Which ones would you take?
Submitted by PrBaron4 on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:01
Tags:
- Catch-22- Heller
- Slaughterhouse Five- Vonnegut
- Lolita- Nabokov
- Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller
- On the Road- Kerouac
- Heart of Darkness- Conrad
- The Fountainhead- Ayn Rynd
- The Dubliners- Joyce
- In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
- Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
Author Comments:
The preceding list is a collection of the books which I would take with me if I was to be stranded on a desert island. The trick to the list, however, is that I have not read any of these novels. Which novels would you take if you could only bring books which you have not read?
From your list:
Slaughterhouse Five,
Tropic of Cancer,
On the Road,
My own list:
I am the Cheese-Robert Cormier,
A Gathering of Old Men-Ernest Gaines,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera,
Rememberance of Things Past-Mareel Proust,
Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha-Roddy Doyle,
Long Walk to Freedom- Nelson Mandela,
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel G. Marquez,
Crying of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon,
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors- Roddy Doyle,
The Man Who Fell in Love W/the Moon- Tom Spanbayer
Something Wicked THis Way Comes- Ray Bradbury,
The Night of the Avenging Blowfish- John Walter,
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist- Mark Leyner,
Requiem for A Dream (and some others)-Hubert Selby
Slow Walk in a Sad Rain- John P. McAffe
Sorry it took so long to finally answer your request, but I'm new here. This list doesn't even begin to cover my'To Read' list.
Don't take "The Crying of Lot 49," I couldn't even begin to get through it-- then again, that's no guarentee you might like it.
Reading "On the Road" on a desert island would be cruel and unusual punishment, if you ask me. :)
"We took the US-1 down to the first palm tree, made a left turn, then another one at the old dried up trunk, proceeded straight for a while and finally ended up where we had started from. An entire minute had gone by."