desert-island

In the program, Sir Trevor says he ruled out a modern-dress staging for two reasons: The first is that the desert-island plot becomes implausible in an age of radio communications.

As Fresh as the First Day Paul Levy 2011

I can't wait for him to post his World Fantasy Award-winning novel Glimpses, which is one of my favorite novels of all time, a real desert-island book.

Boing Boing 2008

But it got me thinking about my own desert-island list.

Spirits: Desert island bottles 2010

So, going back to the desert-island, cabin-in-New-Hampshire scenario: how long would I have to be there?

The Old Desert Island Scenario | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

But "Haitian Fight Song" from this CD is a must-listen, desert-island track.

The Art of Jazz #101 2009

Entertainment Weekly, reported that King “is an ardent supporter of the desert-island show and trusts Abrams to translate his vision” into a film franchise with Lindelof being “the leading candidate to write the screenplay for the first installment.”

JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof Not Developing Steven King’s Dark Tower Series Right Now? 2009

Neither would the problem of evil or which albums he'd put in his desert-island disc collection (although that might be No. 11 if we went into overtime).

Cathleen Falsani: Talking with the Dalai Lama: What Would You Ask if You Had Just Ten Questions? 2009

Doolittle is still one of those desert-island picks, from poppy ballads like “Here Comes Your Man” to the slightly scary numbers like “Hey.”

Tangled Up in New 2009

Doolittle is still one of those desert-island picks, from poppy ballads like “Here Comes Your Man” to the slightly scary numbers like “Hey.”

Tangled Up in New 2009

And like all the fantasies born in the Bush age, the show is programmed to self-destruct: Consider Lost , the purgatory-as-therapy sci-fi ropes course that has declared a 48-episode limit on its desert-island wanderings.

Scott Brown on Why Battlestar Galactica Must Self-Destruct 2008