I always find it interesting when I look at what someone has placed on the top of their bookshelf. I’m not sure why. There could be an in-depth psychological reason on why we put the books we have on the top shelf as apposed to other shelves. If there is I don’t know it. I like to think that the material people like rises to the top.
On my shelf I have:
- The Master and Commander Series (20 books) by Patrick O’Brian
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
- The National Dream and The Last Spike by Pierre Berton
- Rebel Faye by B. & J.C. Hendee
- Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Leading a Software Development Team by Richard Whitehead
- Interface Oriented Design by Ken Pugh
- Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
- A manual for my camcorder
- World of Warcraft Game Manual
I guess this sampling would say I enjoy fiction more than any other genre, and I have a strong interest in computers. What does your shelf say about you?
#1 by Thomas Grey on June 19, 2007 - 09:52
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The top of my bookshelf is filled with old telephone books. I’m not too sure what that says.
#2 by Mark on June 23, 2007 - 17:28
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My bookshelves are stuffed full of DVDs. On the top shelf, I’ve got all 10 Star Trek movies, the complete series of Shadow Raiders, the 4 films that revitalized Disney animation in the early 1990s (Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, and the Lion King), the boxed set of both Fantasia films, Independence Day and Tron.
#3 by BillR on July 20, 2007 - 15:26
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If you like Jared Diamond check out ‘Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed’ – recommended.
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