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About meI'm a reader and book collector.

About my libraryI 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.

Groups20th Century British Realism, Antiquarian Books, Combiners!, Nabokov!, Photography

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was interested to see that you have copies of Jordan by Arthur Jordan - thought there were few in circulation
A nice appreciation of Amis by Adam Gopnik in this week's New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/23/070423crbo_books_gopnik?p...
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.)
Hi - Impressive Amis collection: you actually have an Amis title that I've never heard of. - bob
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....
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.
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