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08-13-2005, 12:57 PM
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Anduril,
 LOL you're cracking me up! First chuckle of the day 4 me...
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08-13-2005, 01:05 PM
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well, a long time ago I had such an enormous book collection, hundreds of beautiful books, dammit! I wish I still had all my books
 , but I'm slowly rebuilding a collection again, slowly slowly...Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche Wisdom of the West, Bertrand Russell In Memorium, Alfred Lord Tennyson A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri Advanced Screenwriting, Dr. Linda Seger The Natural Way To Draw, Nicolaides The Armand Hammer Collection, its a catalogue of the museum's artwork The Silmarillion Lord Of The Rings The Hobbit ... and some Tarot reading books and Latin books. Man, I miss my old book collection.
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08-15-2005, 09:08 PM
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An Encyclopedia of World History, by William L. Langer.
My copy has no longer got its binding, or its front & back cover, and is therefore literally falling apart, but it is one of the most indispensible research tomes I've ever come across. This old copy of mine I found at some estate sale, I think I got it for like 50 cents. If you're at all a history nut, like myself, this is a must-have. I looked it up on google, and discovered that there is now a new-and-improved edition with the same name, compiled & edited by Peter N. Stearns. But the one I have now I swear by.
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12-23-2005, 12:59 PM
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*bang* Bump! ;)
Heh. Yesterday I was cleaning my room, and just had to take this pic... These are the books I have, heaped upon my bed while I was cleaning the shelves.
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12-23-2005, 01:16 PM
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Oh, the irony of seeing this thread again, now!
What's on my bookshelves, eh Precious? Too effing much! For the last month or two I've been working on a database as a New Year gift for my mother. A database where she can look up which books we have so she (as most avid reader at our home) doesn't risk buying books double. Since books come out with new covers, different titles due to new translation etc, etc... I've promised that already a while ago but never got started until now because it's quite a huge endeavour. (I'm starting to wish I never promised it in the first place...) I've entered 3540 books so far and I still have at least 15 fully stacked shelves to go. Pity me.
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12-23-2005, 04:14 PM
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 I do feel your pain. My dad wanted to do the same thing last year... he entered mine, but the books in my granny's two rooms he couldn't finish... Since then, we're stuck. There are my parents' books, there are my new ones, there are my brother's... Yeah, I do know where you are now.
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12-23-2005, 10:15 PM
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Some of these books are in my backpack or on the couch, but you get the idea:
novels: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll The Great Blue Yonder- Alex Shearer Hawksong- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes The Godfather- Mario Puzo Dracula- Bram Stoker Genji Monogatari- Murasaki Shikibu (translated by Arthur Wales) Nobuta Wo Produce- Shiraiwa Gen (not translated) Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion manga: Nana, volume one -Yazawa Ai Fruits Basket, volume one- (this is bad- I can`t remember how to read the author`s name) Trigun, volume one- Yasuhiro Nightow (English) Rurouni Kenshin, volume four- Watsuki Nobuhiro Bokura Ga Ita, volume one- Obata Yuuki Gravitation, volume 12- Murakami Maki (English) dictionaries: Webster`s New World Compact Japanese Dictionary Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dicitionary Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary a kanji dictionary not a book, but I have a really nice eloctronic dictionary as well Kuwashii Kokugo, a book intended for Japanese middle schoolers to learn Japanese Kokugo No Fukushu, same but smaller Basic Funtional Japanese- a Japanese textbook for English speakers, almost useless since it`s so polite a journal some school textbooks (that belong to the school and thus I won`t take home with me, maybe. But it`s starting to look like I might). Now, all that may not seem like much compared to the amounts you guys have, but you have to realize I have to fit all of these into my suitcase somehow when I go back home in July... and by then, I`ll have accumulated a lot more, I think. Wish me luck. Oh, and that sounds crazy with the book database thing. Good luck with that too, should you guys decide to pursue it further. Last edited by katya : 12-23-2005 at 10:17 PM. Reason: wrong volume of rk |
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12-29-2005, 08:16 PM
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01-06-2006, 12:08 PM
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book shelf
I don't think I can, or want to, write all the titles of the books in my library, but I do have a nice collection of old Lord Dunsany and E. R. Buroughs books I'm proud of. My grandmother got them all a very long time ago. Some got abused when I was a stupid child, but not badly.
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01-06-2006, 02:49 PM
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If I told you everything on my four two books deep book shelves (and thats in MY room alone) we'd be here till next christmas but heres a few:
Tolkien: (all in black harper colins paper back) the Sil the Hobbit FOTR TTT ROTK Unfinished tales the chronicals of narnia the Jason Bourne trilogy the Ian Fleming James Bond novels Dan Brown Books: the Da Vinci Code Angels and Deamons deception Point the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy of 4 several star wars books (incl all the movie adaptations) The Harry Potter series the Garth Nix abourson Series: Sabriel Liriel Abourson Hornblower Jaws I robot a book called fire and hemlock lord of the flies Oliver twist the Alex Rider Antony Horowitz series The Bourne Legacy By Eric Van Lustbader Catch me if you can the Long Way round (ewan mcgregor and charley boorman's motorcycle trip around the world) The Templar Revelation (a book about the knights templar) Jesus the Man (a story of t6he life of Jesus that contradicts the bible) a set of classics (I can't remember them all) several Eion Colfer books the Darren Shan Vampire series His Dark Materials when the wind blows by James Patterson the Lake House by Jams Patterson the Alex Cross series (James Patterson) and many more... (I can't be bothered to type anymore but you get the jist)
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01-06-2006, 07:38 PM
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Oh lemme see...
Maps of ME The Hobbit LOTR The Philosophy of Tolkien The CS Lewis Collection Languages of Middle Earth Making "The Lord of the Rings" 20,000 leagues under the Seas I need more books
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01-07-2006, 02:41 PM
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Well, after that pic of the heap of books, I've finally decided to post here seriously.
 So, what's on my bookshelves... (just randomly going through them; and apologizing for most of the titles are rough translations.  )- Jostein Gaarder - The Mistery of the Cards; Sophie's World; The Orange Girl - Exupéry - The Little Prince - Robert Fulghum - It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It; Maybe (Maybe Not) - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo - Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses - 3 pieces of my current-very-favourite Hungarian author - Dan Rhodes - Timoleon Vieta comes home - Yann Martel - Life of Pi - another 3 Hungarian ones (2 poetry) - Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books - William Nicholson's Wind Singer trilogy - Philip Pullman's DarkMaterial trilogy, plus Clockwork and the other shortish tale, about the fireworkmaker's daughter... now WHERE are those two?  - Michael Ende - The Neverending Story; Momo; The Magic School and other stories - Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl; plus the second one, Arctic Incident, IIRC... waiting for the 3rd one - translators, COME on! - Sally Prue - Cold Tom - Russian folk tales - proof that the forced-and-only kind of literature can be beautiful, too - C. S. Lewis - Out Of The Silent Planet - found it totally by accident when the library was selling out some old books for a ridiculous price - just couldn't leave it there so typical of me - Hungarian folk tales - Winnie-the-Pooh - a shelf full of Agatha Christie's books - Doctorow - Sweet Land Stories - Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief - Thomas Wharton - Salamander - 3 books of José Saramago - The Stone Draft; Double; Lucidity (have borrowed & read Blindness and All the Names too) - 4 books of Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist; The Devil and Miss Prym; Veronica decides to die; By the River Piedra I sat down and wept - 3 books of a Czech guy called Milos Urban - 5 books of an Italian guy called Alessandro Baricco (his thread will die a quiet death since nobody seems to know him..) - another 5 Hungarian ones; one of them is a collection of interview with writers - Bridget Jones's Diary 1-2 Foreign-language bookshelf: - Michael Ende - The Neverending Story (in English - I really don't remember who bought it for me.. I read it though, but honestly, I should refresh my German knowledge and read it in original. )- bilingual readings: Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Café; Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey; R. L. Stevenson - Will o' the Mill; Stefan Zweig - Schachnovelle (tssk, German knowledge missing again...); Wells - The Magic Shop and other stories - HP I-III plus that tiny book, Fantastic Beasts - Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates - Kipling - The Jungle Books - Michael Crichton - The 13th Warrior (now where is that from?) - Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh Tolkien bookshelf: - LOTR, Sil, UT and Hobbit - both in original and Hungarian - HoME - currently 4 (Lost Tales 1-2, Lays, Morgoth's Ring - in original cuz never even published here, only Lost Tales and nowhere to be seen anyway) - the 3 EE DVDs and the 3 soundtrack CDs Currently borrowed from the library: C. S. Lewis - Of Other Worlds (in English); Four Loves; Miracles; Surprised by Joy Umberto Eco - The Story of Beauty Currently snatched from my parents: Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose, just finished reading it Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf (finished some time ago); Demian (just started) ; Siddharta wheew. Loo-ong list.  (Yes, I'm most certainly not normal )
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01-08-2006, 10:48 AM
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I've only got two shelves on my bookshelf full, I only started collecting last year. Mostly I read by borrowing from libraries, its hard to get many books where I am otherwise:
Harry Potter 2, 4, 5 and 6 Lord of the Rings The Silmarilion The Hobbit The Naked Sun - I. Asimov Gold The Robots of Dawn Foundation Foundation and Empire I, Robot Persuasion - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope The Golden Lion of Granpere Phineas Redux a dozen Agatha Christies even more P.G. Wodehouse A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Bleak House Great Expectations The Potrait of a Lady - Henry James The Turn of the Screw Moby Dick The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas The Razor's Edge - Someset Maugham Of Human Bondage War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Gulliver's Travels - Swift Not as large as I'd like it to be, and I have a lot of plans of expansion. The rest of my bookshelf contains my schoolbooks, and one shelf for all my bags of whatever size... one for CDs and DVDs and some pretty showpieces that I had no other place for.
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01-09-2006, 11:36 AM
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You really want a library catalogue?
Rather let me say that I have just added Dorothy L. Sayers two works 1) INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON DANTE, and 2) FURTHER PAPERS ON DANTE. Such brilliant analysis and explication is driving me back to THE DIVINE COMEDY yet again.
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01-10-2006, 05:48 AM
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Do you have "Out of the Silent Planet" (C.S. Lewis of course
) Inked? Is it good? I'm thinking of adding it to my list of books to read after "The Last Crossing" by Guy Vanderhaeghe (borrowed from my dad) and "The Golden Spruce" by John Valliant.Another book that's on my bookshelf that has been shelved until the summer is "The Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer. I just can't read Chaucer unless I'm on holiday. (I read quite a decent chunk on the bus and train between Norway and Sweden.) A book on my bookshelf that I have actually read is "Lie Down With Lions" by Ken Follett. I love his books - I think he's brilliant. This one is set in Afghanistan in the early 1980s (I think. It's when the USSR invaded Afghanistan.) (edited to add: And I think I only paid a dollar for it! )EDIT: littleadanel, I love "The Little Prince" and "Life of Pi"! Those are awesome books.
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01-10-2006, 10:34 AM
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and I forgot to mention that I have the original Le Petit Prince too. Something in French I can understand  EDIT: I checked the original title of my C. S. Lewis book, and I've got that one! (in Hungarian it's simply "The Silent Planet" and I thought they were different ones. ) Anyway, it's the one you asked about, and I do recommend it.
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01-10-2006, 06:59 PM
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I've added quite a few to my bookshelf in recent times...it'd take a thorough survey to sort em out form the ones already listed.
Buying books, I'm going to concentrate on finishing my Dostoyevsky collection, Polishing up my Dickens (my "great expectations" is in tatters), and getting EVERYTHING I possibly can that cs.Lewis ever wrote.
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01-11-2006, 05:00 PM
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I have a lot of Warriors books by Erin Hunter. They are my favorite books of all. They are about a cat that finds his destiny with a bunch of rugged cat clans. You guys might really like them. I know I did
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01-12-2006, 05:39 PM
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01-17-2006, 09:26 AM
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A lot of contemporary Fiction:
including... Sisterhood of the Traveling pants books 1-3 Princess Diaries A lot of Fantasy including.... Harry potter 1,4, and 6 Lord of the rings the two towers That Tamora Pierce one about the girl named Alanna that i can't remebmer the title to.... Dealing with dragon's series 1,2, and 4 And other random stuff like... The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Watership Down (I loved this book so much!!) Lord of the Flies Firebringer Menyms (or however you spell that)
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