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Member: BarkingMatt

CollectionsYour library (3,726), At the Studio (202), Read but unowned (14), Wishlist (150), On order (6), Art History (1,489), History (704), Bread & Butter (179), Philosophy | Religion (394), Music | Theatre | Lit. (326), Society | Politics (140), Media | Journalism (55), Mathematics | Science (102), Linguistics (54), Enfer (201), Literature | Fiction (434), Comics (525), Misc. Non-Fiction (73), Currently reading (2), Phantom Collection (68), Favorites (6), All collections (3,960)

Reviews4 reviews

Tags20th century (437), dutch art (281), 19th century (262), dutch comics (253), Netherlands (253), art (247), art instruction (189), french comics (182), 19th century texts (180), antiquity (179) — see all tags

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Groups"I See Dead People's Books", Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Archaeologists, Archaeology, BannedBooksLibrary, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Combiners! — show all groups , Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos Homeschoolers, Fakes, Frauds & Quacks, Fotografie in Nederland, French Connection, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, Homer, the Trojan war, and pre-classical Greece, Hugotontheonbiquiffinarians, Late Roman, LibraryThing in het Nederlands, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, LTers with dogs, Medieval Europe, Nederlandstalige lezers, of mice and MENSANS, Renaissance Europe, The Chapel of the Abyss, Weird Fiction

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Charles Baudelaire, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Albert Isaac Boime, Joseph Campbell, Ramsey Campbell, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Guido Crepax, Drs. P, Diane Duane, Mircea Eliade, Sheridan Le Fanu, M. I. Finley, André Franquin, Bob Freeman, Fran Friel, John Gage, Carlo Ginzburg, Joscelyn Godwin, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Gorey, René Goscinny, J. J. Grandville, Robert van Gulik, Joy Ann Harber, Francis Haskell, Hergé, Johan Huizinga, M. R. James, Alfred Jarry, Tracy Jones, Walt Kelly, T. E. D. Klein, Lautréamont, Ira Levin, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Maurice Maeterlinck, Winsor McCay, Erwin Panofsky, Raphael Patai, Herman Pleij, Hugo Pratt, Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Stephen Mark Rainey, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Rykwert, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Charles M. Schulz, Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman, Peter van Straaten, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Bill Watterson, Rudolf Wittkower, Frances Amelia Yates (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBoekhandel Robert Premsela, Burgersdijk & Niermans, Damokles, De Slegte Den Haag, International Theatre & Film Books, Selexyz Kooyker, The American Book Center (Den Haag)

Favorite librariesKoninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, Openbare Bibliotheek Den Haag - Centrale Bibliotheek, Rijksmuseum Research Library, Warburg Institute Library, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Other favoritesMuseum Meermanno|Huis van het boek, Letterkundig Museum, Boekenmarkt op het Plein, Boekenmarkt op het Lange Voorhout

About meMostly Harmless.

Art Historian / Classical Archaeologist by training.
Commercial Artist / Cartoonist by trade.
Curious by nature.

Member of Mensa Holland, the Dutch Society of Film & Television Makers, and the Lewis Carroll Society.

Ravenous and near omnivorous reader, and compulsive book hoarder.
Some favorite topics:
- nonsense & absurd humor
- anything Lewis Carroll (and especially collecting parodies, continuations &c of Alice)
- supernatural horror
- the Temple of Jerusalem (no, I'm not a freemason)
- the history of magic

Combiners!
If you have a question about or a problem with any combination work I've done, please feel free to leave me a comment. No offense will be taken.

Same goes for any incorrect entries in my library - I'd rather know if there's a wrong author attributed to something.

(Thanks Klarusu for allowing me to copy the above text.)

About my libraryThis represents my actual library (though I only listed about 60 % so far). Ratings, tags and collections are a work in progress. Getting all the right book covers up : a far-off goal. (With the advent of collections I've added a wishlist for my own convenience + some books in "Read but unowned" and a "Phantom Collection" to improve my recommendations).
And no, I have not read all of these books cover to cover. But then again, there are many books that I have read which are not present in my own library - sometimes to my chagrin. I will probably be adding some to the "Read but not Owned" collection, but with 40+ years of reading behind me I couldn't possibly list them all.

PLEASE NOTE:
The mere fact that I own a book does not mean I necessarily endorse its contents or even that I like it.

RATING SYSTEM:
5 stars = Double plus good / Highly Recommended
4 stars = Plus Good / Has that little bit extra
3 stars = Good / What you might expect from a book like this
2 stars = Plus un-good / Disappointing
1 star = Double plus un-good / Rubbish
0 stars = Haven't got round to reading and/or rating this one
(Obviously I don't use the same criteria for all books - I don't mean this to compare say a comic book to a work of non-fiction).

Also oneBay, MySpace, The Haunt

Real nameMatthijs van Klaveren

LocationDen Haag, Netherlands

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Common KnowledgeSeries (207), Awards (142), Characters (1985), Places (502)

Member sinceDec 19, 2007

Currently readingThe Devil : Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity by Jeffrey Burton Russell
Made in Goatswood: New Tales of Horror in the Severn Valley: A Celebration of Ramsey Campbell (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) by Scott David Aniolowski (ed.)