gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Army - Professor)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2007-12-21 08:37 pm
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Books from the Ships.

1. One book that changed your life. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

2. One book you have read more than once. A World Out of Time - Larry Niven

3. One book you would want on a desert island. U.S Army Field Manual 3-05.70 Survival

4. One book that made you laugh. Without Feathers - Woody Allen

5. One book that made you cry. Can't think of one.

6. One book you wish had been written. A 12th book in the Timeline-191 series advancing the story to the modern day to show how the history of the 20th Century played out after the end of the Second Great War.

7. One book you wish had never been written. The Ringworld Throne - Larry Niven

8. One book you are currently reading. Three Days to Never - Tim Powers

[identity profile] fuzzface00.livejournal.com 2007-12-22 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I found your choice for #3 to be one of the few times I have seen anyone apply logic to that type of question.

I agree quite a bit with your choice of Starship Troopers. Every time I read it, I find something worth learning.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2007-12-22 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
When somebody did a "Ten desert island DVDs" thing, I answered with a series on of instructional DVDs on stone-age raft building, navigation, and open seas survival.

I was roundly booed by the peanut gallery.