Random books from Fnarf's library

About my library I have an extensive collection of books by Vladimir Nabokov, Kingsley Amis, and John McPhee, as well as other 20th century English and Scottish novelists, photography, pop music, baseball, food, wine and booze, genealogy, history, Western Americana, Australia, travel, hard-boiled crime novels, trash, and general non-fiction.

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Real nameSteve Thornton

LocationSeattle, USA

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Member sinceDec 14, 2006

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A nice appreciation of Amis by Adam Gopnik in this week's New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/bo...

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 7:50 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2007

Hi. Re: Amis: I've at least heard of (but don't own) How's Your Glass - - but Mr. Barrett's Secret and Harold's Years seem to have entirely slipped past me.

I discovered KA when I was a teenager (a remaindered copy of Girl, 20) and followed him for a decade or so, losing interest around the time of the late novels.

(Similarly for McPhee, as it happens: I used to collect him, as well.)

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 7:36 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Hi - Impressive Amis collection: you actually have an Amis title that I've never heard of. - bob

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 4:27 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2007

I've got my obscurity rating down to 18/148. Very excited about that! I've got a lot more left to enter that I'm sure only I will have....

posted by Fnarf at 2:36 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2006

I thought that too, but recently I found a mod band from the mid-sixties simply called "Thee". It could be a coincidence, but I can't help but wonder if there's a connection. Maybe Billy Childish was a fan of those guys and started incorporating the name into his bands?
I agree that the modern popularity of it among garage bands is due to Thee Headcoats, though. Don't think there's much disputing that.

posted by tankexmortis at 1:22 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006

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