# Your Sentenced to a Deserted Island and...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/41 "2000-06-12T21:17:52Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/42 "2000-06-12T21:28:15Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/43 "2000-06-12T21:52:33Z")

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Book: Infinite Jest–David Foster Wallace

CD: Thunder Perfect Mind–Current 93

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**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-sentenced-to-a-deserted-island-and/21281/44 "2000-06-13T14:36:22Z")

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> Going one way, the book would have to be either “The Way Things Work” or the Boy Scout Handbook.
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> Going the other way, I’d have to agree with Edwardina and go with the Bible.
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> As for a CD, either Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road.  
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The Boy Scout Handbook is an excellent choice; just about everything you’d need to know would be in there.

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