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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Started conversation Oct 6, 2006
So if you were stranded on an island and could only have five books, which books would you pick?
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 6, 2006
Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday
Lord of the Rings
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (of course 
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The Reginald Perrin trilogy
The complete Love and Rockets
Okay, that last one is a graphic novel collection that doesn't officially exist except as 20 individual volumes, and the three Perrin books might not have been published in one volume either 
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Crazy Man Posted Oct 6, 2006
Hitchhiker's Guide
The Ender series
The Discworld series
Good Omens
This Other Eden by Ben Elton
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Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. Posted Oct 6, 2006
"Complete First Aid Using Nothing More Than Coconuts"
"Joy of Coconuts - 1001 Coconut Recipes"
"Solitaire Games With Coconuts"
"Coconut Construction Techniques"
"Meaningful Conversations With Coconuts"
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Bagpuss Posted Oct 6, 2006
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien (well, I've got plenty of time)
The Holy Bible (New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, ie it includes the Apocrypha)
The new Harry Potter book
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Deek Posted Oct 6, 2006
To a Rocky Moon Don Willhelms
War of the Worlds H G Wells
The Day of the Triffids. John Wyndham
Beyond Selene Jeffery Kluger
The SAS Survival Guide P D Allison
DK
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Oct 6, 2006
Hooray! You lot rule. Hi Crazy Man, love the entries, A. Washcloth, Esquire, Bagpuss, hello again, hello again Gosho and Deke, you seem to be someone new!
Fantastic.
OK. I had to think of this a long time. It was hard to come up with more than the requisite Douglas Adams book. I need to read more.
Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams
180 Every Day Poems, ed. by Billy Collins
A book full of paper with good pens that never runs out of paper
The Creative License, Danny Gregory
The Spoken Word Revolution, ed by Mark Smith (I think?), complete with CD and a very good CD player.
OOOOoo... and five albums I'd have to have?
Blue, Joni Mitchell
Rubber Soul, Beatles
The White Album, Beatles
Abbey Road, Beatles
Tapestry, Carol King
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Hati Posted Oct 6, 2006
I think I'd go for some language learning CDs and books. Danish, Spanish, Dutch... maybe couple weirder languages as well.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 6, 2006
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Complete Shakespeare in one volume
Brokeback Mountain
The Columbia One-volume Encyclopedia
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
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- 1: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Oct 6, 2006)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Oct 6, 2006)
- 3: Crazy Man (Oct 6, 2006)
- 4: Avenging Washcloth, An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth. (Oct 6, 2006)
- 5: Bagpuss (Oct 6, 2006)
- 6: Deek (Oct 6, 2006)
- 7: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Oct 6, 2006)
- 8: Hati (Oct 6, 2006)
- 9: Ottox (Oct 6, 2006)
- 10: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Oct 6, 2006)
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