Twenty freaking years!

The first was purchased during Katie’s and my first trip to San Francisco in 1999. We went to a little bookshop in the middle of nowhere and I bought The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis.

I got it mostly because I loved the shop and wanted to give them some cash. But also because I was enrolled in a class in grad school about the films of Martin Scorsese and this movie hit me hard. 

The second, I think, dates to 1998, also in grad school. One of the RAs who worked for me got me into my second coming with comic books. This one is more of a surprise as I swore I had read it but now when I look at it, I know I have not. It is Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta.

Even weirder is that I also realized I had never seen the movie version of V. This I resolved a couple weeks ago. Damn, that was a good movie. 

Has anything spent an excessive amount of time, unread, on your bookshelf?