Book Memes - Still waiting for Ith.

Bill Sulik pairs his book meme response with the news that he is going into blogging sem-retirement. We'll just have to see about that; a person who had to ship 70 boxes of books (!!!!) home from law school is a person with a crying need to share the fruits of his reading. Bill selects Bolton's play about St. Thomas More - which really ought to be required reading in law school - and a book on mathematics that was given when he was little. While I am sorely tempted to make some snarky comment about "pegging the nerd-o-meter" with that selection, but the truth is that when I was in first or second grade - I remember it as being when we lived on Whidbey Island - I read Men and Molecules and was able to correct my teacher's erroneous statement that no one had ever seen a molecule on the basis that there were pictures taken by an electron scanning microscope of molecules in the book.

*Sigh* Is it any wonder my social life has always sort of sucked.

Rick Horowitz at Unspun proves that, left or right, secularist or devout, moonbat or wingnut, a booknerd is a booknerd. Mr. H also boasts that he could turn either of the "most recent" books he has - both on the dire effects of globalization - "into an ice-breaking pick-up line or two in a bar" and that "[n]o doubt, the target would cough up the Holy Grail every chick magnet seeks: her phone number."

*Snort* Yea, that'll work. Dude, you'll crash and burn every time with Friedman.

On the other hand, I've been told "ice breaking pick-up lines" from Derrida, Nietszche or Sartre are pure gold.

By the way, absolute props for originality in the "books that were personally significant" column - the Dictionary? (But, you know, in a sick, twisted way, he's got a point.) Also, Chapter 20 of Migrating from NT 4 to Windows 2000 Exam Prep? Maybe it's just me but I found myself thinking "“What kind of geek is this guy?”" (Just joking; an author should be proud of his published material.)

Anyhow, thanks for playing.

Now we are "waiting for Ith."