Getting to know all about me!

I don't think I've posted much about myself here. Maybe a few memes. I was much more prolific on posting Q&As about myself over at my family blog.

I figured I'd let those posts tell you a little about me, as not much has changed since posting those. I'm a little older and suffered a broken ankle last year, and my favorite authors have changed a little bit. Apart from that, these question and answer sessions can help you get to know Kev!

Forty-four Questions

The first ten years of this century

Ethical Quandaries

A lazy meme

The Wayback Q&A

Food

Here's one about my wife!

Another Q&A  (the favorite authors have changed a bit)

And much more about me at my family blog.

A Meme Regarding Books

Found an interesting Book Meme from Carrie at Books and Movies.


1. To mark your page you: use a bookmark, bend the page corner, leave the book open face down? Usually some kind of bookmark, or the flaps from a dustcover (or the dustcover itself). Never dogear. Sometimes lay it face down open to the last page I read.

2. Do you lend your books? Not really.

3. You find an interesting passage: you write in your book or NO WRITING IN BOOKS! Hmmm... I'd probably stick a different book mark there. I don't think I'd write in a book unless it was designed for that.

4. Dust jackets - leave it on or take it off? Depends.

5. Hard cover, paperback, skip it and get the audio book? I rarely do audio books. Paperbacks are less expensive, and thus more in my price range. I really like the TPB size and style, but hard covers sure do look spiffy organized nicely on a bookshelf.


6. Do you shelve your books by subject, author, or size and color of the book spines? Stacked generally by category or series; but mostly just helter skelter on the two book cases in our bedroom.

7. Buy it or borrow it from the library later? Usually library, since I have three kids. Purchasing books is a splurge = usually for gift-giving occassions.

8. Do you put your name on your books - scribble your name in the cover, fancy bookplate, or stamp? I do not unless I'm lending it out - and I rarely do that.

9. Most of the books you own are rare and out of print books or recent publications? Recent.


10. Page edges - deckled or straight? Is it bad that I don't understand the question? I''ll guess and say that deckled means the page edges aren't all aligned and look kind of rough? Honestly - it doesn't matter to me.


11. How many books do you read at one time? Almost always just one at a time. I may put down one book to start and finish another book that I was really looking forward to reading.


12. Be honest, ever tear a page from a book? Not that I can remember. I've got some old books that have pages falling out of them... but I didn't pull them out.


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Genre Book Review Blogs Meme

I took a class in high school called "Genres of Literature: Sci-fi and Fantasy".  I think the best thing about the class, beyond the reading material, was the teacher - who at one point sent one of the kids in the class to a nearby barbecue restaurant to bring him back some ribs.  That teacher pronounced "Genres" as "Jen Rays". Good times, good times!

Grasping for the Wind is wanting to compile a list of blogs that review "genre" books - in his case: Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Here's the current list, with mine added in.

A Dribble Of Ink
Bookspotcentral
The Book Swede
Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
The Galaxy Express
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
Grasping for the Wind
Fantasy Book Critic
Fantasy Debut
Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin' Blog
Jumpdrives and Cantrips
Neth Space
NextRead
OF Blog of the Fallen
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Realms of Speculative Fiction
Rob's Blog o' Stuff
ScifiChick
Severian's Fantastic Worlds
SF Signal
Sporadic Book Review
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Walker of Worlds
WJ Fantasy Reviews
The World in a Satin Bag

The idea here is to post the list in your own book review blog and add your link to the list.

Another Book Meme

A book meme that I'm sure I've done before, I found this at Mommy Brain's Book Review Blog (Happy Birthday Carrie!).

Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback?

Any. But I kinda have a soft-spot for Trade Paperbacks - maybe because that's what a lot of the Christian Fiction I read comes out in.

Bookmark or dog-ear?

*GASP* Dog-Ear?! NEVER! Always use a bookmark - or remember the page number!

Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?

IN a perfect world, alphabetical by author, subdivided by series chronologically. In the real world: Tossed on a shelf.

Keep, throw away or sell?

Never throw-away unless it's just totally trashed from being read over and over. Sometimes sell, usually trade off at Paperbackswap.com.

Keep dustjacket or toss it?

Always retain the dust jacket unless Rubi loses it.

Last book you bought?

I honestly can't remember. Most of the books I've read recently have either come from the library or Paperbackswap.com

Last book someone bought for you?

I don't recall. I'm sure it was one of those little gift-books like "I love my dad because" or something.

What are some of the books on your to-buy list?

I really don't buy books that often anymore (shame on me, I know! I shoould support my favorite authors). I would definitely love to by the latest Age of Fire novel by E. E. KNight, that's a great series and one I'd let my kids read when they're a little older.

Collection (short stories, same author) or anthology (short stories, different author)?

I've never been a short-story fan. Of course, all the short stories I recall reading were from the "golden age" of sci-fi, back when Asimov was at the top of his game, and all the short stories I read from that time period always seemed contrived, or moody. I think I've read some Trek short stories in the SCE series - I guess those count as short fiction.

Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?

I wasn't crazy about Potter and stopped at the 3rd chapter of the 3rd book. I've never read Lemony Snicket, but my oldest daughter enjoyed the series.

Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?

Absolutely: Morning, noon, and night! Whenever I get a chance. I love to stay up way past my bedtime finishing an excellent novel and then not being able to fall asleep because I'm disappointed it's over.

The books you need to go with other books on your shelves?

Hmm... the rest of the Age Of Fire Series by E. E. Knight. The rest of the Laodecia Chronicles and the other series by Sharon K. Gilbert.

Do you read anywhere and anytime you can or do you have a set reading time and/or place?

Whenever, where ever I can. I can't read book while I'm at work though.

Do you have seasonal reading habits?

Not that I've noticed.

Do you read one book at a time or do you have two or more books going at once?

Usually one book at a time. Though, if I own a book and while I'm reading it I get a library book and have to to the library soon, I'll stop the one I've read and read the library book because there's a time limit - then get back to the other book.

What are your pet peeves about the way people treat books?

Dog-ear, food fingerprints, dead bugs inside, other things found inside books that I'd rather not mention.

Name one book you surprised yourself by liking.

Honestly, I'm really enjoying the Vampire Earth series by E. E. Knight. It's a post-apocolyptic Earth setting, and I usually don't like those. But I liked his Age of Fire books so much, I thought I'd give VE a try, and now I'm caught up and can't wait for the next book!

How often do you read a book and not review it on your blog? What are your reasons for not blogging about a book?

Often. I read many books that I don't feel like writing a review about and I would kinda feel bad just writing "today I read the latest Star Trek book. It was good. Yes, I'm a geek." But then there are books that I think others might really enjoy, and I want to get the word out, or I read a book that I expected to be really good and was sorely disappointed and also want to get the word out. Actually, I can only think of two negative reviews that I've given.

A Book Meme

While I try to decide how I want to copy over my book reviews from my family blog, I'll start things off here with a book meme (also recently posted on my family blog).

Taken from Carrie at Mommie Brain.

Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?

Anything non-fiction.

If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?

Hmmmm... Since this is supposed to for some kind of Social Event, how about: Lije Bailey, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, and Alex Benedict. Lije Bailey (from Asimov's Robot novels), because he's a parent and a cop - and kind of set in his ways. Hutch (from Jack McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins novels), because she always knows what to say no matter the situation, and Alex (from McDevitt's Alex Benedict novels) because he's a relic collector and has lots of money. As a bonus, all of them would have probably limitless stories to tell.

You are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realize it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?

I don't know. Probably something I'd not be interested in at all, like a Jane Austin novel or something like that.

Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it?

The original Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. A classic in SF. I have the original trilogy on my shelf. I think I've reads part of each book, but never the entire thing. There's hardly any dialogue in them, it's mostly long paragraphs describing what's going on and why. Like a Clancy novel, but without the action, dialogue, and extraneous plot threads. I really should read those. I've read the books in the series that follow the original three (and that come before chronologically), sometimes more than once. Those were written more recently and reflect a writing style geared more towards my generation.

As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realize when you read a review about it/go to ‘reread’ it that you haven’t? Which book?

I'm pretty sure I remember that happening, just don't remember which book.

You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (if you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead of personalize the VIP).

The Bible.

A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?

Oooh, interesting question. Ancient Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic. I'd love to be able to comprehend the Bible in the language parts of it were originally written in.

A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?

The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy.

I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?

That I should probably pay a bit more attention to what I read. Especially if I want to write a review of the book or discuss it at a book club or online. I tend to zip through books, and once I'm finished I barely remember what I read - even if I really enjoyed it.

That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leather-bound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favorite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.

A big room, plushly carpeted full of floor-to-ceiling book cases. Those are full of books of all kinds: nice leather-bound collector sets, paperbacks, TPBs, comics, oversized, those tiny little "gift" books, old books, new books, fiction, non-fiction, and a few collectible non-book items as well, etc. There'd be several too-comfortable chairs that recline and a sofa. There'd be a fancy desk with a window/glass door behind it overlooking a deck and a lake surrounded by a sparse forest and mountains all around. There'd be a computer on the desk, with a comfy chair behind the desk. There would be several eBook readers in the library as well. On the wall opposite the desk, the wall is covered with bookcases. One of those bookcases conceals the door. To the left of the desk, if you're sitting behind it, that wall has a fireplace and plenty of spacing between it and the bookcases on that wall. In those spaces, several pieces of art hang on the wall. The wall to the right of the desk is covered with bookcases. The wall behind the desk, with the window centered in it, has bookcases to either side of the window. The window itself, apart from being part of a door, is floor-to-ceiling with room darkening blinds and curtains. The comfy chairs are in the center of the room on a large rug and surround a small table. The sofa sits between the circle of chairs and the wall to the right of the desk, facing the fireplace, with plenty of room to walk behind or in front of the sofa. Lighting in the room is subdued, a small lamp with shade on the desk and a matching one on the table in the middle of the room. Recessed lighting in the ceiling and track lighting on the ceiling to spot-light collectibles placed on certain shelves and on the mantle of the fireplace. The chairs, table and rug in the center of the room conceal a trap-door in the floor that leads to a storage room under the library, separate from the rest of the house, that includes emergency exit tunnels that lead to the garage, out to a cabin in the woods, and to the boathouse on the docks.

I really like my library.

A Book Meme

Taken from Carrie at Mommie Brain.

Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?

Anything non-fiction.

If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?

Hmmmm... Since this is supposed to for some kind of Social Event, how about: Lije Bailey, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, and Alex Benedict. Lije Bailey (from Asimov's Robot novels), because he's a parent and a cop - and kind of set in his ways. Hutch (from Jack McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins novels), because she always knows what to say no matter the situation, and Alex (from McDevitt's Alex Benedict novels) because he's a relic collector and has lots of money. As a bonus, all of them would have probably limitless stories to tell.

You are told you can’t die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realize it’s past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?

I don't know. Probably something I'd not be interested in at all, like a Jane Austin novel or something like that.

Come on, we’ve all been there. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you’ve read, when in fact you’ve been nowhere near it?

The original Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. A classic in SF. I have the original trilogy on my shelf. I think I've reads part of each book, but never the entire thing. There's hardly any dialogue in them, it's mostly long paragraphs describing what's going on and why. Like a Clancy novel, but without the action, dialogue, and extraneous plot threads. I really should read those. I've read the books in the series that follow the original three (and that come before chronologically), sometimes more than once. Those were written more recently and reflect a writing style geared more towards my generation.

As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realize when you read a review about it/go to ‘reread’ it that you haven’t? Which book?

I'm pretty sure I remember that happening, just don't remember which book.

You’re interviewing for the post of Official Book Advisor to some VIP (who’s not a big reader). What’s the first book you’d recommend and why? (if you feel like you’d have to know the person, go ahead of personalize the VIP).

The Bible.

A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?

Oooh, interesting question. Ancient Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic. I'd love to be able to comprehend the Bible in the language parts of it were originally written in.

A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?

The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy.

I know that the book blogging community, and its various challenges, have pushed my reading borders. What’s one bookish thing you ‘discovered’ from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?

That I should probably pay a bit more attention to what I read. Especially if I want to write a review of the book or discuss it at a book club or online. I tend to zip through books, and once I'm finished I barely remember what I read - even if I really enjoyed it.

That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she’s granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leather-bound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favorite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.

A big room, plushly carpeted full of floor-to-ceiling book cases. Those are full of books of all kinds: nice leather-bound collector sets, paperbacks, TPBs, comics, oversized, those tiny little "gift" books, old books, new books, fiction, non-fiction, and a few collectible non-book items as well, etc. There'd be several too-comfortable chairs that recline and a sofa. There'd be a fancy desk with a window/glass door behind it overlooking a deck and a lake surrounded by a sparse forest and mountains all around. There'd be a computer on the desk, with a comfy chair behind the desk. There would be several eBook readers in the library as well. On the wall opposite the desk, the wall is covered with bookcases. One of those bookcases conceals the door. To the left of the desk, if you're sitting behind it, that wall has a fireplace and plenty of spacing between it and the bookcases on that wall. In those spaces, several pieces of art hang on the wall. The wall to the right of the desk is covered with bookcases. The wall behind the desk, with the window centered in it, has bookcases to either side of the window. The window itself, apart from being part of a door, is floor-to-ceiling with room darkening blinds and curtains. The comfy chairs are in the center of the room on a large rug and surround a small table. The sofa sits between the circle of chairs and the wall to the right of the desk, facing the fireplace, with plenty of room to walk behind or in front of the sofa. Lighting in the room is subdued, a small lamp with shade on the desk and a matching one on the table in the middle of the room. Recessed lighting in the ceiling and track lighting on the ceiling to spot-light collectibles placed on certain shelves and on the mantle of the fireplace. The chairs, table and rug in the center of the room conceal a trap-door in the floor that leads to a storage room under the library, separate from the rest of the house, that includes emergency exit tunnels that lead to the garage, out to a cabin in the woods, and to the boathouse on the docks.

I really like my library.

Unread Books

Found at MommyBrain:

 

The below listed books are the top 106 books most often marked as being unread by LibraryThing users.

The instructions are simple: Bold what you have read, and italicize books you have started but couldn't finish. Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once. Underline those on your TBR list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
* Foucault's Pendulum *
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King *
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

I'm apparently seriously lacking in "the classics".  Also: Why the Top 106?

 

Dedicated Reader

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.
Literate Good Citizen
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
Book Snob
Fad Reader
Non-Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

Sure....
You couldn't tell this from my posts and from my sidebar.
Right?

Early Reading Meme

Carrie did this meme on her blog. 

 

1. How old were you when you learned to read and who taught you?

 

I honestly can't remember. I remember getting gold stars in kindergarten during reading time though.

 

2. Did you own any books as a child? If so, what’s the first one that you remember owning? If not, do you recall any of the first titles that you borrowed from the library?

 

I had the usual Doctor Seuss books and books in the same format.  The three I specifically remember were "Are you my mommy" (Not Dr. Seuss), "Cat in the Hat", and a Woodsy Owl book that I had my mom read me practically every night before bed until I was like 18 (kidding).  The lead human character in that Woodsy Owl book looked just like Fred from Scooby Doo, except he was part of a group of friends out riding motorcycles in the woods.

 

3. What’s the first book that you bought with your own money?

 

Not a clue here.  I probably actually bought a GI Joe comic with my own money before I actually bought a book. However, I might have bought something at the school book fairs.

 

4. Were you a re-reader as a child? If so, which book did you re-read most often?

 

I really don't remember actually sitting down and really reading a good book until I was in 4th grade. I pulled a Hardy Boys book off the classroom bookshelf and I haven't stopped reading since.  After that, I pretty much had a novel with me at all times.

 

5. What’s the first adult book that captured your interest and how old were you when you read it?

 

Do the Hardy Boys novels count as "adult books"? That's probably it. I was in 4th grade. After that, I was reading whatever looked interesting. Maybe Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn... I know I had to read those in school at one point and really enjoyed them.

 

6. Are there children’s books that you passed by as a child that you have learned to love as an adult? Which ones?

 

I know there are a ton of books that many people read when they were kids that I have never read. The Anne of Green Gables books that my wife loves, for instance.  The Wizard of Oz. Some of the other "classic" childrens books. 
I've found lately that many books marketed as "YA" or "Young Adult" are just as good as mainstream "adult" books. 

 

Reading In Bed

Reading in bed

Do you read in bed? For how long? Do you fall asleep reading? Will a good book keep you up all night?

I usually don't read in bed. I often read on the couch until I can't keep my eyes open, then set the book down and doze off into a wonderful nap.  A good book will keep up late into the night, but not all night.

Where do you keep your nighttime reading? Do you have a special table next to the bed? Are there many books there? Do you keep books there that you aren't reading (finished or unread)?

I have a nightstand next to my bed where I might keep my current book. Otherwise, books I plan on reading are usually kept on a bookshelf in my living room.

I usually have a stack of three or four books waiting to be read, sometimes I don't get to them because I come across books I want to read before I get to those in the stack.  Since many of the books I read come from the library, this means I often don't get to some of the books in my stack before they are due back, and then I forget what I had, and never get to them unless I think the book is worth making a note of somewhere so I'll remember to get it again. I have a huge stack of print-outs from the library of books I'd like to read sometime that I'll probably never get around to reading.  Depending on the book and the time I can commit to reading, I can often finish a book in a day or two (especially if I can stay up late).  But I usually have little time to commit to reading daily, so I usually take about a week to finish a book, reading maybe a chapter or two a day as time permits. 

Book Meme

Recent Books Read:
Some recent books I've read (within the past month):
The World of Eldaterra: The Dragon Conspiracy by P.R. Moredun (complete review coming soon)
Mercury by Ben Bova, (Mini-review: ok)
Ex Machina by Christopher L. Bennet (Mini-review: ok)
Paradox by John Meaney (Mini-review: ok)
The Assignment by Mark Andrew Olson (Mini-review: Good, almost excellent)
Artifact by F. Paul Wilson, Kevin J. Anderson, Matthew J. Costello, and Janet Berliner (mini-review: not bad, not good either, stupid ending)
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (min-review: ok)

Total Books Owned, Ever:
Too many to count. Rubi and I have two bookshelves overflowing with books now. We've probably gotten rid of three times that many in the 11 years we've been married. Ideally, we'd have a huge house with one large room (library, in air-quotes) of wall-to-wall book-shelves crammed with books.
Oh, and a couple of easy chairs to sit in while reading - or a sofa to snuggle together on while reading.

Last Book I Bought:
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, the day it came out (weeks before the movie came out). Started and finished it the same day, before ever seeing the movie.

Last Book I Read, or Am Currently Reading:
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Book 1, Prodigal Son, by Dean Koontz and Kevin J Anderson (so far, not great).

Three Books That Mean A Lot To Me, or Three Favorite Books (in no particular order):
1: Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov. My brother gave me a trade paperback copy of the book and it introduced me to the Asimov Universe.

2: The Dragonlance War of the Lance Trilogy, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Excellent fantasy universe. Probably the first real fantasy I read with any interest. Excellent characters, settings, action, humor, emotions, etc. And dragons. Dragons rock!

3: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Trilogy, by Douglas Adams. All 3, uh... 5 (6?) books in the trilogy (major air-quotes there) are just... excellent. Nuf said.

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I'm a book (quiz)

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose. You are a

mystery novel dealing with theology, especially

with catholic vs liberal issues. You search

wisdom and knowledge endlessly, feeling that

learning is essential in life.





Which literature classic are you?

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