If you could only have one, which would it be? Why?

I could live without Films, no probs - Well, as long as I had books....

Had to vote Music 'cos it was my first love, but it's heartbreaking to vote against books.

This is a tough one, but it's books by a length, even though they killed my vision.

belatedly added reason: I don't know . . . films I've never been that big on. I would probably be a drooling, catatonic mess by now if I hadn't been turned on to music as a kid, but at the end of the day it has to be books. I just don't get as much out of music as I do out of reading really terrific work of literature.

I don't know. Can I still read the lyrics parade?

Music. Reason: The Fall.

Hovered over books for a bit, but plumped for songs- after all before print and celluloid music was entertainment and news.

I can only read a book once.

I have to sit down and pay attention to a film. A film will have limited runs.

I can either have music on to keep me company or it can be the focus of my attention.

Books - can spend more time with them, look at paintings in them, and they leave more to my imagination than films or music. I think I'd run out of films and music that I like much sooner than I'd run out of books to read.

Music as I'm not to keen on books or film anyway.

I'd probably find it hard to go without any of these eventually.

I can go without seeing a film for a few weeks, can go without reading a book for some days, but the thought of even one day without music is terrifying. So music it is.

"Music was my first love and it will be my last."
(sorry for quoting from such a daft song, but I thought it just expresses it accurately)

Cant say it better than that.

Film is the most important of the three to me, but i voted music as I think it's the most simple, essential. If I were stranded on an island fer instance, I coiuld still hum a choon...

Music.
I'd rather go blind.

Books. Good, old books are a precious thing to me.

The pervasive and living silence of books.

I think music is a much more basic and important need than films or books. So I'll vote music, however much I love films and books.

Go anywhere in the world and people will be making music of some kind, I think it's quite deep in our human charachter. Before films and books you would still have people telling stories it's true, but even that narrative need can be fulfilled in music form if you need to.

books

All are essential, but I know that music gets more of my time than the other two.

Music without hesitation. I like films a lot but watch them sparingly as I don't have too much of an appetite for them. I like to watch one good film once or twice a month.

I love reading and will continue to delve into books for as long as I can find something original or at least interesting.

Music however is essential and I need it every day. If I need good narrative I can get it in a song. If I want abstract poetry I can get it in a song. If I need something visual I can imagine it from a song.

Spot on!

Deafness would be absolutely unbearable. :o