Books at hand.

[gridlore]

(Swiped from kengr)

List the ten books physically closest to you:

1. GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces by Douglas Berry  :)

2. SBC Santa Clara County White Pages

3. Team Yankee by Harold Coyle

4. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

5. Life Not As We Know It by Peter Ward

6. The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries by Colin Wilson with Damon Wilson

7. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

8. Windows XP for Dummies  by Andy Rathbone

9. Tales From the Giants Dugout by Nick Peters

10. GURPS Fourth Edition Basic Set: Campaigns by Steve Jackson, Sean Punch, and David Pulver

Comments

[nilita.livejournal.com]

Is Guns, Germs and Steel a good read? I've been thinking of picking it up.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Absolutely incredible. One of the best books I've read in the last ten years.

Agreed....and others

[speaker2packets.livejournal.com]

Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plagues This should have been used as a TV series instead of the idiot show "Medical Investigations" -- it's the real story of top infectious disease epidemiology in the field. The Epidemiological Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control is very little known, but arguably the medical equivalent of USSOCOM Delta Force.

John Barry, The Great Influenza. This is considerably more than what the author originally intended. While it does thoroughly cover the 1918-1920 pandemic, it also wound up being a history of how the US medical research establishment was created.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I wind up with a list of game manuals and strategy guides (at the computer, see).

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

1. Tesla, A Man out of time by Margaret Cheney
2. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
3. World of Warcraft game manual
4. Hero System 5th Edition
5. Honor of the Queen by David Weber
6. Doc Sidhe by Aaron Allston
7. Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill Watterson
8. The Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles, Christopher Foss
general editor[I wonder if hes also an artist?]
9. City of Heroes Strategy Guide
10. Mad Amos by Alan Dean Foster

10 closest books?

[capplor.livejournal.com]

1. Adobe Photoshop user guide

2. PS238 issue #12 "Time after Tyler"

3. Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (1892 edition)

4. Esperanta Bildvortaro

5. The Joy of Signing

6. The Art of Discworld

7. Leksara Kolekto de ofte uzataj propraj nomoj

8. The World of M.C.Escher

9. Esperantaj Sinonimoj

10. The Holy Koran

That is, of course ignoring the e-books and other books on disk. It is also ignoring the checkbooks, the HTML cheat-sheet etc.