I guess I will HAVE TO read that one again..... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I did, but a long time ago, and it was more for a school lecture IIRC... so I did not find it interesting....

One book ??? only one ???
aaaarrgghhh........
Not possible.....
How could I choose one book from my library ? I have about 1000 books (mainly novels) and over 1000 "bandes dessinées" (I guess "comics" is the most appropriate translation...)....
Reading some answers in that thread compels me to reread some great authors I read during my school/college days.... but to read them now only for pleasure... (Montaigne's Gargantua being one of these)...

Gone to Texas - it's the book that The Outlaw Josey Wales is based on. If we ever get to the point of Farenheit 451, that will be the book I have memorized ;-)

Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe would be a close second.

Regards, Vince

Depends on how long I think I'm going to be gone, either LOTR (it's actually not 3 books anyway right, that's just how the publisher split it up) or The Princess Bride. My wife and I read that to each other on road trips, it just always makes me laugh.... True love, high adventure... yada yada

I'd have to go with "Alas, Babylon", though "Kon-Tiki" is way up there, too.

-Blast

Good literature subjected to the school lecturn is like a filet mignon handed to a probationary employee at Mc Donalds In Alaska I found myself being shaken to death in an old HH 52 helicopter caught in a mountain storm. I swear I heard a french accent reciting his passage about the Andean storm.

I never read the book;
But the movie is one of my favorite, along with 'A fish called Wanda'... I must have seen those two more than a dozen times each ..... <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I know everyone always says the book is better than the movie... blah blah blah, but seriously, the book is better than the movie. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I have 2 copies of the book, one I lend out because I recommend it to so many people and one I keep around for when I want to read it.

After my bible, the second book might be ``Democracy in America'', by de Tocqueville. I don't know if it's good reading or not, but I've been wanting to read it for a long time now, and never quite making time to actually do it. By all accounts there's a lot in there to think about, and that would take my mind off my troubles. That sounds comforting. Whittling down my reading list by one sounds like a comforting thought, too.

Le Miserables is another possibility. It might be a bit less educational, but it's certainly a pretty good story, and reading about France during the revolution would make being lost in the woods seem pretty attractive.

One problem with either of those choices is that you couldn't be rescued for weeks and weeks, until you'd finished the book. You might starve while reading, because you couldn't pack much food and that huge book, too.

If you just want light (and easy to carry) escapist reading, maybe anything by G.A. Henty? Good, accurate historical fiction, and short enough to read in a few days. Don't bother taking two, since he had one plot. It's a good plot, though.

Nels