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If you were to be given a bookshelf and enough books to completely fill it, with the one condition that all the books have to be the same title by the same author, what book would you choose?

Also, no Bibles, Korans, or Torahs, etc......

(or in other words, if you were an obsessive compulsive bibliophile, what would be your book of choice to collect?

Good question.
Maybe "I, robot" by Isaac Asimov.
Or "The complete Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the Barnes and Noble edition of this one looks wonderful on a shelf).
Last choice, "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Yep, probably one of the 3.

Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I like these books because we read them out loud to the kids and they remind me of my wife, Cheryl. Not because she is like Laura, but because she read these books as a kid over and over again, and loved them so much.

Fun fact : Laura's first book I the series, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932. Laura was 65 when it was published. It's never too late to do something.

Peace, ️Maka

This is an easy, yet difficult question to answer.

But first I must ask, by "one title", do you mean one specifuc title? So if we filled the bookcase it would be with X # of various copies of that one title alone?

Or are you talking "title" in the sense it is a series?

I honestly can not narrow it down to only one title. Too many good books out there, and I could not be confined to just one story for the rest of my life...
Well, I guess I could still go out to read.

Anyway, I'll just have to say Usagi Yojimbo.

BTW Steve, what would you pick?

maichan wrote:This is an easy, yet difficult question to answer.

But first I must ask, by "one title", do you mean one specifuc title? So if we filled the bookcase it would be with X # of various copies of that one title alone?

Or are you talking "title" in the sense it is a series?

I honestly can not narrow it down to only one title. Too many good books out there, and I could not be confined to just one story for the rest of my life...
Well, I guess I could still go out to read.

Anyway, I'll just have to say Usagi Yojimbo.

For the purpose of this discussion, I was referring to a single specific book as opposed to a series. Of course you are still allowed to have all your other books, but for this one bookshelf you can only have a single book but as many copies or editions of it as you might want.

Books along the lines of The Three Musketeers, Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer, Taming of the Shrew, Little House in the Big Woods, etc. Books which have been around long enough and have been popular enough to be published over and over again.

maichan wrote:BTW Steve, what would you pick?

Demian, by Hermann Hesse.

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

But if I had a second it would be The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream by John Bunyan. There would 100's (if not 1,000's) of versions of this book to collect.

Ironically, I only own one book of each. I guess I'm really only a Stan Sakai collector.

Peace, maka

Hm, a tough choice. It's down to two books, either Great Gatsby or The Divine Comedy by Dante.

Ooooooooh, such a hard question.

"Musashi" by Yoshikawa comes to mind if complete series (Lord of the Rings, Sherlock, Narnia, etc) are not allowed.

That is a tough question. The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings would be good choices and I do have multiple copies of each. But for me I think I would have to go with Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Probably my all-time favorite book.

Oh and my wife says Harry Potter. She already has a book shelf just for them as she collects them in all the different languages she can find or whenever they are released with new cover art.