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Books for the Future Generations!

pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
edited October 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
It's the end of the world....
And we're all getting on a ship to travel to a new world and start over again!

You can bring up to 5 books to share with the future generations of humans.

Think hard about what you think is important for the people of the future.

What will you bring? (fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, anything is welcome) :D
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  • Green CircleGreen Circle Posts: 5,192
    Catcher in the Rye.

    1984

    To Kill a Mocking Bird

    The 7 worst things parents do

    Seven principles of making marriage work
    "...And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    5? just 5? :?
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    yep a challenge!

    Humorous Quotes from
    Motherhood, The Second Oldest Profession
    By Erma Bombeck

    still pondering the other 4 :D
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    zombie survival guide
    old farmers almanac
    home repair 101
    81 is now off the air

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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    pandora wrote:
    yep a challenge!

    Humorous Quotes from
    Motherhood, The Second Oldest Profession
    By Erma Bombeck

    still pondering the other 4 :D

    im sorry, im just not up to the challenge of culling it down to 5. i have more books than i have thoughts and i cant do it. but i watch with interest. 8-)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • TriumphantAngelTriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    best book ever.

    bedtime stories for the future generations.

    a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.......

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    http://www.chroniclebooks.com/soundsofstarwars/
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    TriumphantAngel wrote:
    best book ever.

    bedtime stories for the future generations.

    a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.......

    cover.jpg


    http://www.chroniclebooks.com/soundsofstarwars/

    star wars geeks... what can you do/ :roll: :lol:
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    TriumphantAngel wrote:
    best book ever.

    bedtime stories for the future generations.

    a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.......

    cover.jpg


    http://www.chroniclebooks.com/soundsofstarwars/
    I bet it will live on in the new world too :D
    I love Star Wars !! 8-)
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Harry Potter books 1-7 enjoy Muggles.
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Some kind of book on how to hunt and skin dinosaurs. I mean, I assume there will be dinosaurs on the new world, or I'm not comin'!

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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    someone better be bringing my poetry.
    new books will be written while on new planet, yes/no?
    am i allowed to bring ink & paper?

    say no paper and ink are given to me and i will write poetry on a cave wall using blood and charcoal bits.
    do not fuck with me about my poetry; i will kill for it and not even blink an eye.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut (I believe he once called it a handbook for aliens on human life or something to that effect...seems appropriate)
    To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
    House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
    Generation A -- Douglas Coupland
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    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    To my Bombeck... I'll add some poetry

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    "Renascence and Other Poems"
  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    The Famished Road by Ben Okri is a beautiful book I would love to pass that down.
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :mrgreen:

    The kind with all the books in one. So it counts as just the one. :twisted: Or it may count as five if I can't think of any other books. :P
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
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  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    eMMI wrote:
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :mrgreen:

    The kind with all the books in one. So it counts as just the one. :twisted: Or it may count as five if I can't think of any other books. :P

    Shit, I forgot about that one!! Absolutely!
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    i'll be publishing poetry that i write on Pandora during the rocketship blast

    it's cool JB
    calm down

    :mrgreen:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • arqarq Posts: 8,012
    81 wrote:
    zombie survival guide
    old farmers almanac
    home repair 101


    zombie survival guide <<< This will save our life in the future! I have it with its companion the world war Z 8-)

    The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
    Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
    Flim Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusions by James Randi
    Pale blue dot by Carl Sagan
    zombie survival guide (just in case) :P
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson

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  • pickupyourwillpickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    pandora wrote:
    It's the end of the world....
    And we're all getting on a ship to travel to a new world and start over again!

    You can bring up to 5 books to share with the future generations of humans.

    Think hard about what you think is important for the people of the future.

    What will you bring? (fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, anything is welcome) :D

    okay, pandora, spill the beans. I saw 2012. Where is the ship and how much are the insanely expensive tickets? :D just kidding. books? ah, heck. if the world's ending soon, who has time for books.

    cheers!
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    another, now 3, is The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. Full of American history, extravagance, violence, character study and relationships, awesome novel.
  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    One Song Glory wrote:
    Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut (I believe he once called it a handbook for aliens on human life or something to that effect...seems appropriate)
    To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
    House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
    Generation A -- Douglas Coupland
    great list!

    i was actually thinking of Galapagos for my Vonnegut choice (fitting for island castaways)... but hell, lets add Breakfast, Slaughterhouse, and Cat's Cradle too

    so I got one left... um... Can I choose a collection of short stories? I would want "the Death of Ivan Ilyich" and most of Hemingways stuff

    my list could really use some less depressing reading :? :)

    anything from Sedaris would be good
    "Senza speme vivemo in disio"

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  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    It's the end of the world....
    And we're all getting on a ship to travel to a new world and start over again!

    You can bring up to 5 books to share with the future generations of humans.

    Think hard about what you think is important for the people of the future.

    What will you bring? (fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, anything is welcome) :D

    okay, pandora, spill the beans. I saw 2012. Where is the ship and how much are the insanely expensive tickets? :D just kidding. books? ah, heck. if the world's ending soon, who has time for books.

    cheers!

    There is ALWAYS time for books! :o
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
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    The Alchemist
    Art of War
    The Prince
    Lord of the Flies
    A book of poems by Robert Frost
    I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun.....
    I wanna race..with the sundown..I want a last breath..I don't let out...
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