

[Myron Van Horowitzski]

The Cambridge Encyclopedia and The Brandenburg Concertos.

[vanilla]

Squrlcub: Ho ho ho! Santa Claus is coming..

[betenoir]

Well obviously, 'how to build a boat" and the audio verion of "how to find food and water on a deserted island".

But if I'm going to play,I think traditonaly I get three choices:
Book:
Gravity's Rainbw
The Dictionary
The Bible

Music:
The best of Leonard Cohen
Bach- the organ works
The first Stooges album

[Enginerd]

Album: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde

Book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. About a hundred beginnings of stories in a single book, with no ending to be found anywhere.

[gobear]

CD:JeffWayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, featuring Richard Burton, Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, and David Essex.

Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdus, by Marcel Proust. On a desert island I'd have no distractions to keep me from finishing. Even though it's seven books, it's really one long story.

Distraction: Stone Cold Steve Austin as my sex slave

[Girlbysea]

Any cookbook... They always make me laugh...
Anything by CCR

[JimmyNipples]

My book would be.....The CBS guide to bizarre game shows.

I would let myself down...and then vote myself off the island after 3 days.


CD: Devo's Greatest Hits and Misses.

[Edwardina]

This is not cool: asking me to take only one book is like asking me to take only one of my children! (I don't have any children, but I couldn't think of any other metaphor strong enough). If I only get one I would have to choose the Bible. Most variety in one book, I think. And it's also a good, long one.

For the CD, I would choose a CD-ROM with pictures of my niece, accompanied by her voice.

Questions like this make you think about what's really the most important to you.

[Justin]

The book I would bring would be Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

the CD I would bring would be Metallica's Black album....listen to it on an almost daily basis, for almost a year now.

[kunilou]

Going one way, the book would have to be either "The Way Things Work" or the Boy Scout Handbook.

Going the other way, I'd have to agree with Edwardina and go with the Bible.

As for a CD, either Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road.

[ReservoirDog]

CD = This Desert Life - Counting Crows - it's just the most fun to sing along with

Book = Moviehound Golden Movie Retriever 2000 - the book I use the most. Of course, how often are movie trivia questions going to come up on a deserted island?

[Biotop]

Book: Infinite Jest--David Foster Wallace

CD: Thunder Perfect Mind--Current 93

[Edwardina]

Going one way, the book would have to be either "The Way Things Work" or the Boy Scout Handbook.

Going the other way, I'd have to agree with Edwardina and go with the Bible.

As for a CD, either Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road.


The Boy Scout Handbook is an excellent choice; just about everything you'd need to know would be in there.