One book you'll take to your grave

Why waste a good book? Dead people cannot read. Well, I could take a book that doesn't deserve to live, e.g. Dianetics

L.M. Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle'

The Egyptian Book of the Dead?

There's something distinctly pharaonic about this...maybe we should only take Egyptian books?

Probably some sort of omnibus so that I have lots to read—perhaps a complete Shakespeare.

I'm with Tad - a complete works (sonnets and all) of the Bard. Comedy, tragedy, history, poetry - I'll never get bored.

Kattbelly.....thanks for the recommendation. I have added The Blue Castle to my wish list.

I'm with #2. The only way I'd be reading that book is if I were buried alive and had a flashlight. In such a scenario, I'd rather prefer having an oxygen tank and cell phone with me than a book...

*snort*

Well said, Medellia, well said!

I'd rather leave the good books behind for others to enjoy. After my kids, family & friends have gone thru my library, the rest is going to our local second-hand bookstore that is also becoming our local library

Depends on the criteria behind the choice:

The book I'd want to have with me should I wake up and want to get out? Guess I'd want "Tricks of the Trade" by Harry Houdini, assuming such a book exists.

However, assuming I were going to be stuck in there, I'd want Don Quixote: long and funny. Or, I don't know, maybe the Baseball Encyclopedia.

The one book I would want biographers to find in my coffin when my body is exhumed 100 years after my death: The Human Stain.

The one book I would want archeologists to find in my coffin centuries from now when my grave site was opened after being discovered at a spot that had been covered over for hundreds of years by avalanche debris: The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Let's throw 'em off track!

I have been pondering this.

Just one book?

Okay, it should be long, entertaining and fun if it is the only book I get for eternity.
( perish the thought)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, It is my favorite of the series and fits the above criteria.

Mists of Avalon was a close second.

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

If I'm going to be in a grave with a book, I'd probably want one that unfolds into a shovel. Failing that, probably Worst Case Scenarios. Maybe there'd be something in there I could read to help me escape.

Touchstone loaded the wrong book....

Buy a 25-cent paperback from the thrift store and throw it in. I won't be reading it, chaps. I'll be DEAD.

sonshi seems to be having some difficulties with committing to a post.

WHL, everytime I read a post from you I need to clean my computer screen!

#19: Actually, if you click on sonshi's name to go to his profile, you'll find that he may never have existed... *cue creepy theremin music*

eek

Sonshi was trying to tell us what book he was buried with.

I'm with Tadad and rocketjk, something voluminous: In Search of Lost time

I would bring the book, "The Fairy's Return" by Gail Carson Levine. That way I could stay together with all the legendary tales. It would kind of feel as if I was back when I was a child. Also, I would feel closer to my many beliefs. Who knows? Maybe sometime in the future I will find a better book to be buried with me. =)

How about a blank journal and big pencil...

It will either be

Still Dead
Still Dead
Still Dead

or

Damn its HOT again today!

or

I'm so over the harp!