Admiral Spooner, Air Vice Marshal Pulford and forty others were cast away on a desert island while fleeing from Singapore in 1942, and far from relaxing with the Bible, most of them starved to death, with a side order of malaria .
Well, the OP specifies that ample food and water is available. I assume this extends to shelter and medical care otherwise everyone should answer with survival guides and there isn’t any question.
I suppose maybe it’s better thought of as a curated island rather than a desert island
Agree! I had this in an LP boxed set decades ago. The best.
But, I pick Stan Rogers’s Between the Breaks. I can sing along. (ETA: I was tempted to pick the original Broadway cast album of Candide).
Movie I’d go with Gosford Park. It’s so detailed, I can always find something new. It’s funny, sad, tragic, and very satisfying.
The book is the one I’m finding the hardest to pin down. Maybe The Bone Clocks or The Joy Luck Club.
Book: as many times I have read it, without being very convinced, I will go with the bible, King James version. It is complicated, disconnected, has a faulty plot line, but it is quite long. It has given me enormous pleasure in a way it was not intended.
Movie: this is harder, “Amelie” (starring Audrey Tatou, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet) could be my favourite, but “Sweetie” (directed by Jane Campion) is probably winning. (This is quite a tough movie to enjoy!)
Music: I’ll go with a lifetime favourite, U2’s “Where the streets have no name”
Yeah, Sweetie is one that annoys a lot, but I still liked it … for certain meanings of the word “liked.”
Wow, this is hard. I suppose that was the intent. 
Movie: Jurassic Park.
CD: If it has to be a commercial CD, then Alice Cooper’s “Brutal Planet.” If it can be a compilation I make myself, I’d put my favorite Rush, Alan Parsons Project, Alice Cooper, Assemblage 23, and VNV Nation songs, up to the limit of what the CD could hold. (If you ask me which commercial CD I’m taking again tomorrow, I’ll probably give a different answer. )
Book: Do I have access to a pen? If so, then the thickest blank book I’d be allowed, so I could write my own books (I already do this, so it would keep me more entertained than bringing a regular book, and I could always go back and re-read what I wrote later). If not and it has to be a commercial book, then Stephen King’s It. l love the book and it’s nice and long.
It is bring a book, not write a book. Sorry.
A notebook is a book. It’s right there in the name.
As mentioned by PatrickLondon above, this is almost exactly the premise of a long-running (1942-present) British radio show, Desert Island Discs.
celebrity guests are allowed to choose 8 records (single tunes, not albums) 1 book and a luxury. The Island is already equipped with food and tools for basic survival, and already has the complete works of Shakespeare and The Bible, or other religious text of your choice.
The point of the show is to hear what records, book, and what single luxury have personal significance to the guest, and why. It isn’t supposed to be an exercise in ingenuity. Guests can’t ask for their book to be a survival guide, nor their luxury to be a radio to summon rescue.
I think people in this thread should follow the same rules.
There is a reason I didn’t put this in the “Thread Games” forum.
What’s the food situation? Basically is having a cookbook worthwhile?
Once again, you will be fed. This isn’t a “survivalist” thread.
I’m not asking if food is available, I’m asking what type of food? Do I get a choice? Do I have cookware?
You could title it “Autobiography of an amnesiac”.
This is not that thread. This thread is to pick a book to read, a CD to listen to, and a movie to watch.
I had considered this, but eliminated it because I thought it would considered three books—and I couldn’t decide which volume to pick. But if the whole trilogy is allowed, I would definitely change my choice to this. And I suppose it’s not cheating, since there are versions that print the whole trilogy in a single volume.
I assume you mean the theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which clocks in at 2:58 minutes. Again, if I could bring all three movies that make up the trilogy, I would definitely bring this.
But even if I’m limited to the first movie—upon further thought—I’d probably still go ahead and switch my original choice to this.
As for album, I think I would switch to the Beatles 1 (or 1+ with Blu-ray if allowed).
…My choice of book depends on that answer.
Supposedly, Tolkien considered it a single book that was carved up for publishing purposes.
discarded
The movie is indeed limited to 3 hours, but I have seen the trilogy in a single bound book so it is definitely allowed.