Book meme from bookishfellow

[jedusor]

List ten books you own[1], that you haven't given the attention they deserve[2]. Mark with an asterisk those you haven't even begun reading.

[1] It's okay if a housemate (or equivalent) owns them, as long as you consider them part of a permanent joint collection.
[2] Specifically excluded are your "OMG I've only re-read this sixteen times when it deserves to be re-read ELEVENTY BILLION TIMES!!!!11" books.

My list is as follows:

1. Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
2. The Second Book of Go, by Richard Bozulich
3. Crasswords, edited by Francis Heaney
4. Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, by J.K. Rowling, translated by Jean-François Ménard (French translation of the first Harry Potter book)
*5. ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石, by J.K. Rowling, translated by Matsuoka Yuko (Japanese translation of the first Harry Potter book)
6. Le petit prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
*7. The Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, edited by Vanio Vannini and Giulano Pogliani, translated by Richard Jolly
8. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
9. The Bullwhip Book, by Andrew Conway
*10. The Age of Reason, by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Eric Sutton

Comments

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, how do you define "the attention it deserves" for ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I know the first Harry Potter book back to front (literally, in the case of the inscription on the Mirror of Erised), so translations of it are an excellent tool for me to study languages. Y'know, when I actually pick them up. Thus the inclusion on the list.

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't think I had any books that could go on this list, but your #3 is one of mine. (If I can find where I put it.)

[xthread.livejournal.com]

You are so getting roped into a game of go next time we're on the same coast.

On an more directly-related-to-your-list note, I recently tried to give someone a drawing of a sheep for their birthday, and they looked at me with blank incomprehension when I presented it to them. Giving them a picture of a snake that had swallowed an elephant was similarly unsuccessful. I weep for their early childhood reading education.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

How strong are you? I suck because I don't have anyone to play with, and KGS is super-faily, so I probably won't put up much of a fight.