“The Kyokushin Way”
“Advanced Karate”
“What is Karate?”
All by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.
“Glitch … Window, large icons.” - Bob the Guardian
Revolution For the Hell Of It
The Bible
Phone Book
Oy Vay!
Wotta choice to hafta make! which of the 800 do I save?
- my Bible
- My autographed copy of ‘Number of the Beast’ by Robert A. Heinlein
- ‘The Walking Drum’ by Louis L’Amour
VB
“Hey! How 'bout that Toe Jam?”
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First and foremost, my photo albums. They are irreplaceable.
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My first edition, autographed, hardback copy of The Shining.
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A hardback, antique Alice in Wonderland. The cover alone is pretty impressive, full of details and color painted on silk.
>^,^<
KITTEN
Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S.
Firefighting for Dummies
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Anarchy by the Numbers
Fission for Dummies
The Marijuana Grower’s …uhh?..where was I?
Go Dog Go
So many to choose from…
- Survival Tactics II (I have the book memorized practically, but still…)
- Deriving Weaponry from Nature (Has all sorts of nifty tricks of turning rocks, branches, roots, etc into decent weapons)
- My letters from my friends - Perhaps I am a pack wolf, but I keep every letter I get…
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< o | o >
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I’ve recently developed the habit of jumping back and forth between two books at once. So two of the three books I would take would be whatever I’m reading at the time (right now that would be naked by David Sedaris and Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace, even though I finished the Sedaris book a week ago)
the third would be Origami Omnibus by Kunihiko Kasahara, the best origami book I’ve ever owned. But I haven’t been able to find a copy anywhere (new or used) except of course where I originally bought it (and I don’t remember where that is)
Even though I collect books by Philip Jose Farmer, most of which are out of print, if I found them once I can find them again. I’d much rather find out how the books I’m reading right now end.
StoryTyler – me too, with the King book. My copy is #1012.
Then another King, the first edition of The Gunslinger.
And Lily Tomlin’s “Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe”, a gift from a dear friend who I’ve lost track of. Liz – are you still in Juneau?
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My daily journal for the year my daughter was 4 years old - now I realize it was the happiest year of my life.
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Carla Emory’s Old-Fashioned Recipe Book, for after the apocalypse - it tells you how to do everything from build a rabbit hutch to butchering a large animal to making your own soap to grinding your own grain to making olive oil and maple syrup…etc. etc. etc.
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My Himalayan cat’s “baby book”, from kittenhood to the magnificent beast he is today, with professional quality photos.
That’s really hard. I guess I’d go with vougevixen and grab my Ultimate Hitchhikers’ Guide. I probably couldn’t get the family pictures because I’d have to search for 30 minutes before I found them. Then I’d die in the fire trying to decide what 2 other books I should get…
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
Youch! My entire home is a bookcase. I just took out a window 'cause it was in the way of the next set of shelves in my reading room. I love the idea of prioritizing.
- I refuse to live without my OED, even though it counts as more than one book. (Ye never said that cheating wasn’t allowed.)
- ‘The Uses of Literature’ by Italo Calvino.
- ‘Travels in Hyperreality’ by Umberto Eco.
Many others would merit heroic attempts, including the first edition Hemingway collection, if only to prove that one need not assemble an infinite number of chimpanzees and provide an infinite number of typewriters in order to produce pointless rubbish of the first order.
Dr. Watson
“The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion.” – Eco.
most books can be replaced. What often cannot, however, are authographed copies…with this in mind…my signed copies of:
1.Atlas Shrugged
2. Wilt…just like any other 7 ft black millionaire who lives next door
3. and of course my King James Bible…
You have a signed copy of the King James? Is that signed by the original author or the eponymous king? Or both?
only got Mark, Luke and John. According to Matthew, he “doesn’t think there is validity in signing autographs”
Let’s see…
Falling Waters
Mark Twain’s Home
A small cabin in the middle of nowhere
Those are the houses I’d grab if my book were on fire.
1- My Sherlock Holmes omnibus
(OK, this is a 2-volume set, but it counts as ONE book. It is the only thing I have that used to belong to my late father-in-law [besides his daughter, I guess] and he introduced me to Holmes. It’s an irreplaceable memento.)
2- The Baseball Encyclopedia
3- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
I don’t include my Bible because, frankly, I know it would be one of the easiest books to replace.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
Atlas Shrugged
Zen and Japanese Culture
The Fools Progress: An Honest Novel
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Forget books, I’d grab my computer!
But if it has to be books, it’d be:
- My scriptures (LDS quad)
- The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe
- Visual Basic 6 from the Ground Up
- “Advanced Organic Chemistry” Jerry March…it’s my bible.
2)Dictionary
3)Red Dwarf box set
I guess i’d spend the rest of the time seeing if I could find any bibles outside to keep the toasty warming blaze going a little longer.