Um, do books on CD count?
Book: The Demon-Haunted World
CD: The Last Camel Died at Noon on audio CD
Book: 101 ways to cook worms 
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.
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…
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.
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-----
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.
well with all of you there now, i suppose it isn’t so deserted, so i would throw a party all deserted islanders welcome!
Book: “Eating CD’s for fun & survival”
CD: blank 2x4x8x RW.
Never owned a CD. Not much for books. How about a nice girlie magazine and a harmonica?
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
Book: The Bible
Album: anything by Billy Joel
The Cambridge Encyclopedia and The Brandenburg Concertos.
Squrlcub: Ho ho ho! Santa Claus is coming…
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
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.
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
Any cookbook… They always make me laugh…
Anything by CCR
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.
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.
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.