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If you were stranded on an island, what five books would you bring?

submitted by CJP

Well, I'd prefer to take 5 books I hadn't read yet. That would certainly help pass the time!

But if it's my 5 most re-readable books, then these would be it.

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2. Dirk Gently's Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
3. One of the Georgette Heyer novels.. don't ask me which one. I usually pick them at random.
4. Harry Potter (ok,ok they're addctive)
5. The Eyre Affair.

How could I resist and offer like that?

I even have a special icon for the occasion. For this special occasion, you can have 2 quotes.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

    (JavaOne keynote, 1999)

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

                                            (Zaphod Beeblebrox)

Show us your favorite literary character.

What's one of your favorite quotes? 
Submitted by Georgie-boy. 

"Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so"     - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

    also this one,

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."    - Douglas Adams

What books are on your nightstand?

OK. I confess. I have a Georgette Heyer addiction.

On the bookcase and the floor next to my bed i have about 20 Georgette Heyer books. That's most of her Georgian & Regency romances.

The book pictured, I re-read a few nights ago. I'm now back on "The Convenient Marriage". I think my favourite would have to be "Devil's Cub"  - the characters are quite cheeky and fresh.

Also in my book collection are Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's trilogy & Dirk Gently), Greg Bear, various Nostradamus and quite a few sci-fi and fantasy series.

And that's just the fiction section. :)