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Member: Diamat

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TagsDoctor Who (321), To Buy (242), Early Modern (216), Marxism (199), 20th Century (191), Penguin Classics (124), 19th Century (93), NA (84), PDA (76), SF Masterworks (73) — see all tags

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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, Lenin, Livy, Georg Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, François 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 meTen 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 moved back to the UK in June 2008 after having lived for two years in New York, NY on 66th and Riverside. We are still rediscovering our UK libraries. Of course, we also acquired a US library (some 600 books all told) whilst in America as well, and will therefore now remain in winnowing-mode. In principle, of course. Binging book acquisitions remain a monthly indulgence, so I'm not sure how far we will get with such a virtuous endeavour.

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 as I am never likely to read them again. 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My unpublished MS, The Projection awaits tinkering and an unhappy future of rejection and disdain.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.

I judiciously divide my leisure 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.

Writing is more of a pain than a pleasure, and not to be included in the above list. I'll keep it down here where it belongs: as a monkey on my back.

About my libraryPhilosophy (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, Pynchon, O'Brien, Beckett, any amount of award-winning SF... halp!

Homepagehttp://www.sfandfantasymasterworks.blogspot.com/

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Member sinceNov 15, 2006