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23rd August 2007, 01:19 PM
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| Poor, poor trees  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ireland
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| Re: Your library Who was it said "if I want to read a book, I'll write one"? I've a tiny fiction library with comparatively little Science Fiction in it. If you tried to guess what kind of writing I was into, you'd think spy novels and detective yarns. I don't think that's necessarily correct. I have a collection of Saint books because I really love the way Charteris forms a sentence. For the same reason, I have a fair chunk of Wodehouse. I have a bunch of James Bond because when Fleming was depressed, he really got into a bad man's head. Other than that, there are the mandatory Poirots and Miss Marples, the odd Maigret because they are emotionally disturbing, a couple of Joyces I've never opened, a vast number of ancient comics and a representative share from Asimov and Clarke. |
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27th August 2007, 01:35 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Yorkshire
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| Re: Your library it would be easier for me to list authors... you name it, i have probably read it and owned it at some point in my life... i had to downsize when i moved last so have reduced collection to an over full bookcase...  i will get round to listing one day... when i can prise myself away from the internet! |
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27th August 2007, 03:13 PM
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| Author and Editor  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire
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| Re: Your library Do you mind if I pass on this one? My current collection of SF and fantasy stands at a little under 2,500 books, about a quarter of which I've yet to read (gulp!). That'd take a lot of listing!  |
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27th August 2007, 08:35 PM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia, Western Australia
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| Re: Your library I have nowhere near 2500 but the books I do have are listed here... http://www.bibliophil.org/library/MyLibrary.php It's not a bad site to keep your list of books but am thinking of changing to one of the other 'online catalogues. |
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27th August 2007, 11:05 PM
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| Author and Editor Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire
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27th August 2007, 11:30 PM
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| Living in Paradise  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Australia
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| Re: Your library I have just packed up my books for the forthcoming move. I tried to cull, really I did, but not even one got removed. I love then all in their own way. Anyway ten boxes later........... My collection is quite varied, I have a little fantasy, plenty of sci fi, in particular John Wyndham and Issac Asimov. But I have a great deal of historical. There are a few of my fav uni texts that I kept thinking someone else might find them useful, wishful thinking I guess. My book collection has recently started to grow again after some lean quiet times, so another bigger bookcase could be on the cards. |
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27th August 2007, 11:53 PM
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| Living in Paradise Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Australia
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| Re: Your library I agree with the wholeheartedly Rosie. I have spent my whole life surrounded by books. I think if any of my senses went (no comments please) I would hate for it to be my eyes!!! |
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27th August 2007, 11:59 PM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia, Western Australia
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| Re: Your library Have to agree with you there! The only trouble I am having is putting a new bookcase together, it's been laying on my lounge floor for two months now!! I just don't have the strength in my hands to use the screwdriver properly. Oh well, that's life! |
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28th August 2007, 12:05 AM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia, Western Australia
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| Re: Your library One correct guess!  Sorry, I went off at a tangent again Bringing thread back to Your Library... I was thinking that it's going to take a lot of work, sorting out the fantasy, historical novels, text books and the classics but I do like to have things neat and tidy. |
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28th August 2007, 06:00 PM
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| This world is not my home  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Iowa
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| Re: Your library I could not list my SF books. First that list is quite long, but not by Chronicles standards app. 500 with another couple of 100 read on loan from other libraries. But the real reason is that my wife refuses to let me put them out they are stacked in boxes under the basement stairwell in many boxes. Too much work for now. Someday though, I'll have them on display as a kind of trophy work. |
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28th August 2007, 08:30 PM
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| Win awards!  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: SOUTH AMERICA
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| Re: Your library I could list all my books here or somewhere else on the internet, as I don't have many (200-300), and in fact I will. What's the best on-line service for that? librarything? bibliophil? shelfari? |
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