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05-07-2016, 12:07 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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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? |
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05-07-2016, 12:14 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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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.
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05-07-2016, 12:27 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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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
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05-07-2016, 02:23 PM
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Fifty Shades of Gray, but only if it's as nasty as I've heard.
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05-07-2016, 02:34 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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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.
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05-09-2016, 10:20 AM
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The Dictionary of American Hand Tools
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05-09-2016, 11:36 AM
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05-09-2016, 11:50 AM
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The future is unwritten
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I'd take the largest book with the softest pages I could find.
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05-09-2016, 12:12 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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05-09-2016, 12:16 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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 @ 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.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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05-09-2016, 04:49 PM
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The future is unwritten
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It's a picket fence and he kind of likes it.
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05-09-2016, 05:11 PM
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still says videotape
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The Martian - Andy Weir
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