Desert Island Type of Text

btw you'll still be able to read newspapers/ILX/nutrition labels/street signs & other things that are necessary to get through life

prose (fiction) pretty much includes all reading in my life as is not on a desert island, so that

Prose (Fiction) in a big way -- love poetry and nonfic, but fiction is like air/water to me

Difficult. I'm still pretty certain that poetry is just something else, like a different order of art.

But the flip side of that is that I like the prosaic, incredibly flexible nature of prose, it can do absolutely anything, which is an amazing gift. As for fiction v nonfiction - gotta go for fiction. The act of imaginative creation pwns everything else.

Voting poetry.

Prose (Non fiction) because I can't live without my pop science tomes and my feminist dialectics. I can just write mine own fiction in my head if the need strikes.

Also a lot of nonfiction (history, philosophy etc) makes it onto fiction and 'fixes' it in a way that could be relevant through the passage of time (in a desert island). That's before you even get to the qualities of prose.

Don't read as much poetry as I want to. I think time spent in an island could do me a lot of good in that respect...hmm, just had an idea to not touch novels for six months or so and only read poetry. Might do that next year.

'Other' = Plays. But I'm not going for that.

Voted prose (fiction) xp

Prose (fiction) and could narrow it down to stuff with swords and magic probably

About half of my library is poetry. I have even been known to write the stuff. But there's the rub. I have a somewhat poetry-oriented mindset and some small poetic talents, but if I were stuck out on a desert island I would need to feed my brain something plain and literal and prosaic, like non-fiction prose to keep it from floating off to lala land. The poetry I could gin up out of coconut shells and coral bits and be happy with the results.

if i can only pick one i'd be worried about how i will know stuff about what's happening in the world beyond what's in the news so i pick nonfiction.

besides that there is plenty of entertaining nonfiction

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technical journals would help you escape from the island