"If you had to take three books to a desert isle, what would they be?" Before you answer, take a look at this interesting coversation overheard in the Dunder Mifflin parking lot:

PHYLLIS: The deVinci Code

ANGELA: The deVinci Code. I would take The deVinci Code, so I could burn The deVinci Code.

DWIGHT: Okay great. That's gonna keep you warm for like seven seconds. Question, is there firewood on the Island?

JIM: I guess.

DWIGHT: Then I would bring an axe. No books.

JIM: It has to be a book, Dwight.

DWIGHT: Fine. Physicians Desk Reference.

JIM: Nice. Smart

DWIGHT: Hollowed out. Inside, water-proof matches, iodine tablets, beet seeds, protien bars, massive blanket and... Can I take away Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. No, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azazkerban. Question, did my shoes come off in the plane crash?

Great Expectations.
Jane Eyre.
Latest Harry Potter Book. (I am so shallow, LOL.)


Kitten.

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

It's so simple :D

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

It's so simple :D

Right on!!! :biggrin:

I should really credit the snippet of dialogue in the original post. It is from the TV series, The Office, on NBC. Some of the episodes are mediocre, but about a third of the time they are so side-splitting funny you won't want to erase (if you are a taper or DVR user).

"...did my shoes come off in the plane crash?" I suspect Dwight may be a John Locke fan.

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My book choices:
The Bible.
Physicians Desk Reference.
Seaworthy Craft From Scrap in 72 hours, by Michael Dawson.

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1) The Lost Chronicles
2) Desperate Housewives Behind Closed Doors
3) Latest Janet Evanovich book (Stephanie Plum Series)

LotR trilogy (It does count as one since they're all together)
Harry Potter and....the Goblet of Fire (my fav one)
Pride and Prejudice

1984
Dark Tower - The Waste Lands - My favorite one
A Ray Bradbury collection of short novels

1. SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea
2. The Bible
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy ( 3 in 1 hard cover book)

All are packed in waterproof, fire and tear resistant slip cover! Yahooooo!

1. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
2. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
3. LOTR trilogy

The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy
The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual
The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead

1. The LOTR series (in one book, of course)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3. To Kill a Mockingbird

1) An Actor Prepares (It was interesting, didn't get to finish because it had to go back to the library)
2) Memoirs Of A Geisha
3) Snow Falling On Cedars

One really thick book, with lots of sides in it that could be used to start a fire (something like an encyclopedia)
A book about plants, wildlife and nature on the island (preferably someone who´s dealing with monsters/giant birds as well as giving helpful advices regarding what plants not to eat and when monsoon season is coming) ;)
A complicated book, preferably on old English (takes longer to get through), with few words on either side (so one can use it as diary as well)....

If I´m th chose from what´s on my shelf I´d take LOTR, my one volume encyclopedia and probably Jane Austen's collected work.....

For entertainment purposes, I would bring these three.

Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
The Brothers Karamazov - Fydor Dostoevsky
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Otherwise, I would probably bring an encyclopedia or some sort of wilderness survival guide to assist me in my struggle for survival...

1. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
2. House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
3. Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk)

1. Les Miserables
2. Wicked
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I like the LOTR Trilogy as a choice! Nice one,

1. LOTR's Trilogy!
2. Sleepers
3. Medical Encyclopedia... will help you when you become a total paranoid hypochondriac..

The U.S. Army Ranger Handbook
A book of NY Times Crossword Puzzles
Goodnight Moon.

I would bring a GIANT book...something like Everything You Need to Know to Survive on and Escape From a Deserted Island.
If I were alone on the island, I'd use it to survive.
If I wasn't alone, it would be hollowed out and have all the harry potter books inside. That way everyone would get all excited and then....Harry Potter.

The First Man in Rome
LOTR trilogy
Gone With The Wind

Wow this is a toughie....

1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
2. The Two Princesses of Bamarre
3. 1984

...but knowing me, that 3rd one will change about 40 billion times...

Tough to answer. I have an extremely large home library that takes up an entire room of my house, and there still isn't room for everything. If I knew I was going there ahead of time, I would assume that I would be there for quite a while, so I would want to take a wide range of things to keep me content. And since I'm answering the question, I'll go ahead and set my own conditions and assume that since I'm on a Lost board, it will be a Lost-type situation, and I wasn't the only one to crash, and that I can borrow books from other people. So I'm not going to want to bring something that other people would be likely to have.

1) The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom. (For sociological, psychological reasons)
2) The Complete and Unabridged Works of Shakespeare. (for enjoyment. I don't think anyone else would have it because of its size)
3) Any herbal guide complete with plant identifications. (for health issues that arise on the island)

1- LOTR Trilogy (one volume = one book)

2.- Lost Horizon

3 - Complete Works of Shakespeare

does it have to be 3 only?!

fine. harry potter 3,4,and 6 or 7. if 7 is better than 6.

1. The DaVinci Code
2. The Lais of Marie de France
3. Decameron

Easy

1) Girlfriend in a coma - Douglas Coupland
2) How to be Canadian, even if you are already one - Will Ferguson (funniest book ever)
3) Life after God - Douglas Coupland

Well I wish it was more than three but the No. 1 book I would take would definitely have to be the

1. The Holy Bible
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (unless book 7 is better)
3. LOTR trilogy

Wow this is a toughie....

1. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
2. The Two Princesses of Bamarre
3. 1984

...but knowing me, that 3rd one will change about 40 billion times...

You shall change the 3rd one, hint hint.

You shall change the 3rd one, hint hint.
to WHAT?...might i ask,,,

to WHAT?...might i ask,,,

Harry Potter, duh.

My LOTR 3 in 1
That popular Survival handbook
Not sure about the third one... maybe Lord of the Flies. No! HP: GOF or HP: HBP

Harry Potter, duh.
but see no, b/c i couldn't just pick ONE to take with me...unless they can make all 7 books into one giant volume the six of Alaska....that would be interesting :biggrin:

but see no, b/c i couldn't just pick ONE to take with me...unless they can make all 7 books into one giant volume the six of Alaska....that would be interesting :biggrin:

Well, I think thats what we will have to do! Bind them all together, and they will be the size of a suitcase, but it will be so worth it!

Wow...only 3? Hmmm...

1) A Wrinkle in Time
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) The Bible

Let me think:

1.River God by Wilbur Smith (My absolute favourite, I have read it so many times its falling apart.)
2. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
3.Homer's The Odyssey.

I would love to take these books with me.:smile:

Wow...only 3? Hmmm...

1) A Wrinkle in Time
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) The Bible

hhmm interesting- Mo!

1. Wrinkle in Time
2. Third Policeman
3. Turning of the Screw

hey..when in Rome...