I guess people don't like books anymore. No-one has posted here yet, so I thought I would. Which books would you take with you to a desert island and why?

Memoirs of a Geisha & Pride and Prejudice.

I have just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha and found it fasinating.

And pride & Prejudice is a classic. I will never get bored of it.

Jean M Auel's Clan of the cave bear. Its a great book it sends you deep into a fantasy world.

Some interesting books there! For me it's The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck ... He had this way of writing about everything in a way which is hard to describe, but I think the key word is 'dignity'. Everything in that book has this larger than life quality ... Men, women, animals: Steinbeck could make the simplest thing seem fresh and important, so that it would leap out of the page at you and drag you kicking and screaming inside his stories.

While I'm at it I might as well mention Germinal by Emil Zola. A powerful - and in the end disturbing - read about what happens when people decide to exploit each other. It won't cheer you up but it will make you think.

Thanks for posting your fave books!

i'd take a book called the world according to garp by john irving its fuuny and tragic, thought provoking and a book i couldn't put down.

The film wasn't bad either


try Peridido Street Station - China Meville (spelling)

Definately full of ideas

I would also take the LOTR trilogy.

I'd probably have to take a whole bookcase with me...I can't live without books

Nope, i haven't read that.

I'm a LOTR freak..

Haha!

I'll look out for that

Tad Williams, war of the flowers, or infact any of his books they are all brill

The Art of War by Sun Tzu