I have been tagged by Miss Peanut Queen to talk about books. So I will.
A. Total number of books I own:
I’ll have to estimate. Let’s see, 5 tall bookshelves in the computer room, each shelf double-stacked with a row shoved all the way to the back and another row of books in front of them. On one shelf I very carefully tripled-stacked. Closet converted to shelves, all stacked with books (and some 1/18 scale musclecars.) Boxes of books in the floor. More boxes of books in the entryway closet, one of which My Wife accidentally ran a 12” drill bit halfway through while installing the phone line for the computer. This created a lovely round hole through the center of each and every page in the affected books. More books in the bedroom, some under the nightstand, some beside it, some over against the wall next to the TV. More books in the hall where they were never intended to be permanently stored, but you know how that goes. More books in the living room. Should I count My Wife’s books, too? The remaining guest bedroom is filled with her books, several homemade bookshelves, which can hold more books than my cheap store-bought shelves, all triple-stacked, plus more in the floor and more in the bedroom and more in the living room. It’s thousands. Thousands of books. I don’t know how many. I’d have to start measuring the books, take an average, then measure the rooms and work it out that way.
B. The last book I bought:
Naked Happy Girls – a book apparently by a Jewish New York man who gets stoned with various women he meets and takes photos of them naked. And they’re all very happy about it. And there is a Janet Evanovich book on the way that My Wife wanted me to order. Technically that is the last book I bought, but Naked Happy Girls makes for more interesting blogging, don’t you think? I can hear you whispering, “Memphis owns a book called ‘Naked Happy Girls.’ He’s such a perv!”
C. The last book I read:
Oh, this will not be fun. Take your pick here, VB.NET web programming in 21 days, Java 2.0 in 21 days, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, The Death of Right and Wrong, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, and other equally unexciting titles.
D. Five books that mean a lot to me:
1. The Bible – It’s the instructions, man.
2. Just put all of the Tolkein books here, from The Hobbit on to Return of the King
3. The Prince by Machiavelli – More instructions, man.
4. Animal Farm – It’s really, really relevant to America, and especially New York City and San Francisco, today.
5. Dr Fegg’s Nasty Book of Knowledge by Monte Python – I read it when I was young and it was just so funny.
E. 2 major books when I was a kid that I kept on me all the time:
I didn’t carry any books with me all the time. I was a comic book collector and I treated pretty much everything I had like a valuable comic. So my books stayed in the house, with no pages folded and no writing in them. All of my old Tolkein books look like I just bought them, except the pages are yellow.
F. 5 People I want to tag:
I can’t tag 5 people. Or at least I don’t think I can. Everyone is always tagged before I get it. Let’s see what I can do …
Extraordinary Woman – because I should have tagged her last time
Robin - because I've never tagged her before and I want to
Artful Laura – because she makes me laugh, especially when her kids have thrown baby powder all over the kitchen and she’s fuming mad about it.
Retarius – because I want him to come back and start blogging again.
Stephanie D. – because she needs to stop watching the porn and do something constructive. :)
Dotty – because she’s got penises on the brain and I’m trying to distract her.
