*demands the ISBN for Maladroit's books*

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In no particular order...

MS&T
Otherland
LOTR
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (as many as i'm allowed... at least the first trilogy)
The Chronicles of Prydain

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Maladroit wrote:

1. How to Build a Boat, Cee Sick

2. Desert Island on $5 a Day, Didya Packawallet

3. Learning to Love Coconut Milk, Howie Runs

4. How to Build a Boat Sand Castle, Gritty Sails

5. LOTR, Duh!!

*snortgiggle*

Since Tad books go without saying.  5 other choices:

1. History of the World in 10 and a Half Chapters~Julian Barnes

2. A Confederacy of Dunces~John Kennedy Toole

3. Neverending Story~Michael Ende

4. Gulliver's Travels~Jonathan Swift

5. Huck Finn-Mark Twain

Wishing everyone here happy holidays any happy new year.

1. The Lord of the Rings

2. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (even if I have to go the Libra route and duct-tape them together... which would be a shame, with their pretty covers and all... but stuff happens on desert islands, anyway. You can't expect books to remain pristine on a desert island).

3. The Wheel of Time (the first three books were good, and I can use the remaining books as pages and pages of kindling when I get mad at the stupidity... thus serving a dual purpose!)

4. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (which I haven't read all of yet, and much of which would be good new reading material)

5. Something I haven't read before (Just to keep boredom away)


...On the other hand, if Kiema's going to be offering an inter-island loan service, that might change my answers considerably.


And I've found my new sig!

5 only..that aint easy

The (ultimate) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Sandman- Neil Gaiman ( Can I just glue all 10 volumes together so they just count as one book?)
Otherland-Tad williams
Silmarillion-Tolkien
Ronia the Robber's Daughter- Astrid Lindgren

I always liked Ronia much more than Pippi.
I think Ronia was actually one of the first books I read in English, at least a part of it - or had to, rather. But not even my horrible teacher managed to ruin it for me.

Lunar wrote:

Em wrote:

Lunar wrote:

Ronia the Robber's Daughter- Astrid Lindgren

I love Pippi Longstocking!!! I did not realize she wrote more.

*looks up on Amazon.com* Now, I want! *pouts* I iz broke. *sigh*

I wonder if the library has them?

Oh Ronia is even better than Pipi (imho) and there also is a good movie of Ronia :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088015/ I think I´ve seen a clip on youtube that there also is a english Version.

I love it, Ronia was  my childhood Heroine  (and still is).
We used to Welcome Spring just as Ronia did, hehe Magpie knows what that means...
imagine a bunch of 5 year old kids doing that.. so much fun

Oh yes...

Now I want to reread. And continue colouring the illustrations in the book.

Good idea, Cyan. Looks like we have the start of a nice library!

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Once and Future King, T.H. White

I think reading those five over and over would keep me happy for the rest of my life.  Though.... agh, 100 Years of Solitude is left out...

I'd like to see Tad's. :)

Hey Tad, Deb, and friends, it's been a while. I hadn't been feeling good lately, I get a lot of debilitating migraines on a chronic basis, as well as dealing with autism and the few hours that were good lately were having chances to hang with friends that I haven't seen in a while. Anyways, at the moment I'm feeling a little better than usual.

Feel much better after an explosion in my head, collapsing to the floor in the darkness and awakening to screams and the strange craving for human brains. Other symptoms include only able to communicate through groans and gaarghs, and more grisly details I will refrain from discussing. At least I can type.


Anyways, I have a question for Tad. Tad, as a writer and someone who enjoys a good videogame, I thought you should check out information on the upcoming PS3 game Heavy Rain. It's from the creator of Indigo Prophecy, one of my favorite games of its generation. I have full confidence that Heavy Rain will be the most groundbreaking game in terms of story and character, and have a good gameplay system to make it possible. However, I think it will actually truly transcend what we perceive games are possible of, showing us what interactive stories/movies and games like Dragons Lair promised too deliver, but couldn't succeed on the level they were meant too. And as a great writer, if you look at the articles and video demonstrations of this game, I think you'd be blown away by what this medium of letting the player tell the story, is finally delivering to us. What makes it so groundbreaking and effective, is the developer's talent for writing and storytelling, actually making the player feel the effects and consequences of their choices - I think it will be the first game to truly go beyond the morale mechanic of choosing good or bad choices and actually explore the gray ones - and the other thing is their talent at really pushing technology forward to make it possible. I'd really encourage you, as well as others who are interested in this promising new take on interactive storytelling, to take a look because it really is mindblowing and a glimpse at what the future holds for the medium of not only games, but telling a story as well.

Trapped alone on a desert island with FIVE books, I would exchange them immediatly (if possible), for ONE satellite-connection to the coming OTHERLAND MMO...   "Early 2011" has just written Strangeshe as probable shedule...