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
• John Singer Sargent
• 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
  • Time Travel
• 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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