gusl | book meme

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bondage_and_tea. For someone of my "intellectual" disposition, I am very unbookish. I am addicted to papers and blogs instead. Maybe I lack the attention span or the perseverance to get through books. I should say now that I hardly ever read fiction (and when I do it's usually comedy (or comics); it must be many years since I've read a fiction book cover to cover).
I also dislike text as a medium. This is no secret.

1. Total number of books I own:
Probably less than 100. 20-60 mostly math books with

fare in Boston, though only about 15 in Amsterdam (I use the library instead!). A bunch with my parents in Recife.

2. The last book I bought:
Can't remember!

3. The last book I read:
Oliver Sacks - The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.

4. Five Books That Mean(t) a Lot To Me:
I'll do 6. The first 3 I read in 1996, in high school, a time when books at least *felt* enlightening. The second 3, I read in 2001/2002.
* George Orwell - 1984
* Alan Watts - Buddhism: Religion of No Religion
* Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (for some reason, I used to agree with him when I was 17)
* Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan - Mean Genes
* Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works
* Douglas Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their blogs:
I don't want to force this game into anyone, but I'd like to see the answers for (again, 6 is the number):

crasch

tdj

patrissimo

mathemajician

darius

simonfunk