Member: JMAlexander

That's the great thing about LT: we're all lost causes to books. Until I joined LT I really hadn't met any other person who loves books as much as I do. Sad but true.

posted by alaskabookworm at 9:49 pm (EST) on May 29, 2009

Looks like we have a few western and cowboy books in common. I just discovered Ralph Beer a month or two ago and have read and truly enjoyed both his books. Wish there were more. James Crumley's One to Count Cadence is one of my favorite books since I found in back in 1970. In him you had the best of both TX and MT. I miss the guy. I had tried to talk him into writing a memoir, but ... R.I.P., Jim. He enjoyed my book about the ASA which we had in common. If you haven't read Beer's novel, THE BLIND CORRAL, do, because Crumley is a minor character (Duncan Carlisle) in the story. I think I'll watch your library. Best, Tim

posted by TimBazzett at 10:28 pm (EST) on May 25, 2009

I just finished "What's the Matter with California." Apparently, only you, I, and one other have it in our colletions here. At first it was kind of fascinating, but by the end I was just wishing that list of awful people would end. I was most disgusted by Jack Davis. And I didn't like the way he dragged the Steven Nary case on and on, unless he was going to have a big climax, which he didn't. Still, it was a devastating testament of California occurances that have been willfully ignored or downplayed by the powers that be. I'm glad I read it, but I'm also glad to be done with it. (Kind of like "The Hunger," which described in too vivid detail the depredations of the Irish famine.)

posted by br77rino at 1:17 am (EST) on May 13, 2009

interesting, torode is really annoying on tv and wonder if he comes across as poncy in his writing. I am off to HFW on the weekend to help dad out with the piggie course, get some bits and bobs to take home for the freezer!

posted by viciouslittlething at 3:52 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

Simon Green is fab, I met him once when i was shopping in waitrose in Bath, a really nice chap. I was telling my husband all about them and saying he might enjoy them. He does occasionally do an author spot at the Bath Literary Festival so keep a look out on the agenda for him. The Nightside is fab.

posted by viciouslittlething at 5:30 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2009

hello, I am proud of my eclectic mix of a bookshelf. You also have the Michael Ruhlman Charcuterie book, another good read! I worked in the family butchers for 6 1/2 years, we supply most of the meat for river cottage nowadays so still like to help out [especially at christmas time].

War of the Oaks is one I really want to read, just struggling to find a copy, apart from the one or two on ebay which are listed at about £15 I can't seem to find a reasonable priced one. The second hand book shops have my wishlist, so hope one day it will come up.

posted by viciouslittlething at 9:22 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009

Yes indeed!

posted by BryanY at 12:13 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2008

Hi,
I suppose what makes your library interesting is not the number of books that we have in common (which is not that many), but the fact that the books that we do have in common are on opposite ends of the spectrum.

There are plenty of people who have a fairly good number of books in common with me, but they mostly fall into one particular genre, or if more than one genre, than the two genres are similar.

But I'm always on the lookout for a library that intersects with at least two extremely disparate genres that are in my library.

Neal Stephenson and Robert A. Heinlein are definitely different from Ramon F. Adams and J. Frank Dobie. I suppose Tyrannosaurus Sue falls somewhere in the middle of the two. I might expect to see that in a library of 10,000+ books, but your library is not huge.

posted by BryanY at 10:32 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2008

Thanks for the Hughart info! I'm going to hit Alibris and see if I can get a nice--but cheap--cloth copy of the first book, then take it from there. China, even a China that never was, seems an appropriate setting for books to read this summer, eh?

posted by BeckyJG at 12:48 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2008