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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:24 PM Original message |
After Armageddon, what five books would you choose to help your small band survive? |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. Something about back to the land living so I can grow food and animals, something about herbal |
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rampart (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. a set of "foxfire" books would be perfect |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Oh no, now you've hooked me! |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. My parents and parents-in-law used "Five Acres and Independence in the 1940's", |
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Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Dianetics, the Bible, Atlas Shrugged, Beezus and Ramona, and The Bridges of Madison County. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Sub in "The Secret" and "The Rules" for the last two |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. It would be a perfect foundation for societal suicide |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
35. "Dianetics"? Are you serious? |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. Books about field medicine/surgery, subsistence farming, |
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uncommon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Excellent answer. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. My brother has this one, I'd consider it.. |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. Letters From a Nut, Oh! The Places You'll Go!... |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Bible and the TV Guide |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. LOL... I had Pancho Sanza quoted at me the other day here on DU.. n/t |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Fahrenheit 451, The Jungle, A Handmaid's Tale, 1984, The Catcher In The Rye. |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. we like the same books! |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. A book each on: |
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OnyxCollie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. The Road. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. One book to rule them all... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. And when the batteries go dead in a few days.. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. The batteries are user-replaceable... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. I'm a bit on the McGuyverish side myself.. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Being married to an engineer... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Depends on the apocalypse... |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 12:58 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Ha! That would be along my line of thinking... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Did you ever see this from the fine people at Cracked.com?... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. Big thick ones with lots of pages ... |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Oh, I was thinking of that other reason you would want lots of pages. LOL |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
22. Factual information |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
23. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. Five books made of dark chocolate. |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
28. Gardening by the Square Foot |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
30. Hmm |
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Godhumor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
31. Only need one: "Be Ready When the Sh*T Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse" |
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Geoff R. Casavant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
33. I think at least one would be the Boy Scout handbook. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. That's good |
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Geoff R. Casavant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 11:57 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Me too. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
37. Sun Tzu, the Art of War, |
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FedUpWithIt All (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
38. John Seymour's The Self Sufficient Life and How To Live It |
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