Book meme!
j_stewart said, "Tag, you're it!" and so I must obey.
1. Total Number of Books I've Owned: The mind staggers, my mind anyway. I used to read all the time before I discovered masturbation. I remember taking a box of young adult/children's books to the used book store for some cash when I was 17. The box of ~200 page softcovers was so heavy I could barely carry it. Right now I've got about 120 books on the shelf.
2. Last Book I Bought: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. The new Chuck, need I say more. Haven't had a chance to read it yet because...
3. Last Book I Read: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. Borrowed from the library and couldn't extend it because someone else put a hold on it. Kept it a day late to finish it yesterday.
4. Five Books that Mean a Lot to Me:
(1) Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. - What do I say? Its protagonist opens by hijacking a plane for a suicide mission and they're still trying to make it into a movie post 9/11. Takes you on a ride of suicide, fame, religion, drugs, and even love that never lets go. The plot was so bizarre the first time I read it I was amazed how obvious it seemed the second time.
(2) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. - How a book this bizarre ever became popular enough to get in the American lexicon is rather beyond me. I'd go from laughing to nearly crying about the human condition in about 3 sentences.
(3) Uh, something by Thich Nhat Hanh on Buddhism. - Hard to pick one since I read them around the same time and they all overlap a lot. Basically just saying. Breathe in. Breathe out. You're alive, isn't that wonderful?
(4) Bloom County Babylon by Berkley Breathed . - Yeah so it's a collection of comic strips; it's still got pages doesn't it? It ain't Garfield, it even won a Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning. All the Bloom County stuff was fantastic and now that I'm older I recognize a lot more of the subtle politics that may have turned my into the Heartless Liberal I am today.
(5) The Dog Who Wouldn't Be - My parents bought this for me when I was around 10 at a used book store. It's the account of the weirdest (and one of the smartest) dogs that ever lived. Essentially the dog refused to believe that it was actually a dog. The aptly named Mutt actually learned to walk on fences like a cat the way no other dog ever has - although it was in pursuit of chasing cats. I credit this book's influence on me at a young age with building my vocabulary to the level where I fool most people into thinking I'm actually intelligent.
5. Tag Five People and Have Them Post This on Their Live Journals
rageundersilk
alaric3
shecast_ashadow
outofhunk
i_am_scowling
1. Total Number of Books I've Owned: The mind staggers, my mind anyway. I used to read all the time before I discovered masturbation. I remember taking a box of young adult/children's books to the used book store for some cash when I was 17. The box of ~200 page softcovers was so heavy I could barely carry it. Right now I've got about 120 books on the shelf.
2. Last Book I Bought: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. The new Chuck, need I say more. Haven't had a chance to read it yet because...
3. Last Book I Read: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. Borrowed from the library and couldn't extend it because someone else put a hold on it. Kept it a day late to finish it yesterday.
4. Five Books that Mean a Lot to Me:
(1) Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. - What do I say? Its protagonist opens by hijacking a plane for a suicide mission and they're still trying to make it into a movie post 9/11. Takes you on a ride of suicide, fame, religion, drugs, and even love that never lets go. The plot was so bizarre the first time I read it I was amazed how obvious it seemed the second time.
(2) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. - How a book this bizarre ever became popular enough to get in the American lexicon is rather beyond me. I'd go from laughing to nearly crying about the human condition in about 3 sentences.
(3) Uh, something by Thich Nhat Hanh on Buddhism. - Hard to pick one since I read them around the same time and they all overlap a lot. Basically just saying. Breathe in. Breathe out. You're alive, isn't that wonderful?
(4) Bloom County Babylon by Berkley Breathed . - Yeah so it's a collection of comic strips; it's still got pages doesn't it? It ain't Garfield, it even won a Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning. All the Bloom County stuff was fantastic and now that I'm older I recognize a lot more of the subtle politics that may have turned my into the Heartless Liberal I am today.
(5) The Dog Who Wouldn't Be - My parents bought this for me when I was around 10 at a used book store. It's the account of the weirdest (and one of the smartest) dogs that ever lived. Essentially the dog refused to believe that it was actually a dog. The aptly named Mutt actually learned to walk on fences like a cat the way no other dog ever has - although it was in pursuit of chasing cats. I credit this book's influence on me at a young age with building my vocabulary to the level where I fool most people into thinking I'm actually intelligent.
5. Tag Five People and Have Them Post This on Their Live Journals
rageundersilk
alaric3
shecast_ashadow
outofhunk
i_am_scowling