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A book that changed my life: Time Pressure, by Spider Robinson. I felt like that book gave me my soul back after a time when I'd kind of lost track of it. It's not perfect, but I'll love it forever.
A book I've read more than once: Most books that I like, I re-read; sometimes many times over. It's harder to think of books I haven't read more than once than ones I have. But, since I'm asked to pick just one: Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
A book I would take with me if I were stuck on a desert island: why is it always desert islands? Why isn't it ever "snowed in in the mountains" or "on a spaceship to Mars" or "trapped in a cave"? How many people have ever actually gotten stuck on desert islands, anyway? Well, whatever, I'm going with the SAS Survival Handbook. Plus, I dunno, maybe something by Crichton, for use as toilet paper.
A book that made me laugh: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
A book that I wish had been written: Peace and Prosperity: A Presidential Memoir, by Al Gore
A book that I wish had never been written: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A book I've been meaning to read: Moby Dick, the Zeno's paradox of novels. I've started reading it half a dozen times, and each time gotten farther into it--a quarter, a third, a half--but never made it to the end. I adore what I've read of it, but it's such dense reading, I always find myself needing to take a break from it and process for a while, and then I drift into reading something else, and then a few years pass. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm currently reading: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Path, by Richard Feynman, and Grumbles from the Grave, by Robert Heinlein. Each one is a posthumous collection of the author's correspondence through a long career. Alas, neither one of them ever seems to have written to the other.
I'm supposed to pass this meme on, but I got it from Pharyngula, a biologist, who points out that people don't decide whom to pass their viruses on to. So, if you read this, consider yourself exposed, and if you thought at all about how you'd answer, you're infected.
A book I've read more than once: Most books that I like, I re-read; sometimes many times over. It's harder to think of books I haven't read more than once than ones I have. But, since I'm asked to pick just one: Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
A book I would take with me if I were stuck on a desert island: why is it always desert islands? Why isn't it ever "snowed in in the mountains" or "on a spaceship to Mars" or "trapped in a cave"? How many people have ever actually gotten stuck on desert islands, anyway? Well, whatever, I'm going with the SAS Survival Handbook. Plus, I dunno, maybe something by Crichton, for use as toilet paper.
A book that made me laugh: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
A book that I wish had been written: Peace and Prosperity: A Presidential Memoir, by Al Gore
A book that I wish had never been written: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A book I've been meaning to read: Moby Dick, the Zeno's paradox of novels. I've started reading it half a dozen times, and each time gotten farther into it--a quarter, a third, a half--but never made it to the end. I adore what I've read of it, but it's such dense reading, I always find myself needing to take a break from it and process for a while, and then I drift into reading something else, and then a few years pass. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm currently reading: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Path, by Richard Feynman, and Grumbles from the Grave, by Robert Heinlein. Each one is a posthumous collection of the author's correspondence through a long career. Alas, neither one of them ever seems to have written to the other.
I'm supposed to pass this meme on, but I got it from Pharyngula, a biologist, who points out that people don't decide whom to pass their viruses on to. So, if you read this, consider yourself exposed, and if you thought at all about how you'd answer, you're infected.
