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Journal of chaoticset (2105)

Tuesday May 17, 2005

02:13 PM

Stolen from mxdi (or: WILL I EVER ESCAPE MEMES?!)

[ #24742 ]

1) Total number of books owned?

This I am not sure of. I believe a safe rough estimate would be 500. (Currently, anyway. Counting all the books I've ever owned, probably 900. I got rid of a lot of books when I was younger.)

2) The last book I bought?

Linux Unwired.

3) The last book I read?

Cover to cover, Freakonomics. I read 3/4 of Linux Unwired this morning over a biscotti and Earl Grey, and the remaining 1/4 won't mean anything to me until I've got a cell plan or something with IR connections.)

4) Five books that mean a lot to me:

Only five?

Frogs Into Princes
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Learning Perl, 2nd Ed.
Shaving The Inside Of Your Skull
Ringworld

If you know these books, their significance is probably easy to determine. Here's another few for good measure:

Delivered From Distraction and You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? for being useful guides to a topic I wasn't familiar with but needed to become familiar with quickly.
Atlas Shrugged for making me wonder about evaluating people based on merits like integrity and ability.
Chocolate Heaven for being a cookbook about something I liked enough to try to make recipes from.
Stranger In A Strange Land, The Martian Chronicles, and Neuromancer, for being simply beautiful pieces of work. Stranger gets another medal, too -- I did not understand why people laugh until I read the reason in Stranger. It's always held true so far.