6 Responses to Which Book Would You Choose?

1. VickyTH says:

   April 1, 2012 at 8:50 pm

   The Lord of the Rings. But when I go out in the back and beyond for 30 days at a time, I take my Kindle, which can carry dozens of books, music, audiobooks and can be recharged with my solar charger.

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   • TA Loeffler says:

     April 1, 2012 at 9:20 pm

     Thanks for the recommendation…I’ve yet to mosey up to an ereader yet but I see there great potential especially for a peak with a lot of downtime…i.e. Everest…or other high altitude peaks…in reality, given that we’ll be moving many days, I suspect I won’t get through more than one.

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2. ssforth says:

   April 2, 2012 at 12:20 am

   Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. 752 pp in the Oxford edition. Novels by Dickens always have memorable characters and strong plot lines, perfect for whisking you away from your immediate surroundings and into another world. Besides, 2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth.

   Publisher’s comments: “Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit presents both a scathing indictment of mid-Victorian England and a devastating insight into the human condition. Examining the many social and mental prisons which incarcerate men and women, the novel also considers the nature of true spiritual freedom. Against a background of administrative and financial scandal, Dickens tells the moving story of the old Marshalsea prisoner who inherits a fortune and his devoted daughter’s love for a man who believes he has done with love. He draws widely on the events of his own life and times, yet focuses a powerful imaginative vision which is as universal as it is specific, immediate, and intense. In Little Dorrit Dickens displays his characteristic mastery of irony and pathos, of satire and comedy, and the novel exemplifies his most mature, ambitious, and effective writing. This edition, which has the definitive Clarendon text, also includes Dickens’s working notes and eight of the original illustrations from the first edition by ‘Phiz’.”

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   • TA Loeffler says:

     April 2, 2012 at 4:18 pm

     At 752 pp. it will double as a pillow…it seems many of people’s recommendations have that ability 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion.

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3. Anonymous says:

   April 2, 2012 at 11:03 am

   I’d take a book about a love story, one with a happy ending. Something to keep me warm and to remind me of how wonderful it is to be human; to be able to experience beauty with our hearts as well as our eyes.

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4. 7phactors says:

   April 2, 2012 at 11:53 am

   Don Quixote, my favorite book. I’d even bring it in Spanish, to really focus my attention.

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