That sums me up, really.

[apocalypsos]

I have an entire shelf devoted to my disaster books.

Granted, right now there's only ten books on there. I let a co-worker borrow my book on the Cocoanut Grove fire and never got it back, I need to get new copies of Alive and A Night To Remember because I long ago lost my copies of them (actually, I think I may have read my third copy of Alive until it fell apart, much like I did with two previous copies), I let another co-worker borrow The Circus Fire but I need a newer copy anyway, and there's a bunch of other books I've got to get my hands like stuff on the Iriquois Theater fire and Eastland and I don't have anything on September 11th, Katrina or the tsunami, so. *shrugs* Oh, and also I ordered a book on the Texas City explosion.

But right now what I have on the shelf is:

Krakatoa
The Children's Blizzard (Just got these and haven't had a chance to read them yet)
To Sleep With The Angels
Hiroshima
Day of Infamy
The Johnstown Flood
Curse of the Narrows
Triangle
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Isaac's Storm

I may have the most depressing reading list of anybody I know. Heh.

For the record, I keep Lucifer's Hammer, Swan Song, and The Stand on a different but adjacent shelf, just 'cause. I'm a bit morbid, I think.

Comments

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

OMG.

I do that. But I have "disaster books" with a subset of "sea-going disaster books". The latter far outstrips the former in number.

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

BTW, The Curse of the Narrows is one of my favorites.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that one's really great. And the situation just keeps getting worse, and worse, and WORSE. You can almost imagine the people from Halifax seeing the blizzard coming and being all, "Oh, you've got to be fucking KIDDING me."

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

I just loaned it out to a friend with the simple exhortation, "You have to read this."