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Favorite authorsCarl Barks, Stephen Baxter, Fernand Braudel, John Buchan, Robert A. Caro, Don DeLillo, Bernard DeVoto, G.B. Edwards, Richard Ford, C.S. Forester, George MacDonald Fraser, William Gaddis, Alasdair Gray, Donald Harington, Seamus Heaney, Patricia Highsmith, Basil Lubbock, Colin McEvedy, D. W. Meinig, James Merrill, China Mieville, Spike Milligan, Rohinton Mistry, Abdelrahman Munif, V.S. Naipaul, Francis Parkman, Kenneth Patchen, John Prebble, Michael Prestwich, Thomas Pynchon, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Richard Russo, John Bartholomew and Son, Jonathan D. Spence, John Stanley, Austin Tappan Wright, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)
About my library About my tags:
Influences - these are books that have influenced me more than a little in my life & thoughts. They may not be Great Books but they got under my skin and thrived. One of them (Merriam-Webster) defines "influence" in part as:
1 a : an ethereal fluid thought to flow from the stars and to affect the actions of men
4 a : the act, process, or power of producing an effect without apparent exertion of tangible force or direct exercise of command and often without deliberate effort or intent [primitive men thinking that almost everything is significant and can exert influence of some sort -- William James]
4 c : the exertion of force at a distance [tides are caused by the influence of the moon and sun]
5 : the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible [the intoxicating influence of the mountain air -- W.S.Gilbert]
- under the influence: in an intoxicated condition
Deep 6 - Books that I intend to stuff in a gunny sack and drop off a very high bridge ASAP.
Aside from these the tags are pretty straight forward.
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LIBRARY NOTES
This list contains only what I have now. My current library was built on the ruins of a collection it took me a lifetime to build. That library rivaled the one at ancient Alexandria… well… perhaps not… but it was rather large. That library was decimated by a divorce, several years of living in what a friend once referred to as “a cool bachelor pad,” a new marriage and a move into an “intimate” (Real Estate jargon) condo. Truckloads of books went to resale stores and other places I now shudder to think about. Many moves later, when we finally bought a home of our own and had people over for the housewarming, everyone was in awe of my library except for one old friend who knew me and my library in my previous life. He took one look at it and quipped: “So is that ALL you have left of your library?” The jaws of the other spectators dropped even further. Here on LibraryThing, with book loving peers, my library is neither the largest nor the most spectacular.
I’ve been reading books for as long as I can remember. The earliest movies my loving father made of me show me rubbing a bowl of chocolate pudding all over my head while reading a copy of The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant. (Ok… so the book was not in the frame of the shot. I’m telling you it was there!) I cannot begin to imagine not reading. I'm usually reading two books at a time one casually and one as a study. The Fagles translation of the Odyssey is an example of what I mean by "a study". While I was involved with it I read several studies of Homer, as well as other background materials. I began by reading the book and then listening to the corresponding parts of the performance (it's so much more than a simple reading!) on the CD but soon switched to just the performance version. A very different experience!) When I finished the CDs I read the whole book again. Meanwhile my recreational reading was probably a Hornblower or Flashman book… I don’t exactly remember.
Books are wonderful to have and to hold as well as to read. I used to have several old German books not because I can read German but because that old Black Letter type was so beautiful! Books also make great insulation against sound and cold. But I read more than books. All my daily newspaper and magazine reading is now done on line and I don’t mind reading on my handheld iPaq. For some books digital is an absolute necessity: Edgar Rice Burroughs for example. I wouldn’t be caught dead reading anything with a cover as lurid and smarmy as most of his. Besides, all his stuff is in the public domain and widely available for free download. I’ve even written a little macro that will convert Project Gutenberg vanilla files to Microsoft Reader files with a single click. Come to think of it, I have dozens of e-books… (see below).
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Books I no longer have:
- Balzac’s “La Comedie Humanie” in 30 leather-bound volumes
- Likewise Scott’s “Waverly Novels”
- World Book encyclopedia from the early 1960s with yearbooks going back through the 1950s
- Two sets of Encyclopedia Britannica, one from the 1960s and the famed 1911 edition now in the public domain and available on line
- Several Time/Life collections: Old West, WWII, Planets, etc.
- A huge, weather-beaten, Merriam-Webster’s unabridged dictionary
- The complete Ian Fleming James Bond paperback series
- Far too many of the Bantam Books Doc Savage reprints
- A set of the unauthorized ACE paperback version of Lord of the Rings, also a hardcover (authorized) edition
- Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy
- And tons of other titles including much poetry, novels, picture books, foreign language, and what is now called “genre fiction” such as SF, horror, fantasy, crime, historical, spy, etc.
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Here's a list of e-books currently on my PDA:
They make great reading on the bus, in airplanes, before the movie starts at the cinema, in the offices of doctors, lawyers, etc. Also good for reading in bed at a strange hotel, at the In-law's house, in boring meetings and while stuck on endless hold with some customer service entity of a company too cheap to hire more operators. ("Oh, that's all right operator, I don't mind the wait, I'm just finishing up 'War & Peace,' Take your time.")
A Descent into the Maelstrom – Edgar Allan Poe*
A Description of the Western Island of Scotland – Circa 1695 by Martin Martin, Gent*
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland – Samuel Johnson*
A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs*
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Beowulf – Anon.
Captain Blood – Raphael Sabatini
Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Fathers and Children – Ivan Turgenev
Guy Mannering – Sir Walter Scott
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours – Ernest Bramah*
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour – Robert Louis Stevenson*
Leaves of Grass (1891-1892) – Walt Whitman
Life of Johnson – James Boswell
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Memoirs: Under the Leads - Casanova*
Metamorphoses (Books 1-13) - Ovid
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale – Herman Melville
Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
On the Nature of Things – Carus Lucretius*
Paris: The Rough Guide*
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Translated by K.G.T. Webster and W.A. Neilson
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Vol I - Edgar Allan Poe*
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Vol II - Edgar Allan Poe*
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
The Altar of the Dead – Henry James
The Aspern Papers – Henry James
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Chessmen of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs*
The Chronicles of Froissart – Translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners
The Gods of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs*
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton*
The Ivory Skull – Hanano Inagaki Sugimoto
The Lost Continent - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Odyssey – Translated by Robert Fagles
The Purcell Papers, Vol I – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu*
The Purcell Papers, Vol II – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers, Vol III – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Sorrows of Werther – J.W. von Goethe
The Time Machine – H.G. Welles
The Warlord of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs*
The Wonderfull Yeare 1603 – Thomas Dekker*
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
Three Short Stories – Edgar Allan Poe*
Thuvia, Maid of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs*
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Ulysses – James Joyce
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – J.W. von Goethe
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
*Titles I've read so far on PDA. Most of these I've read ONLY on the PDA.
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Comic Books
Like e-books most of my comic books do not have ISBNs. I’ve entered the ones that do. Unfortunately, my mom burned all my comic books one day when I was at school. Her idea was that I was now old enough to be reading something other than comics. She also would not allow me to read “bad” comics. All super heroes were verboten as were anything other than Dell (“Dell comics are good comics”), Mad Magazine and Classics Illustrated. This was not a problem as far as I was concerned since my pals had all the Superman, Batman, Plastic Man (a favorite of mine) as well as Dennis the Menace (one pal had a huge crush on Dennis’ mom), Archie, Casper, what have you. I was particularly fond of Chip n’ Dale (I identified with Chip), Little Lulu (Tubby also had red hair), Turok, Son of Stone (the dinosaurs!) and, above all the Disney Ducks drawn by “The Good Artist,” Carl Barks (of course I did not know his name then). My current collection consists of mostly reprints that I have purchased since the conflagration as well as a few that were stashed in locations my mom did not know about the day she torched the rest! Below is a list of the current collection showing country of origin, title and issue number. Many thanks to the folks at COA and the I.N.D.U.C.K.S. database for making the job of cataloguing my comics as easy as using LibraryThing to catalogue my books.
USA
Disney
DD: Donald Duck
41 66 121 136 152 159 160 164 169 174 188 192 200 201 202 203 205 206 208 211 212 221 229 230 236 237 244 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 272 274 276 277 280 282 288 290 295 297 298 299 301 302 303 304
DDA: Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone)
12 15 16 17 18
DDAD: Donald Duck Adventures (Disney)
21 22 23 24 25 26 29 37 38
DT: Ducktales
10
DM: Donald and Mickey
19
MAD: Mickey and Donald
14
MM: Mickey Mouse
231 232
US: Uncle Scrooge
5 15 25 65 67 68 70 72 82 104 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 148 149 150 151 152 154 155 156 157 159 160 161 165 167 168 171 172 173 174 175 177 178 183 184 188 193 194 195 196 208 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 236 238 240 274 275 278 279 280 281 283 284 286 289 301 302
USA: Uncle Scrooge Adventures
2 3 13 16 18 22 30 33 37 41 42 47 50
WDC: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
172 177 194 199 200 202 214 215 216 218 220 223 226 239 241 243 244 263 344 357 365 373 375 381 387 389 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 411 412 416 417 418 419 422 428 429 430 431 432 439 440 441 442 446 447 449 450 451 452 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 476 477 478 486 487 488 489 490 492 493 495 496 497 498 499 502 503 504 507 508 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 577 581 584 585 586 587 588 590
WDCD: Walt Disney Comics Digest
44
WDG: Walt Disney Giant
6
AA: Autumn Adventures
2
DAD: Daisy and Donald
51
Other
George Pal's Puppetoons
16
Classics Illustrated
5: Moby Dick
Little Lulu
34 84 181 207 217 223 240 241 250 253 257 262 263 267
Germany
MM: Micky Maus
1977 38
1979 14
France
PM: Picsou Magazine
118
Italy
SAP: Super Almanacco (di) Paperino
3
Mexico
Historietas de Walt Disney
472
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August 12, 2007
I am thrilled to say that I just discovered two boxes of maps in the attic that I thought had been lost! This cache is very exciting because it contains a good deal of service station road maps that I collected on location across the US & Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s! Also included are more vintage road maps that I collected from resale stores in subsequent years that include many vintage road maps from Europe, travel and geographical maps from all over the world, and a huge stack of well preserved USGS maps including complete 7.5-minute, 1:24,000-scale quadrangle series maps for at least a couple of states! There's also some assorted other stuff deep down in the dusty boxes.
I consider maps to be a valid part of my library and will ultimately list them here. Only a few of these maps have ISBN numbers or are otherwise entitled to inclusion in my detailed list. I'll see if I can get around to listing the others as I have done the e-books and most of the comic books, outside of the LT database but listed here so I can know what I have.
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I think Dowling is delving more into the background of his world in this one.
Cheers
posted by Macbeth at 8:04 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2007
with regards the Canberra bushfires, I was surprised by how amazingly calm I was throughout the whole event, almost detatched in the way I went about preparing for the worst, keeping my daughters calm (and to a lesser extent Alison). When it was all over and the reports of houses in other suburbs going up I had a few anxious moments thinking that I must have been delusional to think I could have done anything. I was lucky, it came close but I wasn't put to the test.
I read a lot of SciFi in my very early teens but it included things like Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter series that is probably better categorised as fantasy, a fair amount of Asimov, Heinlien and Niven. 'Starship Troopers' was a great favourite of mine in my younger years. I was interested in the later 'Foundation' novels in the 80s and 90s - you could see that Asimov had become disillusioned with democracy - the theme in the original trilogy was that a democratic government was the correct way to run the galaxy (even though the main characters were almost always demagouges that circumvented the regular democratic process), and Atomic power was the answer. Come the later novels Atomic power is suddenly written off as outdated and the Foundation's democracy is corrupt. A near organic galactic consciousness is the new way. I suppose this is the great difficulty with predictive science fiction - as our own society advances it often overtakes the predictions made - bad news for writing sequels. I was always impressed with the treatment that Niven and Pournelle gave to this effect. They wrote "The Mote in God's Eye" in the 70s and posited a future Galatic Empire that had much of the standards the 70s - ie almost everyone smoked, women gave up their careers when they married and had children. Years later they wrote "The Moat Around Murchison's Eye" and left those pieces in the background rather than suggesting a social revolution took place in the brief period between their novels.
Likewise it is always a good giggle to pick up my old Roleplaying Games - when I was a spotty teenaged geek I used to play "Traveller" a Science Fiction RPG with a setting not unlike the universe from Joss Whedon's "Firefly" series [so I guess I know what he did as a spotty teenaged geek :) ]. Its equipment list for high tech items available in the year apprxo 3500 is woefully underpowered and bulky when compared to what we have available now (in car navigators, mobile phones that double up as digital cameras). I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I go over this.
I quite enjoyed A A Attanasio's "The Last Legends of Earth" (more soft SciFi I think). Another series that captivated me was Hugh Cook's "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness". The series was a mix of Fantasy (there was magic and dragons) and Science Fiction (super high technology from a time long past and a pan dimensional civilisation that had crumbled - suggesting that the magic and the monsters were really just high tec and mutants). What fascinated me was the way that the author would use characters that had a walk in part in one novel as the main character for a later novel, and you would see the events that occured in the previous novel in a completely different light. Most of them were done ever so slightly satirical as well. As near as I can gather no one else I know liked them though.
I will keep my eye out for that book you recommended. This won't be the first time I have hotfooted to my local store and ordered something that has been recommended via LT.
I think Australia has changed since your literature on what to expect when moving here. At least drinking wine is no longer frowned on. (Lucky for me I can't stand beer). Queensland has changed too - I spent a day in Brisbane last week while Alison was training and it has metamorphosed into a proper State Capital City. I expect that further out from Brisbane it might still look like I described earlier.
I guess I've bent your ear enough for this posting.
Cheers
David aka Macbeth
posted by Macbeth at 3:17 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2007
Black Lotus is number 10 in the Sano Ichiro Series. The novels are of a high quality with excellent character development - at some points I find that the various characters spend time agonising over their own and others motivations leading to confusion that would be avoided by some honest communication between the characters - until I remember that they are living in a shame and honour oriented culture and should not be judged by 21st Century Western morality. Aside from this - the characters are well developed, the background of court politics is eerie, you quite often fear for the characters being swept away in something beyond their control. The mysteries are always different - every so often they verge into the fantastical in so far as the more exotic martial arts (such as Kiai and Dim Mak ie Shouts and Death Touch) come into play.
The first book in the series is Shinju.
I think your freind from Perth has made a valid point about Australians - most of us don't head to the outback, but even our major cities are less urban than in more populous countries. The safer rural fringe is accessable, and we also tend to head to the coast whenever we get the chance. Interestingly we maintain a fierce pride in our history of bushcraft.
cheers
posted by Macbeth at 3:04 am (EST) on Aug 1, 2007
Each to his own opinion, of course, but in the interest of fairness may I suggest that your visitors take a look at what other reviewers and readers say about my novel.
http://www.erroluys.com
Of special note are the Brazilians themselves, ranging from Gilberto Freyre ("Masters and Slaves') to one of the nation's most respected critics, Professor Wilson Martins:
"Uys has accomplished what no Brazilian author from José de Alencar to Jorge Amado was able to do. He is the first outsider with the total honesty and sympathy to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay are unsurpassed in our literature and evoke the great passages of War and Peace” – Wilson Martins, Jornal do Brasil
In France, too, "La Forteresse Verte" successfully navigated the deep "Green Sea!"
"No one before knew how to bring to life Brazil and her history. Uys’s characters are brilliant and colorful, combining elements of the best swashbuckler with those worthy of deepest reflection. Most stunning is that it took a South African, now a naturalized American, to evoke so perfectly the grand but interrupted dream that is Brazil." -- Le Figaro, Paris
"A masterpiece… "Brazil" has the look and feel of an enchanted virgin forest, a totally new and original world for the reader-explorer to discover." -- L’Express, Paris
posted by Segge at 12:34 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2007
Music all entered by hand.
posted by antimuzak at 4:40 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2007
No I don't have the penguin edition, perhaps I should.....
The picture, not my doing I'm afraid - I just obtained some html code from the Madeleine McCann website and that did everything. Simple, really.
Best wishes
Antimuzak
posted by antimuzak at 1:50 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2007
It surprised me as well that Sumption could have another full time and quite time consuming career and my first assumption was that when I googled the name I was looking at someone else - but it soon panned out that the QC and the author were one and the same.
As for Queensland - it is the only State in Australia that has more people living outside its capital city than within it. For many decades it was famous for its quite conservative farmers, the humid tropical weather (which meant that a singlet, shorts sandals was referred to as "Queensland Formalwear"). It was famous for a casual attitude to life but at the same time conservative and rural.
These days the coastal belt 250km north and south of Brisbane is now part of fast growing land development and this part of the state is far more cosmopolitan. (Sometimes called "Bris-vegas").
When I was younger the whole of Australia was more regionalised - when you crossed a state border the beer available in the hotels changed brands - in Queensland you could only by Four X beer as it was called then - "Why does QLD beer have XXXX on the label? They can't spell beer?"
Cheers
posted by Macbeth at 7:30 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2007
I have remembered what legal work Jonathan Sumption was involved in recently. Nothing so idealistic as war crimes - he was representing one of the commercial TV stations in Australia in a case that accused the other stations of colluding to drive their Pay TV channel out of business.
The case ended last week - so hopefully he'll get back to the important business of writing history.
I tend to make a LT member a freind when they send me a comment and make intelligent conversation about books we share.
Cheers
posted by Macbeth at 9:27 am (EST) on Jul 28, 2007
If you haven't read it already then I'd advise steering well clear of Rathbone's "Kings of Albion" - which lays on the anachronistic humour even thicker than in "The Last English King". It is set in the Wars of the Roses and follows the trail of an embassy from Vijanagar to England that gets caught up in the action.
I have an embarrassing number of novelisations of the Norman Conquest - from the 1950s "The Golden Warrior" by Hope Muntz through to Rathbone. Some like Ray Bryant's "Warriors of the Dragon Gold" offer no sympathetic characters, whilst others like "The Wind from Hastings" make Harold out to be too noble (how can someone that GOOD get to the top in dark age politics?)
I have just over two weeks before finally visiting another foreign country. We are cruising to Noumea in early August. I plan to take some light reading including the just aquired Jack Whyte novel "Knights of the Black and White". In the meantime I must madly catalouge what I have.
Till next time
Cheers
posted by Macbeth at 8:44 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2007
I will be eagerly awaiting the next installment of Sumption's history. The other history of that period that I enjoyed was Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror". That is incidentally the book I share with most other library thingers.
I find John Julius Norwiches books to be excellent reads - The Normans in Sicily was no exception. I especially like the way he puts the year on the top of the page so that you can search for events at a glance. I was lucky enough to get this book at a secondhand shop in my old home town (Bendigo Victoria) some years ago.
As for Rathbone's - "The Last English King" - that is one of the best novelisations of the end of the Saxon rule and the Norman Conquest. Some of it was fanciful, but it gave perhaps the best set of motivations for the various characters - including the complexities of Edward the Confessor.
I'm afraid that the only two foreign countries I've been to are Thailand and Queensland (this is an Australian joke - I'm guessing that in the US you also have states that are considered a completely foreign country). I'm hoping to visit Scotland sometime soon. Part of my family can trace itself back to the border riding families (the Kerrs).
Cheers
posted by Macbeth at 8:04 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2007
Do you know when vol 3 is due out.
I figured that there would be a delay since he was doing legal work (as a QC) in some major political trials (can't remember if it was South Africa, Former Yugoslavia or Iraq) last year.
cheers
posted by Macbeth at 9:19 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2007
posted by geneg at 6:33 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2007
Ah, you are more than welcome. The invitation stands at any time. I actually enjoy collecting and referencing them more than cooking, although I grew up in several kitchens and am at home by a stove. Never had a Aga though, which I've always fancied.
It was a dark day indeed when I drove around town with a pickup truck loaded with books that I needed to sell. After taking them to three places and not being happy with the proffered prices I ended up selling the entire lot to the next place I took them. A few years later I discovered a wonderful bookstore that respects collectors and buys books for what I think they are worth. When I bought the Balzac set cost me at least a week’s wages. One of my favorite old bookstores had a whole room of one-dollar books. Many times I would spend my last dollar there saying: “I’d rather have a book than a dollar!”
I remember the Balzac set - they had one at Shakespeare & Co. in Berkeley back in the late 70's. Our college had a nice leather bound set (dark, inky blue with lovely marbled endpapers) and I worked my way through a good deal of it my freshman year.
The World Book was, I think, blue… shades of blue. What’s the attraction of the D volume?
"D" had - among other entries - "DDT" "Deaf" "Diogenes" "Dogs" and "Dress".
I was particularly fond of the volume (I think it was a year book) with the clear plastic overlays of the human body.
I liked that entry in our home edition which we bought in the early 70's; the maroon ones lived at my grandparents.
Some of the year books may have been maroon…. Or was that the Britannica?
The Britannica is maroon. We just picked up a set at a house sale from the early 1960's in its bespoke walnut bookshelf for $35. We consult it frequently and enjoy looking at it. It's very odd to think of all of the information online - some of which is in the bound version and some of which is not. I've written the articles on Finland and Sweden and the print articles still aren't identical to the online ones.
Last night my wife and I watched “My Fair Lady” on TV. I said, “I wouldn’t mind having a library like Professor Henry Higgins’.” Of course, I say that every time there’s a lovely old library in a movie.
It's the wonderful stepladders that always suck me in. The library at the University Club in New York makes the whole visit worthwhile.
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