So thought this would be a fun little idea.
You are stranded on a Desert Island you can take
1 Book
1 Film
1 Album
What do you pick?
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Book: The Godfather by Mario Puzo. For as brilliant as the movies are, I think the book is even better. A close call between that and The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger.
Album: Sign O’ The Times by Prince. For me, the greatest album ever made. A genius tour-de-force of pop, rock, funk and soul. That’s the pinnacle of music for me. Doesn’t get better.
Movie: Purple Rain - This could be considered cheating, but it’d be my sneaky way of getting an additional album to take since all the songs are in the movie 
If not, maybe High Fidelity or The Green Mile.
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Book - Killing Floor by Lee Child. I’ve read this so many times but it never gets dull. Jack Reacher at his best.
Film - The Last Samurai. This film calms me down, excites me, and moves me, it’s superb.
Album - Puressence by Puressence. So many memories attached to this album, and some incredible songs. It would never get old.
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Book: Neil Gaiman : Ocean At The End Of The Lane
Album: Phoebe Bridgers : Stranger in the alps. She writes pretty melancholic dark songs but are beautiful and haunting.
Movie: The Truman Show. Jim Carey was always known for his goofy slapstick comedy then out of nowhere he plays this heartfelt moving role
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Confession I have never seen The Last Samurai. That is tonight’s viewing sorted
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Ken Watanabe is brilliant in it. Not sure why it isn’t a more popular film to be honest!
Book: American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Album: The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses - IMHO the best record ever released
Movie: This was far and away the hardest decision - but probably on balance Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn but I could chop and change the film for about 10 others 
Book - Tortilla Curtain. Great commentary on migration between countries and between wealth and poverty.
Album - Live at Budokan, Bob Dylan. I’ve always liked live albums and always loved Dylan’s songs. I’d take this rather than Blood on the Tracks only because it’s longer.
Film - Blade Runner. Superb adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. And I’m not allowed two books.
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I love Blade Runner , Recently learned that the speech at the end was improvised on the day!
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Book - Neuromancer by William Gibson
Album - Pearl Jam - Vs
Film - Blade Runner (the final cut)
Book- the Lord of the rings.
Film- shawshank redemption.
Album- master plan by oasis.
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Book: 1984
Film: LA Confidential
Album: BRMC by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The album was the toughest choice for me there, but it comes closest to being the album where I rate every song highly
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Wow, how have I never heard Puressence before??!! I have let myself down and let my family down
I am listening to their first album now off the back of your comment and it is really quite something
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That’s a blast from the past. A couple of excellent tracks stick out in my memory (Street Lights and It Doesn’t Matter Anymore I think) but I can’t remember how consistent the album was. I saw them at Reading in '99 but I was so drunk I couldn’t really appreciate them.
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