Selective Amnesia

Tag. You’re it.

Yazad has a good meme running on his blog, and has tagged me. Ever the obliging friend, I have taken it up.

Total Number of Books I Own: Never counted. Somewhere in the region of 500. This is besides the textbooks on Economics, How to guides on CSS, XML, Visual Basic etc, books on Advertising, and those “motivational” books. This 500 also excludes books I’ve borrowed from friends and family and which have never left me since. (Chenthil, I shall return your Bill Bryson soon.)

Last Book I Bought: Let me see. The last book I bought-bought was “Tales from the Sun – Folklore of Southern India” – highly recommended and “Cutting Edge Advertising” by Jim Aitchison.

Last Book I Read: Actually, the last few books I am still reading – Bill Bryson’s A short history of nearly everything, Kalki’s Sivagamiyin Sabadham, Jim Corbett’s the Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag.

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me: This is always the most difficult part. Why restrict it to only 5? Ok, here goes.

• Richard Bach – Illusions. If the English Language had no other book to claim as literature but this, it still would be the best language on earth. What a book!
  
• Kalki – Ponniyin Selvan. Where do I begin describing this epic? I don’t actually. I let you folks interested to read and find out yourself.
  
• David Frawley – Gods, Sages and Kings. Like a good skirt, it hides more than it reveals, yet keeps you salivating for more.
  
• Ayn Rand – Fountainhead and Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal.
  

Tag five people and have them do this on their blogs:
Like Yazad, “All are welcome”. But specifically, I would like the following people to take it up.

Nancy Gandhi
Chenthil
Jax
Pleomorphous
and Unantha

And once again, this is open to ALL, not just the names mentioned above!