The Book Meme...
Chris Bryne of AnarchAngel is propagating a book meme.
In the interests of peace and harmony within the blogosphere I will
resist commenting on the glowing words he has for David Eddings.
- Total number of books owned
- Last book bought
- Last book read
- Five books that mean a lot
- Tag five people to continue the meme
Well, my library has probably about a thousand books in it at the
moment. That's after several rounds of culling to stay within the
available space. I hope to expand the space allocated to my books
and resume increasing my collection soon. The last book I
acquired for the purposes of reading is the Chronicles of the Lensmen
(Volume 1). The last book I read was The Path of Daggers, by
Robert Jordan. (Yes, I'm behind on posting reviews -- I hope to
catch up this weekend).
And as for five books that mean a lot... well, I'm going to cheat and
use series for some answers. A series can be handled as a
sequence of independent works, or as a single story told in multiple
volumes; the latter is close enough to a single work to qualify.
- The Long Run, by Daniel Keys Moran: Rousing and nearly prescient
science-fiction with a distinctively libertarian bent. Very hard
to find.
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Ditto, except Heinlein did it first and better in some ways.
- Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time: This doesn't really belong here in terms of quality,
but in terms of the amount of time invested (wasted?) on analysis,
discussion, multiple rereads, and so on. The series definitely means something to me. I'm just not sure what.
- Tigana, by Guy Gavariel Kay: Pure emotion polished to a shiny gleam, with an edge sharp enough to cut the soul.
- A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin: classic and poetic, a paen
to the power of language, the importance of self-knowledge, and the
necessity of restraint accompanying strength.
UPDATE: When originally posted, I didn't have time to search out 5
other people who hadn't been tagged and tag them. Now I do.
So here they are:
- Patrick and Teresa, of Making Light [Accepted]
- Rachel Mills, of Full Frontal Liberty
- Professor Bainbridge
- The Angry Economist
- Alphecca [Accepted]
UPDATE: My other blog, TriggerFinger, got tagged for this meme from David Codrea at The War On Guns.
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Posted on 2005-06-19 23:52:33.0
by matthew@infodancer.org
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