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Sure, I'll bite.
Total number of books I've owned: Uh, yeah. I have no clue. Currently we have three eight-foot-tall bookcases crammed full of books, maybe 800-1000 in all--and I'm really good about purging, I couldn't tell you how many I've sold or given to Goodwill.
Last Book I Bought: Books 5 and 6 of the Dark Tower series. I'm waiting for 7 to come out in trade paperback so they all match.
Last Book I Read: "Snow Crash," Neal Stephenson. But I'll be finishing "Diamond Age" again tonight.
Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:
1.) "Diamond Age." It was the first book I can distinctly recall informing my opinions about child-rearing. I was blown away that an adult might agree with what I, as a teenager, thought about kids, and utterly fascinated with his methods of implementing certain lessons.
2.) "The Little Gymnast." Easily my favorite book from childhood. I know for a fact I read it more than 20 times because I started counting after awhile. I still have it on the shelf.
3.) "Lamb." I enjoyed this book more than any book I can ever remember.
4.) "Eyes of the Dragon." The introduction to this made special mention of how Stephen King wrote it for his young daughter, who didn't much like his horror novels. I dug the horror stuff too, but this was a great little fantasy tale that for some reason I still find myself recommending to people, so it must have affected me.
5.) Okay this is a series not a book, but I couldn't possibly pick just one. "The Pleiocene Exile" and its prequel series, "The Galactic Milieu." This uber-series taught me that I didn't hate sci-fi after all, and that in fact I liked some of it quite a lot.
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