From
5_rings, expat extraordinaire:
1. Total number of books owned?
Over 200, easily.
2. The last book I bought?
Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology by Neil Postman.
3. The last book I read?
Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me: (Only five?)
-At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill.
A destructive kind of beauty.
-Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe.
Colonialism, the ultimate humiliation.
-Alone, Richard Logan.
True accounts of solitary ordeals, most noteably that of Charles Lindbergh. (Dr. Logan was a brilliant professor of mine.)
-Nine Short Stories, J.D. Salinger.
Each a masterpiece.
-Infections and Inequalities, Paul Farmer.
The anthropology of disease, illness, and social apathy.
5. I'm tagging:
No I'm not.