Book Meme
Woo-hoo! I've been tagged with a book-themed meme by the recently-returned Becky at Archaeopteryx. Here it goes...
Number of Books That You Own:
This is a tough one to answser. I keep a large paper sack in one corner of my room. Books that I don't plan on keeping go into the sack, and every so often I head to the local used book shop and trade them in. So, for the most part, I swap out a lot of my books, my room is sort of a wordish way-station. Also, my roomate is a graduate student, and her mountain of books has started to co-mingle with mine. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the books are beginning to mate, producing children with a rabbit-like urgency. So there are a few too many to easily count, and it's tough to figure out which are mine and which are my roomates. Final answer: 8 bajillion.
Last Book Bought:
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions by Pauline Marie Rosenau.
Actually, this isn't really the last book I purchased. A friend let me borrow it and I thought I would sound smarter if I listed it. The last book I actually purchased was Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, it's on paper back now.
Last Book I Read:
Here at Cerulean Blue, Fridays are double coupon day for memes: The first volume of Don Quixote, and The Confusion by Neal Stephenson.
Five Books that mean a lot to me:
And these are five books that honestly re-arranged my head...
1. Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe.
2. V. by Thomas Pynchon
3. Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
4. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
5. Beyond Good and Evil by Fred Nietzche
It's optional of course, but I'm tagging all the good folks on my blogroll, Becky excluded, because when someone is tagged twice with the same meme it disrupts the space/time continuum...and creates a planet ruled by apes. It's a fact. Also, Dadahead has seemingly answered a dozen memes as of late, so he's off the hook if he so chooses. Anyway, I'm out of town until the middle of next week, hope everyone has a fun weekend...
Number of Books That You Own:
This is a tough one to answser. I keep a large paper sack in one corner of my room. Books that I don't plan on keeping go into the sack, and every so often I head to the local used book shop and trade them in. So, for the most part, I swap out a lot of my books, my room is sort of a wordish way-station. Also, my roomate is a graduate student, and her mountain of books has started to co-mingle with mine. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the books are beginning to mate, producing children with a rabbit-like urgency. So there are a few too many to easily count, and it's tough to figure out which are mine and which are my roomates. Final answer: 8 bajillion.
Last Book Bought:
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences: Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions by Pauline Marie Rosenau.
Actually, this isn't really the last book I purchased. A friend let me borrow it and I thought I would sound smarter if I listed it. The last book I actually purchased was Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, it's on paper back now.
Last Book I Read:
Here at Cerulean Blue, Fridays are double coupon day for memes: The first volume of Don Quixote, and The Confusion by Neal Stephenson.
Five Books that mean a lot to me:
And these are five books that honestly re-arranged my head...
1. Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe.
2. V. by Thomas Pynchon
3. Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
4. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
5. Beyond Good and Evil by Fred Nietzche
It's optional of course, but I'm tagging all the good folks on my blogroll, Becky excluded, because when someone is tagged twice with the same meme it disrupts the space/time continuum...and creates a planet ruled by apes. It's a fact. Also, Dadahead has seemingly answered a dozen memes as of late, so he's off the hook if he so chooses. Anyway, I'm out of town until the middle of next week, hope everyone has a fun weekend...
posted by Samwick @ 2:16 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:53 PM,
Becky said…
"Ah, Through the Looking Glass," she smiles with fond remembrance.
At 1:59 AM,
Snave said…
Hmmmm, Big Mike Foucault... didn't he invent the pendulum? Or maybe that was Pendulum Franklin!
Anyway Matt, that was a BRUTAL pun I just made... and from that, you may rightly judge that it is an impossibility that my books would be anywhere near the intellectual level of yours!
An example of my tastes: I love the "Professor Von Igelfeld" series by Alexander McCall Smith. Well-written, ludicrous situations involving one real doofus of a character; the operation scene at the veterinary school in the book "The Finer Points Of Sausage Dogs" left me sucking air (that book also mentions Arkansas, by the way). While I think that three-book series is marvelous, it isn't a set of the books that mean the most to me, though. Those would have to at least include:
The Completely MAD Don Martin
The Big Book of Conspiracies
The Little Prince by that French guy whose name I can't recall and wouldn't know how to spell if I did
A Child's Garden of Verses by R.L. Stevenson
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Baseball Hall of Shame series by Nash and Zullo
Shoeless Joe by Kinsella
Motherless Brooklyn by Johathan Lethem
George Carlin's books
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" or whatever it's called... a great study of Asperger Syndrome!
Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman
Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage
Trout Fishing America and all other writings by Richard Brautigan
+
stuff by Philip K. Dick, Arthur C, Clarke, John McPhee, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Sawyer, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Burroughs (I LOVE Burroughs), Michael Chabon, and a whole slug of others.
Too many books, not enough eyes!
At 12:01 PM,
Christopher said…
Last Book I Read: Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates - a novel I highly recommend.
When selecting books that have meant something to me I am put in an invidious position, because there are so many which I feel I betray by leaving them out, but which I must, for reasons not unconnected with with space and my sieve-like memory.
Here are just ten books:
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain
Respected Sir, by Naguib Mafouz
The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
Voltaire’s Bastards, by John Ralston Saul
Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
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