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Personality-wise, I am an INTJ, though hopefully with better social skills than that might imply, and a Type A personality, which means I have high blood pressure, an over-acute sense of time, and the inability to relax. Wow, I sound really boring.
Om biblioteket mittTo the best of my knowledge, all of the books in my library have been entered. I have undoubtedly missed a couple here and there, but this is 99+% of them. Whew! All of the books entered are ones I actually currently own, not ones I'd like to purchase, or have read, or checked out of the library. The only exceptions are a handful of books I have written reviews of but no longer own; these are tagged "review only." I played around with LT's Collections feature when it premiered, but it didn't do much for me that my extensive tagging system doesn't already, so I don't really use Collections much.
My library is heavily weighted toward speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). I also have a fairly large collection of pulp fiction, men's adventure novels, and historical non-fiction, as well as a large role-playing games collection.
I'm always interested in conversing with folks about books, so feel free to drop me a line if you see anything that catches your fancy in my library. I appreciate feedback about my reviews as well.
Diligent readers and observant cyber-stalkers will note the addition of the tag "to be read." This is not one I'm proud of, but it had to be done. Of all the books in my collection, I currently plan to read (or re-read) more than 1700 of those. Ugh. That's a lot. One heck of a lot. But like many bibliophiles, I buy more books than I can conveniently read. My wife will be in Germany for the next year, so while I'm home alone in "bachelor" mode, I hope to whittle that number down a bit. Wish me luck.
I am enjoying the recently added feature that lists the books you are currently reading on your profile page. My plan is to keep that updated as I finish books and start new ones. As you can see from that list, I read a number of books simultaneously. I find that this keeps my interest at a higher level and allows me to read books from multiple genres and series at the same time.
One last note: my wife formerly had her books listed in this account, but she now has her own LT account, username: bittergrrl.
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Thanks for the comment and glad you liked the reviews. I would love to write a review for every book I have read in my library, but there are quite a few books that I just couldn't get excited enough about to write a review. There are some exceptions. One of the JFK books I read was so horribly biased I had to write a review as a form of therapy for bothering to finish the whole thing.
postet av network-janitor kl. 8:39 pm (EST) den Dec 10, 2009
Thanks for accepting my friend invite and adding me to your interesting libraries. Iam very flattered. Reading anything especially good at the moment?
Velma
postet av Kirconnell kl. 8:43 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2009
You are welcome and I hope that my comment does inspire you to write more reviews because I will be on the lookout for them. I've just finished Glenn Beck's Common Sense and I agree with you about much of it. One thing that I did notice was that at times some of his comments did not agree with the quotations he used to support them and at other times he contradicted himself. However, I do believe that he is sincere in his belief and despite the sensationalist feel to the book it could provoke people to investigate this subject more, which is what I feel Thomas Paine's original Common Sense did. And I think that the subject of government control could use more investigation.
Happy Reading!
Velma
postet av Kirconnell kl. 9:24 am (EST) den Oct 10, 2009
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postet av Kirconnell kl. 4:35 am (EST) den Oct 9, 2009
How did you like "From beyond" ... the movie is, after all, no more than a mere adaption of the "topic" of the story :).
LL
postet av LadyLovecraft kl. 6:27 am (EST) den Sep 11, 2009
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postet av Shrike58 kl. 9:24 pm (EST) den Apr 24, 2009
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postet av Shrike58 kl. 12:47 pm (EST) den Mar 30, 2009
On "The American Way of War" review, a few years ago I remember reading an extended critique (probably in the Journal of Military History) of how the book has stood up over time. Weigley's observation on the critique is that all the points were well taken and that any time that the reviewer wanted to redo the book he was welcome to do so! The point being that there has been so much change over the years that a simple updating would not cut it.
postet av Shrike58 kl. 7:50 am (EST) den Mar 27, 2009
As for Desperation/The Regulators, it really doesn't matter which you read first. There is no order and each book is really a stand-alone. However, I read Desperation first and of the two I preferred it (though the difference between the two is a half star, both are very good books to me).
Sorry for the bad news on Monster Island. I don't want to tell you not to read it, but I'd have trouble recommending it. It wasn't as irritating as The Rising, but it wasn't 'good' to me.
The main problem is that the main characters are just so far out. From the synopsis, I thought it was about a guy from the rural Northeast who has to head in to Manhattan to get some medicine.
Instead it's a guy who was part of a U.N. Peacekeeping force in Somalia who is sent to New York with a retinue of school girl commandos. I found it too hard to believe that a Somalian warlord would send the guy all the way to New York rather than somewhere closer. The situation was just too outlandish to sympathize much with the characters.
Also, some of Wellington's zombie powers just came off as too comic-book-super-hero for me.
Monster Nation was a bit better overall.
The thing is I like David Wellington's writing. I'm looking forward to reading his vampire stuff. I think you can kick out the jams there and it will work. But zombies are a much narrower niche.
postet av jseger9000 kl. 8:51 am (EST) den Jan 28, 2009
I definitely wanted to love The Rising too. That book had so much good will from me going in. I may try it again, but I will read other books of his first.
Another one I wanted to love but just couldn't was Monster Island. Like Keene, I do like David Wellington's writing. It's the goofy stuff he does to try and make the zombies his own flavor that failed. Strill, Monster Island was better than The Rising. I finished it. (And since I bought the sequels before reading the first book, I will read all three.)
A zombie book I'd recommend is Dead City by Joe McKinney. This is goold old fashioned George Romero dumb, slow zombies. No master zombies or wisecracking demons in this one. Just a guy who's world is turned upside down by the living dead.
As for SK recommendations after Needful Things, it isn't 'new' SK (and doesn't make everybody's list of favorites) but I would recommend Desperation and The Regulators. Both are good books, but they are better if read back-to-back. Since I've joined the SK reading group, I haven't had time to read his newer stuff. But it's been fun reading those early books and seeing what a quantum leap forward he was compared to other horror writers of the time.
And The Thing, what a classic, huh? John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors and The Thing is probably his best. I actually picked up Alan Dean Foster's novelization of it, just to see what's been added. I'll write up a review for it soon.
postet av jseger9000 kl. 10:53 pm (EST) den Jan 26, 2009
postet av jseger9000 kl. 10:19 pm (EST) den Jan 25, 2009
So this is how we categorized our books while unpacking and putting them on shelves.
Because we built our shelf unit, we have size issues, meaning that the height of the shelves vary and were tailored according to book size. For example,the bottom left shelf was made to primarily fit my art history books, and our records. Two shelves above that is just big enough to fit German Reclam Ausgaben, etc.
So working within the size restrictions and pretty much just unpacking as quickly as possible, we came up with pretty random categories. It's also worth mentioning that our shelving behavior was motivated more by feel than by logic. Also, note worthy is that Cyrus began shelving alphabetically by author then quickly abandoned that for a more timely method. That said, these are some random and not entirely logical (again working by feel)categories we created:
Autobiographical by education- all the books used for my thesis together, all books for Cyrus' thesis together.
Cyrus intentionally put next to each other: All the Kings Men, Machiavelli's The Prince, Communist Manifesto, History Will Absolve Me, The Political & Scientific, Animal Farm, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Double Helix. --This can probably be used to analyze his personality.
We also had a worldly and unworldly section including Atlases, Star Wars books, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Note: Harry Potter books were put in a separate spot because they didn't fit with the rest, and they looked better elsewhere.
Then finally, we thought it appropriate to put The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich next to Michener's Poland.
So, in short, we threw books on the shelves first by size, then I think, by look (appearance of book) and feel (feel in consideration of subject matter).
postet av Dr.PeterVenkman kl. 3:53 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008
Long time, no write. What have you been up to?
I'm off to the LA Times Festival of Books in a few hours to, specifically, get Joe Hill to sign my copy of "Heart-Shaped Box." Before going to the signing, I thought I'd check out his website to find out a bit about him (other than that he's Stephen King's son), and the second thing on his site's blog at http://joehillfiction.com/ is something titled "My Kung Fu is Better than Your Kung Fu." I thought it was fairly amusing. I think I'd have to pick system #1, since system #3 requires more imagination than I have and system #2 relies too much on external materials.
I went to the book festival yesterday and managed to get Jeph Loeb to sign the first 6 issues of Superman/Batman for me and I also got Steve Niles (of "30 Days of Night" fame[?]) to sign his two Cal McDonald supernatural detective books. But, the crowning achievement was getting Mike Mignola to sign "John Byrne's Next Men" #21 (the first appearance of Hellboy, doncha know). My joy was slightly tarnished when I realized I'd left my Dark Horse Comics, 4-issue Hellboy mini-series at home in the rush to get to the festival, but JBNM #21 was the main signing focus w/ Mignola, so I'm not too bummed. My body is aching in several places from moving long boxes to find the afore-mentioned comics. I had the choice of starting at one end of 40-ish boxes or the other end, and I chose the wrong end, of course. JBNM #21 was in the second to the last box, natch. Methinks some organization will be required in the future.
I've run across a couple of books that may interest you, but I don't have the time to dig out the details now, so I'll get you that info down the road.
Later,
bookstothesky
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postet av Cascawebsite kl. 5:23 am (EST) den Mar 5, 2008
Have you tried www.casca.net? Its the Casca fans website and has everything there about the series, fans feedback and news about forthcoming books coming out soon.
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postet av Cascawebsite kl. 8:52 am (EST) den Mar 4, 2008
postet av rpglibrary kl. 7:53 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2007
If I may ask, what's the thrust of your studies on that splendid little war?
postet av Shrike58 kl. 6:52 am (EST) den Feb 13, 2007