Came across this one, and joined in, on another forum. Question is: which ten books would you want to take with you on a desert island? I'll own up to mine later! Already-read or yet-to-read ... doesn't matter. I've been through all my favorites at least twice (bad memory!) and a few have even made it to three-time-reads!
Don't know ten, however Danny Wallace's Yes man is one of the funniest books I have read.
Wake Me When it's Funny - Garry Marshall
Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
Enter Laughing - Carl Reiner
The Jack Benny Show - Milt Josefsberg
Smoke - Donald E Westlake
I Owe Russia $1200 - Bob Hope
I Love Her That's Why - George Burns
Wilderness - Robert B Parker
The Late Show - Bill Carter
You're Lucky You're Funny - Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond guy)
Each one contains more than one gem of a one-liner or intellectual thought. The Bob Hope book is an exercise in gag writing quoting many of the routines specially written for shows during America's wars.
On a desert island? Anything by Ray Mears.
I don't think i've read ten books unless you count Beano annuals. Actually I have read the Bible and the Jews did it, I thought it would be the butler but I was wrong.
You've gotta take The Beach with you...read it before i got to Thialand.... then again afterwards...i could relate so much to it afterwards! BRILLIANT...and the book is much better than the film!
Quote: Daddy Maz @ July 19, 2007, 9:41 PMDon't know ten, however Danny Wallace's Yes man is one of the funniest books I have read.
A brave, brave man he was. Shame his TV work since hasn't been as funny.
Quote: Charlie Adams @ July 19, 2007, 9:54 PMEach one contains more than one gem of a one-liner or intellectual thought. The Bob Hope book is an exercise in gag writing quoting many of the routines specially written for shows during America's wars.
I'll have to check out those on your list Charlie. Thanks for sharing.
Quote: EllieJP @ July 20, 2007, 5:49 AMYou've gotta take The Beach with you...read it before i got to Thialand.... then again afterwards...i could relate so much to it afterwards!
What, like meeting and having sex with strangers? 
Quote: Aaron @ July 20, 2007, 2:02 PMWhat, like meeting and having sex with strangers?
Dont they eat each other or am I thinkig of something else?
Sebastian Faulks: On Green Dolphin Street
Yann Martell: Life Of Pi
Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Hugo Hamilton: The Speckled People
Ian Mcewan: Attonment
Patrick Gale: Rough Music
Joanne Harris: Chocolate
David Shipman: Judy Garland
Barbara Leaming: Bette Davis
Melanie McGrath: Silvertown
And lots of music
Quote: Aaron @ July 20, 2007, 2:02 PMWhat, like meeting and having sex with strangers?
exactly! 
1. Catch 22
2. Tropic of Ruislip (or any other ) - Leslie Thomas
3. The Rise & Fall of the Trigan Empire.
4. Eagle Annual 1967
5. Where did I go right - John Otway
6. Lorna Doone
7. Robinson Crusoe - useful for reference
8. Green Wing Scripts (I'll have to imagine)
9. Complete Beatles Lyrics
10. 2,000 page lined pad.
Sorry late getting around to it (!) no particular order:
1. Back to B.C. - Johnny Hart (cartoons)
2. Oxford Dictionary (for all those words I'm unsure of the meaning of!)
3. Godel, Escher & Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter
4. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
5. The Oxford Companion to The Mind - Richard Gregory (ed.)
6. Anything new by Patricia Cornwall or Kathy Reichs (read 'em all except one so far)
7. The Ultimate Guitar Book - Tony Bacon (drool!)
8. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
9. The English Language - David Crystal
10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Hey David ... if you can arrange to be on the next-door island I wouldn't mind a squint at the '67 Eagle Annual and the Robinson Crusoe if one of us could row across!
Quote: losaavedra @ July 23, 2007, 10:14 PMHey David ... if you can arrange to be on the next-door island I wouldn't mind a squint at the '67 Eagle Annual and the Robinson Crusoe if one of us could row across!
When I've got some tips from old Robbo it should be a piece of cake.