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1. One book that changed your life? The third printing (Brown cover with big doors) of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dungeonmaster's Guide. It literally saved my life one night. I was riding home in the dark on my ten-speed in the summertime, and had it tucked up under my shirt to carry. I ran off the road into a steep ditch and landed chest-first onto a beaver-gnawed stump. The book turned the sharpened stake aside, and instead of dying there and being discovered who knows when, I lived on after that day. The moral? Role-playing games save lives.

2. One book you have read more than once? Two (five, actually) leapt to mind. Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy, a fictional account of a conventionally-waged WWIII, and the Tolkien tetralogy (Hobbit + LOTR trilogy). I have read and re-read both many times.

3. One book you would want on a desert island? There's actually two versions of this question, both of which I shall answer. The first assumes all basic needs are met, and the book is for entertainment purposes, the second version holds the book as a resource. For the first, my choice is... not nearly as easy as I'd hope. The second is an easy choice: The Boy Scout's Manual. If you find yourself on a tropical island with a copy of that book and you can't survive, you had best be at least a double-amputee as your excuse. The first though... It's tempting to just say The Bible. Let's face it, if you're gonna be stuck somewhere where there ain't no people at all, getting spiritual is definitely a way to go. But honestly, I've read the Bible through a few times, so maybe listening to what some of the opposition says would be in order. And hey, if it does suck, Atlas Shrugged can always do double-duty as toilet paper. But if I were going to take a religious book, it would not be Ayn Rand. Maybe the Hindu or Buddhist texts.

4. One book you wish you had written? "How I Became a Multi-billionaire with the Kind of Money that Warps Minds". What? Oh, fine, a real book... pfft, whatever. I guess I'd go with Christine. That would make me Stephen King, and therefore insanely wealthy.

5. One book you wish had never been written? I'm gonna go with the Qur'an. Yes, I know, a religion's book. Uh-huh, sure, fine, I'm a bigot. I can live with that.

6. One book you have been meaning to read, but just never have? The first book in the Wheel of Time series. I read one, and it was very confusing, but also rather entertaining. Had a lot to do with Bhelliom, which was either an old god, or an artifact related to said god, I dunno, s'been a while.