Your bookshelf

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject: Your bookshelf

I have taken some pix around the house.. and came up with this one...
a section of one of the bookshelves..

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seraph · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

Stein why don't you turn your camera 90 degrees to the right and redo the photo so I can see the titles without having to tilt my head Question

thanks

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

Do what I do... tilt the monitor.

Hmm.. yet another

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Abaddon · Joined: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 105

Right now I am reading R.A. Salvatore's "The crystal shard".
I finished the Dark elf trilogy not too long ago. Cool

Thunder Wave · Joined: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Seattle, WA

What Book by Steinbeck is that?

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:

"The log from the sea of Cortez" I read it years ago. I have a lot of Steinbeck all over the place.. the same with Philip K. Dick, Ginsberg, Ibsen and .. well. that stuff..

Thunder Wave · Joined: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Seattle, WA

OMG I haven't read that one....

I'll have to look into that one for sure.

Try some of my favorites...

Dean Koontz and well of course Stephen King. Laughing

Seriously Dean Koontz can spellbind me.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

I have a bunch of older Koontz somewhere.. dunno where. As far as I remember I found his books very entertaioning. He is a good writer and it shows he has serious fun writing those books. King.. yeah.. I have read some of his stuff.. I guess the latest I read was The Stand.. a good one.. I haven´t read much King since though.

play · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:00 am Post subject:

i liked The Stand up until right after everyone is dead. the ending was pure disney. maybe it's just the whole battle between good and evil plot that i find cliched.

just finished faucault's pendulum. umberto eco is a brilliant writer.

i don't have a digital camera but my bookshelf looks like this:

shakespeare, greek tragedies
horror(harlan ellison, clive barker), scifi/fantasy (stephenson, vonnegut, sturgeon, lots and lots of philip k dick)
upanishads, bible, writer's reference

and if I had lots of money there would be a ton of comics too.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

yeah... those comics.. by the way.. you ever read any of the Giraud ( moebius ) stuff? I see Blueberry is a movie these days.

http://www.passionbd.com/serieblueberry.htm

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jkn · Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 469 Location: La Porte, IN, USA

Unfortunately, I ran out of room on my bookshelves to really keep many books around - I have about 4 crates of books over at my wife's parent's basement - and some in our basement and then a few in my studio. Whatever I'm currently reading just kind of ends up in my studio until I rotate them a bit. I was a massive bookworm as a kid and still have many books from then and from when I read more in my 20's.

I'm back on a fantasy kick lately - rereading a few in the last month:

Modesitt - Fall of Angels, Chaos Balance, Towers of the Sunset

Goodkind - Stone of Tears, Temple of the Winds

Earlier this year:

Tolkien - LOTR (12th time or so through)

Sicko - Techno Rebels (if you're interested in Detroit techno - great book, rest of the world is touched on, but the focus is on detroit...)

Waldrop - Complexity (more of a random read a chapter here and there instead of a full reread...)

Thunder Wave · Joined: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Seattle, WA

Here's my Bookshelf. Most of my books are still in boxes. These ones are my favorites and always in use books.

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mosc · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:17 am Post subject:

Here's my bookcase... Evil or Very Mad

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elektro80 · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

well.. high quality literature in an active setting.. Very Happy

mosc · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:58 am Post subject:

Actually, one of the projects I've been putting off for the last 6 months is going to IKEA and getting some book shelves.

I have some kind of dislexia. I can read and understand what I read, but there is a level of discomfort when reading. I really do not enjoy the act of reading itself. I very rarely read for recreation. Most of my reading is functional - manuals, how-tos, texts, research papers, articles, and that sort of thing. I haven't read a novel in many years.

On the other hand, I have great aural comprehension. In school, I was able to pick up enough information in class discussion to fake it on tests in literature. I really enjoy Shakespere, but would never read a play if I had a choice.

People are always telling me, "Oh, you must read this... It's great." I appreciate their intentions, but I'd rather spend my time playing around with music, or day dreaming.

I can read music, well enough to get a degree in music, but I can't sight read.

There must be a circut that never developed, or only partially developed.

zynthetix · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

all I have with me right now...not exactly leisure reading..oh well.

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mosc · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

How did you take this picture, Zynth, if your digital camera is in the picture?

egw · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

The pictures of shelves and closets, etc. are fascinating.
They give a particular insight into a person's style and tastes.
I would post mine, but everything is in storage right now.

zynthetix · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject: