Done In

Tagged by Sunayana. No, We are not wrestlers from the WWE taking a shot at the Tag Team Championship (although the physical resemblance to a flourishing tag team cannot be denied). This tagging is more docile and I can assure you that none of the below mentioned were injured during the writing of this blog.

Tagging is this new thing that is taking the blogging world by storm, or wait, i just over did it. Tagging is this new thing that is doing the rounds in the blogging world, wait again, i still over did it. Fine, here comes the real truth. I have been tagged, for the first and possibly the only time, to write on books and since it makes me look well-read am off writing this blog. Happy ?? Now, get on with it.

Number of books owned
Around 50 (and that does not include the zillions of copies of "Bhakthi" (devotion) and other religious magazines that my patti is collecting).

Last book bought

The Tom Holt Omnibus - contains "My Hero" and "Whos afraid of Beowulf. A laugh riot if you like pratchett and other humorists. Sort of DNA meets Umberto Eco.

Last book read

The Drawing of The Three - Book II of Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series. As scary as it can get. Has mutants, gigantic lobsters, deadly sorcerers and a clint-eastwood-like hero. Did i mention blood, massacres and cruel deaths ?? Five more books to go before the series ends, and thats a loooong way.

10 Books that mean a lot to me

1. Lord of The Rings - Enough said.
2. Wodehouse's Golf stories - Rib-ticklingly funny.
3. The color of magic - My first book of pratchett and it left me with a pain in my tummy. Also has the dubious distinction of giving this blog it's URL.
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The first book i bought with money i earned. Sort of special.
5. Mahabharatha & Ramayana - Blame them for all my tall tales.
6. Kanne Kihoo - A thamizh comic about a whale and a boy. My dad tells me i used to bugger him every night to read it for me.
7. Don Quixote - Gives me the feeling that i am looking into a mirror
8. Panchathanthra Tales - The guide to peaceful, prosperous and problem-less life on earth.
9. Clarke's Rama Series and Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories - father and mother of all science fiction
10. C & H, Asterix, Gary Larson and Dilbert - lost childhood, last birth, alternate universe and my current existence - respectively

Books I read as a kid

Tales of the amber sea - fairies vs witches vs wizards vs sorcerers vs princes
Tales from ukraine - different fairies vs different witches vs different wizards vs different sorcerers vs same, dumb, princes
Enid Blyton - Dont we all go through this phase by force ??
Rani/Lion/Muthu Comics - James Bond speaking thamizh
Tinkle - (Suppandi - another case of "do i know this guy personally" characters, kalia, shikari shambu)
Amarchitra Katha - thats how karna became my all-time favorite character
Indrajal Comics - phantom, mandrake, flash gordon, garth and the likes
Tintin - darned expensive they were then, equally darned expensive they are now
World Cup Cricket - blame it on cricket fever

Passing the baton
You dont know how glad i am to get here.

Freak Fauna - works for a company that was just acquired by another company, thus making him one of the youngest millionaires in india. Between time spent for counting notes and mail-ordering his own sports model benz, he does read books too.

Neo Soothsayer - Another of those unlucky bums to have been stuck in where he has been stuck.

Just Me - Just raring to get stuck in one hell-hole or the other by own will. Try stopping her.

Boomsa - No, i dont know her. And yes, she doesnt know me too. But one of the readably-cynical blogs that i have seen on the web.