What 5 Books Would You Save

Nooooooooo don't ask me to limit it to just 5 it cant be done I tell you. It shoudn't be done, don't do this to us . Ok I'll give it a try.

1: Robert A Heinlein Tunnel in the Sky

2: Pat Frank Alas, Babylon

3: David Graham Down to a Sunless Sea

4: Robert A. Heinlein The Day After Tomorrow

5: MIKE MOSCOE Lost Millennium Trilogy

Those are just my starters. I cant narrow it down. I love books and I love reading. I have as much as I can possibly have backed up by electronic means. I strongly recommend the first three on my list.

Originally posted by thelibra

Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" (the book, not the movie)

Libra thats a good choice but for survival help the one I mentioned is better. Of course those two are not the only help full Heinlein books. I must give mention to
1: The door into Summer.
2: Farmer in the sky
3: Friday
4: Have Space suit-will travel
5: I will fear no evil
6: Stranger in a strange land
Those are just my favorites.
Of course we cant forget the chronicles Amber by roger Zelazny
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
World of Tiers by Philip José Farmer
The Incarnations of Immortally series by Piers Anthony
The Sunset Warrior Cycle by Eric V. Lustbader
Anything from Asprin.

See I told ya I coudn't do it. Those are just a few of the the books I read for enjoyment. The list of books I read for knowledge is longer.

Of course we cant forget the chronicles Amber by roger Zelazny

WOW,

I've never met anyone besides myself that has ever read those...

What a wonderful read...

Semper

reply to post by semperfortis


Really? Everybody in my family has read them. Its one of our favorite series. I espically enjoy the visual guide to castle Amber very much, most amber fans haven't read that one thow because its not a story. If you havent read the world of tiers series give that a shot. Its not as refined as the Amber chronicles but still a rousing good story.

Have to pick re-readable ones for sure:

1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

3. The Histories by Herodotus

4. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

5. The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster by Miles Meander Dawson

That should keep me going until I starve, die from radiation poisoning or get eaten by survivalists.

1) Where there are no Doctors.

2) Medical Herbalism

3.) Emergency War Surgery

4.) FM 21-76 Military Survival Guide

5.) Bradford Angier's Edible Wild Plants

1. My bug out binder with info on medical, herbal, food growing/saving/cooking/storing, animal care/kill/and processing, and other survival topics. (do I get to count that as one? Kinda sneaky) =)
2. Bible
3. Dune 1-6 by Frank Herbert (duct-taped together to count as one?? pretty please?)
4. Back to Basics (reader's digest, has a little bit of everything including knitting, weaving, and basic simple home skills)
5. A big Dictionary (Math we will use daily, grammar will fall by the waysides unless we teach the children.)

And in the thread tradition of sneaking in book #6 I'll probably add "Alas, Babylon" the minute I read it.

Great thread=)
~anahna

edited for format: again..sorry

[edit on 15-9-2007 by anahna muss]

reply to post by anahna muss

Your also gonna wan to read David Graham Down to a Sunless Sea as well as alas Babalon. trust me on this

Originally posted by AGENT_T
1 Fly Fishing by J R Hartley

2 101 Things to Do with a Cake Mix By Stephanie Ashcraft

3 Asterix and the big fight

4 Penthouse xmas 2002

5 Teach Yourself Javascript in 24 Hours By Michael G. Moncur

brilliant!! lol
got two of those, cant find one, and not interested in Cake or java

definate book would be 'Zen Flesh Zen Bones' by Paul Reps
also 'Because a little Bug went Kachoo' by Rosetta Stone

then anything by Ray Mears or Bear Grylls and army survival types

1) Anything by Og Mandino

2) Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

3) Book on Home Remidies

4) Complete Encyclopedia since "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."

5) Survival Guide

1: Marine Diesel engine repair manual
2: Working steam engines - a practical guide
3: Structural Engineer's Pocketbook
4: 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu
5: Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Siege Weapons and Tactics

...and just to be awkward and bend the rules of the game...

6) 'The Prince' by Niccolo Macchiavelli

[edit on 1-12-2007 by citizen smith]

Since you made me think I doubled the pleasure by choosing only from my current library. Just in case I ever had to make this decision for real.

1) RSV Bible with notes by Bullinger
2) Back to Basics by Reader's Digest
3) Listen to Your Body by Michand & Anastas
4) Tempering, Heat Treating, Blacksmithing, and Forging by I.C.S. Reference Library
5) Student Calculator Math Book by Texas Instruments (or Calculus text but it is really heavy)

Optional 6th book The Columbia Encyclopedia in One Volume.

Great Thread

Don Quijote by Miguel Cervantes
William Shakespeare's Collected works (in Very Small Font)
History of western philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions by Phillip Novak
Eastern Philosophy: The Greatest Thinkers And Sages

1984 and Animal Farm definitly
Just to show them how not to run a civilisation, should they need to start a new one up.

Of those I have not seen mentioned:

Basic Wilderness Survival Skills - Bradford Angier

Planet -X, Comets & Earth Changes - James M. McCanney

Wilderness Shelters - Bradford Angier

Worlds in Collision - Immanuel Velikovsky

Animal Farm - George Orwell

1 food for free.....collins gem
2 sas survival guide....colins gem (these two are always in my hand bag! and in my eyes count as one)
3 complete guide to self suficancy
4 identifying and harvesting medicinal plants (in the wild and not so wild places)
5 a ray mears bushcraft book...suvival.
6 chronical of the world.....but only if i had room for a tomb, lol
these books speak for themselves
m xx

[edit on 14-12-2007 by morganathefey]

Some really interesting choices here, but I wonder though, If your 5 books define the basis of the post-X society that you found, what would it say about you? what form of social order would you create based on your choice of paper-based knowledge?

All right, I saw "Animal Farm"; George Orwell already listed. That is a definite must. so...

1. "Animal Farm"; George Orwell
2. The most recent and comprehensive edition of the Oxford English dictionary.
3. "American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants"
by Christopher Brickell
4. The Anarchist cookbook(the original). I had to decide whether or not this would be a valid choice, but in a non-democratic survival situation, this has the potential to offer some good defensive tips.
5. Something that is funny..(Calvin and Hobbes was a good choice that was posted earlier). Laughter would be essential.

[edit on 14-12-2007 by MemoryShock]

1. Boy Scout Handbook
2. Living Off The Land In The City And Country by Ragnar Benson
3. The Federalist Papers By Thomas Jefferson
4. 50$ And Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler
5 .No matter what anyone else says The Bible first and foremost. Read it you might be surprised what info there could help you survive.

respectfully

reluctantpawn

I forgot that the Foxfire series is full of what you need and how to do it.




edit for p.s.










[edit on 14-12-2007 by reluctantpawn]

Of course The Bible would be the main book, it's the only one that really matters, and I think "The Grapes Of Wrath" could be a good book, telling how the family made it through the great depression, etc.

Originally posted by Blueangel7
Of course The Bible would be the main book, it's the only one that really matters

...to be thrown on the campfire (along with the Torah and Quran and other such works) to keep everyone equally warm, sure!