we’d like to take with us when we get stranded in a desert island. Some of us took some liberties on the topic and decided to list books they haven’t read that they’d like to bring, for whatever practical reasons.
Show Length: 1:26:50 mins
Bjorn’s 5
The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails, Robert Musil Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand Life: A User/'s Manual, Georges Perec Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Lone’s 5
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster La Commedia Divina (The Divine Comedy), Dante Alighieri The Red Book, Carl Gustav Jung Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Intimacy, Hanif Kureshi
Donny’s 5
Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake The Once and Future King, TH White Gravity/'s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon The Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin
Uma’s 5
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar The Princess Bride, William Goldman Don Quixote, Cervantes The Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin
Marcel’s 5
The Recognitions, William Gaddis Fluß ohne Ufer, Hans Henny Jahnn Pierre, Herman Melville Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon The Changing Lights at Sandover, James Merrill
Mentioned
Intimacy, the movie Maus, Art Spielgelman The Secret History, Donna Tartt What you really should have in a desert island: Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction, Howard Irving Chapelle Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, Lewis S Nelson
Links
Alternative view of German politics: http://www.classless.org/
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