A few nice photo books images I found:
Desert Island Collection - Top 24 - Books
Image by Pierre Metivier
Even harder an execice as for music and movies, these are the 24 books I would take on a desert island. Lots are missing (see at the end) but these have had deep impacts on me and have been my favs over the years. No particular order. For all the listed books, I enjoy most works of the corresponding writers but I had to choose one.
Franz Kafka - Le Procés / The Trial
Georges Perec - La vie mode d'emploi
JMG Le Clezio - Le Procés-Verbal
EM Cioran - De l'inconvénient d'être né
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal
René Daumal - Le Mont Analogue
Michel Leiris - Aurora
Herman Hesse - Le Jeu des Perles de Verre
Boris Vian - L'Automne à Pékin
F. Nietzsche - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra
JK Huysmans - A Rebours
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror
R. Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber
Philip K Dick - UBIK
Louis Pauwels et Jaques Bergier - Le Matin des Magiciens
Charles Bukowski - Play the piano like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
Daniel Pennac - Aux fruits de la passion
John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
Charles Mingus - Beneath the underdog
Louis Ferdinand Celine - Voyage au bout de la nuit
John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany
Great books and writers are missing that were of my first selection: Dostoievsky, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Raymond Queneau, Alfred Jarry, Alexandre Vialatte, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Raymond Roussel, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, André Breton, Thomas Hardy, Garbriel Garcia Marquez, John Fowles, Umberto Eco, Andres Ibanes, Douglas "Godel, Escher, Bach" Hofstadter, Lawrence Durrell, Michel Onfray, William Gibson, Jorge Luis Borges, John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann, Jack Kerouack, Malcolm Lowry, Henry Miller..... and many more.
All these (but one) are covers of books I own.
Desert Island Coll. - Music - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/370733734/in/set-132648/
Desert Island Coll. - Movies - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/408783370/in/set-132648/
Desert Island Coll. - Books - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/436336477/
books-on-plank
Image by 24oranges.nl
A stack of books on a plank. You see the spines of "Historische Studiën," "Gedichten van Jacques Perk," "Klaasje Zevenster," and "Dichtwerken" by Bilderdijk. The bottom two books I had to re-"bind" using duct tape, and are dictionaries.
Used for an article on a vanity press store in Amsterdam:
www.24oranges.nl/2010/03/24/shelf-space-to-rent-for-vanit...
Photo by Branko Collin.
