What would your Desert Island book be?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
February 5, 2018 5:32am CST
The BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs poses several questions to its guests, including:
"If you could take just one book to the desert island, excluding the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare (which are already there) what would it be?"
I have thought about this many times, and I come up with a different answer every time! Would it be a dictionary? A single-volume encyclopedia? A major work of literature that I have never got round to reading? Something scientific or philosophical that I promised myself that I would tackle one day but never have? Or maybe a long-held favourite that I would happily read time and time again?
What would be your choice of a book to be marooned with?
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4 responses
@tristanex (35)
• United States
9 Feb 18
That's really difficult. I would take The Decameron from Boccaccio. I don't remember the stories anymore, but know the book is big and had different stories, so guess, it would not get boring too fast.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
5 Feb 18
That's the rule of the game! The main point of the programme is to select eight pieces of music that you would not want to be without. The book is an "extra" as is the "luxury" that guests are asked to choose.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16789)
• China
5 Feb 18
The first one that crosses my mind is Shiji -The Records of the Chinese Grand Historian finished around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian.I would never feel bored reading it on the Desert Island .
