Ten Volumes To Take Into Exile

[Sarah]

I would take 10 blank journals and a pen, because reading pretentious novels bores the **** out of me, and living alone on an island would already be boring.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by Sarah

I would take 10 blank journals and a pen, because reading pretentious novels bores the **** out of me, and living alone on an island would already be boring.

Who said they had to be pretentious? There ARE books in existence where you can get something different out of it every time you read it. And maybe not even that, but you can enjoy it every time you read it. Well, that happens for me anyway. Lord of the Rings specifically comes to mind.

1) The Lord of the Rings (need I say more?)

2) The Never Ending Story (this story is just fantastical perfection)

3) Kingdom Come (Beautiful art and a timely story)

4) Watchmen (pure genius)

5) The Dark Knight Returns (Gotta love Miller's Batman)

6) The Holy Bible (any version I reckon)

7) The Chronicles of Narnia (it does exist in one volume!)

8) The Hobbit (i guess i needed to pick this one since LOTR is up there)

9) The Silmarillion (such a beautiful book...can you see a pattern yet?)

10) The Once and Future King by T.H. White

--I realize this post is really a "top ten favorite" books...and for me it was neary impossible to do so; but I did my best.

[gldstwmn]

The Language of Letting Go - Melody Beattie

When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? - George Carlin

The Tao Te Ching - Lao-tzu

Merriam Webster unabridged dictionary

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Chronicles vol 1 - Bob Dylan

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Sarah

I would take 10 blank journals and a pen, because reading pretentious novels bores the **** out of me, and living alone on an island would already be boring.

I find they do not pretend

Also - I think it funny how when people say they like something that most are not into or that thing is considered esoteric, it and, likely, they are labeld as pretentious. Interestingly, the people who would choose only some dime store romance with Faio on the cover likely would consider most literature that costs over $0.10 pretentious. People like what they like and usually they like it without pretext

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I find they do not pretend

Also - I think it funny how when people say they like something that most are not into or that thing is considered esoteric, it and, likely, they are labeld as pretentious. Interestingly, the people who would choose only some dime store romance with Faio on the cover likely would consider most literature that costs over $0.10 pretentious. People like what they like and usually they like it without pretext

Seriously? Check this **** at the door, because I don't care. Don't even pretend like I'm jumping all over someone else for what they've selected when in reality, you're trying to crawl up my ass for what I said I'd prefer.

I didn't reference anyone else's selections. I said that I'd take my own books to write in because I'd get bored with pretentious novels. Fiction has almost always bored me. I would rather write something of my own.

BESIDES. Documenting the rest of your life in exile could potentially make interesting reading for someone else. There's a lot of time for thinking and exploring your own mind in this hypothetical situation... why clutter those thoughts with someone else's bull****?

[strandinthewind]

^^^^

I thought you were taking jab at the selections posted. If not, I apologize.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

^^^^

I thought you were taking jab at the selections posted. If not, I apologize.

No. I was not. If I was, I'd admit to it now. But I really don't care what other people read.

I wonder what they'd find up there?

omg. I know you didn't just. Not funny. Not witty. Give up now.

If I ever see you in person anywhere, I'm going to punch you directly in the face. So the next time Fleetwood Mac tours... just be on your six. Cuz.. you neeeeever know. The beast lurks in the darkness... master of disguise...

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by Sarah

No. I was not. If I was, I'd admit to it now. But I really don't care what other people read.


omg. I know you didn't just. Not funny. Not witty. Give up now.

If I ever see you in person anywhere, I'm going to punch you directly in the face. So the next time Fleetwood Mac tours... just be on your six. Cuz.. you neeeeever know. The beast lurks in the darkness... master of disguise...

HA! Aw come on, you walked right into that one. Sometimes I wonder where your sense of humour has gone!

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

HA! Aw come on, you walked right into that one. Sometimes I wonder where your sense of humour has gone!

I offered it as a personal sacrifice to Satan, my great, dark overlord.

-_-

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Sarah

. . . If I ever see you in person anywhere, I'm going to punch you directly in the face. So the next time Fleetwood Mac tours... just be on your six. Cuz.. you neeeeever know. The beast lurks in the darkness... master of disguise...

1. I hear you can do that in some Midwestern state and not get in trouble.

2. I think you should find out what's up or been in his a$$

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by Sarah

Seriously? Check this **** at the door, because I don't care. Don't even pretend like I'm jumping all over someone else for what they've selected when in reality, you're trying to crawl up my ass for what I said I'd prefer.

I wonder what they'd find up there?