# Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281 "2000-06-03T13:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![untateve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@untateve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/untateve)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/1 "2000-06-03T13:37:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/2 "2000-06-03T14:25:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/3 "2000-06-03T14:58:35Z")
Book-_Time Enough For Love_ by Robert Heinlein Music-_Cosmic Wheels_ by Donovan ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/4 "2000-06-03T15:00:58Z")
Book: A dictionary CD: Any Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthology. ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/5 "2000-06-03T15:35:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/6 "2000-06-03T15:47:13Z")
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](http://netlibrary.com). Eventually, and hopefully, someone would catch up with me for all those unpaid satcom bills right? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/7 "2000-06-03T16:07:28Z")
CD: Either my MP3 collection on there or Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream Book: Desert Island Survival 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PRISM02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@PRISM02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRISM02)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/8 "2000-06-03T16:16:48Z")
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.’ ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/9 "2000-06-03T16:42:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/10 "2000-06-03T18:00:00Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/11 "2000-06-03T18:14:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/12 "2000-06-04T01:03:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/13 "2000-06-04T01:15:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/14 "2000-06-04T01:25:35Z")
Book: _The Great Gatsby_, F Scott Fitzgerald CD: _Moon Safari_, Air ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/15 "2000-06-04T01:26:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and… I would make certain to bring enough apostrophes to go around. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/16 "2000-06-04T01:32:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Argeable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Argeable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argeable)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/17 "2000-06-04T01:49:50Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/18 "2000-06-04T03:03:53Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LocalLoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@LocalLoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LocalLoop)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/19 "2000-06-04T03:43:46Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/20 "2000-06-04T06:02:31Z")
CD Calore King - Tapestry Book - my journal [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281.md?page=2)