Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads
Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads
Recorded 26 October 2009
Babblers: Bjorn, Lone, Marcel, Donny, with guest Umapagan Ampikaipakan
Synopsis:
Uma leads the group in listing each of our 5 desert island reads – books that we’d like to take with us when we get stranded in a desert island. Some of us took some liberties on the topic and decided to list books they haven’t read that they’d like to bring, for whatever practical reasons.
Show Length: 1:26:50 mins
Bjorn’s 5
- The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails, Robert Musil
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
- Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Lone’s 5
- The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
- La Commedia Divina (The Divine Comedy), Dante Alighieri
- The Red Book, Carl Gustav Jung
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Intimacy, Hanif Kureshi
Donny’s 5
- Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
- The Once and Future King, TH White
- Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- The Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin
Uma’s 5
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
- Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
- The Princess Bride, William Goldman
- Don Quixote, Cervantes
- The Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin
Marcel’s 5
- The Recognitions, William Gaddis
- Fluß ohne Ufer, Hans Henny Jahnn
- Pierre, Herman Melville
- Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
- The Changing Lights at Sandover, James Merrill
Mentioned
- Intimacy, the movie
- Maus, Art Spielgelman
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- What you really should have in a desert island:
Links
- Alternative view of German politics: http://www.classless.org/
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