 All right. Ah, are we on? Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Okay, this week I'm gonna do the opposite book tag. I found this on YouTube from an Australian book reviewer called Little Book Owl, and I thought it was interesting, so I'm gonna do it. It is 10 questions, and we're going to start covering them right now. Number one, the first book in your collection and the last book you bought. Okay, this question presumes that I started collecting books at a specific date, and no, there have been books in my life from the day I was born. The books that go back the farthest for me that I've had in my life for longer than I can remember are of course the big Dr. Seuss books, Sneeches, Ural of the Turtle, and I can lick 30 Tigers today. These all have published dates that are older than me, like 1958, 1961, and so do the Godoggo and one of my favorites, Big Macs. As far as the last books that I bought, these two came in the mail today, so these would be the most recent, but this one's in great condition. I bought this to send it to a friend, and this, the the novel that the movie was based on, Age of Tomorrow, the name of the book was All You Need is Kill, written by a Japanese author. I thought the hell this was a graphic novel. I honestly thought I was ordering a graphic novel, but no, it's a novel. I'm already planning to do a combined book and movie review, so look for that. Question number two, a cheap book and an expensive book. Again, I have to do some thinking about that. I've been given so many books over the years, and I've inherited so many books, both from both of my parents. I have boxes and boxes full of my father's books, so as far as I'm concerned, they were free, but I thought this is the book that was given to me by the author. He was a World War II veteran who served in China, which is a theater that most people don't think of when they think of World War II, and I wrote a little profile of him for a magazine back in 2002. He wrote a note to me. He dated it in 2002. He spent a lot of time in China observing the locals, and he drew pictures of them. He did a lot of a lot of sketching. He was a fellow artist from from the old school, and that's why I wrote the story about him, and he gave me this book, and the most expensive book. I'm trying to think how much I paid for this, the complete HP Lovecraft, the complete fiction of HP Lovecraft. Oh, wait a minute. No, I know. Yeah, what was I thinking? Jim Starlin, A Life in Pictures. I bought this from Jim Starlin at a convention in Miami. He was selling it himself through that $49.99 or whatever. Yeah, $49.99. $50. I paid him $50 for this. It really stretched out, it really stretched my budget. I had a limited amount of cash at that show. But I paid him $50 because he's the artist who did all these things. For those of you who don't know, Jim Starlin is the Marvel artist who created Thanos. The character here, who's the villain in Guardians of the Galaxy movie, who's going to be the villain in all of the Marvel movies coming up. Question number three, a book with a male protagonist, a book with a female protagonist. Yeah, that's easy. I just picked something. Here. The first two books in Jack Chalker's Saga of the Well World. I intend to cover this series at some point. This was my favorite series when I was in high school. Book one, the hero is Nathan Brazile. And book two, the hero is Maverick Chang, a Chinese woman. So there you go. Question number four, a book you read quickly, a book that you took long to read. All right. I talked about this one recently. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. I read it very quickly. Almost in one sitting. And then I saw a book owl. She said that she didn't want to count a book that she set aside and left for a while. She wanted to count a book that she read all the way through. Considering the question that way, I have no idea what what book took me the longest to read in a single sitting because I used to when I was younger, I would routinely take a month to get through a book because I was in school and I would only be able to read a little bit at night. So I don't know about that. But I do know that Moby Dick, I read this about 10 years ago, maybe 12 or 15 years ago, no, more like 10. And I took three years to read it. I set it aside for a long time. I came back to it and I didn't start over. So I read it all the way through. And I spent about three years on it. So, yeah, Moby Dick. Question number five, a pretty cover and an ugly cover. I really love these retro, these 1950s retro covers. The simplicity of design, the simplicity of the color. Yeah, I love these and that interesting. Interesting cartoony font on the spines and on the cover. Love it. Absolutely love it. As far as ugliest cover, that was easy to. This right here, Parasite Pig by William Slater. This is a terrible hack job. Really bad Photoshop job from within the last 10 years or so. Question number six, a national book and an international book. I'm assuming by national you mean a book that was written by someone in the nation that you come from. And that's, well, I'm in the United States. So here's a book I hadn't talked about yet. Collected works of James Tiptree, Jr., whose name is actually Alice B. Sheldon. That was written here in the States. Someone from overseas. I'm going to choose Metropolis by Theo von Harbo. It's a beautiful cover, too. Theo von Harbo was married to Fritz Lang. And she wrote this book while the two of them were making the movie Metropolis. Question seven, a thin book and a thick book. I'm assuming that the person who asked this question and the book owl said that. She found this book tag by a guy from Brazil. So he may have originated. I'm assuming that he meant a novel that as far as a novel goes, there's this version of Frankenstein, which I reviewed a couple of years ago. It's very thin. It has to be the thinnest unabridged version of the Frankenstein novel ever published. And the reason it's so thin is because the pages are so large. But if we're not limiting ourselves to novels, and I don't think you should, because every kind of book is worthy of being called a book, I would have to go back to some of these picture books, these children's picture books. This is a dinosaur time, but it's paper thin and the pentaseratops, not a triceratops, a pentaseratops. But then there's this is basically just two sheets of thin cardboard with a few sheets of paper between them. And I'm using the thin book thing as an excuse to bring this up because this was it's called King Grizzlybeard. This was a book created by Maurice Sendak, who I mentioned in my last book list. This is my second book list and the second time I mentioned Maurice Sendak. So I've talked about Maurice Sendak in 100 percent of my book list videos. He created this with the intention of teaching children how to bind a book. Our job was to slice up these large pieces of paper and make sure the pages were in order. It has these these full color endpapers that we pasted in to the cardboard. We get two pieces of cardboard and I use this blue electrician's tape as the binding. And it's got a lot of text in it, too. It's a lengthy story. And then I use some random contact paper that my mother had to cover the outside. And on the back it says bound by Keith Jr. So there it is, the thinnest book, a book bound by me. Okay, thick book. I lost my place here, thick book. That's I was just looking at the Lovecraft thing there, but I've got thicker ones. I've got these three, these three books. These three anthologies edited by David G. Hartwell. I had already decided that I was going to do a review of these books because I like David G. Hartwell's anthologies. This one I got in the mail just this week, 960 pages. And the other two are thicker. But that's not my thickest book. Hang on, Bible, Cambridge. That's all it says, Holy Bible, Cambridge. This belonged to my father. It has more than 1,100 pages in it. They're not numbered consecutively. There's an introduction and some tables of contents at the beginning. Then the Old Testament and the New Testament are numbered separately. So this is well over 1,100 pages. You would think more, but the the print is large. The print is very large and the paper is heavy. Usually with these big Bibles, all Bibles really, the paper is tissue thin, but not this. It's very heavy. But that's it. That's my thickest book. Okay, question number eight. A fiction book and a nonfiction book. For fiction, I'm going to pick something that's not science fiction. Let's see. Paradise Lost, John Milton. I was pretentious, but when else am I going to mention this? And for nonfiction, I'm going with Project Orion by George Dyson. He's the son of Freeman Dyson. It's about how Freeman Dyson and a bunch of other scientists in the 1950s and 60s designed a massive spacecraft, basically a space arc that would be launched into space and travel through space by exploding atomic bombs behind it. And this is crazy. This is a crazy story. These guys were convinced. They believed that they were going to pack their families on board this ship and they were going to Saturn. Fantastic book. I have to talk about it someday. I have to review it someday. A romantic book and an action book. Well, as far as the action book goes, I talked about this before. Plague of Demons by Keith Lommer. Wall to wall action. Like I said in my review before, this book reads like he met with a room full of 12 year olds and asked them what would be cool to put in a science fiction book and he wrote all of it down and included everything. Hell of a book. Fun cover to cover and a romantic book. Well, I don't have a copy with me anymore. But the the first thing I thought of when I was asked that question was little women by Louisa May Alcott is one of my favorite books. One of my all time favorite books. You wouldn't know that having watched my videos. But yeah, I love that book. Josephine March is one of my all time favorite fiction characters. So little women. I need to get a copy. All right, last question. Number 10, a book that made you happy and one that made you sad. As I mentioned while I was reading it, I tweeted it while I was reading this, the wonderful world of Robert Sheckley. I was reading a story called The Sculking Permit and I noticed that I was smiling while I was reading it. So yeah, this book made me happy and another thing I just I got this recently, a comic book called Teen Dog. Don't know anything about it, but I was laying in bed holding my sides laughing at this book and this is what did it. I saw every possible future and every possible past in the blink of an eye radical. That's what did it for me. The book that made me sad. Again, that begs the question of what you actually mean. They mean that made you sad. Where the story made you sad and made you sad for the characters. I had trouble thinking of something for that, but something happened just the other day. I got these in the mail issues three and four of Love and Rockets, the new stories. I've been wanting to get these for some time. I've always loved the work by the Hernandez brothers. I've always loved their graphics work. I've been reading about their characters since I was in high school. I've grown up with them. However, I haven't read these two books yet, but I love books one and two. I've had them for a while. It took me a while to get three and four here because they're expensive. But just thumbing through these two books, I saw things that made me question whether I'm ever going to buy any more. I mean, there's disturbing and then there's disturbing. And that makes me sad. That makes me very sad. If when I read the question, the book that made you sad right now, this is what came to mind. I don't know. I may read these. I had intended to talk about Love and Rockets as science fiction as graphic science fiction at some point in the future. I may have changed my mind and that's that's sad. So I hate to end it on that note because this is a fun list. I'll definitely do more lists. I'm enjoying this. It gives me an opportunity to talk about more books and more variety of books and to participate more in what's going on with other book reviewers on YouTube. So there will be another book review later this week. See you then.