Book Time

Book Tag from Andrew:

Number of Books That I Own:
Somewhere between 100-200. Every 5 years or so I clean out and send all the ones I have no chance of reading again back to the used book store.

Last Book Bought:
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson. An interesting Sci-fi novel that was well written and had a good pace. Enjoyable but not memorable.

Last Book Read:
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson. Unlike certain unmentionable people who post at Bound By Gravity, I don't overload my "To Read" pile with 20 books at a time.

Five Books that mean a lot to me:
- Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. I read it when I was a young teenager and it was the moment that permanently made me a geek.

- It by Stephen King. Put it into a fantasy setting and it is a work of art that people over the world would praise. Since its set in a modern setting it is mostly ignored despite its writing and storyline.

- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. I read it as a teenager in high school for English and it was a real eye opener to the horrors of war and the real people in the trenches on the other side.

- Lair by James Herbert. OK, yes, its a trashy horror novel (a sequel even!) about giant rats. But I read it when I was about 12 years old, got in trouble for bringing it to school  (it had vivid sexual scenes in it as well as the gruesome death scenes), and scared me so much about giant rats (even though I knew they weren't real) that I had trouble sleeping. And it hooked me on horror suspense novels for the next decade. It was a defining moment in my young life.

- To Kill a  Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. First serious book I read growing up when I was a teenager in high school. I read it twice that semester because it was so riveting and so sobering to the realities of prejudice and racial discrimination.

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I try not and harass people (plus I don't know of five people that would see this blog post anyways that haven't already done it).