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That's hard...
obvious choice.
I can't chose. I've read the Bible and every Heinlein novel. NONE of the choices provides enough materials for 5 years.
The Economist mag would be my 2nd choice. Fiction would drive me up the walls after 5 years as would the Bible. Perhaps learning a musical instrument like the piano might be best though? A Sax would probably be easier but it's only one note after another...
The Encyclopedia.. That would give me approximately 35.5930347168984777132844 15726645 articles per day to review. Or about 24,093.74657759281568283868141496 words per day to explore... :) I wouldn't be board and I would have enough information at my fingertips to accomplish many projects of various catagories.
The Bible? You're kidding, right? Oh, I see...no, you're NOT kidding. Hmmm, well it being the only thing to read for 5 years I can see it would either (a) get a person to read it completely or (b) swear off reading entirely. When it comes to mythology and fiction, Heinlein is a finer choice than the Bible. And to paraphrase Mark Twain, if you don't read Time Magazine you are uninformed...and if you DO read Time, you are misinformed. Wouldn't The Guardian have been a better choice for this survey?
Sorry, but that's a pretty sucky, lame selection. Why not something truly stimulating? I cannot imagine being stuck with ANY of those for 5 years, and as much as I loved Heinlein, I think even that would get old after 5 years. And for pure pedantic boredome, the Brittanica? Yawn.
if they playboys where from when RAW was still editing and they had good stories I'd take them - otherwise heinlein. 4000 year old fairy tales and a propaganda rag would quickly bore me...
I seriously considered the Heinlein novels, but decided that I would go through them too quickly and have no new material.
And what would your alternative be?
so you would rather soothe yourself with 4000 year old stories than keep up to date with the present?
Only if you want to be misinformed.
The bible, definetely the bible.
TIME sucks, it's boringly mainstream and, in my opinion, written in a bratty/Entertainment Weekly-style these days. But at least I'd be getting something of what's going on in the outside world.
kudos ultranerd for choosing the truly nerdy choice.
So you like getting your news straight through a neoconservative filter...
The "Weekly Standard" and "National Review" would be a good start.
It was a toss up (pun intended) between Playboy and TIME. I chose TIME because it was the only option that kept me up with the facts, although there is only a couple of hours reading in each issue at most. I would choose the Playboys because of the sheer volume of ten years of them, along with the pictures of pretty ladies of course.
What is not respectable about TIME?
If you'd offered a current events magazine I respected, I would have picked that, though.