And that's the second tag list

EU Rota, thanks a bundle. Remind me to back up and give it another go after I've run you over.

1) Number of books I own:

Honest to God, I don't know. I'm guessing in-between 1,000 and 1,500. Most of them are in storage.

2) The last book I bought:

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. Yeah, I'm a fun guy to hang with. It's a good thing hookers are cheap in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, they don't know shit about quantum mechanics.

3) Last book read:

Boy and Going Solo - Roald Dahl

4) On deck soon:

Rational Mysticism - John Horgan

5) Five books that meant a lot to me:

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card: got me into journalism, in a way. Read it when I was 12.
Ecclesiastes: I'm an agnost, but this sometimes makes me at peace with the universe for, say, about five seconds.
The Red Queen - Matt Ridley: makes you not want to have sex for about a week (ok, an hour). Great after breakups.
Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland: a properly written love story with a literary undercurrent, but without an author who is constantly trying to prove how amazingly 'literary' he can be (yes, I am talking about you, Mr. Eggers).
Saying Yes - Jacob Sullum: come on now, a conservative American propagating drugs legalization, using sane arguments? No Dutchman could be expected to resist that!

6) Tag five people and have them put this in their journal:

Rogier
Sirpa (yes, she got the previous one as well, but she's got plenty of time anyway)
Lucas
Bas
Myrtus

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