Monday, April 2, 2007

Desert Island Books

Time for a comment game:

How would you answer the following question:
"If you could take ten and only ten books with you when you're marooned on a desert island / planet / plane of reality for the rest of your life, which ones would you take?"

My list:
1. The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk.
2. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein.
3. D&D v3.5 Core Book I: Player's Handbook
4. D&D v3.5 Core Book II: Dungeon Master's Guide
5. D&D v3.5 Core Book III: Monster Manual I
6. King Kelson's Bride, Katherine Kurtz
7. The Shadow of Saganami, David Weber
8. A Civil Campaign, Lios McMaster Bujold
9. A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman
10. Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove

3 comments:

catnip said...

Can I have 3 in 1 book club editions? :)

Last Herald Mage
Fifth Sacred Thing
Three Sisters Island
LoTR (maybe I'd finally get through it if stranded on an Island with nothing else to do?)
Unabridged compact edition OED
Something LKH, probably "Caress of Twilight"
Reader' Digest Back to Basics
A good bird book
Clan of the Cave Bear
Circle Round

RichO said...

Well, I may expand this to series, but within reason. "I want every Agatha Christie book!: defeats the purporse of the desert island game. Trilogies are OK, though.

catnip13 said...

Well then, replace LKH with the JD Robb "*.In Death" series, and CotCB with the whole series, and I'd be pretty happy.