Books that are useless on a desert island.

 February 1, 2008 personal

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Drew Hevle raises a very interesting question: suppose you are stranded on a desert island; what books would be entirely useless in this situation?

Here are a few books that I wouldn’t want to be stranded on an island with:

Do you have other ideas for awful desert island reading?