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1) Total number of books owned
Roughly 37m plus odd piles here and there. I guess that works out to a little shy of 2000. That includes the lemur's stuff but I think the bulk are mine.
2) The last book I bought
Roy Porter "Flesh in the Age of Reason"
3) The last book I read?
Paul Cavill "Vikings; Fear and Faith". Currently reading Anne Somerset's "The Affair of the Poisons".
4) Five books that mean a lot to me
Jean Paul Sartre's "The Roads to Freedom". Read four times starting at about age 15. Last time I read it I hated it but it's a useful litmus of how my own world view has changed.
Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time". In some ways plays the role for me that RtF once did. Plus it's a really great read.
Edward Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class". There is probably more in this book about being English than anything else I've read. It's also what turned me on to social as opposed to narrative history.
Andre Gide "Thesee" in the edition with the Krol illustrations. See here for why, plus pictures, plus some of my other favourite books.
Edwin Abbott's "Flatland". Read when I was maybe 14, this was the book that opened my eyes to mathematics as a way of looking at the world and a thing of beauty.
5) Tag some people to fill this out on their LJs
pigsnout000, medee6040, popsock, cassandre, carlanime
frankie_ecap:1) Total number of books owned
Roughly 37m plus odd piles here and there. I guess that works out to a little shy of 2000. That includes the lemur's stuff but I think the bulk are mine.
2) The last book I bought
Roy Porter "Flesh in the Age of Reason"
3) The last book I read?
Paul Cavill "Vikings; Fear and Faith". Currently reading Anne Somerset's "The Affair of the Poisons".
4) Five books that mean a lot to me
Jean Paul Sartre's "The Roads to Freedom". Read four times starting at about age 15. Last time I read it I hated it but it's a useful litmus of how my own world view has changed.
Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time". In some ways plays the role for me that RtF once did. Plus it's a really great read.
Edward Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class". There is probably more in this book about being English than anything else I've read. It's also what turned me on to social as opposed to narrative history.
Andre Gide "Thesee" in the edition with the Krol illustrations. See here for why, plus pictures, plus some of my other favourite books.
Edwin Abbott's "Flatland". Read when I was maybe 14, this was the book that opened my eyes to mathematics as a way of looking at the world and a thing of beauty.
5) Tag some people to fill this out on their LJs
pigsnout000, medee6040, popsock, cassandre, carlanime
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:41 am (UTC)How easy is it to read?
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Date: 2005-05-18 10:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-18 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-18 12:50 pm (UTC)...and there's no porn on the list, either. :)