Kevin's Watch

if you had to choose, what one book would you read/reread before you die?

mine is probably either The Power the Preserves or Wizard and Glass

Well, The Power That Preserves would definately be on the short list. Another I would have to seriously consider would be A Game of Thrones.

And as for music, please let me listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as I pass on. Thanks.

Some David Eddings novel... so I can welcome death.

White Gold Wielder or The Power that Preserves.

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Book: either "For Whom the Bell Tolls" or "Catcher in the Rye".

Music: either "Starless", by King Crimson or "Too Much Between Us", by Procol Harum.

Ailundale's response has me still rolling on the floor laughing . . . but I would choose either The Stand or It.

Illusions by Richard Bach.

Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon!

Neverness (or The Broken God)!

Ailundale's response has me still rolling on the floor laughing . . . but I would choose either The Stand or It.

Hey it's no laughing matter! Most civilized countries probably wouldn't allow it, due to the cruel and unusual nature of the passing.

The Bible Particularly the Psalms. With Bach playing in the background. Ah sweet peace.

Furls Fire wrote:The Bible Particularly the Psalms. With Bach playing in the background. Ah sweet peace.

I'll buy that. But after the Psalms, I think I'd want to go out to the Gospel according to Luke, with a soundtrack of Handel's Messiah.

On second thought, I change my musical selection to Bach's Musical Offering.

Whatever was the longest book I could find I suppose (although I agree with Ainulindale about David bloody Eddings).

If that was out of the question I had to choose one, I'd settle for Use of Weapons by the wonderfully twisted genius that is Iain M. Banks.

And whilst I was reading it I'd like to roll up a fat one and get twisted one last time too, preferably whilst listening to Lateralus by Tool, Foxtrot by Genesis or something from when Rush were really worth it.

danlo wrote:Neverness (or The Broken God)!

Probably my choice, also. The memory of all things is in all things.

Syl's choice is also excellent. The problem is that it's such a quick read that you might be sitting around after you're done, bored silly as you wait to die.

TPTP would likely be my first choice if I wasn't able to recite most of it anyway. Le Guin's Dragonfly and The Other Wind are also big on my list, but they have the same problem as Illusions.

If I went with Furls' selection, I'd start with the Sermon on the Mount. I didn't really notice it until I read Sagan's Contact. He's right, it's fantastic!!

For music, I'd have a tough choice. Bach's Mass in B-minor, Beethoven's Heileger dankgesang, and Brahms' German Requiem are the front-runners.

Sheriff Lytton wrote:If that was out of the question I had to choose one, I'd settle for Use of Weapons by the wonderfully twisted genius that is Iain M. Banks.

Good choice!

Loremaster wrote:

Sheriff Lytton wrote:If that was out of the question I had to choose one, I'd settle for Use of Weapons by the wonderfully twisted genius that is Iain M. Banks.

Good choice!

My God, another Banks fan ! I can't even begin to tell you how highly I rate that book.