Specialties
Over the years, as my book collection ballooned and slowly slurped over my apartment like The Blob, I noticed that my natural preferences engorged certain topics more than others. In these areas, I find myself addicted to collecting every book I can find on a subject. Here they are, in order of the topics I've collected most exhaustively.
- Critical Thinking
- Debunking myths, pseudosciences, etc.
- Media analysis
- Factoids correcting history and common knowledge
- Gandhi
- Nonviolence
- Comparative Religion
- Art Instruction
- Drawing
- Caricaturing
- Watercolor
- Graphic Novels
- Vertigo (Preacher, Hellblazer, Transmetropolitan, Sandman)
- Brian Michael Bendis
- The Flash
- Alan Moore (ABC line, etc.)
- Greg Rucka (Queen & Country, etc.)
- Ed Brubaker (Sleeper, etc.)
- Warren Ellis
- Cerebus
- Batman
- Marvel Ultimate line
- DC Universe
- Political books - mostly left-leaning
- International Affairs
- Classic Literature
Really getting into Russian literature now
- Graphic Design software books
Visual Quickstart Guides
Web Marketing & Usability
- General Art books
- Children's Fantasy
i.e. The Chronicles of Narnia, Oz books, Roald Dahl, etc.
(Mostly books I've saved since I was younger)
- Quantum Physics
- Science v. Religion
- Baha'i books
- Neil Gaiman
(One of the only authors who I collect completely.)
- Oxford Very Short Introductions
- Science Fiction in general
- DK Books
- Dating/Sex
- Humor & comic strips
Most notably, Calvin & Hobbes
- Books about comics & the comic book industry
- Poetry, especially compilations
- Signed books
The DaVinci Code, Clinton's Memoir, Neil Gaiman, Art Spegielman, Walter Mosley. Click here to see the full list.
So ... yeah, I have a lot of interests.
What are your specialties? Which books do you like to collect? Which topics can't you get enough of? E-mail me.
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