Memetime (from Brooke and Sara, simultaneously ( Read more... )

What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd

Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's ( Read more... )

But I started running through this fad with Harvey Danger and I couldn't help myself. I only have 41 songs by them, though, so this could get a bit strained ( Read more... )

So I'm really going to finish the rest of those replies on my last post eventually. For now, though, here's a fun one I couldn't pass up. These are the first lines of ten of my favorite books; name them. (Introductions are used when they're actually part of the book, and not one of those "this is what I thought when I was writing page 265" things ( Read more... )

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5) The Code of the Woosters (P.G. Wodehouse, 1938, reprinted 2005 by Random House. 285 pp.)

There are extremely few books that can cause me to read a short line or two, guffaw for upwards of ten or twenty seconds, take in a few more sentences and immediately repeat the process.

The Code of the Woosters, as you may have guessed, is one of those ( Read more... )

4) Super System: A Course in Power Poker (Doyle Brunson et al., B&G Publishing, 1978. 605 pp. w/appendices ( Read more... )

Nifty. I've been planning out my Feingold update a bit, and hope to get it up sometime in the next few days. Anyway, time to start running through a few books that I've managed to finish in the last couple of days.

3) Four Trials (John Edwards, Simon and Schuster, 2004. 236 pages ( Read more... )

So the Feingold post is currently on hiatus until I find out if there are people actually reading these or not. Maybe I'll start a real blog or somesuch.
That said:

2) The Call of the Wild (Jack London, 1903. Reprinted by Watermill Press, 1980. 137 pp ( Read more... )