Your Book Collection

What books do you own? Here's my collection titles:

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Gone
• Shark Life
• Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
• The Wide Window
• The Slippery Slope
• Runescape: The Official Handbook
• Haunted Kingsport: Ghosts of Tri-City Tennessee
• Haunted Jonesborough
• What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7
• Bull Run
• Lord of the Flies
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• The Cay
• Stay Out of the Basement
• The Drawing of the Three
• The Gunslinger
• Red Dragon
• Flowers for Algernon
• Carrie
• The Colorado Kid
  

you know there's a great website where you can post not only your book collection - you can post your videogame collection, and restaurant list. you can also review them, and link them on FaceBook.

I guess I could post my entire library, but Im probably 1/4th of the way thru it on http://livingsocial.com.

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something witty goes here......

I need more bookshelves

me too. SF you should join it, then I could look at your bookshelf.

I have hundreds of books, none of them Harry Potter or Stephen King.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

i get the impression that your bookshelf would probably make me feel like I'm swinging my legs off of a dime, Holden.

Here are the contents of one shelf:

Dickens, Dali & Others by George Orwell
My Disillusionment In Russia by Emma Goldman
Living My Life vol 1&2 by Emma Goldman
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
Basic Rights by Henry Shue
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 by Murray Bookchin
Cuban Anarchism by Frank Hernandez
The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective by Sam Dolgoff
The Philosophy of John Dewey edited by John J. McDermott
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods by James Herod
The Abolition of the State: Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives by Wayne Price
The Marx-Engels Reader edited by Robert C. Tucker
The Lenin Anthology edited by Robert C. Tucker
The State: It's Historic Role by Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
Fields, Factories and Workshops by peter Kropotkin
God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
The Black Jacobins by CLR James

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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.”
-Mikhail Bakunin

I'm now pretending to people that I don't like reading - last Christmas I was given 'books' by such luminaries as Jeremy Clarkson and Gordon Ramsay.

I fear that I won't be heeded, however, and can put money on being given something by Richard Hammond (the little bug-eyed bloke out of Top Gear) this year.

The local charity shop now look forward to my January visits.

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

I'm reading Red Dragon right now. I haven't even read most of the books I have. After I'm done with this one, I'm reading The Silence of the Lambs.

Gosh, far too many to type up, even if they weren't all in storage right now. I own more books than movies, although I've seen more movies than I've read books. The books I have next to my bed right now (so currently reading) are

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Mighty Book of Boosh
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I am half thinking of posting a list of my top 100 books in the manner of the top 100 film lists done on here, but can't get my head round my top 20 films for bobby's new mofo top 100 list at the moment so that may have to wait.

Tatty - I always thought celeb biographies are a strange kind of book. Not written by the author and only read by people who don't like reading.

They're just easy stocking-fillers, I guess. I suppose the Clarkson one wouldn't have been that bad (if you like him, and I do) because it's a collection of his newspaper articles but the whole concept just seems so lazy.

The 100 books list sounds a great idea.

Thank you. That's one of those books I keep meaning to read, but keep forgetting to.

Mack,
I will have to try that site you mentioned. I used to be on Shelfari, but found it boring.

I highly recommend it. Have you read the Dolgoff book on the Cuban Revolution? It is a must read for anyone interested in all the stuff that both capitalist and Marxist historians tend to gloss over. While Dolgoff and Hernandez cover some of the same ground, the two books complement one another rather well.

Here is a link to the full text of the Dolgoff book.


I must warn you however that the text formatting on a couple of chapters towards the end seems to be FUBAR. This renders these chapters basically unreadable. Most of the book is available online if you follow the link though.

Dolgoff begins thus:

My book collection... too many to list, hundreds more, maybe thousands, in storage. I just can't resist paperbacks (yes paperbacks. I prefer them to hardbacks, even). One of the things I love most about the Village in NYC are the little tables on the sidewalks where people sell old paperbacks.

I'm guessing that you also frequent the Strand Bookstore?

I would if I lived in NYC

There is no way I could list all my books. I am 37 and have been reading since I was 4. You do the math...

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I guess part of this is just that I don't have the collection-for-the-sake-of-collection impulse that a lot of nerds have, but access to a world-class research library has killed off most of the fun I used to have going to a book store. Even a good one like Strand can't compete with having immediate access to 11,000,000+ holdings (and semi-immediate access to everything else).

I still have a lot of books at home but I could lose most of them without much sadness.

Get a big kick out of going to Book Off though, research libraries tend not to carry much manga, and I've made some really great finds there.

I used to have an extra room in my house that I had turned into a library and have no idea how many books I even owned at the time... after Katrina, I had it in my head to replace a lot of them... but then it dawned on me I don't really have room for a lot of books right now... so, unless I run across something really special like the Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (1960) I ran across not too long ago, I've put most of my book buying on hold....

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