Bookbabble Episode 50: Desert Island Reads

Nov 1, 2009 by donny

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:
  • Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction, Howard Irving Chapelle
  • Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, Lewis S Nelson

 

Links

• Alternative view of German politics: http://www.classless.org/

 

[audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/17719/episodes/194959/bookbabbletheshow-194959-11-01-2009.mp3]

 

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