tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522319810296642659.post2186110292911568048..comments2024-03-26T10:22:23.755-05:00Comments on RA for All: Monday Discussion: Desert Island BookBeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01085260877904727608noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522319810296642659.post-44408178736346253202011-06-21T23:48:45.153-05:002011-06-21T23:48:45.153-05:00MIKE BPL REF,
My desert island book would be ...MIKE BPL REF,<br /><br /> My desert island book would be the Complete Stories of Jack London.<br />The Unabridged Edition.<br /><br /> First, London is a great author and his stories about Man against Nature might just help me survive and secondly, the book is special to me because my parents gave it to me for my 25th birthday and they each wrote <br />kind notes to me inside the front cover and seeing their handwriting might not make me so alone on a desert island.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522319810296642659.post-36060915700326301692011-06-13T20:48:00.126-05:002011-06-13T20:48:00.126-05:00If I could only take one tome, it would probably b...If I could only take one tome, it would probably be a Bible. I'm not well read in it (even with all the literary illusions that come from it) but I understand there are tales of sex and deceit, poetry, and self-help. More likely, though, I'd have a blank book and spend my time trying to write from memory the bits and pieces that I do remember from things I've read before.Kimberlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12608405553721025518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522319810296642659.post-82948844567345389772011-06-13T13:34:37.301-05:002011-06-13T13:34:37.301-05:00The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward...The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. I was assigned to read it several times in college and never did. It is beyond long. I always slid by with excerpts and interpretations but never actually sat down with the real thing. It is filled with not only historical fact but also a lot of speculation which has since been written off as incorrect. Still, I'd like to read it. It would be interesting. Being stranded on an island is probably the only way it's gonna happen. I figure I could kill it while waiting for the coconut hooch to distill.John BPL RAnoreply@blogger.com