The Book Meme

Today I was going to tell you about how my tower is mostly empty of people and how this has led me to grow an apathetic beard. It looks best when I'm not wearing glasses, though I now have the self-doubt that curses all mypoics: is that because they distract from the shaded jawline, or because they allow me to see myself clearly in the mirror?
Well, anyway it's not real interesting, and I don't want to become known as the author of that Beard Blog, so I instead offer you a fill-in-the-gaps originally from Carrington Vanston.

The Book Meme

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

That's the one where they're burning books, right? So I can either answer with a book I'd be happy to see burned (C.S. Lewis's apologetics for witch-hunting would be favourite), or a book that no-one's ever going to want to burn. Hmm. Thinking about it, pretty much every book I like would worry someone, somewhere.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

I don't think my imagination's that good.

The last book you bought is:

I live in Oxford, so I'm a library-hound. The last book I spent money on was C, by John Diamond.

The last book you read:

The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.

What are you currently reading?

the Laguage Instinct by Steven Pinker.

Five books you would take to a deserted island.

First up, the SAS Survival Guide, so I can be making coconut canapes and crab parfaits under the plam trees.

Secondly, The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov, or another one of those editions where they thought it'd be a great idea to gather together 120 of his short stories on vague thematic grounds and bind them together.

Similarly, if there ever comes into being, product of some power-mad bookbinder The Complete Discworld by Terry Pratchett then that'll be a shoe-in. It'd be something like 16,000 pages. Ouch. Failing that, I'd probably pick Night Watch or Jingo as my favourite title from the series.

The Parrot's Theorem by Denis Geuds, because I've been meaning to read that one for about six months now.

So then we'll round out the field with A Brief History of Time, because if I'm going to spend the rest of my life on an island with only five books I might have enough time to actually get what he's talkin' about in there.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

This blog typically has three readers monthly.

So there you go.

P.S. I'm also upping my alternative web-cred by adding Boy on a Stick and Slither and Scary go round to the Trawl, down there on the right.

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