Just One Book
 

Everyone always asks about music or movies, which is a shame...

You're going to the Mars colony: freight is incredibly limited, as is electrical power once you get there, thus you get one--one!--physical book to sustain your leisure indefinitely. (And don't say any kind of survival manual, they've already got those. I'd also say "don't say the Bible," but that's not likely an issue with this crowd. :))

What one book do you bring?

Tough call - if it's just the one book, for like years, or the rest of my life, then probably the complete works of Shakespeare -because it has everything. Want a sci-fi/fantasy type read? The Tempest- want a troubled and sexy anti-hero? Hamlet. Want a dark and twisted tale of murder? Macbeth. A dark romance? Romeo and Juliet or Othello. A romantic comedy? well, there's a bunch of those. Fancy something with a whiff of Game of Thrones? the Richards and the Henrys. Want a broken family saga? well there's always King Lear.

Whatever story type you want, there's something in Shakespeare to scratch that itch.

Talking of shakespeare - it was the 400th anniversaryof his death last month - so the whole year has been an anniversary year. the Guardian has been running a bunch of short solo performances - some of them are really, really good. Here's one of my favourites: Paterson Joseph as Shylock

Fifty Shades of Gray, but only if it's as nasty as I've heard.

From the little bit I read it's just very badly written. Like, really awful fanfic bad. There's much better erotic fiction available for free online.

The Dictionary of American Hand Tools

Why is that a shame?

I'd take the largest book with the softest pages I could find.

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I'm crying.:haha:

@ Glatt, That's a good one. Woodshop jigs and fixtures is fun, as is 1001 mechanical movements.

That being said, I'd probably want to bring Rogets International Thesaurus - Third Edition. The others are crap. Especially the modern one-devised by idiots. Illiterate idiots pandering to their illiterate idiot friends and missing the whole point and beauty of the thesaurus. I hope they die.

Don't sit on the fence Foots, just tell us how you really feel :p

It's a picket fence and he kind of likes it. ;)

The Martian - Andy Weir