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That ratbastard Nute tagged me, so I guess I'm "it" now too. Funny how it becomes 'git' and 'tit' so easily. Memefuckers.

1)Total number of books owned?

Christ... about 2500 hardcovers, 300 reference works, 500-600 softcovers, 50 novella/folio style pieces for shorts, plays and poetry, and about another 300 trade paperbacks/roleplaying books/cartoon collections. Roughly.

Now you people see why I've never had assets or a savings account before.

2) The last book I bought?

While I was in Australia, and in one swoop, I grabbed Weapons of Choice, Off One's Tits, and Dopeland, all by John Birmingham, Muddied Oafs by Richard Beard, and an aboriginal myths collection by A.W Reed

3) The last book I read?

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?

JOB: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A Heinlein. A book that very early on (I think I first read it at 10) started me asking the right questions and had a huge impact on my developmental writing.

Noise by Russell Smith. Another of those books that drastically impacted my writing style and approach to prose. Also read it just before coming to Toronto, and got to nod my head a lot while wandering Queen St West.

The DeathBird Stories by Harlen Ellison. One of those books that you get early and it unscrews the back of your head open, and scrambles everything inside it. A great back for just ripping yourself around out of a comfort zone, and looking differently at things.

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I hate this book because it's so simple and so damn good that I sit and despair of ever being a writer. I picked this up after reading the The Gulag Archipelago on a whim, and remember sitting in my bedroom after finishing it just staring at the cover and letting my mind churn.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S Thompson. THE work for anyone who is interested in politics and is an idealist. Because it's fun to make them cry. Found it at 17, left politics a bitter and ancient cynic at 18, and went into journalism in my twenties. Fortunately, I had started drinking and doing drugs some years earlier.

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