coral
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Post by coral on Jan 29, 2008 15:11:59 GMT
I already practised this on a chum, and watching him flap for a solution was most amusing!
It's very simple, all you have to do is go into exile with ONE single book, the ONLY book you will read from now until the end of your life.
By the way, no rolling forty volumes up into a single binding, no pencils and paper to write your own book, no books that cant be read without their prequels/sequels. And definitely no Readers Digest condensed books, with umpteen novels per volume, and others of that ilk! That would be sneaky!!!
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Post by carolinec on Jan 29, 2008 15:19:48 GMT
That's impossible - I couldn't survive with just ONE book!!! OK, I'll take up the challenge and have a serious think about it, but it may take some time ...
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 29, 2008 15:27:19 GMT
My serious candidate for this: Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past'. 'Things Past' include books I've read, of course.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 29, 2008 16:07:31 GMT
Nothing so serious as Des. If I was sent into exile I think I would want something I could escape into for some light relief, and what better than Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, especially the massive volume brought out by Gollancz? God forbid such a predicament should ever happen, though, as I'm sure in time even these would pale to boredom. If it was just a long exile, I might take some books by Kafka. I've always meant one day to finish The Trial or reread his short stories in Metamorphosis and Other Tales, but they could prove a bit too grim for company on permanent exile! David
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 29, 2008 16:39:56 GMT
Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange
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Post by bradstevens on Jan 29, 2008 17:57:42 GMT
I already practised this on a chum, and watching him flap for a solution was most amusing! It's very simple, all you have to do is go into exile with ONE single book, the ONLY book you will read from now until the end of your life. By the way, no rolling forty volumes up into a single binding, no pencils and paper to write your own book, no books that cant be read without their prequels/sequels. And definitely no Readers Digest condensed books, with umpteen novels per volume, and others of that ilk! That would be sneaky!!! LILITH by J. R. Salamanca.
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Post by sean on Jan 29, 2008 18:10:05 GMT
If it was just a long exile, I might take some books by Kafka. I've always meant one day to finish The Trial or reread his short stories in Metamorphosis and Other Tales, but they could prove a bit too grim for company on permanent exile! Yeah, Kafka also said he was going to finish 'The Trial' one day as well! I have never, ever understood why people have Franz Kafka's work down as some grim, gloomy thing to be slogged through. On the whole his stuff is very lightly written and very funny indeed. But there you go, cockroaches for courses... (And still wittering on about FK... Brian Aldiss wrote a pretty funny story in which an insect got turned into Kafka...) Anyway, I'd take 'Gravity's Ranibow' by Thomas Pynchon with me. There's a hell of a lot of stuff in there...
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 29, 2008 18:56:23 GMT
Some authors are just so damned lazy.
David
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Post by redbrain on Jan 29, 2008 19:43:55 GMT
My first thought is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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coral
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Post by coral on Jan 29, 2008 20:39:05 GMT
At a pinch you could probably get away with that being a volume with Through the Looking Glass too, it's often published that way. Des, slightly naughty there, but I'll let it pass. Caroline, are you struggling, hee hee? David's in the lead at the minute though, I forgot about huge collections of novels published in one volume, d'oh. Well they're banned too now! Good going you clever souls who've actually made a single choice, I thought it would cause a great deal more consternation than it has
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Post by carolinec on Jan 29, 2008 20:58:27 GMT
Caroline, are you struggling, hee hee? Yep, still struggling. Every time I think I've got a good one in book X, then I start to think I couldn't live without book Y either.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 29, 2008 21:11:33 GMT
It's very simple, all you have to do is go into exile with ONE single book, the ONLY book you will read from now until the end of your life. Coral, you fiend! And I thought 'Pick your favourite Pan Horror cover' was cruel and unusual punishment. This is downright sadistic! I suppose the revised, updated edition of The I-Spy Book Of How to Return From Exile and Be Reunited With All Your Nice Rotten Books isn't allowed? In which case: I was going to opt for E. F. Bleiler's The Guide To Supernatural Fiction but I think it would be better to take something I detested as it wouldn't distract me from killing myself. So anything by Anne Rice will do.
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Post by carolinec on Jan 29, 2008 21:13:38 GMT
And I thought 'Pick your favourite Pan Horror cover' was cruel and unusual punishment. Oh no, that's easy - the one with the wedding cake!
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coral
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Post by coral on Jan 30, 2008 12:39:04 GMT
Awww...poor mr Demonik, I feel thoroughly ashamed... not really...now pick ONE film and ONE album muahahaha
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2008 12:47:32 GMT
The film is easy. Natural Born Killers! Added bonus - it has the greatest soundtrack ever! I'm not even going to entertain your plain evil one album challenge. I fainted when I saw that.
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