You can take a book, a movie, and the complete episodes to a TV show to your island. What do you take? (PS Would have liked to include a CD but couldn't come up with just one.)
I take The Best Short Stories of the 20th Century, edited by John Updike
The Complete MAD MEN series.
FANNY AND ALEXANDER, THE THEATRICAL VERSION
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A bunch of westerns, a bunch of comics, a bunch of animated cartoons, and "The Big Bang Theory."
Book: Would a complete set of something be cheating? I'd take the complete works of Balzac (English translations of course). He wrote a lot and I haven't read many of his books.
Music: The Beatles' Rubber Soul or Revolver--can't narrow it down more than that.
TV: Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Movie: One of my "I can watch this again and again" movies: Jaws, Close Encounters, Moonstruck, etc.
BOOK: Complete works of Anthony Trollope.
MUSIC: Mozart: Complete piano concertos.
TV: HOUSE OF CARDS
MOVIE: Something by Hitchcock
I considered putting down RUBBER SOUL and Beethoven's 9th but listening to the same music is tough. I looked through compilation albums and almost went with one with Phil Spector's music from the early sixties.
THE SF Hall of fame volume 1
Star Trek, TOS, first season
Once Upon a Time in the West
Yes, the Phil Spector collection is good but maybe at the moment I'd go with THE MOTOWN COLLECTION, 1959-1971.
Book? How can I narrow it to one? I can't. One series that comes to mind is A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME by Anthony Powell.
TV? Hmm. Jackie picked HILL STREET BLUES. I might go with THE GOOD LIFE (Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal).
Movie - CASABLANCA.
Jeff M.
Patti - I'd take the complete series of Cold Case, the film The Big Chill and...hmm.....a large collection of short stories (don't know which particular one). Interesting question.
Book: The Long Goodbye
TV Series: Leave It to Beaver
Album: Woodstock
Movie: Deep Throat
God, I would almost change to LITB. I love that show.
Since it appears I cannot take my cats or garden, I'll stay home. That allows me to have all of Raymond Chandler and Anne McCaffrey, all of Mike Shayne and Agatha Christie, etc. If I had to limit to one "book" it might be Lord of the Rings.
TV: the complete Rumpole of the Bailey, the set of Holmes with Jeremy Brett, the set of Foyle's War.
Film: Chinatown, Fantasia, Philadelphia Story.
Music: Complete Steely Dan, Complete Mozart Symphonies & Concertos
Book-The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
CD-London Calling by The Clash
TV-The Wire
Movie-The Big Lebowski
Oh, these are all great. THE WIRE would have been my second choice. Or BreAKING BAD.
Oh where do you come up with these gosh-darn so hard questions, Patti? :)
Okay, book, film, television show. Hmmm.....!
Pride and Prejudice, The West Wing and The Lady Vanishes. Maybe.
Music: Tuandot, the entire opera on CD. The recording with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavaroti.
book(s): A complete set of Carl Barks' Donald Duck comics. Such sets actually exist.
movie: the original LADYKILLERS.
TV: THE COMEBACK. Runner up: BLACKADDER
music: tough call, but probably some big fat Motown box set, or Duke Ellington 1926-1942.
have never watched Black Adder. Must do.
THE LADY VANISHES is one of my favorites but since I can already recite the lines, better not.
You're in for a treat with BLACKADDER.
Note that the first run is considerably more conventional than what came next. The last one - BLACKADDER GOES FORTH - is set in the WW1 trenches and it is some of the blackest and bitterest comedy I've ever seen. The final epsiode is jawdropping and genuinely moving.
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