Sauceruney tagged me:
1. One book that changed your life?
I’m not sure that it “changed my life,” but it had a big impact on me and I feel compelled to mention it: Savage Girl by Alex Shakar.
2. One book you have read more than once?
Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert McChesney (required reading for 3 different classes at Evergreen).
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. One book that made you laugh?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
5. One book that made you cry?
Can’t think of any.
6. One book you wish had been written?
What I Really Meant to Say… by Friedrich Nietzsche
7. One book you wish had never had been written?
Mein Kampf.
8. One book you are currently reading?
Everyware by Adam Greenfield.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Fang and Fur by Lupa.
10. Now tag five people.
1. Fell.
2. Dr. Menlo.
3. Pagan Moss.
4. The Thistle.
5. Metachor.
Comments (3)
Test.
1. One book that changed your life?
The Outsider, by Colin Wilson
2. One book you have read more than once?
Imajica, by Clive Barker
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Astral Dynamics: A NEW Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences, by Robert Bruce
4. One book that made you laugh?
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
5. One book that made you cry?
Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
6. One book you wish had been written?
Dune 7, but by Frank Herbert and not Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
7. One book you wish had never had been written?
Cosmopolitan
8. One book you are currently reading?
Zos Speaks!: Encounters with Austin Osman Spare, by Kenneth & Steffi Grant
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
SAHARASIA: The 4,000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World, by James DeMeo
1. One book that changed your life?
The Illuminati Papers by Robert Anton Wilson, more because of the time at which I found it than the contents of the book. Although, looking back, this does seem to have a lot of stuff which he didn’t repeat endlessly in other books.
2. One book you have read more than once?
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. A long time ago, I read the novella [online!] three times and the indy comic a bunch more.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Something longish, like The Mahabharata or Ulysses.
4. One book that made you laugh?
I’ll go with Hitchhiker’s Guide too, because I don’t remember a whole lot of laughs from books.
5. One book that made you cry?
The Post Card by Jacques Derrida.
6. One book you wish had been written?
I want to find a good book on neurotransmitters and receptor sites, their function, and where the chemical structures appear in nature besides the brain, but the biology section at Barnes and Noble is lacking.
7. One book you wish had never had been written?
The New Testament. I’ve recently come around on this one.
8. One book you are currently reading?
Science & Music by Sir James Jeans. Just started, and the first few pages about the structure labyrinth of the inner ear is already giving me insights into how the brain structures space. See also Hippocampus as Cognitive Map. Yeah, I’m still thinking about the graticule, only now I’m looking at the biological and neurological basis for the development of gridding systems. When I have the time.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War by Jim Martin, but it’s too expensive.