Tiger Lil'
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Post by Tiger Lil' on Jun 3, 2005 8:56:53 GMT -5
Desert Island Books Do we need rules for this?
Maybe your top....anything from between one to ten that can be changed as the mood takes you![/color] |
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Blue
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Post by Blue on Jun 3, 2005 10:00:16 GMT -5
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Crusoe
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Post by Crusoe on Jun 3, 2005 10:19:37 GMT -5
Really, Blue, you’ve good company, some good books, some good records (presumably) and an abundance of food (assuming you don’t mind seafood and coconut). Why worry about building boats?
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Crusoe
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Post by Crusoe on Jun 3, 2005 10:22:54 GMT -5
Ah well, this is easy:-
“Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen”, “The Inimitable Jeeves”, “What Ho Jeeves”, “Joy in the Morning”, “Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit”, “Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin”, “Service with a Smile”, “Much Obliged, Jeeves”, “Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves”, “Young Men in Spats”, “Very Good Jeeves”…
Oh, hang on, did you say up to ten. OK this could be a bit trickier than I first thought. But, off the top of my head, I’ll have a go at:-
“Imperial Blandings” (an omnibus of "Pigs Have Wings", "Full Moon" and "Service with a Smile") – P.G. Wodehouse
“The Human Factor” – Graham Greene
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” – Milan Kundera
“Godel, Escher and Bach an Eternal, Golden Braid” – Douglas R. Hofstadter
“Towards the End of the Morning” – Michael Frayn
“1066 and All That” – Sellars and Yeatman
“The Diary of a Nobody” – George and Weedon Grossmith
“The Papers of A.J.Wentworth, B.A.” – H.F. Ellis
“Offshore” – Penelope Fitzgerald
“The Wisden Collection, Vol. 1” – Ed. Graeme Wright
“Before She Met Me” – Julian Barnes
Well there we are. I’ll probably get home and see all the books I’d forgotten but these are 10 I’d be pretty happy with on a desert island.
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Jun 3, 2005 10:43:14 GMT -5
Crusoe, you've left a few out, surely. Jeeves's Diary The Return of Jeeves Back to Jeeves Escape From Jeeves Jeeves and The Holy Grail The Jeeves Memorandum Jeeves Was My Aunt Jeeves's Practical Tips and Cocktail Recipes Jeeves's Amazing Adventures Tinker Tailor Soldier Jeeves SuperThunderFireStingJeeves Jeeves in Kilts (a photojournal, out of print) Jeeves Strikes Back Jeeves and the Gingernuts  |
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Tiger Lil'
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Post by Tiger Lil' on Jun 3, 2005 11:26:03 GMT -5
Ah... but you see! The beauty of this game is that you can change your choice whenever you come across a new/old gem in your driftwood bookcase.
The true purpose is to point other castaways in the direction of a good read.
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Post by Blue on Jun 3, 2005 12:50:10 GMT -5
. . .Why worry about building boats? To build a warship, and defend my island making sure no one ever disturbs me Hum - thought that was obvious  ;D |
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Post by Post It Note on Jun 3, 2005 13:19:04 GMT -5
The true purpose is to point other castaways in the direction of a good read. A good read is it? Try Whitacker's Almanack. Good bloke that Alan Whitacker. The chapter on Precedence and how to address peers of the realm is especially rivetting in case we come across, say, a Privy Counsellor on the island. It is incorrect to use the letters PC after the name in conjunction with the prefix The Right Hon., unless the Privy Counsellor is a peer below the rank of Marquess and so is styled The Right Hon. because of his rank. In this case only, the post-nominal letters may be used in conjunction with the prefix The Right Hon.[/color]  |
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Post by Post Haste on Jun 3, 2005 13:31:03 GMT -5
 But that's definite point for Whittaker's Almanac from a Post It.
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Post by Post It Note on Jun 3, 2005 13:36:41 GMT -5
Sorry, spelled it wrong. I have it hear before me now even as I type. Whitaker's Almanack. ISBN 0-11-702252-7 Apologies to Alan Whittacker. |
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Post by Luxury Yacht on Jun 3, 2005 13:40:48 GMT -5
A good read is it? Try Whitacker's Almanack. Good bloke that Alan Whitacker. The chapter on Precedence and how to address peers of the realm is especially rivetting in case we come across, say, a Privy Counsellor on the island. It is incorrect to use the letters PC after the name in conjunction with the prefix The Right Hon., unless the Privy Counsellor is a peer below the rank of Marquess and so is styled The Right Hon. because of his rank. In this case only, the post-nominal letters may be used in conjunction with the prefix The Right Hon.[/color] [/quote] Sounds fascinating - good idea. Tea? Don't mind if I do.  |
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Post by moll on Jun 3, 2005 20:56:13 GMT -5
honestly, i really only know one useful book - the don's cheque book ...
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Post by mermaid on Jun 3, 2005 21:53:35 GMT -5
  i do have rather a weakness for neptune/poseidon or any name you care to call him - him with the trident.... (triton isn't bad either...] |
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Post by Had to look twice on Jun 4, 2005 15:07:32 GMT -5
Mermaid, I had to look twice at that Neptune statue.  Then I realised it was a cunningly draped bit of, er, drapery. The other fellah, nice. I'll leave it at that. But these immediate responses belittle the sculptor though having said that, any response is better than none?  The file Poseidon Adventure. Very exciting in its day. Gene Hackman was good. (of course. name me a duff Hackman movie) |
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