Alright, we know by now that the island accommodates quite a few book-warms. James, Juliette and her book club.. but most particularly Ben Linus. Strange that even in times when they camp out of emergency or for a few nights, Ben is never without the company of a good deal of books.
Seeing his shelves all packed again in this episode, I froze to catch what he might be reading. The only two things I was able to discern, are
1) the big book with red hard cover, a novel by John Lescroart (it was a detail in a close-up and the title of the book was off-screen, but I got a feeling it's "The Guilt", and 2) the book right next to it, which has only its publishing company visually discernable within the same shot- it's shelved upside down actually, and reads "Farrar, Strauss, Giroux" the publishing company known as FSG.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Award-winning Authors
I'm wondering if anyone caught titles etc of other books Ben keeps around...and if so, what are they? If books are food for the mind and if "you are what you eat", it'd be interesting to learn, or even guess about Ben's reading taste.
OK, my guess for a few books that Benjamin Linus must have read (aside from what we know from his Bunny nb.8 conversations with Sawyer, Stephen King and probably the Testaments Old & New)-
- Bhagavad-gita
- Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Sun-Tzu: 'the Art of War'
- Hobbes: 'Leviathan'
- Machievelli: 'the Prince'
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Ram Dass- 'Be Here Now' - or maybe 'Doing your Own Being'
What do you think this guys reads/ might be reading?