[noflylist]

This question deserves its own topic.

if there is one book to read, which one would you possess. Let me rephrase, if you were on a deserted island with one book allowed...

For me, Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi will do.
Also October 2 is Gandhi's birthday is coming up! His revelance is questioned by lot of people in India but I think it still hold true.

Edited by noflylist, 01 October 2007 - 12:27 AM.

[iwanttogoback]

only one book! i'll have to think about that because i would find it very hard.

[batistuta]

Tough Choice, But I would Opt for 'Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle. Nisargadatta Maharaj 's ' I AM That' would be the second book on that list.

[torryquine]

There is a long-running radio show here called "Desert Island Disks", on which well-known guests must choose six records they would take to a desert island.  They also have to choose a book, but over the years, so may people have opted for the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, that the presenter now assumes that the guest has these anyway and therefore must choose another.

So perhaps we should assume here, that we are already supplied with the Ramayana, the Mahabaratha, the Quran and the Bible?

That given, I would probably select The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

[iwanttogoback]

tq, i like your thinking! in that case, i'd take my jane austen omnibus.

[cyberhippie]

Grapes OF Wrath : John Steinback

[jyotirmoy]

Three men in a boat and the life of pie

[Serena]

"One hundred years of solitude" GG Marquez

[ChrisJ]

Slaughterhose Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

But ask me in another five minutes and I will have probably changed my mind ;-)

For an audio book: "Winnie the Pooh" read by Alan Bennett (The proper books - not the weird and appalling Disney cr*ap)

I used to listen to him in the car with my Mum - how the hell she didn't crash from laughing so much I will never know!

Chris.

[noflylist]

Honorable mension "Shatranj Ke Khiladi" by Premchand!

[dzibead]

Can I count the entire Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian as my "one book"?  There are 18 volumes, but it's one continuous series.  

[iwanttogoback]

dzibead, on Oct 3 2007, 06:06 AM, said:

Can I count the entire Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian as my "one book"?  There are 18 volumes, but it's one continuous series.  

trust the lawyer to split hairs!

[dzibead]

iwanttogoback, on Oct 2 2007, 09:30 PM, said:

trust the lawyer to split hairs!

Actually, it was the 12 years of Catholic school that did that.  Hm-m-m ... come to think of it, that was probably the start of my legal education.

[captmahajan]

probably catcher in the rye, salinger*


*subject to change without notice

[jyoti]

The idiot's guide to boat building?  

Or maybe a kerala cookbook, assuming there are lots of coconuts.

man, i had a hard enough time narrowing down to 40 pounds to come to india, and those have increased exponentially since getting here.  

I think, though, I would take Arfken's Mathematical physics.  most incomprehensible textbook i've ever seen, completely incoherent cause no English editor could understand what the heck he was talking about to edit it. I would be a genius if I ever got thru that, and it would keep me occupied for a good 10, 20 years...