meme time

ok ok. my computer is finally back in biznass thanks to the genious and toil of my father. i only lost some pictures and a few relatively unimportant documents. screw you, windows. screw you to hell.

brazen hussy tagged me and i shall do my bloggerly duty and fill out a meme. because what the hell am i going to do? sleep? ha!

1. One book that changed your life?

i know it sounds lame, but Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond really got me fired up about human evolution and our place in nature. so maybe i can blame jared for where i am now. why do you have to be such a dick, dude?

2. One book you have read more than once?

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

3. One book you would want on a desert island?

The Complete Hitchiker's Guide by Douglass Adams. which i guess is several books, but who is counting?

4. One book that made you laugh?

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. i was sitting next to my advisor on a train and was near crying while reading an account of finding a ginormous turd in a bathroom at a dinner party. yah that was akward.

5. One book that made you cry?

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foher. but i'm pretty sure i can cry while reading a cereal box label these days.

6. One book you wish had been written?

a book about robots. lots of em. and gin. robots and gin. robots that run on gin?

7. One book you wish had never been written?

anything and everything by Nicholas Sparks.

8. One book you are currently reading?

Naked by David Sedaris. i recently finished Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins and that book freakin' blew my mind.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

10. Now tag five people:

ah hell brazen tagged all the people i know save one. so i tag.......

rachel!