Look around and name the 5 books closest to you

[khashka]

They must have some import - professional or personal. What are they?

Mine:

1.Weston: Families We Choose
2. Barker: The Books of Blood
3. Gaiman: Brief Lives
4. Hyatt: Undoing Yourself
5.Collins: Dead Roses For A Blue Lady


Khash.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Mine:

Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
Douglas R Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Percival Everett - Erasure
Thomas Tymoczko (editor) - New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics
George Steiner - The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

(there's a bookshelf five feet from me, so I just listed the nearest books on the shelf in my direct line of sight.)

[Xipe Totec]

73. Do you have the Mind's I by Hofstadter?

Excellent companion to G.E.B.

[Spider Jerusalem]

98. Actually, no.

I remember I intended to get it, at one point, but...sort of slipped my mind. Need to add it to my list of books to purchase (which at the rate it keeps growing is eventually going to bankrupt me).

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970

Reason 3 Power!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano
Mastering AutoCAD 2006
History of Rome by Michael Grant

[mikeytherat]

12. Do you have "Mr. B-Flat" (a scholastic "how to play the recorder" film)?

mikey_the_rat

[JVS]

14. I saw Mr. B-natural pusing music on an awkward 12 year old last night

behold

[mikeytherat]

16. Mr. B-NATURAL, that's it!

I haven't watched the MST shorts for some time; I swore it was Mr. B-Flat. Oh, well!

mikey_the_rat

[jpgray]

46. Mr. B, you're hot!

:rofl:

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. Oh, yes, it's in there!

As is a little film called "Boys Beware," which feautures a man with a grave "illness"- homosexuality! (cue music) bum-bum-BUUUUUUM!:eyes:

[XemaSab]

22. no! not autocad!

anything but that! :scared:

[Deep13]

3. okay

Old Cleveland phone book.

Ohio criminal law handbook 2005

Ohio criminal law handbook 2004

manuals for using the computer and peripherals

[RebelOne]

4. OK, here goes

Actiongrammar, Joanne Feierman
The Taking, Dean Koontz
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynn Truss
In The Fast Lane, Carol Soret Cope
The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual

[mikeytherat]

5. Here are mine:

1. The Pop-up Book of Phobias - Gary Greenburg
2. Head First JAVA - Sierra and Bates
3. BMW 7-Series Service Manual, 1988-1994 - Bentley Publishers
4. Oracle PL/SQL Programming - Steven Feuerstein
5. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston

mikey_the_rat

[LynneSin]

I seem to be surrounded by several bibles

1. Word Power Made Easy
   
2. Exam Prep Access 97
   
3. Excel 2000 Bible
   
4. SQL Bible
   
5. Access 2000 Bible
   

Ok, so I'm at work :cry:

I have cooler books near me at home!

[tjwmason]

6. None in the office.

:cry:

Unless you count the user-manual for the scanner, and a V.A.T. hand-book.

[Allenberg]

7. Alright

Bob Woodward - Plan of Attack
William J. Cooper - The Essential Writings of Jefferson Davis
Stephen King - Different Seasons
Amy Goodman - Exceptions to the Rulers
Jon Stewart - America: The Book

[Spacemom]

8. Very difficult to do

because my computer desk sits between 2 bookcases.

But, the ones I'm actually reading are:

1)Dyer - The Power of Intention
2)Dalai Lama - How to Expand Love
3)Dalai Lama - The Universe in a single atom
4)Weiss - Beginning Mindfulness
5)Blevins - RavenShadow

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Mine:

1. "The Universe In A Single Atom" by The Dalai Lama
2. "History of Men's Magazines Vol. 6" by Dian Hanson
3. "War Against The Weak" by Edwin Black
4. "The Universe In A Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking
5. "Audible Silence: Cy Twombly At Daros"

[JVS]

10. You'll love this list

1. Jaroslav Pelikan's The Christian Tradition vol. 4 Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700)

2. Robert Fred Bell's PhD thesis, Critical Studies in the Son-undt Feyrtags Sonnete of Andreas Gryphius

3. The Yellow Pages

4. The Lutheran Book of Worship (hymnal of the ELCA)

5. A German translation of Justus Lipsius' "On Constancy", a critical work on 16-17th century neo-stoicism

[Kellanved]

11. hmm

Gamma et al: Design Patterns
Sedgewick: Algorithms in C
Farley at al: Java Enterprise in a Nutshell
Filman et al (Editors): Aspect-Oriented Software Development
Duden, die neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung

Not counting about a cubed meter of printed out papers.

[Sugar Smack]

13. OK- Hunter Thompson: Hey Rube

Hunter Thompson: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter Thompson: Fear & Loathing in America
Hunter Thompson: The Proud Highway
Hunter Thompson: Generation of Swine

[Shell Beau]

15. Well since I am at work, they are all oil and gas books.

BORING!!!



:)

[TheBaldyMan]

17. i must be weird, or its my 'filing system' ...

Mort - Terry Pratchett
The Windows 98 Registry - technical
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Handbook of Electronics - Whittaker
History of the 20th Century (vol.2) 1933-1951 - Martin Gilbert

on second thoughts, seeing what other people are reading I feel almost normal

[MissMillie]

18. Watkins & Rosegrant, Breakthrough International Negotiations

Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision

Camerer, Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction

Colley, Case Studies and Service Operations

McCraw & Cruikshank, The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArther and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995




I'm at work.

[jmowreader]

20. My five

Chevrolet Nova and Geo Prizm 85 through 92 Repair Manual
Jane's Weapon Systems
2006 Grainger Catalog
2006 Fastenal Catalog
2005 Simpson Strong-Tie Catalog

Since Grainger and Fastenal sell the exact same shit, I have NO idea why I have both, but I do.

[XemaSab]

21. Sibley guide to birds

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Lane guide to Southern California

Tied for 4th and 5th: all my other bird books and the rest of Harry Potter.

(the first three are the books that were in bed with me last night)

[Left Is Write]

23. Here are my five...

1. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (received as a grad gift in 1984)
2. My Life - Bill Clinton
3. What's My Line - Gil Fates
4. The Love Of Elspeth Baker - Myron S. Kaufmann
5. America - Jon Stewart

[XemaSab]

110. America is on the same shelf with the Harry Potter

and all my gardening books.... I can't single a book out as being "closest."

[Parrcrow]

24. The Divine Comedy

my son is reading it.

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Hitler vol 1 (Hubris) by Ian Kershaw
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence

[Catshrink]

69. Have you read "Teacher Man"?

How is it??? I heard McCourt on BookTV and thought it sounded good/amusing.

[Parrcrow]

88. I've just started it

I really liked Angela's Ashes and Tis. I'm very hopefull about it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. OKay.....here's mine:

The Internet for Dummies

Here Comes the Roar; short stories

101 Famous Poems

Greece: Athens and the Mainland

And there are various manuals for my cameras too.....


:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[Xipe Totec]

79. 101 Famous Poems. I Have it. I Love it!

My favorite poems are:

The Builder, and Opportunity.

[kick-ass-bob]

26. SAS Procedures Guide

SAS Programming
American Heritage Dictionary
Adobe InDesign User Guide
XML

[SteppingRazor]

27. I'm at work, so...

The closest books are:

The AP Style Guide and Libel Manual
The American Heritage College Dictionary
American Quotations
The Reporter's Handbook
and The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock

[Book Lover]

62. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock?

I want to work with you!

[SteppingRazor]

63. Rock critic's a sweet gig...

One of the last bastions of the New Journalism. I can write almost anything I damn well please, and often do.

[Book Lover]

64. If your people ever need a managing editor

or production manager, you call me!

[SteppingRazor]

65. Alas, we've got one of each...

But if you happen to live in South Florida, I'll keep you in mind if either of them drop dead or leave

[Book Lover]

66. Well, if they're good at what they do,

hold onto them with both hands! Since I live in CA anyway, we'll just have to start up our own e-zine :-)

[FuzzySlippers]

28. Okay:

Robert Kuttner -- The End of Laissez-faire
Laura Flanders -- Bushwomen
Learning to Look: Photographs From the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Collection
Jung Chang -- Wild Swans
Bert Bender -- The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction

:shrug:

Edit: spelling

[jane_pippin]

29. Here are mine:

A Million Little Pieces--James Frey
Everything is Illuminated--Jonathan Safran Foer
Kalki--Gore Vidal
Mother Night--Kurt Vonnegut
Persepolis--Marjane Satrapi

I don't know how important they are to me but they're the first five in the stack next to my bed and I enjoyed reading all of them so that will have to count.

[madinmaryland]

30. Here ya go . . .

1.) Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.
2.) Roget's Thesaurus
3.) Corning LANscape Solutions Fiber Optic Catalog 10th Edition.
4.) Siemon Catolog, 2005
5.) Chatworth Products Catalog, 2005.

[RevCheesehead]

31. Bible (2 versions), Dictionary, Thesaurus,

United Methodist Book of Worship, Revised Common Lectionary.

I don't think anyone would be surprised by these answers. :)

[XemaSab]

111. No Book of Discipline????

Shocked, shocked I tell ya!!!

[RevCheesehead]

118. Hey! I just went for what was on the desk.

The discipline is, um, around here somewhere....

[XemaSab]

119. Does your bishop know about this?

Should he???

[RevCheesehead]

121. No, SHE does not.

And let's keep it that way, m'kay? :evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

123. Depends....

What's in it for me? :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

124. If you keep pushing it,

probably eternal hellfire and damnation. :o

[XemaSab]

126. .

:evilfrown:

[RevCheesehead]

128. That's only if you go in with a bad attitude.

Embrace your damnation... I know I do! :evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

130. Well since you put it that way...

I did seriously consider the hookup with the clergy once...

[Taverner]

32. You will find this soo boring but...

Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 3.0
Sed and Awk
Question Based Selling
VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide

[kitkatrose]

33. Okay...

The art of Belly Dancing by Melanie Votaw w/ Valerie Rushmere
Aphrodite's Daughters by Jalaja Bonheim
Stolen Women by Dr. Gail Elizabeth Wyatt
The Hunted by LA Banks
The Awakening by LA Banks

I have gobs more where that came from. :)

[Z_I_Peevey]

34. Okey dokey.

1. The First Amendment Book
2. U.S. News and World Report Stylebook
3. John Steinbeck: Centennial Reflections by American Writers
4. Reading Group Choices
5. How to Organize a Steinbeck Book or Film Discussion Group

[momophile]

35. mostly on architecture

Language of Post-Modern Architecture - Jencks
Late-Modern Architecture - Jencks
Transformations in Modern Architecture - Drexler
Field Guide to American Houses - McAlesters
Te of Piglet - Hoff

[Divameow77]

36. I'm at work so

1. Excel 2003
2. Word 2003
3. Act! 2006
4. Marketing Management (I brought my homework to work)
5. Parade of Homes

[tigereye]

37. a pile of my husband's Seth books

beyond that a pile of my mental health tomes...

[Mr. McD]

38. I am also at work so

Electron Microscopic Immunochemistry
Histology
Cells and Organelles
Ultrastructure Techniques for Microorganisms
Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy

[dr.strangelove]

39. Fleming, Dowd, Simon, Ostrager and Miller

Fleming - Duel
Dowd - Bushworld
Simon - What Kind of Nation
Ostrager - Insurance Coverage Disputes
Miller - Alexander Hamilton

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

40. Mine:

See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy by David Kerekes & David Slater
DVD Delirium 2 edited by Nathaniel Thompson
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invenetd the Impossible by Jim Steinmeyer
The Laundrymen by Jeffrey Robinson
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley

[Ariana Celeste]

41. paint shop pro 9 user guide,

stephen king's different seasons, stephen king's thinner, tom robbins' jitterbug perfume, and a blank book full of poems a friend wrote.

[livetohike]

42. Here are five

They are in a book case so I will list the first five on the top shelf :-).

1) A Primer for Calculus

2) Hidden Hawaii

3) Hidden Mexico

4) The Best of Edward Abbey

5) The Common Sense Medical Guide and Outdoor Reference

[hobo_baggins]

43. lets see here...

charlies aunt - brandon thomas
post office - bukowski
war & peace - tolstoy
critique of pure reason - kant
the moon is a harsh mistress - heinlein

[Xipe Totec]

81. I Love Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of my favorites.

[khashka]

44. Editorial comment: Interesting. Very interesting.....

Since Dems are supposed to hate religion, it's a little odd so many of us have books of/about religion easily to hand. I think that myth just died a well-deserved death.

I think the intellectual snobbery myth still holds true, though. You guys have a wide variety of interests!

Khash.

[MarianJack]

103. Hay, khashka,...

...look at post 101 for my list of 5 freeper books!

[CanuckAmok]

45. Finkleman: The Newsroom, SAS Field Survival Manual,

Kroll: Beauty Parade
Irving: A Widow for One Year
Perkins: Confessions of a Corporate Hit-Man

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. Webster's New World Dictionary

(Second College Edition).

• Roget's Thesaurus. In hardcover. Woo.

• "Lapsing Into a Comma" (newspaper style guide by Bill Walsh, chief copy editor on the Washington Post business desk).

• "The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words," vols. 1 and 2. :woohoo:

• "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (BOOK)." :woohoo:

[datasuspect]

48. ugh i don't want to list the books right here

it will make me look like an elitist.

needless to say, i'v never read dean koontz, or any other author that hollywood uses as a screenplay generator.

[Spider Jerusalem]

49. There's something wrong with having refined intellectual tastes?

[datasuspect]

51. not at all

but it took me a long time to restrain those instincts.

[Spider Jerusalem]

53. Eh.

Not something that's ever bothered me. If someone wants to think I'm an elitist because of my literary (or musical, or filmic, etc) preferences, that's they're problem, not mine. You really shouldn't worry about what other people think; if they're going to form a negative opinion on you based on your tastes in literature then they aren't worthy of your consideration anyway.

[datasuspect]

54. true.

[XemaSab]

114. pshaw!!!

are you worried that you are, in fact, an elitist?

I consider myself an elitist and all I listed were bird books and Harry Potter....

Share! :D

[CornField]

50. Hmmm....

1) Sims 2 University Strategy Guide (Doesn't that count?)
2) Franken: The Truth
3) Inventing the American Woman (history book)
4) Women in English Society 1500-1800
5) Backlash (Susan Faludi)

[snooper2]

52. Doubt anybody has read these lately....

RX700/1400 Configuration Guide
Unisphere NMC-RX Device Management System
NetEdge Systems ATM Connect Reference Manual
Adtech AX4000 BroadBand Test System
3624 Mainstreet Technical Practices

[Ladyhawk]

55. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Upgrading and Repairing PCs (16th Edition) by Scott Mueller
Audubon's Original Watercolors of Bird of North America
Mahale: a Photographic Encounter with Chimpanzees
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell

[Burma Jones]

56. They do not have to have import

I could just be an incredible slob:

Jon Stewart: Naked Pictures of Famous People (Xmas gift)
J. Brahms: Ein Deutches Requiem (musical score)
Sutcliffe: The Domain Theory (Research)
G. Keillor: Love Me (Xmas Gift)
Krishnamurthy: Web Protocols and Practice.....(lying on the floor for some reason)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

57. An interesting assortment

1) The Ultimate Christmas Fakebook
2) Maestro Mouse and the Mystery of the Missing Baton
3) Alice in Wonderland
4) Craig Claiborne's New York Times Cookbook
5) Roger Tory Peterson's Eastern Birds

[xmas74]

58. They are all childrens books-

beginning reader level.
I really need a life.

[khashka]

67. Aw come on, kid's books are cool

I have a whole shelf of them too. For me!

"A Bargain For Frances"
All the Pooh books
All the Carl and the Baby books - I even have promos for them.


I even listen to the Teddy Bears' Picnic on my ipod every day......


Khash.

[xmas74]

82. Some are cool.

These are more along the line of Dick and Jane. She reads them herself, reads them to me and then leaves them everywhere.

[khashka]

85. Me and your daughter sound like kindred spirits

Her behaviour and mine are very similar.

Just be glad she likes books - they teach empathy, vocabulary, etc. They will stand her in good stead.

Khash.

[xmas74]

86. I'm very pleased she loves to read.

I was (and still am) a reader.
BTW-the books on my shelf that jump out at me the most are the books I've read w/ my daughter. Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys and the entire Anne of Green Gables collection, along w/ all the Little House books. We are a family that laughs and cries together.

[khashka]

94. All good choices!

I LOVE Anne of Green Gables! Definitely books that induce laughing and crying!

Khash.

[xmas74]

99. We cried forever after Matthew died,

just like I cried the first time I read it at the age of 8. Little Women was my favorite book growing up. And the Little House series was too perfect for us. We spent six months total reading them w/ a field trip in mind at the completion of the final book-a visit to Rocky Ridge, the farm that Laura and Almanzo kept in MO.

We took a three hour drive and a picnic lunch for a day that she truly loved. She is now on the mailing list and is begging to go back.

http://www.lauraingallswilderhome.com/

In a couple of years we plan on tackling Mark Twain. I think she needs to be a little bit older to understand the satire. Once we read a few we plan on taking a trip to Hannibal (on the other side of the state).
Eventually, I hope to have enough money to take her first to Concord and then eventually to Prince Edward Island. I want her to know that these books took place in areas that she can visit and connect w/ the author and the characters in the books.

[khashka]

104. When Matthew died I cried like a baby

He was so good, so kind and when he died it hurt. I only came to those books as an adult.

It's wonderful that not only are you giving your daughter literature (As Fay Weldon said: It is the only thing that will save us. It allows you, it forces you to feel empathy for someone unlike you. So when you meet someone unlike you, you can feel for them, recognize them as fellow human beings.) but also to give her the experience of living the stories, to know these are real places and she has them in her grasp.


I wish more parents had your attitude.



Now let's get back to Trent! :evilgrin:

Khash.

[xmas74]

105. Someone posted the lyrics to "Hurt"

and all they want to talk about is Johnny Cash.
We must stop this! I love Johnny and all but it's Trent's song, dammit!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4544521

[UncleSepp]

59. Steppenwolf, in German, and...

The manual for an asset tracking database
A US Cavalry catalog
The essay "On Bullshit"
"Sanger - Germany's Orbital Rocket Bomber in WW2"

And if I may through in a fifth, I know that lying around here somewhere is "Tales of the Hasidim". I have a confusing bookshelf :-P

[REDKING]

60. Book of tells by Peter Collett

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Interview with a vampire by Anne Rice
Chasing the Dragon by Christopher Cox
Mr.Nice by Howard Marks

[Book Lover]

61. Professional bookshelf

Hause/Maltby Western Civ Comprehensive
Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition
Chicago Manual of Style 14th edition
Publication Manual of the APA Fifth edition
Pantone Color Specifier 1000/Uncoated

How not-fun these books sound!

[CatholicEdHead]

68. Here is my list

1. Ed Schultz: Staight Talk from the Heartland
2. James Gleick: Chaos
3. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry E Figgie Jr/Gerald J Swanson: Bankruptcy 1995
5. Bishop Raymond A Lucker Editor: The Pastoral Letters of Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace (Bishop of St Paul 1859-1884)

[Misunderestimator]

70. Not a single one... But...

I'm in a hotel. :)

[skygazer]

74. Not even a Gideon's Bible?

I'm shocked.

[Misunderestimator]

78. Damn... you made me look in the drawer... Yes... there is a bible..

And yes, it's "placed by the Gideons"... as well as a paperback "La Palabra De Dios Para Todos".. to satisfy this hotel's spanish-speaking Christian guests. ;)

[Xipe Totec]

71. Ok here are mine (what a weird melange)

1.- The Aeneid of Virgil
2.- Novelas Exemplares - Cervantes
3.- Code of the Life maker - James P. Hogan
4.- Iberia - James Michener
5.- Medieval Combat - Hans Talhoffer

[skygazer]

72. Here's mine

Lincoln's Melancholy - Joshua Wolf Shenk
Champagne: How The World's Most Glamorous Wine Truiumphed Over War and Hard Times - Don & Petie Kladstrup
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Greedy Bastard Diary - Eric Idle
Trouble In Mind: Black Southerners In the Age of Jim Crow - Leon F. Litwack

[huskerlaw]

75. Henke's California Law Guide

2. Black's Law Dictionary
3. ALWD Citation Manual
4. Fundamentals of Legal Research
5. Medical Directives and Powers of Attorney for California

Yeah, I'm at work. ;)

[Catshrink]

76. Work stuff mostly Chemistry....

Mendeleyev's Dream by Paul Strathern This is a history of Chemistry, very interesting and filled with nice little stories that will be useful in various lessons.

Chemistry by Wilbraham, Teacher's Edition

Chemistry: Concepts and Applications, Teacher's Edition (Glencoe)

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (gotta get the illustrated version!)

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks (this is a great read!)

I'm always looking for ways to jazz up chemistry lessons and make them relevant. The kids love a good story like Lavoisier getting guillotined and Humphrey Davy "dancing" around his lab in excitement after disovering potassium.

[Xipe Totec]

84. Try A History of Alchemy & Early Chemistry

Lots of good stuff to jazz up chemistry lessons in there. :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

77. Uh oh. Paging Agent Mike...

1)Cooking Secrets of the CIA
2)More Cooking Secrets of the CIA
3)Rand McNally Road Atlas
4)World Almanac
5)American Heritage Dictionary





p.s. Agent Mike, that's the Culinary Institute of America, not that other place in DC.

[lildreamer316]

80. Mine:

Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles--Richard Bach
Holy Blood Holy Grail:The Secret History Of Christ--M.Baigent,R.Leigh,H. Lincoln
Complete Poems Of Carl Sandberg
Elizabeth--David Starkey
Spontaneous Healing--Dr. Andrew Weil

[RetroLounge]

83. I will assume closest in proximity?

1) Locomotive Facilities of the C&NW and CStPM&O railroad - A. Joseph Follmar

2) A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

3) Notes from the Song of Life - Tolbert McCarroll

4) Beat American Short Stories 2005 - Various

5) Dictionary - Websters

RL

[Catfight]

87. mine:

Painless Grammer
The Sense of Being Stared At
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
The Louvre
and a Pottery Barn Magazine (go figure)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

89. Without moving my head, I can see:

Franken: The Truth, With Jokes
McCullough: 1776
Mapes: Truth and Duty
Clarke: The Scorpion's Gate
FAA Airline Transport Pilot Written Test Guide

[StellaBlue]

90. mine are weird

'Uppity Women of Medieval Times' - Vicki Leon

'Emily Post's Etiquette' - 75th anniversary edition

'Watching Football - Daryl 'Moose' Johnston

'Death of the Penguin' - Andrey Kurkov

'The Secret History' - Donna Tartt

All highly recommended.

[XemaSab]

113. "the secret history"

is an AMAZING book... definitely in the top 10!!!!

[mongo]

91. O.....Kaaaayyyy.

Celebrity Skin
Hustler
Celebrity Sleuth
Naughty Neighbors
Gallery

Yes, I'm at work. None of them have any import except for maybe Hustler.

[deadparrot]

92. Mine:

Zinn: A People's History of the United States 1492-Present
Newman and Fittipaldi: 10,000 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia
Dillon: So, Where'd You Go To High School? Baby Boomer Edition
Kinn and Piazza: Four-Star Movies: The 101 Greatest Films of All Time
And...the white pages. :)

[struggle4progress]

93. 1. Marx and the Bible

2. Mill on Liberty
3. Statistics for Lawyers
4. The Method of Trigonometric Sums in the Theory of Numbers
5. Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation

[rbnyc]

95. 1. Play, Baby, Play

2. Things that Float
3. Things on Wheels
4. From Head to Toe
5. The Train Ride

[OnionPatch]

96. I'm glad I'm at home

typing out the names of all those computer books at work would put me to sleep from boredom.

1. Harvest for Hope --Jane Goodall
2. The Greatest Spritual Secret of the Century --Thom Hartmann
3. The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook --James. A. Duke
4. Decorative Paint and Faux Finishes --The Editors of Sunset Books
5. How to Build Small Barns and Outbuildings --Monte Burch

[loudestchick]

97. Kay:

1. The Great Dinosaur Atlas
2. The South Beach Diet
3. Are You My Mother?
4. The Constant Gardener
5. One Child

[greendog]

100. 1.Tao Te Ching....

2. Bike Repair Book
3. History of Haiku - Blyth
4. Euro Deco - Graphic Design Between the Wars
5. The Sibley Guide to Birds

[MarianJack]

101. 4 of ChicaAzul's Christmas Present Books To Me,...

..."Zorro" by Isabel Allende, "The Truth" by Al Franken, "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens, "Naked Pictures of Famous People" by John Stewart.

And 1 we Gave to our Son, "One Candle". I can't see the author's name, but it's about 2 elderly sisters who are Holocaust survivors telling how the girls in their barracks were able to celebrate Haunakkah with 1 candle made out of a stolen potato. A beautiful and powerful book!

Nice question. If this were a question in freeperland (and IF they told the truth, yeah, right!) the answer would be 1. Soldier of Fortune 2. Hustler 3. Penthouse 4. Playboy 5. The Bible. Of course, #5 would be the dusty one!

[Liberal Veteran]

102. Wicked: Dude, Who Stole My Country: Thieves in High Places:

Nickel and Dimed and the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

[ghostsofgiants]

106. I don't know if the first two count, but...

My sketchbook
wewilldestroy Vol. 2 art zine
"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
"Hegemony or Survival" by Noam Chomsky
"Principles of Economic Sociology" (ugh) by Richard Swedberg

[BlueStateGirl]

107. DH Lawrence- Lady Chatterly's Lover, Wesley Clark - "Winning

Modern Wars" ,Gabriel Garcia Marquez- "Memoris of My Melancholy Whores", Thomas Pynchon " MASon and Dixon" and the 9-11 Commission Report.

[threehensandacow]

108. this is really tough

as i'm in my back room where all of my books are and you can't move two feet without walking into some kind of stack. seriously. i've got a pile of the golden press books on my desk. you know, those little books on different subjects. i've got, no, can't do it. ok, first five books i see: running with scissors, a collection of atwood poetry, i want to paint my bathroom blue (by the delightful couple of krauss and sendak) a dictionary of etymology, and another e.e. cummings, a collection of unpublished and obscure works. whoa, there's the woman in white by wilkie collins, and a russian/english dictionary, some AA literature, the mysteries of harris burdick, click clack moo (for the babe, of course) ok, i'll stop. this will go on forever. sorry. i love books. love love love books. really.

[XemaSab]

117. Welcome to DU!!!!!

I've seen you around before, but FReepers don't know the word "etymology"!

[Fox Mulder]

109. Fox's list:

Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned
Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil

(Anne Rice novels in a boxed set) :D

[Omphaloskepsis]

112. mine:

-Foundations of Ajax by Ryan Asleson and Nathaniel T. Schutta
-Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (The Facets of Ruby Series) by Dave Thomas and David Hansson
-What is to be Done by V.I. Lenin
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

[EFerrari]

115. The Family, Kelly; Everything Is Illuminated, Foer;

Four Quartets, Eliot; The Truth with Jokes, Franken; my notebook. :P

[dorktv]

116. Hmmm...

1. Moore-Downsize This!
2. Osborne/Gaebler-Reinventing Government
3. Altman-Neoconomy
4. Miller-Plain Speaking An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
5. Greenberg/Skocpol-The New Majority
6. Chernow-The House of Morgan
7. Angell-The Truth About the Drug Companies

wait that was seven and I still have two more.

[Draill]

120. I have

The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky

Michael Moore by Emily Schultz

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (reading this one currently)

[CarpeDiebold]

122. .

Confessions of an economic hitman
Cecil textbook of medicine
Robbins pathological basis of disease
Mosby's guide to physical examination
first aid for the USMLE step 1

*yawn* no wonder i'm so tired. 'nite y'all!

[Starlight]

125. I assume you mean the books physically closest?

I see 3 right now:
*Chic Simple Women's Wardrobe
*Land's End Business Attire For Women: Mastering the New ABCs of What to Wear to Work
*I Don't Have a Thing to Wear

[ChoralScholar]

127. You guys will like this:

1 - America's Highways, 1776-1976
2 - What to expect when your wife is expanding
3 - Yellow Book, Little Rock/North Little Rock 2005-2006
4 - Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards
5 - Hickory Dickory Dock and other Rhymes

[Gold Metal Flake]

129. Closest to me are...

Hartmann: What Would Jefferson Do?

Harry: The Muckraker's Manual

Miller: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Miller: Black Spring

Myers & Newton: The Hoover Administration

EDIT: That's just the closest ones. This room has all sorts of books, catalogs and magazines, some recent, some vintage. Automotive, electronics/audio/guitar amps, computer, interior design, architecture, literature, art, home repair, health, hobby etc and, yes, AutoCAD. This should in no way lead one to believe that I have any real functioning brain.

[Acryliccalico]

131. Mine

R.G.Turner Jr.: Botanica
Mark Crispin Miller: Fortunate Son
DSM-IV
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
Phyllis George: Living With Quilts

also have close, Jon Stewart: America and on order
Sartre: Nausea

best I can do tonight, am going to bed after a really bad day. My oldest son (38) had to have an emergency appendectomy today and I am exhausted. I really have many more quilting & gardening books here but you only asked for 5 so I gave the ones that I have looked at recently. :kick:

[NMMNG]

132. I'm at work but I have a bag of books in my trunk

1. DSMIV
2. Hannibal (Thomas Harris)
3. World Civilizations : Beginnings to 1750
4. The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
5. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

[Withywindle]

133. Boy, this is random!

First 5 I see are:

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
The Satyricon - Petronius
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker - Tim Gallagher
The Tree of Life - Israel Regardie
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman

[clyrc]

134. Behind my computer

Kushiel's Avatar- Jacqueline Cary

Courtesans- Katie Hickman

Black Unicorn- Tanith Lee

The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II- Elspeth Morrison

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Florida Women- E. Lynne Wright

[SKKY]

135. Ok, I'm at work, but here goes...

1. Cole - Hackers Beware
2. Sadayao - Cisco IOS Access Control Lists
3. Watters - Solaris 9: The Complete Reference
4. Cisco Systems, Inc. - Cisco IOS Configutation Fundamentals
5. Negus - Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible

[quiet.american]

136. Slowly, I turn... and I see....

Blinded by the Right
Don't Think of An Elephant
Markings
1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle
The Portrait of a Lady

:)

[Lilith Velkor]

137. Analyze this

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Weaveworld, Clive Barker
3. The Great and Secret Show, Barker
4. King James Bible, red letter edition
5. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson