Wrong Side of The Moon

Not tagged, but seen chez raptortheangel and katzztak:

Book Victim Meme

01. Total number of books owned?

My database says 4,857. This includes Nicole's romances, including a number she's weeded, but doesn't include Simon's books or a dozen or so that I haven't catalogued yet.

02. The last book I bought?

That's hard to pin down. Probably Impossible Odds by Dave Duncan(which we read in hardcover from the library, but kept forgetting to buy the paperback of), last Saturday at Coles.

03. The last book I read?

I'm very close to the end of Terry Pratchett's Dark Side of The Sun. It's a science fiction book, which is unusual for him; it's also very early in his career. Though the Josh Kirby cover implies, like all Josh Kirby covers do, that it's a madcap romp, perhaps à la Hitchhiker's Guide, it is, in fact, not. It doesn't feel very Pratchetty at all, really. It reminds me, by turns, of Nova by Samuel R. Delany, Charles Sheffield's Heritage Universe, and Kevin O'Donnell Jr.'s McGill Feighan books, among others.

The last book I finished reading was The Waste Lands by Stephen King, about which I have to say: OMG! (Which my mind insists on parsing as "Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Grass", but pay it no mind.) It doesn't lag in the middle like The Drawing of The Three, and has so much exciting goodness in it that it's hard to know where to begin. The ending makes me doubt very much my resolve to not read Wizard & Glass next, but I am strong, and I will prevail.

04. 5 books that mean a lot to me?

Among my favourite books to read and reread:

Janet Kagan: Hellspark
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Steven Brust: The Sun, The Moon & The Stars
William Strauss & Neil Howe: Generations

05. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their LJs:

paigedayspring
naodrith
kightp
inssnemesis
anadriel

More or less chosen at random...

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Just discovered that I taped the wrong channel last night, and got "That 70's Show" instead of "Lost". Crap.