I love books, reading books, and “looking things up” in books. The computer has made a nice addition to my “looking things up” habit, but it doesn’t replace books. I have yet to figure out how to successfully “curl up with a good computer and a cup of coffee”. I know you are all screaming ‘laptop’ at me. Laptops are not made of paper. I like paper. When I moved, the bulk of my possessions were books, emphasis on the word bulk.
I will not try to reinvent the Dewey Decimal system here, but it might not be a bad place to start with categorizing. If I were to list ALL my books, you would fall asleep. I will list the tomes of signifigance, or authors of favor, to help take up less list space. You are of course already familiar with my famous dictionary….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Books_by_Dewey_Decimal_System_Classification
Not to be confused with the duodecimal system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
Books
Fiction:
The Stand by Stephen King (really disliked the TV movie)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier
Cyrano de Bergerac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
Non-Fiction
Living the Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing
A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis and Robert Harper
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Authors
James Michener, Chesapeake, The Source, Texas, Hawaii, The Caribbean,
O. Henry Gift of the Magi
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
Tolkein, Hobbit and Trilogy (thought the movie series was brilliant)
Illustrators
Feodor Rojankovsky
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What I just finished reading:
9.07 The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett ;
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut;
4.08 The Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling;
5.08 Not a Drop To Drink: America’s Water Crisis (and what you can do) by Ken Midkiff;
Better For All the World by Harry Bruinius;
7.08 Mississippi Mud by Edward Humes
Last Child In The Woods by Richard Louv
Hi Leslie,
Just as one of the first things I do when I visit someone’s home is see what books are on their bookshelves, I bopped over here to see what you have.
We’ve got a lot in common! I loved Wee Free Men (although that one was an audio book listened to on the road), and Not a Drop to Drink had lots to think about. Of course the Tolkien and the Rowlings are on my bookshelves, too.
I tried The Stand a few months ago, but unfortunately the library only had that extended version King put out when he was too big in the britches for editors, so I felt it was too draggy and put the book aside.
The Rand is the only one I really disliked when I read it. But I have found that Ayn Rand is either loved or hated — there is no middle ground with her readers.
Cheers!
Comment by Imperatrix — October 13, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Hi Imperatrix,
I am delighted to have you come to visit.
Love to read Everybody Knows…that is how I came to visit you.
I, too, like to see what is on peoples’ bookshelves.
I have recently been turned on to Pratchett, and liked ‘Going Postal’, too.
The Stand was the only King I liked.
I am a Michener fanatic. The Source, Chesapeake…all of them. *sigh*
Atlas Shrugged was bleak for the first half of the book. I think that turned a bunch of people off to it. It was a grind to get to the reward. The second half was uplifting…but then I tend to be idealistically utopian in my fantasy
I would be honored to have you recommend a fave book of yours to me…something that had immense impact on your awareness, or way of thinking… you know…some light reading
Comment by leslie — October 13, 2008 @ 8:10 pm