End of the Month Roundup: May, 2006
Nobody really reads these end of the month roundups as far as I know. I’m just doing upkeep while I get the next review ready, so let’s keep this short.
- Best book of May: Warren Ellis, “Transmetropolitan: The Cure.” Fun stuff, especially when you’ve been trapped in an airport for 18 hours straight.
- Worst book of May: Neil Gaiman, “American Gods.” Also finished in the airport, not nearly as fun. It’s not horrible, it’s just that it’s waaaaay too much of a rip-off of Stephen King’s “The Stand.” I like The Stand. I actually like it a lot, but Gaiman is far too smart to steal from somebody so pedestrian.
So that makes the count for 2006 as such...
- Books read: seven
- Amount spent on books read: $12.48. That’s actually for three out of the seven books. The others were all gifts by my co-workers at the bookstore where I used to work. Thanks, ladies!
- Additional books bought: Zero.
Which makes the 2006 total...
- 25 books read.
- Spent $111.94 on those books.
Ugh. Twenty five books in five months. I suck. Let me just confirm that with a trip to the archives to do some compare and contrast.
- 2002: 96 books.
- 2003: 66 books.
- 2004: 61 books.
- 2005: 57 books.
Yep. I suck. I dropped my average by more than half, and nearly 75 percent lower from the record. And the only reason I managed to finish a higher number this month than my average for this year was because I was trapped in an airport for 20 hours or so, whereupon I tore through six of the seven books that I read.
But then again, nobody reads these roundup posts. That being said, I won’t feel bad mentioning something that I’m think is yet another sign of the apocalypse. When I did finally get on the plane, far too tired to read any longer and my own CD player burnt out of batteries, I plugged into the airline’s inflight musical radio show.
And heard Iggy and the Stooges.
To quote the band Crass: “Yes, that’s right. Punk is dead.”
