Monthly Archives: January 2007

what book are you?

I’m still roam­ing the inter­net and I have found yet another test, a ‘bet­ter’ one for us booklovers: what book are you?
The test is not very accu­rate and trust­wor­thy (at least in my case), but it is still fun to take it.
Here is my result:

what is your color?

I stum­bled across the tickle site. A site where you can do many tests. I did the ‘what is your true color’ test. You have to answer 19 (sim­ple) ques­tions and then you get your result. Here is my color, and I have to say: it’s accurate.

don’t judge a book by its cover

It’s a pop­u­lar say­ing and maybe you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the fact is I often buy my books (only) because the cover is intruiging.

Here are some exam­ples of book cov­ers that grabbed me right away:

book cover natural flight of the human mindbook cover three to see the king

When I saw the books the first time I never heard of the author or title, but when I saw the book cover, I had to pick up the book. I don’t know what it is, but I have that feel­ing quite often, and I have to say I’m almost never dis­ap­pointed by the books I pick out this way. Bet­ter yet, some of my favorite authors now, I never heard of before I saw the cover. An exam­ple of an author: Mag­nus Mills.

the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy — douglas adams

5 stars

Just before planet Earth is being destroyed alien Ford Pre­fect, who has lived on earth for fif­teen years as an out-of-work-actor, saves human Arthur Dent, who already is hav­ing a bad day because his house is sched­uled to be demol­ished that morn­ing. Rea­son for destruc­tion: the planet has to give way for an inter­galac­tic free­way. After they are picked up in lose space just before they run out of oxy­gen, a jour­ney through space and time begins with help of totally dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als (my favorite: Mar­vin the always depressed robot) and the hitchhiker’s guide. They are forced to work together to sur­vive their ride through the galaxy in a space­ship that runs on improb­a­bil­ity numbers.