Since a few people doing the 15 very memorable books have included a comic volume or two, and I didn't, I thought I'd do a list of comics. They range from an 8-page story to a series like LW&C running to around 8,500 pages ( Read more... )

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I started to say (in a review that will appear here soon) that someone was one of my favourite living writers, so I thought I'd do a list to see where that writer ranked (#7, it turns out). This is prose fiction writers only, and I think they are all still alive.

1. Samuel Delany
2. John Barth
3. Alice Hoffman
4. Steve Erickson
5. Joyce Carol Oates

The following is the shortlist of albums I compiled from those on my PC but not on CD. Some I had of old on other formats, some I downloaded or whatever anew. I was just getting to burning a couple of MP3 CDs with a load of them on - my CD walkman plays MP3 CDs. I eventually selected 19 of them to fill up two CDs (so that's 700MB on each - the ( Read more... )

A conversation made me think about the age of the acts I like, and the nationality, so I thought I'd do a list:

1. Rolling Stones
2. Pulp
3. Mott the Hoople
4. T. Rex
5. Buzzcocks

Following on from

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I've not done a list for a while, so to celebrate getting my 90th Ed McBain book, here is a list of which authors I have most books by (out of a total pushing up towards 3000 - obviously neither that nor the counts below include comics/graphic novels)(I'd do a list that way as well, but it's hard to see a rational way of doing it - I guess on any ( Read more... )

I nearly forgot about this! And with all those people holding their breath for the answers! Anyway, not necessarily my favourite genres, but the rankings according to a simple count of tracks (the count is given), via my database:

1. Soul 9706
2. HipHop 6587
3. Rock 6399
4. Pop 5463
5. Reggae 5020
6. ( Read more... )

I did that last.fm meme thing, but in reality most of my listening is not on my PC. My best guess at the ten acts I have really listened to most over the last couple of years would be:

1. Al Green
2. Louis Prima
3. Marit Larsen (some going, with just one album)
4. Wu-Tang Clan (inc. solo material)
5. Pulp

I posted a couple of partials during the year when I hit 100 and 200 books, but here is the full list. How you count them is up to you - the total listed is, I believe, 329, but since nearly half are comics, your count may quite reasonably differ. I have only included book-length comics - about a third are in the 400-800 range, but many of the ( Read more... )