So, you're on a deserted island

MrBishop

MrBishop

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Pick 5 books and 5 movies that you'd love to have with you (providing you had something to watch the movies on) :D
 
books
-alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass (combined into one handy volume!)
-the phantom tollbooth
-ella enchanted
-the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (all the books in one handy volume!)
-a journal that would never end. i'd need to write.

movies
-the secret garden
-harriet the spy
-sliding doors
-i'll get back to this for the other two.

i like kids' stuff :p
 
Books:

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Mid-Life Confidential - Dave Barry

Paradise Screwed - Carl Hiaasen

Angela's Ashes: a Memoir - Frank McCourt

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West - Stephen Ambrose

River Horse - William Least-Heat Moon

(yes, I can count - I couldn't decide which one to exclude :p )


Movies:

Full Metal Jacket

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Big Fish

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Secondhand Lions
 
Books

Edible Flora and Fauna

How to build a transmitter out of a DVD player

Morse Code for Dummies

The do's and dont's of Boat Building

Any Penthouse ( Need some "me" time)

Movies

Castaway (just so I could leave it on the Island when I left)

Lord of the Flies (I'd appreciate being alone)

Any Kevin Costner Movie (so I'd be able to appreciate not being near a theatre to see any "new " movie of his)

Wedding Video * see answer to Lord of the Flies

Porno ( Need some "me" time)
 
Books:
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Silmarillion - Tolkien
Dune series - Herbert
Hyperion - Simmons
Pride & Prejudice - Austen

Movies:
2001: A Space Oddysey
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Star Wars - Original Trilogy
Lawrence of Arabia
Metropolis/Blade Runner (Directors Cut)... can't quite short-list to five :blush:
 
Books:

1. SAS Survival Handbook
2. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
3. Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
4. US Special Forces Medical Handbook
5. The worlds largest phonebook ... for toilet paper

Movies:

Probably the first 5 seasons of STTNG. At least it would be 100 hours of material instead of 10.
 
Books:

Army FM 3-25.26
Army FM 21-76
Army FM 4-25.11
Army FM 21-10 and
The Official Urban and Wilderness Emergency Survival Guide
by Robert Pelton

Movies:

Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

STDSN the final Season DVD...

You can look up the Army field manuals on the net if you need any further information...
 
The Foxfire Book
The South Was Right! (Kennedy and Kennedy)
Boat Building For Dummies
The Boy Scouts Guide to Eating In The Wild
Purifying Salt Water Using Rocks and Leaves


Se7en
Easy Rider
Traci Lords: The Rebelious Years
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Saw
 
BTW...if the island is deserted...except for me...wouldn't that make me emporer of the island? And with all that power, why would I want to leave? :lol2:
 
From the top of my head, without bothering to think it through:

Movies:
The Piano
Blade Trinity (haven't seen it yet, nice too bring something new.)
The Matrix
X-Men
The Crow

Books:
"How to make 50 varied meals with coconut as the main ingredient"
"Vittorio the Vampire" by Anne Rice
A couple of Anne Rice novels I haven't read yet
A Stephen King book, gotta decide which one later.
 
98.6 The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive - Cody Lundin *Primitive skills, food and herb-lore, first aid etc etc...nice and compact and often hilarious.

The Annals of the Black Company - Cook
The Giants Novels (Trilogy)


Movies
Blade Runner
Three Weddings and a Funeral
The Decline of the American Empire
Debbie does them all ;)
Aliens
 
MrBishop said:
98.6 The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive - Cody Lundin *Primitive skills, food and herb-lore, first aid etc etc...nice and compact and often hilarious.

The Annals of the Black Company - Cook
The Giants Novels (Trilogy)


Movies
Blade Runner
Three Weddings and a Funeral
The Decline of the American Empire
Debbie does them all ;)
Aliens
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[Al Bundy]Isn't that like four of the same thing?[/Al Bundy]
 
Books
Cats Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
Independent Nation, John P. Avalon
Wild Flowers and Wild Etibles Field Guide
Bible (Douay-Rheims)

Movies
O Brother Where Art Thou
Fargo
Citizen Kane
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Napoleon Dynamite
 
HomeLAN said:
You ever get hitched, Gato, or is she still your fiance'?
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We've been married since June 23...and we don't have internet access at home, so her chances of seeing any of this are slim and none. :grinyes:
 
Books:

-A.G.S. (Architectural Graphing Standards)

-Meditation for Dummies

-Sidarthha

-A random Tom Clancey novel

-Architectural Record

Movies:

- Fight Club

- Saving Private Ryan

- Black Hawk DOwn

- The Shinning

- Family Guy - The Stewie Griffen Story
 
Books --
Any book dealing with survival -- LOL
The Decameron by Boccaccio
Peter The Great by Robert Massie
Any collection of Shakespeare's plays
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Movies --
Mrs. Miniver -- Greer Garson
Dinner at Eight -- Marie Dressler/Jean Harlow/Lionel & John Barrymore
The Women -- Norma Shearer/Joan Crawford
The Philadelphia Story -- Cary Grant/Kathryn Hepburn/Jimmy Stewart
Desk Set --- Tracy/Hepburn
Donovan's Reef -- John Wayne

Yes, I know, 6 movies --- but those are just "have to have". LOL
 
Well,



I don't know what books...

Movies:

1. Geriatric Facials
2. Blonde Babysitter and the Mistress of Spankville
3. Mega Bar Sluts Rock Hard
4. Dumb Nymphos and the Bangers of Gangs
5. Secret Whores 2, the Wrath of Kahn
(Starring Lulu Craven-Cox and Hammer Caymen)

What else would there be to do on an island all alone?
:brush:
 
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