Desert Island Authors Draft
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Dashiell Hammett
One of those guys I thought would be gone a long long time ago and yet I'm getting to the end of my list and he's still here. Love picking him up in round 18. My favorite and perhaps his most well known novel is The Maltese Falcon, which is still considered by many in the industry to be one of the best mystery novels ever written. The Glass Key and The Thin Man are also standouts for me. Hammett has tons of other works that I've never even touched. A huge collection of short stories and other works that I'll be happy to have.
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Ovid
In a round that (in my opinion) is shaping up to be one of the best rounds of the draft, I’ve got to go with Publius Ovidius Naso, popularly known as Ovid. Despite already having some of the best that the ancient Greeks had to offer in Homer, up until now I had managed to completely punt the Romans. It feels good to fix that. Ovid, of course, is best known for his Metamorphoses - an epic (or mock-epic, as some would have it) poem in fifteen books spanning the whole of mythological history up through the contemporary Caesar (over fifty individual stories), and unified by the theme of change. He wrote quite a fair amount of other poetry, mostly based around the theme of love, and also Medea, the sadly lost but highly regarded play (I don’t get that one, obviously). I’ll take the recent Charles Martin translation of the Metamorphoses and defer on the translation of the other works, but aim for something that does not turn his meter into prose as so many Metamorphoses do.
Lived: 43 B.C - 18 A.D.
Major Works: Metamorphoses, The Art of Love, Heroides
Quote: (From Metamorphoses, tr. Charles Martin)
In a round that (in my opinion) is shaping up to be one of the best rounds of the draft, I’ve got to go with Publius Ovidius Naso, popularly known as Ovid. Despite already having some of the best that the ancient Greeks had to offer in Homer, up until now I had managed to completely punt the Romans. It feels good to fix that. Ovid, of course, is best known for his Metamorphoses - an epic (or mock-epic, as some would have it) poem in fifteen books spanning the whole of mythological history up through the contemporary Caesar (over fifty individual stories), and unified by the theme of change. He wrote quite a fair amount of other poetry, mostly based around the theme of love, and also Medea, the sadly lost but highly regarded play (I don’t get that one, obviously). I’ll take the recent Charles Martin translation of the Metamorphoses and defer on the translation of the other works, but aim for something that does not turn his meter into prose as so many Metamorphoses do.
Lived: 43 B.C - 18 A.D.
Major Works: Metamorphoses, The Art of Love, Heroides
Quote: (From Metamorphoses, tr. Charles Martin)
Max Frisch
wiki
Notables:
I'm Not Stiller
Homo Faber
Gantenbein
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
Andorra
Favourites:
Homo Faber
Andorra
so far, the Postmodernist portion of my draft list has been really weird, so it's a) time to inject some more Realism into it and b) also time to finally draft someone that at least wrote in German. Frisch mostly wrote about questions of one's own identity in the context of the time one lives in and the view others have of oneself, gender identity and their dissolution, as well as the question of what can be expressed via language.
Andorra is a great drama on the consequences of a non-oppositional mentality and the unwillingness to take on any responsibility in the face of a fascist regime, whilst Homo Faber is the story of a middle aged man who begins questioning his whole world view because of, among other things, an Oedipal relationship to a woman he realises too late is his daughter. both are great reads and, in fact, the only two works originally written in German I've read in the last eight years.
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For my next selection, I am going Old Testament and selection:
King Solomon
Wiki Here
Some of my favorite Old Testament books are the three authored by King Solomon: Proverbs, Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) and Ecclesiastes. You all probably know Ecclesiastes 3: "To everything, there is a season..." made more famous by the Byrds in the 60's. Solomon's writings are poetic and deal with life... great stuff.
King Solomon
Wiki Here
Some of my favorite Old Testament books are the three authored by King Solomon: Proverbs, Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) and Ecclesiastes. You all probably know Ecclesiastes 3: "To everything, there is a season..." made more famous by the Byrds in the 60's. Solomon's writings are poetic and deal with life... great stuff.
For my next selection, I am going to take the creepy comics I still love, so I will select the duo of:
William Gaines and Al Feldstein
These were the madmen who brought us the Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, and The Haunt of Fear series of comics for EC comics. You know you are doing something awesome when the U.S. government shuts you down and the comic book industry adapts a new set of codes and standards to keep you away. Loved these series of comics... so, sooo creepy...
William Gaines and Al Feldstein
These were the madmen who brought us the Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, and The Haunt of Fear series of comics for EC comics. You know you are doing something awesome when the U.S. government shuts you down and the comic book industry adapts a new set of codes and standards to keep you away. Loved these series of comics... so, sooo creepy...
Samuel Beckett
wiki
Notables:
Murphy
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
Watt
Endgame
Krapp's Last Tape
How It Is
Favourites:
Waiting for Godot
the final spot in my draft has been fixed for basically the entirety of it, so this was the last spot, where there was any thinking to be done. ultimately, it was between Beckett and two modernist poets and he won out mainly due to the amount of output and the fact that I wanted another playwright. with four of those now, I feel set, lets see if I can't find any monkeys on my island to put on a show.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Things are getting down to it, where I have to start leaving off authors that I don't have room for in favor of authors I can't skip. Gabriel Garcia Marquez turns out to be a "can't skip". His style is often called "magic realism" but I think of it more as the fairytale put into everyday life. My favorite Marquez novel (with no disrespect to the probably better-known "One Hundred Years of Solitude") is a story of a man who, failing to woo his true love as a young man, patiently waits for her husband's death so they can rekindle their love affair in their seventies. Magic, not so much. Fairy tale, heck yeah.
Lived: 1927-
Major Works: One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings; Five total novels, five total novellas, five total collections of short stories, seven works of non-fiction including a memoir.
Quote: (From Love in the Time of Cholera)
Things are getting down to it, where I have to start leaving off authors that I don't have room for in favor of authors I can't skip. Gabriel Garcia Marquez turns out to be a "can't skip". His style is often called "magic realism" but I think of it more as the fairytale put into everyday life. My favorite Marquez novel (with no disrespect to the probably better-known "One Hundred Years of Solitude") is a story of a man who, failing to woo his true love as a young man, patiently waits for her husband's death so they can rekindle their love affair in their seventies. Magic, not so much. Fairy tale, heck yeah.
Lived: 1927-
Major Works: One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings; Five total novels, five total novellas, five total collections of short stories, seven works of non-fiction including a memoir.
Quote: (From Love in the Time of Cholera)
Thanks for the love for the Burroughs' pick, he's definitely one of my favorite authors.
That was a very interesting previous round with many classical authors still falling. Arthur C. Clark and Samuel Becket both crossed my mind for picks, and the King Solomon pick is splendid. There remains quite a bit of low hanging fruit which speaks to the both depth of choices throughout history vs. some of our other drafts, as well as perhaps the difference between an 8 person draft, and a 16 member one.
That was a very interesting previous round with many classical authors still falling. Arthur C. Clark and Samuel Becket both crossed my mind for picks, and the King Solomon pick is splendid. There remains quite a bit of low hanging fruit which speaks to the both depth of choices throughout history vs. some of our other drafts, as well as perhaps the difference between an 8 person draft, and a 16 member one.
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Paulo Lins
I'm not going to take any low-hanging fruit in this round. Instead, I'm taking Lins who has wrote precisely one book in his career. However, that book is one I need on my island. I saw the movie version of City of God a few years back and was so impressed by it, I went and found the translated book. I loved it and I'm comfortable taking Lins here in Round 19. An amazing book and movie and I recommend them both to those who aren't familiar.
More on Lins..
More on City of God..
Okay, this is going to be a really busy week for me. I really debated over this next pick. Mainly because this playwright wrote mostly tragic plays (only one comedy). He suffered mightily from depression and alcoholism. His personal life was pretty sad. The last part of his life, a brain disease prevented him from writing anymore and all he wanted to do was die, without his writing. So his work is strong with depression and pessimism.
But he was an extremely prolific playwright and really changed American dramatic theater. I've seem two of his plays performed and they were both amazing to experience live. A very, very powerful playwright.
Eugene O'Neill
I dare you to find a picture of him smiling.
From wiki:
O'Neill's home in New London, Monte Cristo Cottage, was made a National Historic Landmark in 1971. His home in Danville, California (Tao House), near San Francisco, was preserved as the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in 1976. [Tao House is a few miles from my Aunt's house.]
Connecticut College maintains the Louis Sheaffer Collection, consisting of material collected by the O'Neill biographer. The principal collection of O'Neill papers is at Yale University. The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut fosters the development of new plays under his name.
For a more extensive biography: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/429144/Eugene-ONeill/5392/Period-of-the-major-works
He won four Pulitzer Prizes. I know he was the first American playwright to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. There's only been one other. For years he was more popular overseas, than in America, especially in Sweden.
Impressive bibliography of works:
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But he was an extremely prolific playwright and really changed American dramatic theater. I've seem two of his plays performed and they were both amazing to experience live. A very, very powerful playwright.
Eugene O'Neill
I dare you to find a picture of him smiling.
From wiki:
O'Neill's home in New London, Monte Cristo Cottage, was made a National Historic Landmark in 1971. His home in Danville, California (Tao House), near San Francisco, was preserved as the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in 1976. [Tao House is a few miles from my Aunt's house.]
Connecticut College maintains the Louis Sheaffer Collection, consisting of material collected by the O'Neill biographer. The principal collection of O'Neill papers is at Yale University. The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut fosters the development of new plays under his name.
For a more extensive biography: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/429144/Eugene-ONeill/5392/Period-of-the-major-works
He won four Pulitzer Prizes. I know he was the first American playwright to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. There's only been one other. For years he was more popular overseas, than in America, especially in Sweden.
Impressive bibliography of works:
Full-length plays
Bread and Butter, 1914
Servitude, 1914
The Personal Equation, 1915
Now I Ask You, 1916
Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920
The Straw, 1919
Chris Christophersen, 1919
Gold, 1920
Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922
The Emperor Jones, 1920
Diff'rent, 1921
The First Man, 1922
The Hairy Ape, 1922
The Fountain, 1923
Marco Millions, 1923–25
All God's Chillun Got Wings, 1924
Welded, 1924
Desire Under the Elms, 1925
Lazarus Laughed, 1925–26
The Great God Brown, 1926
Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo, 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
Days Without End, 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 - Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983
One-act plays
The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn -- filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:
Bound East for Cardiff, 1914
In The Zone, 1917
The Long Voyage Home, 1917
Moon of the Caribbees, 1918
Other one-act plays include:
A Wife for a Life, 1913
The Web, 1913
Thirst, 1913
Recklessness, 1913
Warnings, 1913
Fog, 1914
Abortion, 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy, 1914[2][17]
The Sniper, 1915
Before Breakfast, 1916
Ile, 1917
The Rope, 1918
Shell Shock, 1918
The Dreamy Kid, 1918
Where the Cross Is Made, 1918
Exorcism 1919 [18]
Full-length plays
Bread and Butter, 1914
Servitude, 1914
The Personal Equation, 1915
Now I Ask You, 1916
Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920
The Straw, 1919
Chris Christophersen, 1919
Gold, 1920
Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922
The Emperor Jones, 1920
Diff'rent, 1921
The First Man, 1922
The Hairy Ape, 1922
The Fountain, 1923
Marco Millions, 1923–25
All God's Chillun Got Wings, 1924
Welded, 1924
Desire Under the Elms, 1925
Lazarus Laughed, 1925–26
The Great God Brown, 1926
Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo, 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
Days Without End, 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 - Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983 One-act plays
The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn -- filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:
Bound East for Cardiff, 1914
In The Zone, 1917
The Long Voyage Home, 1917
Moon of the Caribbees, 1918
Other one-act plays include:
A Wife for a Life, 1913
The Web, 1913
Thirst, 1913
Recklessness, 1913
Warnings, 1913
Fog, 1914
Abortion, 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy, 1914[2][17]
The Sniper, 1915
Before Breakfast, 1916
Ile, 1917
The Rope, 1918
Shell Shock, 1918
The Dreamy Kid, 1918
Where the Cross Is Made, 1918
Exorcism 1919 [18]
Other works
The Last Will and Testament of An Extremely Distinguished Dog, 1940. Written to comfort Carlotta as their "child" Blemie was approaching his death in December 1940.[19]
Bread and Butter, 1914
Servitude, 1914
The Personal Equation, 1915
Now I Ask You, 1916
Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920
The Straw, 1919
Chris Christophersen, 1919
Gold, 1920
Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922
The Emperor Jones, 1920
Diff'rent, 1921
The First Man, 1922
The Hairy Ape, 1922
The Fountain, 1923
Marco Millions, 1923–25
All God's Chillun Got Wings, 1924
Welded, 1924
Desire Under the Elms, 1925
Lazarus Laughed, 1925–26
The Great God Brown, 1926
Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo, 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
Days Without End, 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 - Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983
One-act plays
The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn -- filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:
Bound East for Cardiff, 1914
In The Zone, 1917
The Long Voyage Home, 1917
Moon of the Caribbees, 1918
Other one-act plays include:
A Wife for a Life, 1913
The Web, 1913
Thirst, 1913
Recklessness, 1913
Warnings, 1913
Fog, 1914
Abortion, 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy, 1914[2][17]
The Sniper, 1915
Before Breakfast, 1916
Ile, 1917
The Rope, 1918
Shell Shock, 1918
The Dreamy Kid, 1918
Where the Cross Is Made, 1918
Exorcism 1919 [18]
Full-length plays
Bread and Butter, 1914
Servitude, 1914
The Personal Equation, 1915
Now I Ask You, 1916
Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920
The Straw, 1919
Chris Christophersen, 1919
Gold, 1920
Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922
The Emperor Jones, 1920
Diff'rent, 1921
The First Man, 1922
The Hairy Ape, 1922
The Fountain, 1923
Marco Millions, 1923–25
All God's Chillun Got Wings, 1924
Welded, 1924
Desire Under the Elms, 1925
Lazarus Laughed, 1925–26
The Great God Brown, 1926
Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo, 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
Days Without End, 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 - Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983 One-act plays
The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn -- filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:
Bound East for Cardiff, 1914
In The Zone, 1917
The Long Voyage Home, 1917
Moon of the Caribbees, 1918
Other one-act plays include:
A Wife for a Life, 1913
The Web, 1913
Thirst, 1913
Recklessness, 1913
Warnings, 1913
Fog, 1914
Abortion, 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy, 1914[2][17]
The Sniper, 1915
Before Breakfast, 1916
Ile, 1917
The Rope, 1918
Shell Shock, 1918
The Dreamy Kid, 1918
Where the Cross Is Made, 1918
Exorcism 1919 [18]
Other works
The Last Will and Testament of An Extremely Distinguished Dog, 1940. Written to comfort Carlotta as their "child" Blemie was approaching his death in December 1940.[19]
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For my next pick:
E. W. Bullinger
from wiki:
The reason I picked him is his The Companion Bible.
From Amazon.com:
Reading the Bible on your own is one thing, but having this guide and reference will allow for lifelong study and learning.
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E. W. Bullinger
from wiki:
The reason I picked him is his The Companion Bible.
From Amazon.com:
Reading the Bible on your own is one thing, but having this guide and reference will allow for lifelong study and learning.
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I know there's a bunch of classic authors on the board, but this writer has fallen far enough. My island library already has a fair amount of nonfiction, philosophy, and adventure, and this next author brings ample supplies of each. His novels will read well with Muir, Sagan, Burroughs, and Hemingway and act as field guides to life alone in nature on my island paradise. For anyone not initiated with his work, begin with The Tracker and skip to the chapter Bear Smacking, followed by The Dog Tree, and Outlaw Dogs. Read The Search, and The Vision for his philosophy on nature and our roles in the world for a truly inspirational experience. With my 19th pick, I select:
Tom Brown Jr.
1950-Present
Bibliography:
Notable Quotes:
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_(naturalist)
Tom Brown Jr.
1950-Present
Bibliography:
Novels:
The Tracker
The Vision
The Journey
Grandfather
Awakening Spirits
The Quest
The Way of the Scout
The Science and Art of Tracking
The Search
Case Files of the Tracker
Field Guides:
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Living with the Earth
Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
Tom Brown's Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness
Tom Brown's Guide to Nature and Survival for Children
The Tracker
The Vision
The Journey
Grandfather
Awakening Spirits
The Quest
The Way of the Scout
The Science and Art of Tracking
The Search
Case Files of the Tracker
Field Guides:
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Living with the Earth
Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
Tom Brown's Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness
Tom Brown's Guide to Nature and Survival for Children
When someone moves something in your house you notice it. When someone moves something in the woods I notice it.
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_(naturalist)
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well, my island has a distinct lack of anything with romantic flair and while I don't read "romance" novels, I do appreciate the work of this man and should take his books with me. He also happened to graduate from the same high school I did.
Round 19: Nicholas Sparks
His father was pursuing graduate studies, and the family moved a great deal, so by the time Sparks was 8, he had lived in Watertown, Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1974 his family settled in Fair Oaks, California, and remained there through Nicholas's high school days. He graduated in 1984 as valedictorian from Bella Vista High School, then enrolling at the University of Notre Dame, having received a full track and field scholarship. In his freshman year, his team set a record for the 4 x 800 relay.[citation needed] Sparks majored in business finance and graduated with honors in 1988. He also met his future wife that year, Cathy Cote from New Hampshire, while they were both on spring break. They married on July 22, 1989 and moved to New Bern, NC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks
Nicholas Sparks
Novels
The Notebook (1996) ·
Message in a Bottle (1998) ·
A Walk to Remember (1999) ·
The Rescue (2000) ·
A Bend in the Road (2001) ·
Nights in Rodanthe (2002) ·
The Guardian (2003) ·
The Wedding (2003) ·
True Believer (2005) ·
At First Sight (2006) ·
Dear John (2006) ·
The Choice (2007) ·
The Lucky One (2008) ·
The Last Song (2009) ·
Safe Haven (2010) ·
The Best of Me (2011)
Non-fiction
Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding (1990) ·
Three Weeks With My Brother (2004)
Film adaptations
Message in a Bottle (1999) ·
A Walk to Remember (2002) ·
The Notebook (2004) ·
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) ·
Dear John (2010) ·
The Last Song (2010) ·
The Lucky One (2012)
Round 19: Nicholas Sparks
His father was pursuing graduate studies, and the family moved a great deal, so by the time Sparks was 8, he had lived in Watertown, Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska. In 1974 his family settled in Fair Oaks, California, and remained there through Nicholas's high school days. He graduated in 1984 as valedictorian from Bella Vista High School, then enrolling at the University of Notre Dame, having received a full track and field scholarship. In his freshman year, his team set a record for the 4 x 800 relay.[citation needed] Sparks majored in business finance and graduated with honors in 1988. He also met his future wife that year, Cathy Cote from New Hampshire, while they were both on spring break. They married on July 22, 1989 and moved to New Bern, NC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks
Nicholas Sparks
Novels
The Notebook (1996) ·
Message in a Bottle (1998) ·
A Walk to Remember (1999) ·
The Rescue (2000) ·
A Bend in the Road (2001) ·
Nights in Rodanthe (2002) ·
The Guardian (2003) ·
The Wedding (2003) ·
True Believer (2005) ·
At First Sight (2006) ·
Dear John (2006) ·
The Choice (2007) ·
The Lucky One (2008) ·
The Last Song (2009) ·
Safe Haven (2010) ·
The Best of Me (2011)
Non-fiction
Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding (1990) ·
Three Weeks With My Brother (2004)
Film adaptations
Message in a Bottle (1999) ·
A Walk to Remember (2002) ·
The Notebook (2004) ·
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) ·
Dear John (2010) ·
The Last Song (2010) ·
The Lucky One (2012)
and I searched and searched the thread and hope I didn't miss anything..if this man has been picked I apologize: But I really really really like his work. And I needed more poetry.
For my final pick: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834)
was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend ww, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via E, on American transcendentalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
From the Destruction of the Bastile:
I see, I see! glad Liberty succeed With every patriot virtue in her train! And mark yon peasant’s raptur’d eyes; Secure he views his harvests rise; No fetter vile the mind shall know, And Eloquence shall fearless glow. Yes! Liberty the soul of Life shall reign, Shall throb in every pulse, shall flow thro’ every vein! (lines 42–50)
d plays
The Destruction of the Bastile ·
Dura Navis ·
Easter Holidays ·
The Fall of Robespierre ·
Monody on the Death of Chatterton ·
On Quitting School ·
Pain: Composed in Sickness ·
Songs of the Pixies
Cambridge and
Bristol poetry
The Destiny of Nations ·
Lines on an Autumnal Evening ·
Lines Written at Shurton Bars ·
On Receiving an Account ·
Ode on the Departing Year ·
Religious Musings ·
To a Young *** ·
To Fortune ·
To the River Otter
Eminent Characters
"To Erskine" ·
"To Burke" ·
"To Priestley" ·
"To Fayette" ·
"To Kosciusko" ·
"To Pitt" ·
"To Bowles" ·
"To Mrs Siddons" ·
"To Godwin" ·
"To Southey" ·
"To Sheridan" ·
"To Lord Stanhope"
Conversation poems
Dejection: An Ode ·
The Eolian Harp ·
Fears in Solitude ·
Frost at Midnight ·
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem ·
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement ·
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ·
To William Wordsworth
Late poetry
and Lyrical Ballads
Christabel ·
"France: An Ode" ·
"Hymn Before Sunrise" ·
"Kubla Khan" ·
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Biographical
and other works
Biographia Literaria ·
The Watchman
For my final pick: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834)
was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend ww, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via E, on American transcendentalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
From the Destruction of the Bastile:
I see, I see! glad Liberty succeed With every patriot virtue in her train! And mark yon peasant’s raptur’d eyes; Secure he views his harvests rise; No fetter vile the mind shall know, And Eloquence shall fearless glow. Yes! Liberty the soul of Life shall reign, Shall throb in every pulse, shall flow thro’ every vein! (lines 42–50)
d plays
The Destruction of the Bastile ·
Dura Navis ·
Easter Holidays ·
The Fall of Robespierre ·
Monody on the Death of Chatterton ·
On Quitting School ·
Pain: Composed in Sickness ·
Songs of the Pixies
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ·
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The Watchman
And now to add a touch of color...Finally my island library is complete! With my 20th and final selection, I choose the works of:
Andy Goldsworthy
1956-Present
If a picture tells a thousand words then this man's art will fill up the rest of my island days and then some. Famous for his elaborate natural works of art throughout the globe, his pictures and descriptions of his work will keep me thoroughly entertained, inspired, and awe-struck during even the darkest, depressive lonely moments of exiled existence.
Bibliography:
Notable Quotes:
(Some) Photographed Pieces of Note:
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
1956-Present
If a picture tells a thousand words then this man's art will fill up the rest of my island days and then some. Famous for his elaborate natural works of art throughout the globe, his pictures and descriptions of his work will keep me thoroughly entertained, inspired, and awe-struck during even the darkest, depressive lonely moments of exiled existence.
Bibliography:
1. photoworks by Andy Goldsworthy. (1985).
Rain, Sun, Snow, Hail, Mist, Calm : Photoworks by Andy Goldsworthy. Leeds: Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture.
2. Andy Goldsworthy. (1988). Parkland. [Yorkshire]: Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
3. Andy Goldsworthy. (1989). Touching North. London: Fabian Carlsson.
4. Andy Goldsworthy. (1989). Leaves. London: Common Ground.
5. Andy Goldsworth. (1990). Andy Goldsworthy. London: Viking. Republished as Andy Goldsworthy. (1990). Andy Goldsworthy : A Collaboration with Nature. New York, N.Y.
6. Andy Goldsworthy. (1992). Ice and Snow Drawings : 1990–1992. Edinburgh: FruitMarket Gallery.
7. Goldsworthy, Andy; Terry Friedman (1993). Hand to Earth : Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, 1976–1990. New York, N.Y.: H. N. Abrams.
8. Andy Goldsworthy. (1994). Stone. London: Viking.
9. text and photographs by Andy Goldsworthy (1995). Black Stones, Red Pools : Dumfriesshire Winter 1994–5. London: Pro Arte Foundation in association with Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd. & Galerie Lelong, N.Y.
10. Goldsworthy, Andy; Steve Chettle; Paul Nesbitt & Andrew Humphries (1996). Sheepfolds. London: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd.
11. Andy Goldsworthy ; introduction by Terry Friedman. (1996). Wood. London: Viking.
12. Goldsworthy, Andy; David Craig (1999). Arch. London: Thames & Hudson.
13. Andy Goldsworthy. Chronology by Terry Friedman. (2000). Time. London: Thames & Hudson.
14. Goldsworthy, Andy; Jerry L. Thompson & Storm King Art Center (2000). Wall at Storm King. London: Thames & Hudson.
15. Andy Goldsworthy. Introduction by Judith Collins. (2001). Midsummer Snowballs. London: Thames & Hudson.
16. Andy Goldsworthy. (2002). Andy Goldsworthy : Refuges D'Art. Lyon; Digne, France: Editions Artha; Musée départemental de Digne.
17. Andy Goldsworthy. (2004). Passage. London: Thames & Hudson.
18. Andy Goldsworthy. (2007). Enclosure. London: Thames & Hudson.
Rain, Sun, Snow, Hail, Mist, Calm : Photoworks by Andy Goldsworthy. Leeds: Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture.
2. Andy Goldsworthy. (1988). Parkland. [Yorkshire]: Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
3. Andy Goldsworthy. (1989). Touching North. London: Fabian Carlsson.
4. Andy Goldsworthy. (1989). Leaves. London: Common Ground.
5. Andy Goldsworth. (1990). Andy Goldsworthy. London: Viking. Republished as Andy Goldsworthy. (1990). Andy Goldsworthy : A Collaboration with Nature. New York, N.Y.
6. Andy Goldsworthy. (1992). Ice and Snow Drawings : 1990–1992. Edinburgh: FruitMarket Gallery.
7. Goldsworthy, Andy; Terry Friedman (1993). Hand to Earth : Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, 1976–1990. New York, N.Y.: H. N. Abrams.
8. Andy Goldsworthy. (1994). Stone. London: Viking.
9. text and photographs by Andy Goldsworthy (1995). Black Stones, Red Pools : Dumfriesshire Winter 1994–5. London: Pro Arte Foundation in association with Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd. & Galerie Lelong, N.Y.
10. Goldsworthy, Andy; Steve Chettle; Paul Nesbitt & Andrew Humphries (1996). Sheepfolds. London: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd.
11. Andy Goldsworthy ; introduction by Terry Friedman. (1996). Wood. London: Viking.
12. Goldsworthy, Andy; David Craig (1999). Arch. London: Thames & Hudson.
13. Andy Goldsworthy. Chronology by Terry Friedman. (2000). Time. London: Thames & Hudson.
14. Goldsworthy, Andy; Jerry L. Thompson & Storm King Art Center (2000). Wall at Storm King. London: Thames & Hudson.
15. Andy Goldsworthy. Introduction by Judith Collins. (2001). Midsummer Snowballs. London: Thames & Hudson.
16. Andy Goldsworthy. (2002). Andy Goldsworthy : Refuges D'Art. Lyon; Digne, France: Editions Artha; Musée départemental de Digne.
17. Andy Goldsworthy. (2004). Passage. London: Thames & Hudson.
18. Andy Goldsworthy. (2007). Enclosure. London: Thames & Hudson.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OaqgskkK9gw/S-RQZzGdLWI/AAAAAAAAC_w/JI4NuRCBE3E/s320/andy_goldsworthy.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E7v77AvSF...AAABU/PnhC4wZMLmA/s1600/andy+goldsworthy3.jpg
http://www.creativityfuse.com/wp-co...-Goldsworthy-a-scene-from-River-and-Tides.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b9nCuOI2P...MgDl6M/s1600/Portrait-of-Andy-Goldsworthy.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyw6IZopwIo/T2EF01VuFMI/AAAAAAAAAc8/5n6BTvfdd3Q/s1600/21goldsworthy_lg.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52525331@N00/75872416/
http://www.writedesignonline.com/history-culture/AndyGoldsworthy/andy_goldw.jpg
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/goldsworthy/images/goldsworthy2.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--IWWUEg3nTw/T2D8ABisZgI/AAAAAAAAAcs/w14RRpwtF4A/s1600/andy_goldsworthy.jpg
http://www.zoomdak.com/Nature/Olympic-National-Park/i-5FPzJkN/0/L/Land-Art-Stone-Pond-Hoh-Lake-L.jpg
http://zengh08.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dsc04079-stone-river-andy-goldsworthy.jpg?w=300&h=225
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E7v77AvSF...AAABU/PnhC4wZMLmA/s1600/andy+goldsworthy3.jpg
http://www.creativityfuse.com/wp-co...-Goldsworthy-a-scene-from-River-and-Tides.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b9nCuOI2P...MgDl6M/s1600/Portrait-of-Andy-Goldsworthy.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyw6IZopwIo/T2EF01VuFMI/AAAAAAAAAc8/5n6BTvfdd3Q/s1600/21goldsworthy_lg.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52525331@N00/75872416/
http://www.writedesignonline.com/history-culture/AndyGoldsworthy/andy_goldw.jpg
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/goldsworthy/images/goldsworthy2.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--IWWUEg3nTw/T2D8ABisZgI/AAAAAAAAAcs/w14RRpwtF4A/s1600/andy_goldsworthy.jpg
http://www.zoomdak.com/Nature/Olympic-National-Park/i-5FPzJkN/0/L/Land-Art-Stone-Pond-Hoh-Lake-L.jpg
http://zengh08.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dsc04079-stone-river-andy-goldsworthy.jpg?w=300&h=225
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
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For my last pick I am taking:
Thomas Jefferson
from wiki:
I want the writings of this American mind - a partial list of writings includes:
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787
Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States A report submitted to Congress (1790)
Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (1801)
Autobiography (1821)
Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
However, there is so much more to be read, including a lifetime of letters and other documents he generated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature#Colonial_literature
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Thomas Jefferson
from wiki:
I want the writings of this American mind - a partial list of writings includes:
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
Memorandums taken on a journey from Paris into the southern parts of France and Northern Italy, in the year 1787
Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States A report submitted to Congress (1790)
Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (1801)
Autobiography (1821)
Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
However, there is so much more to be read, including a lifetime of letters and other documents he generated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature#Colonial_literature
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Well, geez, who can follow Thomas Jefferson.
Well, I've always loved biology and particularly the biology of the human body. I also loved anthropology in college (one of the three areas of my Social Sciences degree). So mix in a little murder and mayhem and you get...
Kathy Reichs
In her books you also get the contrasting backgrounds and cultures of North Carolina and Quebec. I like her predecessor in this very particular genre, but I ultimately like Reichs the best. Her characters have held my interest. I've read most of her books, but have some catching up to do.
She is a crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (currently on leave). She divides her work time between the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec and her professorship at UNC Charlotte. She is one of the eighty-eight forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Reichs has appeared in Tanzania to testify at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She has assisted Dr. Clyde Snow and the Foundation for Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology in an exhumation in the area of Lake Atitlan in the highlands of southwest Guatemala. She was a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team assigned to assist at the World Trade Center disaster.
Reichs has written sixteen novels to date, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
She´s also written two young adult novels named Virals (2010) and Seizure (2011) centered around Tempes´ grandniece Tory Brennan and a pack of her friends.
Not high literature, but sure a lot of fun to read!
Bibliography
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Well, I've always loved biology and particularly the biology of the human body. I also loved anthropology in college (one of the three areas of my Social Sciences degree). So mix in a little murder and mayhem and you get...
Kathy Reichs
In her books you also get the contrasting backgrounds and cultures of North Carolina and Quebec. I like her predecessor in this very particular genre, but I ultimately like Reichs the best. Her characters have held my interest. I've read most of her books, but have some catching up to do.
She is a crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (currently on leave). She divides her work time between the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec and her professorship at UNC Charlotte. She is one of the eighty-eight forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Reichs has appeared in Tanzania to testify at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She has assisted Dr. Clyde Snow and the Foundation for Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology in an exhumation in the area of Lake Atitlan in the highlands of southwest Guatemala. She was a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team assigned to assist at the World Trade Center disaster.
Reichs has written sixteen novels to date, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her first novel, Déjà Dead, won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
She´s also written two young adult novels named Virals (2010) and Seizure (2011) centered around Tempes´ grandniece Tory Brennan and a pack of her friends.
Not high literature, but sure a lot of fun to read!
Bibliography
Academic books
Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains (1986)
Fiction
Déjà Dead
Death du Jour
Deadly Décisions
Fatal Voyage
Grave Secrets
Bare Bones
Monday Mourning
Cross Bones
Break No Bones
Bones to Ashes
Devil Bones
206 Bones
Spider Bones
Virals
Flash and Bones
Seizure
Bones Are Forever (Not out yet-so I can‘t have it on my island
)
Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains (1986)
Fiction
Déjà Dead
Death du Jour
Deadly Décisions
Fatal Voyage
Grave Secrets
Bare Bones
Monday Mourning
Cross Bones
Break No Bones
Bones to Ashes
Devil Bones
206 Bones
Spider Bones
Virals
Flash and Bones
Seizure
Bones Are Forever (Not out yet-so I can‘t have it on my island
)
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don't want to step on anybody's toes, but: I know Goldsworthy quite a bit and am definitely a fan, however, I really don't know to what extent he can be called an author. he's a sculptor who collected photos of his work and published them in a book and seeing him drafted here, makes me feel a bit uneasy. just raising this, if no one else feels this way, we can simply move on.
Herman Melville
Well, I want to go like 3 or 4 different directions with this final pick but decided to bite on the low-hanging fruit. Of course, my favorite Melville is Moby Dick but he has plenty of other works as well. I have to admit the only other I've read is Redburn. But those two alone, for me, is worth the pick. I'm excited to delve into the rest of his library!
More..
T.H. White
Well, it's the last pick, and there are a ton of authors I'm leaving back on the mainland, some for better, some for worse, but I simply felt that I had to have some proper King Arthur on my island. So, I went for the most proper of them all - T.H. White and his "The Once and Future King" (title based off of Arthur's literary epitaph "Hic iacet Arturus, Rex quondam rexque futurus"). The book is a collection of four shorter novels, the best individually known being the first, "The Sword in the Stone". It starts out lighthearted in "Stone" but after that turns into one of the greatest novels of chivalry and family intrigue I've ever read. There's a decent followup in "The Book of Merlyn" that was published posthumously and then about 20 novels that are mostly out of print that act as icing on the cake. Good enough for me. Sorry to say goodbye to the rest of the authors, but I can't really imagine my library without White.
Lived: 1906-1964
Major Works: The Once and Future King; The Book of Merlyn; about 20 other books that are now rarely printed
Quote: (From The Once and Future King: The Queen of Air and Darkness)
Well, it's the last pick, and there are a ton of authors I'm leaving back on the mainland, some for better, some for worse, but I simply felt that I had to have some proper King Arthur on my island. So, I went for the most proper of them all - T.H. White and his "The Once and Future King" (title based off of Arthur's literary epitaph "Hic iacet Arturus, Rex quondam rexque futurus"). The book is a collection of four shorter novels, the best individually known being the first, "The Sword in the Stone". It starts out lighthearted in "Stone" but after that turns into one of the greatest novels of chivalry and family intrigue I've ever read. There's a decent followup in "The Book of Merlyn" that was published posthumously and then about 20 novels that are mostly out of print that act as icing on the cake. Good enough for me. Sorry to say goodbye to the rest of the authors, but I can't really imagine my library without White.
Lived: 1906-1964
Major Works: The Once and Future King; The Book of Merlyn; about 20 other books that are now rarely printed
Quote: (From The Once and Future King: The Queen of Air and Darkness)