Maybe his head would explode?
Feb. 16th, 2015 11:25 pmI remember when I was younger I used to always laugh at the bits in Sherlock Holmes stories where Holmes would deduce some person's belongings successfully because all the belongings made sense together. I'm sure he could have made lots of deductions about people's bookshelves. I don't know about mine though. Here are all the books just on my bedroom bookshelf, in the order they're sitting in at the moment, from left to right and up to down (which doesn't include all the books of mine in the apartment). What would Holmes deduce about me?:
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" (Calvin and Hobbes collection) by Bill Watterson
Pogo by Walt Kelly (no title, copyright page says these strips are from 1949-1951)
Transmission of Light by Zen Master Keizan
The Best Illustrated Cocktail Recipes
Don Quixote Volume I by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote Volume II by Miguel de Cervantes
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Zebra Three #1 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)
Zebra Three #3 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War
Five Great Short Stories by Anton Chekov
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC Comics)
"Is This Your First Purge, Miss?" (Doonesbury collection) by Garry Trudeau
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Helen's Babies by John Habberton
The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook (why the fuck isn't this in the kitchen...)
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J .K. Rowling
GRE Premier 2015 with 6 Practice Tests
The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess
IDK?
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" (Calvin and Hobbes collection) by Bill Watterson
Pogo by Walt Kelly (no title, copyright page says these strips are from 1949-1951)
Transmission of Light by Zen Master Keizan
The Best Illustrated Cocktail Recipes
Don Quixote Volume I by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote Volume II by Miguel de Cervantes
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Zebra Three #1 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)
Zebra Three #3 (Starsky & Hutch fanzine)
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War
Five Great Short Stories by Anton Chekov
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC Comics)
"Is This Your First Purge, Miss?" (Doonesbury collection) by Garry Trudeau
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Helen's Babies by John Habberton
The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook (why the fuck isn't this in the kitchen...)
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J .K. Rowling
GRE Premier 2015 with 6 Practice Tests
The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk by Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess
IDK?