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Snarfed from

waiwode, on account of I spiked his first choice answer to question number two. (Of course, my friends list is at this point small enough, that I feel a bit like I'm cheating...)

Name a CD you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Otis Spann -- Cryin' Time. Seventies disk of blues piano great, Spann, is probably one of my favourite blues recordings, but I wouldn't call it tremendously well-known. I'm guessing I'm the only one in my friends list to have a blues jones that bad...

Name a book you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Islandia -- Austin Tappan Wright. Picking a book that james_nicoll doesn't have is probably an exercise in futility. However, I'm guessing that he doesn't have a copy of this one. Recently reprinted by Overlook press, this is one of the 20th century's great "manic world-builder" fantasies. It has almost zero action, and the social politics are dangerously antiquated, but it still has a lot of its charm.

Strike one. ::sigh:: Yes, I figured that it might be too much to ask to find something in my library that doesn't overlap with the estimable Nicoll. Hmmm.... ::digs deeper:: ... how about ....

Damascus Nights -- Rafik Schami. A delightful little tale within a tale within a tale about a Damascene(?) coachman who also happens to be a story teller? (Please, don't make me dive into the "literary criticsim" shelf...)

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no one else on your friends list does.
The Virginian (1929) -- directed by Victor Fleming. An early look at Gary Cooper (that eye shadow! that lipstick!); this was quite hard for me to track down, so I'm willing to bet that no one else on my friends list has it. Or perhaps wants to have it. Still, betting against

robin_d_laws and film is a dangerous business...

Name a place that you have visited that no one else on your friends list has.
In 1985/6, I spent about 8 months here. It was a charming little rural French town that was originally a supply stop on the way to the Crusades. It's so small, in fact, that I doubt any of my friends have even heard of it, let alone been there.

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool that you own that you think no one else on your friends list has.
I'd be willing to bet that no-one else on my friends list has one of these. Or, again, wants to have one. 8)