/lit/, which five books would you bring with you to a desert island to read forever?
>hard mode: no Bible, Moby Dick, or Shakespeare

>>24597911 (OP)
>hard mode: no Bible, Moby Dick, or Shakespeare

why does this entire board like moby dick so much? i know you divs dont read shit so why did you unanimously agree that this book is so great?

>>24597911 (OP)
War and peace, Byron collected poetry, John Milton collected poetry, Aristotle (2 volumes).

>>24597911 (OP)
>5x complete works of [Author]

>>24597911 (OP)
Assuming I already have a copy of the Bible:
>The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
>The Collected Sermons of John Wesley
>Collected Fictions by Borges
>CCRU Writings 1997-2003
>Suttree

>>24597911 (OP)
through the looking glass

ASOIAF
The Odyssey
Metamorphoses
Divine Comedy
Guru Granth Sahib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>24597911 (OP)
Probably some kind of desert island survival guides. I've never even been on a deserted island before so those books would bring my odds of surviving long enough to read anything at all from "certainly not" to just "probably not."
Assuming survival is somehow not an issue, Edgar Allen Poe's complete works, Les Misérables, The Secret Garden, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and a copy of my book

I'm gonna take my Bible cause that's just essential.
The other four:
>Redwall (the OG one)
>HP Lovecraft complete collection
>Fahrenheit 451
>On the Road

Five 2000-page notebooks for me to write in.

>>24597911 (OP)

>>24599003
>on the road
Oh yes you need near constant reminders that apple pie and ice cream is "nutritious and delicious"

>>24597911 (OP)
I’ll give it some thought and return to this thread, island-anon.

The key ingredient would have to be rereadability. Doesn’t matter if a book is 2000 pages, if you finish it in a month and have no desire to ever revisit it then it’s a wasted book to have brought to your island banishment.

>>24599040
Mm yess.

>>24597911 (OP)
Probably
Don Quixote
Count of monte crusto
Les miserables
Iliad and odyssey (a lot of books combine these stories)
Infinite jizz

The Lord of the Rings + The Silmarillion
Summa Theologica
The Oxford English Dictionary Volume XIX
Finnegans Wake
Lolita

>Learn Ancient Greek For Dummies On A Desert Island
>Illiad
>Oddysey
>Complete Works of Plato
>Complete Works of Aristotle

I will learn to quote the Illiad like Plato in the same manner people quote Marvel movies (the contemporary equivalent to the Illiad and Oddysey of the Ancient Greeks).

>>24597911 (OP)
My diary desu

>>24597911 (OP)
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Recognitions
Absalom, Absalom
Tunnel

>>24598004
It's a fantastic novel, one that gets better and better with every reread.

>critique of pure reason
>Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom
>phenomenology of spirit
>being and time
>Lacan's ecrits

>>24600271
You didn't really answer that anon's question.

>>24597911 (OP)
>hard mode: no Bible
nobody on this board actually likes the Bible as a work of literature, people just roleplay as christcucks because /pol/ convinced them that it's Le Heckin Based And Redpillerinoed to larp as an uncivilized retard

>>24600416
Ok pajeet

>>24600422
I'm more pure than you, Mordecai.

>>24600416
holy projection

>>24600416
We're all sinners, and this site is the epitome of depravity. Yet God still loves us and wants us to be with Him, you included. Don't worry about the /pol/ tradlarp nonsense, just read the Gospel According to John with an open heart and see for yourself. God bless you, anon.

>>24600416
>t. hasn't read Job and Ecclesiastes
Though I do have to admit it's a mixed bag. The 2nd half of Exodus and most of Leviticus is a massive chore to get through.

>>24597911 (OP)
LOTR
The Brothers Karamazov
A Tale of Two Cities
The King of Elfland's Daughter
The Odyssey

>>24600416
Nobody hates more on Christians than /pol/. They think it's a 32D jewish subversion tactic

>>24597911 (OP)
A Clockwork Orange
Great Expectations
Faust
The Fountainhead
Harlan Ellison - uhh Greatest Hits? That’s probably the most bang for my buck

>24598027
3/5

>24598511
>Assuming I already have a copy of the Bible
>No Bible
2/5

>24598517
Based schizo
4/5

>24598518
>ASOIAF
>counted as 1
1/5

>24599003
>No Bible
1/5

>24599634
Cheater
2/5

>24599649
You selected 8 books
1/5

>24599686
1/5

>24600271
3/5 but desperately need to get off lit

>24600331
1/5

>24602577
7 books, 1/5

>>24602616
I got the highest rating but still no (you). What sort of trvkes should i drop to have you surrender my my recognition!?

>>24602628
Kept marking it as spam. Anyone else notice that more shit is being marked as spam? A few days back, I wrote a long, thoughtful response that no matter what I changed, I could not post

>>24602651
Yeah I get that on /lit/ more often than other boards as well. Unfortunately, I do not think syntax control = quality control. One sentence bait threads still rain supreme.

Das Kapital

>>24602577
Holy based, minus retard Dosto

>>24597911 (OP)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Anne Karenina
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
The Man Without Qualities

Iliad & Odyssey (Merrill translation), Livy, The Aeneid (Maundelbaum translation, his only great translation), The Divine Comedy (Hollander translation), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

>>24600416
I don’t believe in Christcuckery or Kikeism, but the Bible is a great work of literature. Especially Genesis. Read the Norton Critical or Robert Alter translation to understand

bump

>One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
>For Whom The Bell Tolls
>Mother Night by Vonnegut
>Complete Poems of WB Yeats
>Masks of God by Joseph Campbell

>>24599634
>>24599003
Good lists

>Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror
>Plato's Republic
>Blake's Four Zoas
>Vergil's Aeneid
>Shestov's All Things Are Possible
If possible, I'd prefer the complete works if the first four authors but that just seems like cheating
>>24598027
Based Milton and Byron, respect the Aristotle
>>24598511
Based Blake man
>>24599649
Finnegan's Wake seems like a good but ultimately maddening choice
>>24599686
Based all around

>>24597911 (OP)
The Divine Comedy
Blood Meridian
Finnegans Wake
Complete Works of Aristotle
Infinite Jest
I haven't read IJ or FW yet, but they will probably last me awhile.

>>24597911 (OP)
I will supplement my Bible with Against Heresies and the 1st book of Enoch.
I'll also take the Iliad and Odyssey (Lattimore) and a copy of Alcoholics Anonymous

Complete works of Cicero
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Malazan Book of the Fallen
War and Peace
Dubliners (tried to pick otherwise long works but this is my favorite)

>>24607661
Based book of Enoch
>>24603517
Good man
>>24598518
Based ovid enjoyer

>>24599033
>using Walton for his ship building
Enjoy not making it a full league before sinking

>>24597911 (OP)
I would only bring empty notebooks so I could record my descent into madness

>>24597911 (OP)
>hard mode
All books I would not even consider. If I were to live out my life on a desert (I assume you meant deserted) island I would not bring books, they would serve no purpose, I would just live my life.

Stephen King's IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot, 11/22/63, Under the Dome. I like slop, bite me.

>>24608577
>stephen king’s IT
Pretty obvious what brand of paint you’re huffing, no need to elaborate.

>>24608502
Desert Island is an old phrase, deserted would meant it was formerly occupied

t. Not esl

Burton’s translation of Arabian Nights
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Collected Stories of Edgar Allen on Poe
Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy (if constrained to just one volume I would choose Volume 2 since that has Vicksburg, Gettsysburg, Chickamauga, Missonary Ridge, Port Royal, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
Ulysses

>>24598004
before I came to this board I thought moby dick was one of the best books I ever read. Actually THEE best, and I was overjoyed to see it as number one on /lit/'s reading list.

>>24602585
>They think it's a 32D jewish subversion tactic
See
>>24603544
>I don’t believe in Christcuckery or Kikeism
Lumping Christianity into kike religion is peak pseud and the absolute state of Atheism in 2025.

>>24610386
The christkike cope that they don‘t come from jews now breaking into bald denial of the facts

>>24610386
Peak atheism? But it is mostly done by Christians who use the phrase “Judeo-Christian”, and a lot do. Most atheists don’t lump them in together

>>24610395
Rather white Christians are the true Jews. Kikes are fake Jews

>>24610405
Unsurprisingly to anybody but the deluded, placing such a premium on judaism that you attempt to retcon yourself into its center is peak kike worship.

I can‘t even conceive how anybody is supposed to read the Esau/Jacob episode except as a parable that the strong and able should be made to serve those who get ahead by trickery.

>>24597911 (OP)
>hard mode: no Bible, Moby Dick, or Shakespeare
Then it's not an actual answer, fagtard.

Blood meridian
The Call of Cthulhu
The Book of Lambspring
Fedon
Pistis Sophia

>>24610420
Christianity is the only force that can defeat Kikery because Christians are the true Jews. Only the true Jews can drive out the false Jews

>>24597911 (OP)
Porn novels that're over thousands imof pages long.

As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!
The Saga of The Swamp Thing
Heart of Darkness

>>24597911 (OP)
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Swallows and Amazons, Robinson Crusoe

>>24597911 (OP)
>How to get off a desert island
>How to deal with the disappointment of being on a desert island, unable to escape
>The Parabola (a book i will write on the island)
>The Concession (my masterwork, also written on the island)
>The Bible

Greek Anthology
Homer
Collected Poetry of Li Bai
Collected plays of Moliere
Algebra, by Lang

>>24598004
Unironically one of the best english novels written. I used to think it was propped up by old codges out of nostalgia and hard-headedness, but it's really a timeless novel about human existence. There's many ways to interpret it and the superficial story alone is entertaining enough to survive multiple reads.

Introduction to the reading of Hegel
The Notion of Authority
Outline of a Phenomenology of Right
On Tiranny
The Idea of Determinism

>>24598004
>why does this entire board like moby dick so much?
It's one of the rare books that's just as good as everyone says it is. I know this answer is thin and unsatisfying, but it's the truth. It's just that fucking good.

>>24597911 (OP)
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
The rest can be whatever

>>24597911 (OP)
>Longman's Gazetteer of the world, by Geo. G. Chisholm, published in 1895, is a 1788-page book on geography.
This. Cause books make good kindling and that’s key to survival.

>>24599003
Cringe

>>24600416
Based

>>24599686
>johnny hobo and the freight train

I wanted to be a crust punk so bad when I was 16. Even now at 33 with a wife it seems alluring to give it all up and drink 40s in a squat.

>>24600894
"God" is a laughable concept invented by ignorant bewildered people.

>>24597911 (OP)
Republic
Iliad and Odyssey
Metamorphoses
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost

>>24613487
sorry that is 6+ books. I'll let Republic and Divine Comedy slide, but not Iliad and Odyssey

>>24614746
Republic
Complete Works of Homer
Metamorphoses
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost

>>24597911 (OP)
Complete works of Plato
Complete works of Aristotle
Complete works of Jane Austen
Complete works of Mark Twain
Complete Sherlock Holmes