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Book Tag Meme - Rammage

Okay, since everyone's doing it:

One Book That Changed My Life: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. This was my gateway drug into reading science books for pleasure.

A book I have read more than once: If we're counting “books on iPod” then I've 'read' Bernard Goldberg’s Bias, Ann Coulter’s Godless and How to Talk to a Liberal, and Peter Schweizer's Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy hundreds of times while mowing the lawn. If we're talking strictly meatspace, then the only book that I've read more than once as an adult is William Gibson’s Neuromancer (can anyone understand this book in only one reading?) As an aside, the only book I had ever read more than once pre-adulthood was Vonda McIntyre's The Entropy Effect, but I would never openly admit that in a public forum such as this.

One Book I would want on a desert island: The Great Mussel and Clam Cookbook (okay, okay, point taken. I’d have to go with Tolkien for its escapism.)

One Book that made me laugh: Now this is a toughie. I suppose anything by PJ O’Rourke. Or maybe Rex Pickett's Sideways? I don't know if this would count, but if I had to list the book that has elicited the most laughs from me, then I'd have to go with The Onion's Our Dumb Century. Read the fine print.

One Book that made me cry: Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars, Heir to the Empire Trilogy, The Last Command. Grand Admiral Thrawn died too young. Stupid Noghri.

One Book I wish I had written: Andrew Chaikin’s A Man on the Moon, the bible of early U.S. space flight. How much fun would it be researching and interviewing the historic figures from the birth of space exploration?

One Book you wish had never been written: 2061, Arthur C. Clarke. Bleh. Runner-up: Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy. I chose this book as the topic of a high school book report for the sole purpose of being a smart-ass. It was a decision I regretted.

One Book I am currently reading: One? I have the unusual habit of being in the middle of reading many different books at the same time, choosing which one to continue reading based on the whim of the moment, much like flipping through the channels with a remote control. Currently I am halfway through Edward Rutherfurd's Sarum, Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain, and Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks And White Liberals.

One Book I have been meaning to read: Atlas Shrugged (Shhhhh – yes, it’s the great, dark secret of Atlas Blogged to my eternal shame. I do, however, place Anthem and Fountainhead as runners-up to books that have changed my life.)

Now Tag Others: I tag Atlas Blogged's Jib Halyard, Boon, R*ck, and G-Dawg.