Meme’d by the lovely Aelki. One can never have too many books (much like toilet paper).
Number of books I own: Well, there are 220 on the two shelves pictured (not counting the books in the reflection). I have a bunch more in boxes, and five more are sitting on my desk right now. See above philosophy.
Last purchased book(s): The Complete Peanuts 1955–1956 (Vol. 3)
Last re-read: Started reading my updated copy of The Illuminati. Fell asleep before I got very far.
Five books for a desert island: My NASB, This Present Darkness, The Lord of the Rings, an empty journal (with attached pencil), and … hmm … maybe How to Build a Wooden Boat. That one might be helpful.
Book I’d thwack someone on the head with: Core PHP Programming, Second Edition. 769 pages of high-performance, cross-platform pain. Nice and thick and heavy.
Book I’d like to burn: The Da Vinci Code. Bleh. Not linking it. And yet I might go see the movie, which I am also not linking. Isn’t that sad?
Book that is overrated: Left Behind, volumes 3-12. Not linking them, either.
Fun classics: The Chronicles of Narnia, any and all Sherlock Holmes stories, Treasures of the Snow, and 34 MORE Tested, Ready-To-Run Game Programs in BASIC. Good for laughs, especially since I could never really get any of them to run properly. Maybe one.
Last book read: White, by Ted Dekker, I think. I haven’t had much time to read of late. That doesn’t mean I’m not in the middle of Monster, Obsessed, Mostly Harmless, and probably six or seven others that I can’t think of right now. And I still plan to finish A New Brand World.
Five people that I tag to answer these questions and post a photo of their bookcase: Tim, Steve, Pete, Andy, and Guy. You all are it. Be there or be square.
Monster is great! You should finish it!
First I’m finishing Obsessed. Monster seems like a cheap - though well-written - slasher so far. Or something like the Oath. Disappointing.
Aargh… I’ve been tagged… Ok, I need to get my PC-CAM 300 working so I can snap a pic of my bookcases…. There are only two short, four tall and wide, and one tall and narrow.