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Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 20:47

Books and music.

You can choose 5 books and 5 albums to take with you on your desert island.

All other luxuries are already accounted for so no exchanges are permitted.

You are also allowed to change your mind as the thread develops..........I know I will :0)

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 20:55

1.Playing the Angel.......Depeche Mode
2.Sound Affects.......The Jam
3. Hunting High and Low.....Aha
4.The Joshua Tree....u2
5. The Best of Barry Manilow LOLOLOL ......just to scare off the natives.

1. Gone with the Wind......Margaret Mitchell
2. Cross Stitch.....Diane Gabaldon
3. Starter for Ten...David Nicholls (one of the funniest books I've ever read)
4. Daughters of Fire.......Barbara erskine
5. Tales of the Unexpected.......Roald Dahl.

Rambling

Rambling Report 9 Aug 2009 21:00

Lord of the Rings ( does that count as one or three?!)
Down the Garden path by Beverley Nichols
The Herb of Grace by Elizabeth Goudge
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson
Annes House of Dreams LM Montgomery

I can't pick albums lol... Queen, Harry Chapin, Willie Nelson, Les Miserables and something melancholy and Irish probably .

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 9 Aug 2009 21:07

lilly allns new album
westlife greatest hits
now thts what i call number ones
celion dion greatest hits
pink any album


books hmm
sandra brown, were there is evil
dave courtney , all his books "sniggers"
dave pelzer a child called it ""or any of his books
tory hayden, tigers child """or any of her books lol
and dear zoo "for baby satan who would be with me lol

Uggers

Uggers Report 9 Aug 2009 21:10

Ummmm

1. The Lord of The Rings - J R R Tolkein
2. The Bible - *various*
3. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
4. Maurice - E M Forster
5. The massive grey volume of poetry I have somewhere about the place

1. Guns n Roses Greatest Hits
2. Automatic for the People - REM
3. The Very Best of Nina Simone
4. Substance - New Order
5. Two Jazz Ladies - Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald

But I really need to be alowed to take more....

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:11

Well you can't !!!

*sighs*

See I KNEW they'd be one that tried to push their luck...........lol

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 9 Aug 2009 21:12

The Lord of the Rings

The Loving Spirit ( Daphne De Maurier )

Precious Bane ( Mary Webb )

The Sixth Beatitude ( Radcliffe Hall )

Wuthering Heights ( Emily Bronte )

Albums ; Pet Sounds ( Beach Boys ) ; Sunny Side Up ( Paolo Nutini ) ;
Smile ( Brian Wilson ) ; Hopes and Fears ( Keane ) and Greatest Hits ( Simon and Garfunkle).

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:13

Oh hell I forgot about hopes and fears......

PatriciaAnn

PatriciaAnn Report 9 Aug 2009 21:24

1.Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
2.Beatles 62-66
3.The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary
4. The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
5.Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell

1.My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
2.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3.Any Miss Marple mystery
4.An enclycopaedia
5.The Bible

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:25

aaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhh and Rumours........forgot that one too!!!!!!! xx

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy Report 9 Aug 2009 21:28

Errrr can i take me ipod ????

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:28

No you bl**dy can't pmsl xx

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy Report 9 Aug 2009 21:29

Oohhhh tsk

but i have more than 5 depeche albums *sulks*

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:30

Well I had to choose out of them........I hovered between Playing the Angel, Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion.......but decided I couldn't live without Precious so that won lol xx

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy Report 9 Aug 2009 21:33

*sighs*

OK .............

1. Violator - Depeche Mode
2. Songs of Faith & Devotion - DM
3. Playing the Angel - DM
4. Greatest Hits - Billy Idol
5. The Very Best of - Jim Reeves (don't ask lol)


1. A-Z of desert islands
2. Any book with loads of DM pics :O)))
3. A-Z of survival skills
4. Pocket Guide to smoke signals
5. Any other book with loads of Dave Gahan pics



well ...................... you did ask lol

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 21:36

Jim Reeves????

Eh?

Who is that?????? lol xx

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy

McAnne's Gahan-Crazy Report 9 Aug 2009 21:37

That's for sentimental reasons lol

PatriciaAnn

PatriciaAnn Report 9 Aug 2009 21:37

Muffy, Rumours is one of the best LPs around. It's the only one where Ilike all the songs.

Rambling

Rambling Report 9 Aug 2009 21:39

Ah but if Amanda , Uggers and I are all on the same island we can take turns with LOTR and thus be entitled to 2 more books between us :))

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 9 Aug 2009 22:00

That's cheating lol xx