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100 Desert Island Books

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Btw, how can you read all five of a trilogy. Do you mean a fivology? :o

It's actually quoted on the cover as being "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy" :D

IIRC They are:-

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

Life, The Universe and Everything

So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

Mostly Harmless

Definately worth reading, along with most of the Discworld series from Terry Pratchett

Have you read the 'Otherworld' trilogy by Tad Williams? Well worth reading too.

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I forgot one of my favourites, a dikwort in real life, apparently, but a very nice stringing together of words poet.

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a poster etherised upon a table...

:o

Just thought I throw my selection into the pot.

All works of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet.

Steinbeck Cannary Row and Sweet Thursday.

Le Carre The spy who came in from the cold.

Robert Goddard all works.

G. Greene Travels with my Aunt.

David Niven Moons a Balloon.

David Niven Bring on the empty horses.

Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks.

Phillip Pullman The Dark Materials Trilogy, (knocks Harry Potter books into a Tin Hat, be interesting to see the first movie, out at Chistmas 2007).

Plenty of others that could also be included, but limited myself to the above.

In no particular order...

Christopher Brookmyre: all 9 novels (my favourite contemporary crime writer)

Alexander McCall Smith: No1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (6)

Joseph Heller: Catch 22, Good as Gold, God Knows

John D. MacDonald: Travis McGee series(20)

Terry Prachett: Discworld series(25+)

Jean Paul Sartre: Roads to Freedom trilogy

Xenophon: The Persian Expedition

Franz Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphosis

Stephen King: The Stand

John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

Luke Reinhart: The Dice Man

Alice Seebold: The Lovely Bones

Graham Greene: Brighton Rock

Albert Camus: The Plague

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

Machiavelli: The Prince

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

P.J.O'Rourke: Holidays in hel_l, Give War a Chance

Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife

Throw in my 8 volume set of The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia dated 1907 and a few other history/non-fiction books and I'd struggle to keep it below a hundred.

How big is this island, anyway? :o

Noddy Goes To Toytown. (maybe this should be in the Pattaya forum?)

Noddy Goes To Toytown. (maybe this should be in the Pattaya forum?)

That might be too difficult a read for some of the knuckle-draggers I've encountered there.... :o

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen.

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen.

The favourite author of retired racehorses..

Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl

".. Boggis, Bunce, Bean... one short, one fat, one lean.."

:o

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen.

Often been disappointed with film adaptations but you're dead right about this one. :o

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen.

The favourite author of retired racehorses..

:D for 10 seconds

:D for much longer

:o

My wife asked me to add 'Pride and Prejudice'!!!

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