Whats on your Bookshelf?

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Also Poe.

I think it's Edgar Allen Poe, Gwai m'boy... ...unless of course, you speak of another...

[Gwaimir Windgem]

It is indeed. But when speaking of famous individuals, it is quite common to refer to them by their last name; thus, Wilde, Putin, Blair, Arafat, etc. And so, Poe.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

It is indeed. But when speaking of famous individuals, it is quite common to refer to them by their last name; thus, Wilde, Putin, Blair, Arafat, etc. And so, Poe.

You assume Poe is famous...

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Indeed, and as there are volumes entitled:

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

I think that a reasonable assumption.

[Elfmaster XK]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

It's been a while since I read it, but I recall finding it to be hard but good. I remember clearing seeing that there was a LOT more depth and meaning on various levels to the story than I got out of it.

Hmm. Thanks Gwai. I think I'll give it a go then. Once I'm done with American Gods (N. Gaimen).

From this title (and the ones on your history list) I gather you've been to Egypt? How did you like it there? I'm an Egyptian, btw.

Hey, yes I have been to Egypt. Only once unfortunately, but hopefully that should change. I went to Luxor and stayed at the Etap hotel. Very nice indeed. I enjoyed the trip greatly. It's wonderful to finally see things in the flesh. I've been interested in Egypt's history a long time, and studying it at university means I know the place quite well. Pictures just don't compare though.

One thing I didn't like was the poor little donkeys had big fat American tourists on their backs because they were too lazy to walk up the valley of the queens. (And no, I'm not generalising, they really were fat and American because they came over to talk to us later. I'm sure the donkeys also have to suffer under the weights of various other fat tourists!)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

EXK: Is American Gods good? I've heard about it, and thought of getting it.

Azalea: very nice. And Deweyed too; sweeet...

GW: Excellent collection, good sir. Although I must say, I find your Star Wars a bit frightening, in a numerical sort of way...

HB: Nice library. And the Archives of Anthropos; I remember those! I was just thinking about them yesterday, and trying to remember the name of the series!

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

GW: Excellent collection, good sir. Although I must say, I find your Star Wars a bit frightening, in a numerical sort of way...

Thanks, Gwai. It has taken me about 20 years to collect those +600 books.

As for the 10% SW books i began buying them last year .

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

HB: Nice library. And the Archives of Anthropos; I remember those! I was just thinking about them yesterday, and trying to remember the name of the series!

And did you hear about the newest book? It came out in 03...04...can't remember, but me and my older sis got it as a present for my younger sis (I have seven sisters, so don't complain about all these sis' you see me talk about)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

There's a new one? I had no idea; is it the same calibre as its predeccessors?

[hectorberlioz]

I haven't read it yet...

I'm only as far as Book Two. My sis said it was good...

(It's called "The Dark Lord's Demise" btw)

[Elfmaster XK]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

EXK: Is American Gods good? I've heard about it, and thought of getting it.

It's pretty good. Everyone seems to prefer it, or Anansi Boys, (not read that one) but I preferred Neverwhere myself. It seemed like a better, more thought out storyworld and I enjoyed reading it. Although my copy was borrowed and falling apart so once I dropped all the pages! But yeah, American Gods is pretty good, though if you haven't read Neverwhere, I think that one is better.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I'll keep that in mind then; thankee kindly.

[BookMasterJMV]

I actually don't own many books at all. The only ones I have on my bookshelf that belong to me are ones that people have bought me.

That said, I work at a public library and have an entirely different shelf of books that are next on my to be read list.

Presenting...
-=drum roll, please=-
Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
Fragile Things by Neal Gaiman
Stardust by Neal Gaiman
New Moon by Stephenie Meyers

That should last me about a month and a half, as long as I actually decide I'm going to read all of them.

[trolls' bane]

I'm really behind on all my books. I just don't have time to read these days.

[hectorberlioz]

This is what I have now



My book collection

CS LEWIS

The Chronicles of Narnia (2 sets)
The Pilgrim’s Regress
Till We Have Faces
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

The Problem of Pain
Miracles
The Weight of Glory
Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
A Grief Observed

GK CHESTERTON

Manalive
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Everlasting Man
Orthodoxy


PRACTICAL

Wild Edible Plants, Kirk

AUTOBIO/BIO,ETC

The Starr Report: Investigation into Pres. Clinton
The German-English, English-German Dict.
The French-English, English-French Dict.
Webster’s Thesaurus


By James Herriot

All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful
The Lord God Made Them All
Every Living Thing
Dog Stories

Miscellaneous
Diary of A Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Confessions, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Great Houdini, Williams, Epstein
Will, G.Gordon Liddy
Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
Autobio of Ben Franklin
Narrative, Frederick Douglass

Music

My Younger Years, Arthur Rubinstein
Memoirs, Hector Berlioz
Letters of Hector Berlioz
Testimony of Dmitri Shostakovich
Toscanini, Samuel Chotzinoff
Lives of the Great Composers, Harold C Schonberg
Gramophone 2006 Guide to Classical Music
How Opera Grew, Bauer & Peyser
NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Classical
Evenings with the Orchestra, Hector Berlioz
The Mikado Libretto, Gilbert
The Symphony, Michael Steinberg
The Concerto, Michael Steinberg
Great Choral Masterworks, Michael Steinberg
100 Great Operas, Henry Simon
What to Listen for in Music, Aaron Copland
Story of Orch Music and it’s Times, Paul Grabbe
Introduction to Songwriting
Music: The Art of Listening
Understanding Music, Leming & Veinis
Tonal Harmony, Kostka & Payne
How to Read Music, Howard Shanet
Studying Rhythm, Hall
Music for Ear training, Horvit etc
Music for sight singing, Horvit etc

PLAYS & POEMS

Faust, W. Von Goethe
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt

Shakespeare:

Hamlet
As you Like It
Othello
Merchant of Venice
Taming of the Shrew
Comedy of Errors

Beowulf, Ruth P.M. Lehmann
Idylls of the King, Tennyson
The Odyssey, Homer
The Iliad, Homer
The Aeneid, Virgil


Charles Dickens

Bleak House
Oliver twist
David Copperfield
Tale of two Cities
Hard Times
The Pickwick Papers
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol

Other English

Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Kidnapped, R.L. Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Merlyn, T.H. White
Lord Jim, Conrad
Short Stories, Conrad
Victory, Conrad
Goodbye Mr Chips, James Hilton
Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Persuasion, Jane Austen



Rudyard Kipling

Kim
The Jungle Books
Captains Courageous

Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days
Mysterious Island
Michael Strogoff
Journey to the Center of the Earth



Fyodor Dostoevsky


Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Possessed
The Idiot
House of the Dead
Letters from Underground
Bobok/ A Nasty Anecdote/ The Gambler
The Insulted & Injured

Other Russian

Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
Taras Bulba, Gogol
Diary of a Madman, Gogol
War & Peace, Tolstoy

Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Adven. Of Tom Sawyer
The Adven. of Huckleberry Finn
Prince & the Pauper

Other American

As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
Eight Cousins, Alcott
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
House of Seven Gables, Hawthorne
A Wonder Book, Hawthorne
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Steinbeck

East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley
The Pearl
The Red Pony

Other Classics

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Anderson’s Fairy Tales
Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson
In Freedom’s Cause, G.A. Henty
Arabian Nights, selected
Robin Hood, Howard Pyle
The Book of Virtues, edited William J. Bennet


Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings (w/ several different volumes)
The Hobbit
The Shaping of Middle Earth
Unfinished Tales
Roverandom

Brian Jacques

Redwall
Mattimeo
Martin the Warrior
The Pearls of Lutra
Rakkety Tam
The Bellmaker
Mariel of Redwall
Lord Brocktree
Salamanadastron
Taggerung
The Long Patrol
The Outcast of Redwall
Marlfox

Lloyd Alexander

The Chronicles of Prydain
The Iron Ring
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
The Arkadians

John White

The Sword Bearer
Gaal the Conquerer
The Tower of Geburah
The Iron Sceptre
Quest for the King
Dark Lord’s Demise

Stephen Lawhead

The Paradise War
The Silver Hand
The Endless Knot
Taliesen
Merlin
Arthur
Pendragon
The Warlord’s of Nin

Other fantasy…

The Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L’Engle
The Grey King, Susan Cooper



John Grisham

The Brethren
The Testament
The Client
A Time to Kill
Pelican Brief
The Partner
The Street Lawyer
The Firm

Tom Clancy

Hunt for Red October
Clear & Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
Cardinal and the Kremlin
Red Storm Rising
Executive Orders
Red Rabbit
Patriot Games
Op-Center: Sea of Fire
Power Plays: Politika


Michael Crichton

The Great Train Robbery
Airframe
Timeline
Jurassic Park
Congo
Sphere
The Andromeda Strain
The Lost World

Others

Hide & Seek, James Patterson
Big Bad Wolf, James Patterson
The Vanishing Man, Jeffrey Deaver

Dorothy L Sayers

Have His Carcase
Murder Must Advertise
Five Red Herrings



Sci-Fi

Star Wars

The Trilogy Novelizations
Attack of the Clones
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, Michael Reaves
The Adventures of Han Solo, Brian Daley
Rogue Planet
The Adventures of Lando Calrissian
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
I Jedi
Jedi Search
Dark Apprentice
Champions of the Force
Force Heretic: Remnant
Edge of Victory: Rebirth

[nokom]

Sci fi

Uncountable number of Star Wars books

The Tritonic ring by Sprangue De Campe

Fantasy

Elminster, making of a mage by Ed Greenwood

Baldur's gate by Philip Anthes

Best of the realms I and II, by various

Just about all the Tolkien stuff

The complete Narnia

Mystery

The complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arther Conan Doyle

The Italian Secetary by Caleb Car

Thriller

Full James Bond collection by Ian Fleming, many first editions

Middle English historicals

The best of Sir Thomas Mallory

The Holy Grial

Beowulf (Of course!)


General

Arabian Nights

New Arabian nights, by Robert Stevinsons


Horror

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft