Posted on 01/07/2023 9:27:22 AM PST by circlecity
If you were stranded on a desert island and could have only three books, what would they be?
Here are my three:
1) The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Easily the greatest, deepest novel ever written.
2) The Confessions of St. Augustine. Every work of Christian theology can be discerned from this.
3) Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton. This is mind boggling in it’s brilliance. Every time I read it I pick up new insights while realizing I am still missing so much of what he has to say.
I’ll leave it at that because I said just three but if this thread gains some traction I may throw out some honorable mentions later.
Are we going to be rescued or are we starting a civilization?
The Bible, and the best two survival books I could find.
On a deserted island
I was told
There is well water
If you dig for it
The Bible
Bushcraft: Building Boats with No Tools.
Homeopathic Medicines
The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis
Live Not By Lies - Rod Dreher
The Bible - God
I didn’t read the body of your post.
Really big ones.
After reading, each page would be useful for starting fires.
“A Time to Kill” by John Grisham
“Truman” by David McCullough
“What It Takes” by Richard Ben Cramer
Robinson Crusoe?
Followed by "Bleak House" by Dickens and maybe "Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien - both are expansive stories with excellent detail I could get lost in.
Keeping on the Christian theme, I’d offer
1. Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
2. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law
3. Spurgeons Sermons by Charles Spurgeon
“The Complete Book About Surf Fishing” Al Ristori
“All about Coconut Crabs” Marcia Zappa
“Bass’n Objects” Bill Dance
Maybe I need to read it again because I didn't think that was his best work.
The Life and Times of Vladimir Zelensky might be one, at least for the Neocons.
I like all three of yours. And I like the autobiography of Ulysses Grant that he wrote out as he was dying. It’s near perfection in structure and people analyzing it today cannot believe a dying man wrote it out.
Next “On active Service in Peace and War” by Henry Stimson. He gets chided as the man in the 1920s who said “Gentlemen do not read other people’s mail” as he shut down the black chamber in 1929. But like a true man of honor, when America was crossed he was presided over building a 16 million man military and built the atomic bomb and nuked Japan.
And the Biography of Eddie Rickenbacker.
And it’s my island, so I think I would really enjoy a Bible and a complete anthology of Mark Twain.
1. Boat Building 101 (parts included)
2. Solar Powered Shortwave Radios made easy (parts included)
3. Complete Catalogue of Tools for the Everyman (parts included)
Solid mic drop there....LOL...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by, The Lord of the Rings, Atlas Shrugged.
1. The Bible, of course.
2. “Destined to Reign” 365-day Devotional on The Grace of the Gospel of Christ by Joseph Prince.
3. “How to Get off A Desert island.”
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