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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Hope&Anger wrote:
    Okay, now you're just showing off! :D

    Well, if there's one thing I take pride in, it's my books, and having read all of them. ;)
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm totally intimidated by Finsbury's list. Not only the content, but look how organized it is! A whole shelf with nothing but Shakespeare! I've got plenty of Shakespeare, but it's mixed in with Al Franken and Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Alice Walker and Harry Potter books and god knows what else :o

    *slinks off in shame*
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    the only books on my shelves are coloring books,...
    you're a real hooker. im gonna slap you in public.
    ~Ron Burgundy
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'm totally intimidated by Finsbury's list. Not only the content, but look how organized it is! A whole shelf with nothing but Shakespeare!

    There's actually a whole case of Shakespeare, but I stopped at one shelf. The shelves are two rows deep, too, to save space ... so I didn't mention what was behind them. :D
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    There's actually a whole case of Shakespeare, but I stopped at one shelf. The shelves are two rows deep, too, to save space ... so I didn't mention what was behind them. :D
    She's right, you're just showing off :D
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    TheVoiceInside wrote:
    Nice list Hippiemom, my senior year spanish literature class was all about One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. amazing book. it is about as universal a book can get. And as another poster suggested Isabel Allende is also very good.
    You know, I've read the first half of that book three times. Loved it all three times too! But every time I start reading it, some catastrophe happens and I have to set it aside for a while, and then so much time goes by that I feel like I have to start at the beginning again. So now I'm sort of afraid to start reading it again for fear of bringing on another catastrophe :o

    Ridiculous, I know. I'm not even superstitious. When I'm done with The Tender Bar (great fun to read, by the way, highly recommended!) I think I'll give it another shot.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    What's in your bookshelf

    Books, vinyl, whiskey, cigar box, mp3 player.
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • Boom The Cat
    Boom The Cat Posts: 482
    About 70 Garfield Books, and a few autobiographies
    no matter where you go,
    there you are.

    - brain of c
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    One day, I'll sit down and catalogue my library. Then I'll tell you what I've got, here.

    Yeah, I hear that, Fins - I have so many books it'd be impossible to tell you - but to give you an idea - I have lots of books about art/artists, nature writings, children's book illustrators (like Arthur Rackham, 1 of my fave artists), Buddhism/philosophy, poetry, some great fiction (LOTR, The Hobbit), Native American history, craft books.

    Some fave authors:
    Jack Kerouac
    Bernd Heinrich, Barry Lopez, Gretel Ehrlich (nature writers)
    William Blake
    can't list 'em all.......

    Nice to see that we have some "readers" on the board.....;-)
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
    Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn
    Henry Miller - Black Spring
    Henry Miller - Sunday After The War
    Henry Miller - The Smile at the foot of the Ladder (signed by the author)
    Charles Bukowski - Post Office
    Charles Bukowski - Factotum
    Charles Bukowski - Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
    Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
    Charles Bukowski - Betting on the muse
    Charles Bukowski - Last night of the Earth Poems
    Charles Bukowski - Shakespeare never did this
    Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense
    Charles Bukowski - Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window
    Charles Bukowski - The Days run away like horses over the Hills
    Charles Bukowski - Notes of a dirty old man
    Charles Bukowski - The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
    Charles Bukowski - Selected Letters Volumes 1, 2, & 3
    Charles Bukowski - Love is a dog from Hell
    Charles Bukowski - Septuagenarian Stew (Signed by the author)
    Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the end of the night
    Louis Ferdinand Celine -North
    Knut Hamsun - Mysteries
    Knut Hamsun - Hunger
    William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
    William Burroughs - The Place of dead roads
    William Burroughs - The Western Lands
    William Burroughs - Nova Express
    Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
    Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate
    Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum
    Jean Genet - Prisoner Of Love
    Jean Genet - The Thiefs Journal
    Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine
    Blaise Cendrars - Sky
    Gerard De Nerval - Selected Writings
    Antonin Artaud - Collected works
    Arthur Rimbaud - Collected Poems
    Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a thousand faces
    Julian Jaynes - The Origin of conciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
    Primo Levi - If this is a man
    Primo levi - The Drowned and the saved
    Primo Levi - The Search for Roots
    Elie Weisel - Night
    Arthur Schopenhaur - The World as will and representation parts 1 & 2
    Nietzsche - Untimely Meditations
    Nietzsche - The Birth Of Tragedy
    Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
    Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
    Nietzsche - The Anti-Christ & Ecce Homo
    The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh
    The Bhagavad Gita
    Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
    Sun Tzu - The Art Of War
    Daniel Pinchbeck - Breaking Open The Head
    The Secret Gospels Of jesus
    Elaine Pagels - The Gnostic Gospels
    Lewis Hyde - Trickster makes this world
    Martin Esslin - The Theatre of the Absurd
    Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper
    Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark
    Cormac McCarthy - Sutree
    Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
    Cormac McCarthy - All the pretty horses
    Cormac McCarthy - The crossing
    Cormac McCarthy - No country for old men
    The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
    Gogol - Dead Souls
    Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
    Dostoyevsky - The Devils
    Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
    Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
    Anthony Loyd - My War Gone By, I Miss It So
    Peter Matthiessen - In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
    Bill Hicks - Agent Of Evolution
    Rob Jovanovic - Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band
    Johnny Rotten - No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
    Andrew Meir - Black Earth - Russia after the fall
    Anthony Beevor - Berlin
    Roderic Braithwaite - Moscow 1941 - A city and it's people at war
    Richard Overy - Russia's war
    Michel Houllebecq - Atomised
    Michel Houllebecq - Platform
    Michel Houllebecq - H.P Lovecraft - Against The World, Against Life
    Michel Houllebecq - The Possibility Of an Island
    Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
    Nick Cave - And the ass saw the angel
    Albert Camus - The Myth Of Sisyphus
    Albert Camus - The Rebel
    Albert Camus - The Stranger
    Alexander Trocchi - Cains Book
    Richard Farina - Been down so long it looks like up to me
    Ken Kesey - One flew over the cuckoos nest
    Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
    Jim Dodge - Not Fade away
    Emmet Grogan - Ringolevio
    Hunter Thompson - Hells Angels
    Hunter Thompson - The Rum Diary
    Saul Bellow - Herzog
    Saul Bellow - The Deans December
    Saul Bellow - Mr Sammlers Planet
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    qtegirl wrote:
    If you like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you should also check out Isabel Allende. Especially, The House of Spirits. Great book.
    Aphrodite - A Memoir of the Senses is a quick foodie read by her, too.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • CaterinaA
    CaterinaA Posts: 572
    Give it a try myself...I'll name the books I have with my home, which are very few. Can't remember those in my parents house...

    Charles Bukowsky-Hollywood
    Charles Bukowsky-Post Office
    Charles Bukowsy-Tales of a Dirty Old Man
    Paul Auster-New York Trilogy
    Paul Auster-Smoke & Blue in the Face
    Pulp Fiction Script-Quentin Tarantino
    David Lynch-Michel Chion
    Jack Kerouac-Big Sur
    Jack Kerouac-Dharma Bums
    John Kennedy Toole-Confederacy of Duncees
    George Orwell-1984
    Steppenwolf-Hermann Hesse
    The Tin Drum-Günter Grass
    J.D. Salinger-Catcher in the Rye
    Mario Vargas Llosa-La Fiesta del Chivo
    Nelson Mandela-Long Walk to Freedom
    Buried Alive:The Biography of Janis Joplin-Myra Friedman
    Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division-Deborah Curtis
    Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain-Charles R. Cross
    Plase Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock-Legs McNeil&Gillian McCain
    England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond-John Savage


    I also have more than 20 books about the Peronist Movement, the Montoneros Guerilla and the Peronist Left
    And, finally I don't know how many books/papers/manuals about Economic Theory, Econometrics, Statistics, Math, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Social Policy, Public Politics, etc, from the time I was a student

    PS: for those with some preferences for Latin American writers, I highly recommend Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges books!!!
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    One random shelf? I have thirteen big ole bookcases in this room. I'll do one shelf, because even if I do one case, I'll be here all night. Er... hang on....

    The Complete Pelican Shakespeare - Comedy and Romances (Pelican)
    The Complete Pelican Shakespeare - Histories and Tragedies (Pelican)
    The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Midpoint Press)
    Shakspeare (sic) - another complete works (Kegan Paul Ltd 1909)
    Shakespeare in Production: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cambridge)
    Twelfth Night (Oxford)
    Othello (Cambridge Schools)
    Shakespeare in Production: Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge)
    Shakespeare's Sonnets (eds. Ingram and Redpath)
    Antony and Cleopatra (Oxford)
    Shakespeare in Production: The Tempest (Cambridge)
    The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge)
    The Merchant of Venice (Cambridge Schools)
    Duncan Salkeld - Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (Manchester)
    Keir Elam - Shakespeare's Universe of Discourses (Cambridge)
    The Norton Shakespeare
    Mr William Shakespeares: A Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623 (Routledge)
    Helen Vendler - The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard)
    The TLS on Shakespeare (TLS)
    Anne Righter - Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (Penguin)
    The Longman Guide to Shakespeare Quotations (Longman)

    There ya go. Yes, every edition is different.
    Yeah, my shelves look a lot like that, too ;)
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Wow - great collection, Brynzie......

    I have Charles Bukowski - "The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain" (poetry) & we have a few books in common.......
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    What? No one has Exam Cram's CCNA Study Guide by Tod Lamle?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Ahnimus wrote:
    What? No one has Exam Cram's CCNA Study Guide by Tod Lamle?

    I am waiting for someone to list something quasi-normal, like something in the "For Dummies" series, or like 80 volumes of the long-standing Western serial "Longarm".
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Barry Lopez, Gretel Ehrlich (nature writers)
    I haven't had the time to read Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, but I've wanted to for a while. I've read The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich's, but I didn't finish Questions of Heaven or MATCH TO THE HEART, A: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning. I think my nature writing reading phase ran it's course a couple years ago.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    reborncareerist wrote:
    I am waiting for someone to list something quasi-normal, like something in the "For Dummies" series, or like 80 volumes of the long-standing Western serial "Longarm".

    I don't have any "For Dummies" books, there is something about the title that makes me not want to buy it. I'd sooner by the "For Scientists and Engineers" and read it four or five times until I understand it.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    reborncareerist wrote:
    I am waiting for someone to list something quasi-normal, like something in the "For Dummies" series, or like 80 volumes of the long-standing Western serial "Longarm".
    Come on, now ... you know better than to come to the MT looking for normality ;)
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    reborncareerist wrote:
    I am waiting for someone to list something quasi-normal, like something in the "For Dummies" series, or like 80 volumes of the long-standing Western serial "Longarm".
    I had Architecture for Dummies, I have Knitting for Dummies, and I had Drawing for Dummies. I have Project Management for Idiot's, and a few other's. That's not the shelf I'm going to focus on, though.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird

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