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

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

isn't that what happened at the end of Timeline?

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Wow, way to go, Michael Crichton. I checked up on Timeline and it does seem similar to Willis's novel (which was written years and years before Timeline). Okay, so the similarities are probably superficial, especially considering that one novel is an award-winning masterpiece and the other is, well, written by someone who I don't even feel like calling a novelist. :P

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

lol Yeah, Timeline was far from a decent novel. I'll have to pick yours up, though, to check it out.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Doomsday Book is definitely worth a read! It won both the Hugo and the Nebula, and I love how it combines medical mystery with time travel. :)

Some of the disease stuff is pretty gross though (which is why it reads like a great horror novel to germophobes like me).