Random books from Diamat's library
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne. Volume Three. Everyman's Library No. 442 by Lord Michael de Montaigne [Montagne]
Dragon's Wrath (New Adventures) by Justin Richards
Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Karl Lowith
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Head Games (New Doctor Who Adventures) by Steve Lyons
Iron in the Soul (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Members with Diamat's books
Member connections
Friends: fabrile-heart, iansales
Interesting libraries: AsYouKnow_Bob, lycanthropist, pomonomo2003, wrobert
LibraryThing authors: David Banks (davidbanks), Lance Parkin (lanceparkin)
RSS Feeds
Recently-added books
Diamat's reviews
Reviews of Diamat's books, not including Diamat's
Member: Diamat
Library1,804 books — see library
Reviews12 reviews — see reviews
Cloudstag cloud, author cloud
TagsEarly Modern (216), Marxism (199), Doctor Who (196), 20th Century (187), 19th Century (102), Penguin Classics (92), NA (76), SF Masterworks (74), Continental Philosophy (73), Philosophy (72) — see all tags
GroupsAncient History, FantasyFans, Favorite Bookstores, Medieval Europe, Norse sagas, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics, Philosophy and Theory, Science Fiction Fans, Whisky
Favorite authorsLouis Althusser, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Engels, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Livy, Georg Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Francois Rabelais, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Seneca, Laurence Sterne, Thucydides, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Lincoln Triangle, Strand Book Annex, Strand Bookstore, Twelfth Street Books
About me Ten years an academic, ten years a publisher, one year a novelist, forty years a reader. For some of that time, of course, all I saw were words swimming around on a page; however, I am sober more often now.
The missus, fabrile-heart, and myself have just moved back from two years in New York, NY on 66th and Riverside and are rediscovering our UK library. Unfortunately, we acquired a US library (some 600 books all told) whilst in America too, so we are in winnowing-mode. A lot of my academic books won't make the cut, so expect a slew of early modern secondary texts to disappear from my catalogue. The primary materials will stay, of course. You never know when I might feel a burning urge to reread The Shoemaker's Holiday.
I am currently reading (and reviewing) the Millennium Science Fiction and Fantasy Masterworks series as a long term project, and cutting in a grab-bag of novels, philosophy and Graeco-Roman literature in the middle, as well as anything else that catches my eye. Which tends to be rather a lot.
My unpublished MS, The Projection awaits tinkering and an unhappy future of rejection and disdain. Ah, how art imitates life! If I'm stupid enough, I will crank out another one this year.
Back in West Sussex, I judiciously divide my time between cat tickling, bourbon & whisky drinking, Rabelasian feats of gastronomy and bouts of carousing, black metal & opera listening, wave watching and gull-bothering, miring myself in musickal miasmas, rural and costal tramping, gaming (unplugged), loafing on licensed premises, and - almost forgot - reading.
About my library Philosophy (especially the historical materialist and phenomenological traditions), early modern literature, Loebs, original black-spined Penguin Classics and orange-spined Penguin English Library, the Millennium SF and Fantasy Masterworks series, the Gollancz SF Collectors' Edition, WWI aviation, Dr. Who NAs, MAs, EDAs, PDAs and Targets, Michael Moorcock hardbacks, the Mandarin Dickens edition, Vonnegut, Nye, Fischer, any amount of pulpy SF... halp!
Homepagehttp://www.sfandfantasymasterworks.blogspot.com/
Real nameAndrew
LocationWest Sussex, UK
Account typepublic, lifetime
Connection NewsConnection News
URLs
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Diamat (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Diamat (library)
Member sinceNov 15, 2006
Comments from other LibraryThing-ers
(Leave a comment.)
posted by iansales at 10:53 am (EST) on Dec 20, 2007
And you're right-on-the-money with your estimate of my black-spine Penguins. There's a "Penguin" Talk group on LT - it emerged in conversations over there that there's at least one LTer who owns the Complete Set (~1400 books?) that Amazon was selling a couple years ago.
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 11:34 am (EST) on Dec 9, 2007
Do you shelve your Penguins together? We have shelves-full of black spines (they look very impressive, I think!), though our orange-spine Penguins are mixed in with other books. I see you also have an interest in WWI aviation; I'm very interested in WWI as well, though mostly the social history aspects.
I very much like the photograph on your profile page; did you take it? Would you tell me more about it?
Thanks for your comment, and
best regards to you and Louise,
Maggie
posted by MaggieO at 7:09 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007
And BTW, I do black-spined Penguins, too....
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 6:55 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007
(I haven't done that one in particluar only because a) I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic; and
b) I already have most of those titles....)
It is rather odd that Gollancz desn't seem to publicize it anywhere; at very least, I'd expect a list to be findable inside the books themselves.
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 2:57 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007
Good luck with your NaNo novel. Are you writing under the same name on NaNo? I'm Storeetllr on all the book/writing boards and websites to which I belong.
Mary w/a Storeetllr
posted by Storeetllr at 11:17 am (EST) on Nov 18, 2007
Leave your comment
Sign up or sign in to leave a comment.