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I would save:

1. A dictionary, one of those thick comprehensive ones!

2. The Way Things Work compendium

3. A skeptics annotated bible

4. One hundred years of solitude

5. Karma Sumtra ( :D )

how bout' you?

1. the complete works of h.p. lovecraft
2.bible
3.dictionary
4.history of the world
5.the way things work

1) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2) One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
3) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4) The little reference booklet I have around here somewhere which contains the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, etc.
5) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams :mrgreen:

1) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2) One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
3) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4) The little reference booklet I have around here somewhere which contains the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, etc.
5) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams :mrgreen:

aw, i forgot that one

Lord of the Rings(6 books in 1 volume version)
Oxford's Complete Dictionary of the English Language, this is the 3'9" thick one
The History of the English Speaking Peoples
Das Kapital
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
And the best atlas I can find.

thats simple:

1) the Harry Potter books (all in one book if i had to i would sit there for hours writing it out)
2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3) Dune (all the books as i sead with my first choice i would do the same here to make it one book)
4) some sort of Gorey horrar
5) a porn mag

look im male and im sorry no slef repescting male would be with out his porn

1) The Bible
2) Almanac
3) The Time Machine
4) A Short History of Time
5) The Complete Collection of The Far Side

Lord of the Rings(6 books in 1 volume version)
Oxford's Complete Dictionary of the English Language, this is the 3'9" thick one
The History of the English Speaking Peoples
Das Kapital
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
And the best atlas I can find. lovecraft didnt write the necronomicon did he?

thats simple:

1) the Harry Potter books (all in one book if i had to i would sit there for hours writing it out)
2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3) Dune (all the books as i sead with my first choice i would do the same here to make it one book)
4) some sort of Gorey horrar
5) a porn mag

look im male and im sorry no slef repescting male would be with out his porn

You're also apparently drunk, by which I can tell you're male.

How about Mein Kampf

Or Jesus Chainsaw Massacre?

im not drunk not had much sleep ok new list forget that one;

1) Novice guide to C++
2) Novice guide to Java
3) The Hitchhiker's Guide
4) a Grusom Horrar book
5) hard Cash (cant remmber who its by tho good book tho)

Lord of the Rings(6 books in 1 volume version)
Oxford's Complete Dictionary of the English Language, this is the 3'9" thick one
The History of the English Speaking Peoples
Das Kapital
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
And the best atlas I can find. lovecraft didnt write the necronomicon did he?

Necronomicon is a story by Lovecraft about a fictional book, called the *gasp* Necronomicon. After the publishing of Lovecraft's Necronomic several hoax books were made, claiming to be the book Lovecraft's is about. None of these are true.

Lord of the Rings(6 books in 1 volume version)
Oxford's Complete Dictionary of the English Language, this is the 3'9" thick one
The History of the English Speaking Peoples
Das Kapital
Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
And the best atlas I can find. lovecraft didnt write the necronomicon did he?

Necronomicon is a story by Lovecraft about a fictional book, called the *gasp* Necronomicon. After the publishing of Lovecraft's Necronomic several hoax books were made, claiming to be the book Lovecraft's is about. None of these are true.

well, i have a fake then

1. Fahrenheit 451.
2. The Best, Worst, & Most Unusual (Noteworthy Achievements, Events, Feats, & Blunders of Every Concievable Kind).
3. The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
4. The People's Chronology.
5. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Science.

1) The Divine Comedy by Dante
2) The Biggest most comprehensive Dictionary I can find.
3) The Medieval Sourcebook
4) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5) Trillion Year Spree (?) by Brian Aldiss

1) house building for dummies
2) guns for dummies
3) chicken soup for the soul
4) cooking for dummies
5) shakespear for dummies

I would save:

1. A dictionary, one of those thick comprehensive ones!

2. The Way Things Work compendium

3. A skeptics annotated bible

4. One hundred years of solitude

5. Karma Sumtra ( :D )

how bout' you?

excellent!

1. The Bible
2.Fahrenheit 451
3.To Kill A Mockingbird
4.Ella Enchanted
5.The Westing Game

1. Lord of the Rings
2. The Complete Work of Edgar Alan Poe
3. A Dictionary*
4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Where the wild things are (greatest children's book ever!)

If dictionary.com will still exist, I dont care about that one, I'd replace it with maybe a Shakespeare collection, Shogun, or 1984.
Also, I think its funny people said Fahrenheit 451 in a topic about destroying books. =P

Heh, its nice to see there are several tools on this board, who would waste a precious space on the list to save the bible. For fucks sake, there are enough damn preachers around to keep that piece of material alive, we dont need to save it in print.

1. Fareignheight 451
2. The Complete Encyclopedia Britannica
3. A complete unabridged Dictionary
4. A complete English to every other damn language guide.
5. My game guide to GTA:VC... cause I still havent beaten that game yet. ;)

1) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2) One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
3) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4) The little reference booklet I have around here somewhere which contains the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, etc.
5) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams :mrgreen:

First book I thought of when I saw this thread.

Bible
a short history of everything
dictionary
and I'd like to take my boolet of the Constitution and so on as well, glad I'm not the only one with one of those.

oh hey hitchiker is alright I'd consider that.

Or the lotr trilogy in a pack (that could count as one since its all thre in one book!)

Encyclopedia books A-E.

But seriously, I wouldn't waste any space on casual reading like LotR or Hitchhiker's, fun though they may be. Great fiction isn't something that should be burned, but I would rather try to find 5 of the most comprehensive science books ever written. Creative writing is (relatively) easy to replace, hundreds of years of knowledge is not.

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
2. the Survive Anything Handbook (first one)
3. The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin (sorry, I'm into biology)
4. The Man in Cuba by Fidel Castro and Che Gueverra
5. Isak Dinesen's Africa - a photographic safari so I could travel in my imagination and make up my own stories

1. The Bible (but I want like all the different versions...ya know MSG, AMP, KJV, NIV, Ect)
2. a childrens book called "I'll Love you forever"
3. dictionary
4. Encyclopedia (complete set)....wait if that counts
5. How to do to just about everything book...

The Holy Bible

Brave New World

Dante's Inferno

One of those collected works of William Shakespere books.

I'll use this space to cancel out someone else saying "The Communist Manifesto" in the future.

Paradise Lost
The Inferno
Canterbury Tales
Momo
Little, Big

I'll use this space to cancel out someone else saying "The Communist Manifesto" in the future.

Actually, as a free market capitalist, I think a copy of The Communist Manifesto would be an excellent thing to take along. Mainly as an example to future humanity of what NOT to do.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

I'll use this space to cancel out someone else saying "The Communist Manifesto" in the future.

Actually, as a free market capitalist, I think a copy of The Communist Manifesto would be an excellent thing to take along. Mainly as an example to future humanity of what NOT to do.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

You know, socialism isn't as bad as people make it out to be. No nation has ever really embraced the true goal, which I belive to be luxuary for all. If a nation was built from the ground up as socialist, it would probably work, that is if all the people were willing to do their part. I feel its impossible to turn into a socialist nation, which is why its always failed. But if you look at some of the dare I say, psuedo socialist nations like Sweden, when education, healthcare, and all that is dirt cheap, but taxes are real high. And some of the best stuff comes from Sweden too.

1. World's largest english dictionary.
2. World's largest book on mathematics.
3. World's largest book on physics.
4. World's largest book on chemistry.
5. World's largest book on biology.

That should keep the human race civilised.

"1984" by George Orwell.

"Of Mice and Men". - Steinbeck.

"The Velveteen Rabbit" - Margery Williams.

Something by Terry Prachett....just pick one..

"The Hobbit" -JRR Tolkien.

"The Wheel of Time" series - Robert Jordan

"Foundation" - Isaac Asimov

"How Stuff Works"

"Kane and Abel" - Jeffery Archer (sp?)

The Oxford Dictionary

1. Lord of the rings (read it six times to date so won't get sick of it)
2. Alistair (spelling?) Crowley's Magik (wierd book, started to read it but can't get into it, so if it is all I've got I would have top finish it)
3. Encyclopedia Britanica (I know it's not one book but if others can have trillogies!, if not the full Oxford English dictionary)
4. Tolkiens book of lost tails and the unfinished tails
5. The collected works of Charles Dickens (only ever read Great expectations but keep meaning to read em all).

Plus I would take great pleasure in burning all copies of The Stand, as it is the only fiction book I have not finished as it was so yawnfull. I even managed to finish Solaris by Stanislav Lemm!

The way to solve this, put all the books onto a computer and spread it over the web.

Then the books live on :)

1. Senior Yearbook
2. U.S. Constitution
3. Air Force Manual (they GOTTA have one!)
4. English Language book
5. Dictionary


Yeh....that'll restore civilization!

Plus I would take great pleasure in burning all copies of The Stand, as it is the only fiction book I have not finished as it was so yawnfull.

Ironically, its probably the best thing Stephen King has ever written.
Maybe you should give it one more chance.

Plus I would take great pleasure in burning all copies of The Stand, as it is the only fiction book I have not finished as it was so yawnfull.

Ironically, its probably the best thing Stephen King has ever written.
Maybe you should give it one more chance.

NEV4!!!!

The way to solve this, put all the books onto a computer and spread it over the web.

Then the books live on :)

BUR/\/ T3H B00KZ

The way to solve this, put all the books onto a computer and spread it over the web.

Then the books live on :)

BUR/\/ T3H B00KZ

Sir I ask you to calm down,

My word is as good as yours

Plus I would take great pleasure in burning all copies of The Stand, as it is the only fiction book I have not finished as it was so yawnfull.

Ironically, its probably the best thing Stephen King has ever written.
Maybe you should give it one more chance.
Well I might! I read a few of his others and they were ok. It was just so slow. Not like Dune where it is slow but you can feel it building up to something, just slow.
I'll get a second hand copy and try again, as it is my only unfinished fiction book I should look on it as a challenge.

The way to solve this, put all the books onto a computer and spread it over the web.

Then the books live on :)

BUR/\/ T3H B00KZ

Sir I ask you to calm down,

My word is as good as yours

SH00TS DW4RFZ L3FT 34R!

I would stand and fight then burn with the books. A world without books is useless.

I would stand and fight then burn with the books. A world without books is useless.

t3hn b1 d3f4ult, j00 4r3 4ls0 us3l355!

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

no, not the bible, just too many holy books, save something that will actually help people

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

no, not the bible, just too many holy books, save something that will actually help people

The Bible certainly can help people. My Lord, I got through the worst of my days with a Bible. :shock:

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

no, not the bible, just too many holy books, save something that will actually help people

The Bible certainly can help people. My Lord, I got through the worst of my days with a Bible. :shock:

you would want to save something that could actually help humanity, not a group of people

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

no, not the bible, just too many holy books, save something that will actually help people

The Bible certainly can help people. My Lord, I got through the worst of my days with a Bible. :shock:

you would want to save something that could actually help humanity, not a group of people

But the Lord Himself did come down to help humanity, not just a group of people.

The Bible
Other collections of language, science books and atlases.

no, not the bible, just too many holy books, save something that will actually help people

The Bible certainly can help people. My Lord, I got through the worst of my days with a Bible. :shock:

you would want to save something that could actually help humanity, not a group of people

But the Lord Himself did come down to help humanity, not just a group of people.

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

so? you're christian arent you? most of the world still disagrees with you!

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

so? you're christian arent you? most of the world still disagrees with you!

By the time the world degrades itself the stage in which all books have to be burnt most of the world will start agreeing with me. :wink:

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

so? you're christian arent you? most of the world still disagrees with you!

By the time the world degrades itself the stage in which all books have to be burnt most of the world will start agreeing with me. :wink:

and another 800 years of no science :x another fucking dark age :x

I would stand and fight then burn with the books. A world without books is useless.

t3hn b1 d3f4ult, j00 4r3 4ls0 us3l355!

Ah go play with yourself.

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

Dragons Bay..please dont turn this into a religion thread, ok?

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

so? you're christian arent you? most of the world still disagrees with you!

By the time the world degrades itself the stage in which all books have to be burnt most of the world will start agreeing with me. :wink:

and another 800 years of no science :x another f--- dark age :x

That's just Europe/America. Asia and Africa may still be beacon of civilisation then.

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

Dragons Bay..please dont turn this into a religion thread, ok?
TAR started it by complaining that so many people chose the Bible. Quit being so biased.

something that would help humanity, not just a group of people, remember, whatever your religion, most people disagree with you
Actually, 80% of the world's population is religious.

Dragons Bay..please dont turn this into a religion thread, ok?

Hm, I didn't start the argument. -_-'

I would save:

Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals - it makes me laugh
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
The Times Atlas of the World
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Carl Rogers - any of his books

How bout 1984?

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

remember how to reproduce? that is hardwired

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

You need help with that, Caboose?

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

You need help with that, Caboose?

I thought I already listed Karma Sumtra. That says how to reproduce :lol:

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

You need help with that, Caboose?

I thought I already listed Karma Sumtra. That says how to reproduce :lol:

it says how to have fun reproducing :shock:

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

You need help with that, Caboose?

I thought I already listed Karma Sumtra. That says how to reproduce :lol:

All right, I let it go the first time, but it's Kama Sutra.


Anyway, I don't know why people are hung up on preserving dictionaries (let's not get started on the Bible), especially when they're almost all restricted to a single language. It's not like we can't make up new words if need be. Save that space for something useful.

Hitch-hikers Guide
1001 easy chocolate desserts
And I'd probably waste the rest.

I'd look forward to burning all those bodice-ripper "romance" novels.

I'd also save The Anarchists Cookbook

That has helped me out so many times.

1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
5. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

i bet it has helped you out...

anyways
a dictionrary
farenheit 451 just because its about this type of thing
dune series i love duen
bible

and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy came to mind, but its just so freaking retarded, it scares me
its the type of thing i would write if i ever got bored and drunk and slighty constipated one night

sooo i would have to go with
Ender's game

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

remember how to reproduce? that is hardwired
#3 was placed on the list to show the true level of stupidity that would arise from the burning/destroying of all the books. Some people would refuse to read the Bible, some would refuse to look something up in a dictionary. Some would not know how to use the thesaurus. The Atheist guide to co-exisence would be of about as much help on this subject as on any other. The biology textbook would tell of the proper time and action needed to reproduce the species, without having to revert all the way down to the animal intelligence level. Hmm reverse evolution. Some people should be able to grasp that idea. It makes about as much sense as the foward process of evolution does.

i'd save 5 books that would help us get back to our past level of tech

1.) Unabridged Dictionary. So we can remember our words.
2.) Thesaurus. So we know what our words mean.
3.) A biology textbook. So we remember how to reproduce.
4.) A Bible. To tell us Christians how to co-exist with each other.
5.) A book of blank pages. To tell the Atheist how to co-exist as well.

remember how to reproduce? that is hardwired
#3 was placed on the list to show the true level of stupidity that would arise from the burning/destroying of all the books. Some people would refuse to read the Bible, some would refuse to look something up in a dictionary. Some would not know how to use the thesaurus. The Atheist guide to co-exisence would be of about as much help on this subject as on any other. The biology textbook would tell of the proper time and action needed to reproduce the species, without having to revert all the way down to the animal intelligence level. Hmm reverse evolution. Some people should be able to grasp that idea. It makes about as much sense as this post does.

i'd save 5 books that would help us get back to our past level of tech

Who'd say we'd be at a lower tech? If you read Farenheit 451, which is where I got this idea, they are very advanced, which is one of the reasons they do burn the books, as everything is going faster than they can think, which they like. After all, thinking is painful as it leads to decisions.

1. The Iliad
2. The Odyssey
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
5. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

LotR was also released with all six books in one volume. :wink:

1) Mein Kampf
2) the Wheel of time series (hey, i can count it as 1 book if i want!)
3) Fight club
4) A really, really, concise and in-depth encyclopedia.
5) A Jules Vern compendium (should be enough knowledge in there to restart any civilisation) :)

1) Mein Kampf
2) the Wheel of time series (hey, i can count it as 1 book if i want!)
3) Fight club
4) A really, really, concise and in-depth encyclopedia.
5) A Jules Vern compendium (should be enough knowledge in there to restart any civilisation) :)

I think I see a troll behind that veil...

Everyone be a bit civilized unless provoked.

*extends hand in (cautious) friendship*

okay...

Now why has no one mentioned the Kama Sutra?

Now why has no one mentioned the Kama Sutra?

DAMNIT, LOOK AT THE FIRST POST!!!!!!11111oneoneoneone

1. Fahrenheit 451, because the world might need to be reminded of it.
2. 1984, just in case.
3. A really comprehensive political science & history text (containing everything from the Code of Hammurabi to Machiavellis' The Prince & Discourses on Livy, to The Communist Manifesto, to the various constitutions presently extant, and analyses of same), since I'll know why this is happening if I have to bribe, blackmail or otherwise 'persuade' half the international community. :twisted:
4. The complete works of William Shakespeare, because no-one will have memorised all of them, and I'd be too lazy to reassemble all the parts.
5. The Grand Encyclopedia of Everything, for the obvious reasons.

Everything else had better be in Project Gutenberg.

DAMNIT, LOOK AT THE FIRST POST!!!!!!11111oneoneoneone

:oops: Hrmm, perhaps that's a good sign that its too late in the night for my brain now.

1. the Enitire Works of William Shakespere
Its a staple of the english languge
2. The Way Things Work
A baisic manual to restart society
3. The Elements by Euclid
one of the staples of modern math
4. An World History Textbook
The only huge lump of world history i can think of.
5. Huck Finn
I haven't read it yet.

Well since everyone else is saving the really important books (Shakespeare's taken- I'll rest easy now)...

1. My anthology of Old and Middle English literature (I'll slip my copy of Beowulf into the cover)
2. Complete Works of Chaucer
3. Anthology of Restoration literature
4. A Guide to Old English
5. the Ghost stories of M.R. James

The first five I could grab, and I'd fight for the rest.

Jim

kalil gebran's the prophet

robert hienline's strainger in a strainge land

christopher swan's yv88

ursula kroeber-leguinne's always comming home

and lau tsu's hua hu chang

(although i might substitute r.a.lafferty's strainge doings for strainger in a strainge land)

=^^=
.../\...

1) Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
3) Jakob Wassermann Christian Wahnschaffe
4) Collected works of Kurt Tucholsky
5) Heinrich Mann Der Untertan

1) Encyclopedia Brittanica
2) the divine comedy
3) Homer's the odysey
4) the orignal Winnie the pooh
5) The Bible or another Religious work

1) The complete medical diagnostic guide.

2) History of Western Philosophy.

3) Techniques in Business and Economics: Study Guide

4) Game Theory for Political Scientists.

5) The Future of Social Theory.

* Pokes head out of U.N. + Moderation,

1) The Hitch-Hikers Guide to The Galaxy

2) The real ( from our "reality" ) one too. :wink:

3) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?

4) The one I am going to pen myself one day. :D

5) J G Naturally.

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4 - The Cisco System Series
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