NationStates Jolt Archive

I find that a great way to get to know someone is to look at their bookshelfs.

Thus I have listed a few of my books so you can get to know me.

The Bush Haters Handbook- Jack Huberman
Macroeconomics
Doctor Who: 40 Years of Timetravel
Microeconomics
Magician- Raymond E Fiest
The Good News Bible
Readings in Monetary Economics
On Liberty- John Stuart Mill
Econometrics
Dune- Frank Herbert
Stalingrad- Antony Beevor
Various note books full of economics notes (also some politics)
Many other fictional books

So now its your turn to tell us about yourself, through your bookshelf.

Edit: Added names of some authors

A huge load of fiction: mostly random stuff but including 1984, Chariots of the Gods (read it, didn't believe a word of it), The Communist Manifesto, The Ultimate Dinosaur Book, a few history books, and The Book of Bunny Suicides. Oh, and a dictionary.

Lots o' fantasy (Eddings, Tolkien, etc), Terry Pratchett, Scott Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a couple Stephen King, some Stephen Hawking, and a couple political books of liberal leaning, to name a few.

As the books on the shelves would necessarily be either selective, or a very long list (5000+) I will stick with what is on my desk at the moment.

The Portable Nietzsche
C++ Programming Language - Stroustrup
A Treatise of Human Nature _ Hume (two versions English and Portuguese)
Ética a Nicômaco - Aristóteles
Two Treatises of Government - Locke
Signifying Nothing: The semiotics of zero - Rotman
The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

*Dictionaries and an encyclopedia (one bookcase)

*One bookcase full of Fantasy and Science Fiction books (from Asimov to Tolkien)

*Two bookcases full of General fiction books (Guenter Grass, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Cotzee, Jose Saramago, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Assia Djebar, Stendhal, Tolstoi, Banana Yoshimoto, Kenzaburo Oe, Toni Morrison, Robert Schneider, just to name a few authors)

*One bookcase full of non-fiction (Art, History, Philosophy, Geography, Ethnology, Astronomy)

*One huge bookcase full of comic books (Calvin&Hobbes, Bone, Gaston Lagaffe, Elfquest, Princess Mononoke, Carl Barks Disney Comics, Les Tuniques bleus, Merlin, Usagi Yojimbo, Das kleine Arschloch, Ralf Koenig's Schwul-Comics)

Yeah, I too have way too many books to list all of them.
A good percentage is Fantasy (Jordan, Eddings, Williams..etc)
Several books on Irish Mythology and mythology in general
Church lesson manuals, Scriptures (English and Spanish)
Asimov's short stories
Calculus and other math textbooks
History Books (Irish, Scotish, English, Aztec, Mayan, etc.)
Geography books
not a single political book in the bunch though, don't like them, they are all slanted.

hmmmm lets see

A few books on longsword fighting (Guy Windsor, Christian Henry Tobler, Terry Brown (not strictly longsword but...) and Talhoffer)

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Blue Noon - Robert Ryan

Himalaya - Michael Palin

How to Practise: The Way to a Meaningful Life - Dalai Lama

Footballs Strangest Matches - Andrew Ward

3 Terry Pratchett Books (Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic and Equal Rites)

Chop - No idea who its by but its a cookery book :D

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) - A.J.P. Taylor

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations - Michael Walzer

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein

The Lancaster and York: Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir

Magician - Raymond E. Feist

Thats not all of them by a long shot but those are the ones i can see from my desk :)

EDIT: and the one I just read

Going deaf for a living - Steve Lamacq

*looks around room*

Hmm... It appears that I don't have a bookshelf, or any "books", for that matter.

I'll respond when I get home from work.

Thousands of books (and yes, I've read most of them).
The main categories:
Christian (both Bible study and for general encouragement)
Bibles
Science fiction
History
Classics
Books for learning various languages
English language and Literature
...and a smattering of other stuff.

I like reading. Can you tell? ;)

Working from memory here are a few books on my bookshelf

Fiction Thomas Ligotti's Noctuary, Nightmare Factory, Grimscribe
H.P. Lovecraft (assorted short stories in paperback collections)
Shakespear The Riverside Shakespear (old college textbook)
A collection of Jorge Luis Borges short stories
Non-Fiction Be Your Own Undertaker
Corpse
3 Field guides (Poisonous and Medicinal plants, Plants of N.E. USA, Mushrooms)
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
Wing Chun Gung Fu by Bruce Lee (required reading for my Martial Arts classes)

hmmm my bookshelf at uni = *very* limited to what I happen to have dragged from the familly library each time I visit (we do have one room devoted to books and only books)

currently
White Wolf RPG game systems (V:TM, Demon, Wereworlf) plus some clanbooks and other expansions.

cookbooks (italian, microwave and healthy living)

a couple of criminal psyche/sociology/general psyche/research methods textbooks

a few of my favourite Anne Rice novels

an antique copy of Miltons collected works that I found in a second hand bookstore last week (no publishing data but judging from the fact that its allegedly printed (from the foreward) less then 50yrs after his death I'm quite excited...)

Robin Hobbs Farseer Trilogy

oh and my journals

This is my kind of thread. Anyway, here are a few examples:

Artemis Fowl (#'s 1-3)
Harry Potter (#'s 1-5)
The Supernaturalist
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Scarlet Letter
The M.D.-A Horror Story

There are assorted horror stories, old Nancy Drew books, and some Little House on the Prarie books from when I was in the first grade.

The Fall of Carthage -Adrian Goldsworthy
Pandoras Star - Peter F. Hamilton.
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton.
Conquest of Gaul - Caesar
The Peloponnesian war - Thucydides
Inferno - Dante
The Sword of Shanarra -burns self at the stake for momentarily forgetting the author.
The Lord of the Rings -JRR Tolkien
The Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Prince - Nicollo Machiavelli
The Analects - Confucius


That's all I can think of right now.

The Sword of Shanarra -burns self at the stake for momentarily forgetting the author.

Terry Brooks

To name a few:

The "Preacher" serie. Nothing religious just a great comic serie.

Some Allan Moore and Frank Miller comics.

His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman

Coplestone's A History of Philosphy and a bunch of other philo books.

Feynman Lectures on Physics

the Kamasutra

All of Carlos Castaneda's books. He was an anthropologist who wrote about some very interesting fieldwork he did over a period of 12 years with "a weird old indian".

A few of collection of short stories by Raymond Carver.

Some Dostojevsky.

The Sword of Shanarra -burns self at the stake for momentarily forgetting the author.


Terry Brooks, dear.

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His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman



I read the first two books of that. I loved the first one, but found the sencond one a bit boring. How's the third one?

Heck: I'm a packrat when it comes to books. I'll do two shelves at random out of the sixty-one I have (not including the random piles scattered over the flat):

Left-to-right -
The Magic Labyrinth, The Dark Design, The Fabulous Riverboat, To You Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame (Volumes I & II) - ed. Ben Bova
The Gift Of Death, Spectres Of Marx, Points - Jacques Derrida
Microserfs, Postcards From The Dead - Douglas Coupland
Lost Dimension - Paul Virilio
Oulipo Laboratory
Mavis Belfrage - Alisdair Gray
Philosophical Papers - Austin
The Selfish Gene - Dawkins
Beginning Logic - Lemmon
The Baader-Meinhof Group - Stefan aust
Dreammakers (interviews with sf writers) -ed. Charles Platt
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Funeral Rites - Jean Genet
Aristotle: The Desire To Understand - Lear
Movements in Art Since 1945 -Edward Lucie-Smith

(The Tolstoy and the Genet are the two there I haven't read. I've never sat down with War & Peace, and despite loving the rest of Genet's work I just haven't been gripped by Funeral Rites the two times I've started reading it.)

Another random shelf:

The Sheep Look Up, Stand On Zanzibar - John Brunner
The Poor Mouth, The Dalkey Archive - Flann O'Brien
Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein
The Nature Of The Catastrophe - Michael Moorcock & Langdon Jones (eds)
The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler
Cosaint Shibhialta Bas Beatha - an Irish government produced booklet on what to do in the case of a nuclear attack dating from the early 60s.
The Makeshift Rocket, War Of The Wing-Men - Poul Anderson
A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! - Harry Harrison
The Lincoln Hunters - Wilson Tucker
Goodbye To All That, Robert Graves
Engines Of Creation - Jack McDevitt
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook - yes, by the thriller writer.
The Society Of The Spectacle - Guy deBord
Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Rules Of Attraction - Brett Easton Ellis
Chroma - Derek Jarman
Our Noise - Jeff Gomez
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
The Gate OF Time - Philip Jose Farmer
The Dragon In The Sea - Frank Herbert
The Sun Also Rises, Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
Monument - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Who?, Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys
Capricorn Games. The Land Of The Living - Robert Silverberg
The Robot Who Looked Like Me - Robert Sheckley
Isle Of The Dead - Robert Zelazney
Guernica Night - Barry N. Malzberg
The Legion OF Space - Jack Williamson
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Bloody Red Baron - Kim Newman
Tiemscape - Gregory Benford
The Magic Of Lewis Carroll
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll
Rogue Star - Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson

Read all that lot - if I had picked another shelf it could well have been the case that I would actually have read only one or two out of twenty or so. I believe it was Italo Calvini that argued it was pointless having a collection of books if you had read them all.

All in all not an entirely unrepresentative cross-section of my books.

I read the first two books of that. I loved the first one, but found the sencond one a bit boring. How's the third one?

Heartbreaking. Not a happy ending at all. Other than that it was a great read.

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I'm currently 5,000 miles away from most of my books (damn shipping rates!); the books I chose to bring with me include:

Some Terry Pratchett
J.R.R. Tolken
Various books on human devlopment, language, and learning theories
Various histories on WWII, Japan, and early America
Various Japanese dictionaries
A small collection of manga (mostly bi-lingual use as teaching materials)
My Bible
And other odds and ends.

Not really a good cross of what I normally have on hand though.

My problem is, coming home for a visit this summer, is to stop myself from dumping books from home into my suitcase to return back to Japan (damn airline baggage weight limit!).

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler

Quotations from Chairman Mao: Mao Zedong

The Kinsey Report: Alfred Kinsey

Democracy and Education: John Dewey

Das Kapital: Karl Marx

The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan

The Course of Positive Philosophy: Auguste Comte

Beyond Good and Evil: Freidrich Nietzsche

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: John Maynard Keynes

The Population Bomb: Paul Ehrlich

What Is To Be Done: Lenin

Authoritarian Personality: Theodor Adorno

On Liberty: John Stuart Mill

Beyond Freedom and Dignity: B.F. Skinner

Reflections on Violence: Georges Sorel

The Promise of American Life: Herbert Croly

Origin of the Species: Charles Darwin

Madness and Civilization: Michel Foucault

Soviet Communism: A New Civilization: Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Coming of Age in Samoa: Margaret Mead

Unsafe at Any Speed: Ralph Nader

Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir

Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci

Silent Spring: Rachel Carson

Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud

The Greening of America: Charles Reich

The Limits to Growth: Club of Rome

Descent of Man: Charles Darwin

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler

Quotations from Chairman Mao: Mao Zedong

The Kinsey Report: Alfred Kinsey

Democracy and Education: John Dewey

Das Kapital: Karl Marx

The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan

The Course of Positive Philosophy: Auguste Comte

Beyond Good and Evil: Freidrich Nietzsche

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: John Maynard Keynes

The Population Bomb: Paul Ehrlich

What Is To Be Done: Lenin

Authoritarian Personality: Theodor Adorno

On Liberty: John Stuart Mill

Beyond Freedom and Dignity: B.F. Skinner

Reflections on Violence: Georges Sorel

The Promise of American Life: Herbert Croly

Origin of the Species: Charles Darwin

Madness and Civilization: Michel Foucault

Soviet Communism: A New Civilization: Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Coming of Age in Samoa: Margaret Mead

Unsafe at Any Speed: Ralph Nader

Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir

Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci

Silent Spring: Rachel Carson

Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud

The Greening of America: Charles Reich

The Limits to Growth: Club of Rome

Descent of Man: Charles Darwin

Good choices. And excellent light reading.

Lets here a bump.

Define yourself.

I'm impressed by the number of people who apparently live in libraries.

My collection is a lot more modest than it was growing up. I have put most of my science fiction novels back into circulation, and discarded a lot of old paperbacks in recent housecleaning. What I have on the shelves are mostly select references.

The Greek Myths - Robert Graves
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Love Visions - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Odyssey, The Illiad - Homer
The Bhagavad Gita
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
The Mabinogion
Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae - Euripides
The Analects - Confucius
Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia
Seasons of Woman - Penelope Washbourn
Songs of Sappho - An English Translation by Many Poets
The Crone's Book of Words - Valerie Worth
Descent to the Goddess - Sylvia Brinton Perera
The Animals in That Country - Margaret Atwood
The Inanna Poems - Karen Lawrence
Poems from the Old English - Translated by Burton Raffel
The Earliest English Poems
Ivanhoe - Sir. Walter Scott
Le Motre d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Arthur, the King - Graeme Fife
Citadels of Mystery - L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine C. de Camp
Prehistoric Crete - R.W. Hutchinson
The Search for Anicent Greece - Roland and Francoise Etienne
Lost Civilizations: Facts and Enigmas in Archaeology - Henri-Paul Eydoux
Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages - M.I. Finley
Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks - Jean Richer
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Sun Songs: Creation Myths from Around the World - Raymond Van Over
The Ruin Poem: Wisdom's Fulfillment, Prophecy's Reach - Jim Paul
The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
A Big Enough God - Sara Maitland
The Universal Myths - Alexander Eliot
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood - Merlin Stone
The Hero Within - Carol S. Pearson
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
An Open Life - Joseph Campbell
Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell
The Flight of the Wild Gander - Joseph Campbell
The Complete Guide to the Constellations - Geoffrey Cornelius
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image - Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
The White Goddess - Robert Graves
Goddesses in Everywoman - Jean Shinoda Bolen
Gods in Everyman - Jean Shinoda Bolen
Women's Rituals - Barbara G. Walker
Shaman: The Paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet
Earth Medicine: A Shamanic Way to Self Discovery - Kenneth Meadows
Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows - Marion Weinstein
The Gentle Arts of Aquarian Magic - Marian Green
Holy Bible - New International Version
The Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation
The Lost Books of the Bible
Matriarchal Mythology in Former Times and Today - Heide Gottner-Abendroth
When God was a Woman - Merlin Stone
In All Her Names - Joseph Campbell, Riane Eisler, Marija Gimbutas, Charles Muses
Women of the Celts - Jean Markale
Celtic Gods and Goddesses - R.J. Stewart
The Handbook of Celtic Astrology - Helena Peterson
The Language of the Goddess - Marija Gimbutas
The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets - Barbara G. Walker
A Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects - Barbara G. Walker
The Sanctuaries of the Goddess - Peg Streep
The Five Colours of the Universe - John E. Vollmer
Mythic Astrology - Liz Greene
A Handbook of Astrology for Australia and New Zealand
The Round Art of Astrology - A.T. Mann
The Secret Language of Symobols - David Fontana
The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets - Geoffrey Cornelius and Paul Devereux
Crafting for Good Feng Shui - Janice Eaton Kilby
The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Jabberwocky (Illustrated) - Lewis Carroll
The Skeptical Feminist - Barbara G. Walker
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece - Charlene Spretnak
Earth Energy: A Dowser's Investigation of Ley Lines - J. Havelock Fidler
The Song of Taliesin: Stories and Poems from the Broceliande - John Matthews
Atlantis Illustrated - H.R. Stahel
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World - Ignatius Donnelly
Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin

Well, I just can't throw away books. Genetic defect, I guess :D

I have hundreds, if not thousands, of books on my shelves. Here are but a few examples:


Several books by James Bovard:

"Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State & The Demise of the Citizen"
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
"The Fair Trade Fraud"
"Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years"
"The Bush Betrayal"
"Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil"


Several by John Shelby Spong:

"Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture"
"A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born"
"Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile"
"Resurrection : Myth or Reality?"
"Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Role of Women in a Male-Dominated Church"
"This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop's Search for the Authentic Jesus"


A couple by Earl Doherty:

"Challenging the Verdict: A Cross-Examination of Lee Strobel's 'The Case for Christ'"
"The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus"


A few by Richard Dawkins:

"The Selfish Gene"
"The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design"
"Climbing Mount Improbable"
"River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life"


"The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History," by Howard Bloom


"Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme," by Richard Brodie


"The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War", by Thomas DiLorenzo

I have only a very few books here with me at the moment:

War of the Flowers - Tad Williams
New Spring - Jordan
Ravenor - Dan Abnet
LOTR - ...
Hitchhiker's Guide - also ...
The Lost Continent - Bryson
[chemistry textbooks] - assorted clever people
Science studies - an advanced introduction [a big load of bollocks, more like] - David Hess

I actually have to post a picture of my office library. There are too many to deal with appropriately.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/IMG_3477.jpg

Top Right: Fiction/SF paperbacks
Second Right: Firearms/Self defense law/US Politics
Third Right: Complete set Britannica "Great Books"
(full set of Harvard Classics downstairs with 1943 Colliers Encyclopedia, “Library of American Freedoms”, “Annals of America” and Enlightenment Era US political Philosophy books)
Fourth Right: General Philosophy, Ethics & Religion (various)
Fifth Right: VW Repair, Sociology, Literature and Art
Sixth Right: Computer Parts, Star-Fleet Battles, RPGs & Comics

Middle - A Short Sword for when I'm Bored and a handgrenade for when I'm ignored.

Top Left: Ebay Crap & WV Car Show trophy
Seconf Left: Business & Science
Third Left: Language(s)
Fourth Left: Grammar, Linguistics, Computer CDs (and Wife's books)
Fifth Left: Misc books & CDs
Sixth Left: Natl. Geographic & Junk.

I read too much...

I have too many books ;)

Topics:

Physics
Chem
Biology
Anthropology
Primates
History
War History
Astronomy
SciFi
Fantasy
Computers - Networking, programming, security, windows, Linux, Solars
Math
German, French, Swahili


Just at the top of my head.
.....

Heartbreaking. Not a happy ending at all. Other than that it was a great read.
Seconded, a brilliant book. One of the best I've read, and the only book that ever made me cry. (and not ashamed to admit it)
I have: (amongst others, this is just a small section)
Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials
John Grisham, every book of his.
Jonathan Kellerman:
Doctor Death
Self-Defense
A Cold Heart
Twisted
Brian Jacques: Every Redwall book
Eoin Colfer: Every book of his.
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles
Terry Pratchett:
A Hat Full of Sky
The Wee Free Men
Going Postal
The Last Continent
Thief of Time
Mort
Soul Music
Pyramids
Bernard Cornwell: Rebel|Copperhead
Tom Clancy:
The Teeth Of The Tiger
Changing Of The Guard

Just a small sample of the books I have, quite mature taste in books for a 14 year old, but I like reading.

I actually have to post a picture of my office library. There are too many to deal with appropriately.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/IMG_3477.jpg

Top Right: Fiction/SF paperbacks
Second Right: Firearms/Self defense law/US Politics
Third Right: Complete set Britannica "Great Books"
(full set of Harvard Classics downstairs with 1943 Colliers Encyclopedia, “Library of American Freedoms”, “Annals of America” and Enlightenment Era US political Philosophy books)
Fourth Right: General Philosophy, Ethics & Religion (various)
Fifth Right: VW Repair, Sociology, Literature and Art
Sixth Right: Computer Parts, Star-Fleet Battles, RPGs & Comics

Middle - A Short Sword for when I'm Bored and a handgrenade for when I'm ignored.

Top Left: Ebay Crap & WV Car Show trophy
Seconf Left: Business & Science
Third Left: Language(s)
Fourth Left: Grammar, Linguistics, Computer CDs (and Wife's books)
Fifth Left: Misc books & CDs
Sixth Left: Natl. Geographic & Junk.

I read too much...

I like the stuffed tiger on the top left ;)

I like the stuffed tiger on the top left ;)
SSHHHHH! You'll "out" me for liking soft fluffy things...

Like these:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/tinker.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/Deshka.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/233be846.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/DesktopCat600x800.jpg

Actually, that and the Teady Bear you can't see came from my (deceased) Uncle's collection.

The Wrist Rocket (slingshot) Cannon, Grenade ans Short Sword are pure Me tho... :p

I feel like a bump

Four meters of fiction
one meter of art
80 cm of science
one meter of other non fiction
50 cm of comics

Four meters of fiction
one meter of art
80 cm of science
one meter of other non fiction
50 cm of comics

25.4 cm of romance.

25.4 cm of romance.
lol :D

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St Joan of Arc- Vita Sackville West Crime and Punishment-Dostoyevsky Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee Paradise Lost-John Milton 3 Volumes of Jane Austen Every thing by C.S. Lewis except The Narnia Chronicles All The Dune books by Frank Herbert All mysteries by Agatha Christie and Anne Perry Numerous books on Health, a series from The Folio Society on Historical Trials, Beowulf, A History of London, The Bible A collection of books on Ancient civilizations and many other books i do not have time to list because i have to go to work.

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Memnoch the Devil
The Holy Bible
The Devil's dictionary
TAMPAering with asylum - Rev Frank Brennon
LOTR & Hobbit - Tolkien
Australian First Aid
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonios
Histories - Heroditios
Tommorow when the war began series - John Marsden
Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Stupid white men - Stupid white man
All of Nick Earls book, including the 'spoken word' CD that wasn't very popular
Almost all of Anne Rice's Vampire books and one witch book
History of almost everything - Bill Bryson
Life of birds/mamals/plants - David Attenborough
Contest - Matthew Riley
Demon in the freezer
The Roman and Greek 'Lives' - Plutarch
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Othello, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest - Shakesphere
Some cooking books, some refrence books and plenty more novels (Austen, Bronte, Achiebe) and the phone books and UBD

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels

Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler

Quotations from Chairman Mao: Mao Zedong

The Kinsey Report: Alfred Kinsey

Democracy and Education: John Dewey

Das Kapital: Karl Marx

The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan

The Course of Positive Philosophy: Auguste Comte

Beyond Good and Evil: Freidrich Nietzsche

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: John Maynard Keynes

The Population Bomb: Paul Ehrlich

What Is To Be Done: Lenin

Authoritarian Personality: Theodor Adorno

On Liberty: John Stuart Mill

Beyond Freedom and Dignity: B.F. Skinner

Reflections on Violence: Georges Sorel

The Promise of American Life: Herbert Croly

Origin of the Species: Charles Darwin

Madness and Civilization: Michel Foucault

Soviet Communism: A New Civilization: Sidney and Beatrice Webb

Coming of Age in Samoa: Margaret Mead

Unsafe at Any Speed: Ralph Nader

Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir

Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci

Silent Spring: Rachel Carson

Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud

The Greening of America: Charles Reich

The Limits to Growth: Club of Rome

Descent of Man: Charles Darwin

Yes, excellent choices (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591).

I've got about 350 books here, but I've only really read most of the fiction. Most represented authors, in order of number of books: Pratchett, Murakami, Shakespeare, Salinger, DeLillo, Pynchon. Not that I've read all of them, of course.

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A quick over view of the bookshelf to my immediate left:

Republic of Plato
Standards of Taste
Ancestor's Tale
A bunch of Bukowski
A bunch of Hemingway
A bunch of Stein
A bunch of Palahniuk
John Cheever
Flannery O'Conner
John Updike
Dow Mossman
Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams
Cervantes
Gustave Flaubert
Jules Verne (collected works)
William Shakespeare (collected works)
David Mamet (a plethora)
John Locke's Second Trestise of Government
Collected work of Aristophanes
A bunch of Herman Hesse
The complete Anton Chekov
The complete Henrik Ibsen
More plays than I know what to do with
science and literature and government and philosophy and history and comedy and blah blah blah

I feel like a jerk just for typing this.

A quick over view of the bookshelf to my immediate left:

A bunch of Herman Hesse

I feel like a jerk just for typing this.

If it gets someone else cracking open some Hesse then it was worthwhile.

I mus get round to The Glass Bead Game one of these years.

I have no fiction... except boxed up in the basement, and not much. (I know there's some Grisham down there.)

Freakanomics- Steven D. Levitt
World on Fire- Amy Chua
Virus Hunter- C.J. Peters
The Coming Plague- Laurie Garrett

John Douglas:
-Mind Hunter
-Journey into Darkness
-Obsession

The Biology of Violence-Debra Niehoff
The Lucifer Principle- Howard Bloom
Explaining Hitler- Ross Rosenbaum
Black Holes and Baby Universes- Steven Hawking
Just Six Numbers- Martin Reese
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields- Dith Pran
Overkill-Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed- James Alan Fox
100 Masterpieces of Art-Marina Vaizey
If I Die in a Combat Zone- Tim O'Brien
The Simpsons and Philosophy- Irwin, Conard, Skoble
DSM IV
PDR 2K4
Fighting Terrorism- Benjamin Netanyahu
Manifold Destiny- Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller :p

I have loads of books on abnormal psych. I've been reading and studying serial killers forever and well over 100 books on the subject.

I also have read well over 100 books on severe weather (tornados in particular), and geological disasters, etc. Unfortunately, they're all boxed in the basement who knows where.

I know, I've read no classics, and I need to get some fiction and lighten up. ;)

Oh! Somewhere lying around the basement is one of my favorite fiction books: A Clockwork Orange.