![]() Slaughter or a long run of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. At such moments few sights can be as pleasant as a shelf of Guest-Room Books - especially when the shelf doesn't simply hold the complete works of Edna Ferber and Frank G. The smart choices, we vaguely realize, would actually include the Boy Scout Handbook and a good guide to boat building, but that's another fantasy.Ī more common yet similar situation occurs when we visit friends or rent a vacation cottage and, finding it difficult to fall asleep in strange surroundings, look around our temporary bedroom for something, anything to read. ![]() Classics tend to predominate, since most of us figure to be marooned long enough to work our way through, say, The Tale of Genji or The Iliad in Greek or all of Thomas Aquinas. ![]() ![]() EVERYONE who likes to read has prepared, at one time or another, a mental list of the books he or she would take to a desert island, the one where the tropic breezes waft gently and there is an attractive companion to share the fish and coconuts with. ![]()
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