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The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life Books
Travel Tips on Travel Trips: Containing 1700 interesting, classified questions on travel answered in The B by Lilian Serena Ruddick
Pro & Con: Hitler by Arnoldo Mondadori
No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention by David Walley
The Genius and The Goddess by Aldous Huxley
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley by Billy Altman
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Tags1st edition (735), british lit. (277), science fiction (204), american lit. (171), short fiction (169), comic art (166), essays (152), politics (137), literary criticism (131), music (122) — see all tags
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GroupsEdward De Vere and The Shakespeare Authorship Mystery, Political Conservatives, Pro and Con, Ron Paul Revolution
Favorite authorsJorge Luis Borges, G. K. Chesterton, Philip K. Dick, Umberto Eco, Edward DeVere, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain (Shared favorites)
About meRecipient of untimely (but not altogether unexpected) largesse. This library was bequeathed to me (as per pre-mortem instructions) by my recently deceased cousin, Sir Cyril Whatnot. For those among you who may not yet be aware, he met with a most misfortunate accident involving a hot air balloon...yellow tape, red tape, red flags everywhere...oh, the humanity...If it is any comfort to his many friends and acquaintances, the balloon looked much worse than Cyril did. I shall continue cataloguing his books and may add a few of my own besides.
About my libraryI do not know exactly how many books I now own, but I would guess that the number will approach 2,000. That would be two grand for words. However many volumes I eventually list, please know that the final quantity is of far less importance to me than the quality and /or qualities of the books in my library. So, no, I will not "puff" the numbers by listing cookbooks, comic books, compact discs or somesuch. (I am a little embarrassed to list paperbacks.) I share Sir Whatnot's intense dislike for inflated things.
DATE IS THE EDITION'S PUBLICATION DATE, NOT DATE OF THE ORIGINAL WORK.
My Penguin Paperback copy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published in 1976, not 1776......Seems like Common Sense to me.
(01-25-2008> I have now in my possession...that sounds somehow demonic and unsavory...Rather: I have now among my acquisitions the Library of America edition of Paine's Collected Writings. Thus: the Penguin paperback has been passed on to a chum. As it turned out, that "Penguin paperback" was actually published under the Puffin imprint. So, yes, it would have only been Puffin up my library anyway. There IS such a thing as too much Common Sense. Paine of Separation? Yes.)
OTHER PECULIARITIES...
Writers from South America (and from all The Americas south of the Rio Grande) are listed with "latin american lit.".
Writers from The American South (post-1861) have been granted their right to secession and are listed not as "american lit." but as "southern lit.".
In a similar vanity, and in an effort to provoke the "Eire" of my peers, Irish wit is to be found in "irish lit." and not in "british lit.". If we cannot give Ireland back to the Irish, let's at least give the Irish back to Ireland.
APOLOGIES AND EXPLANATIONS
(RE: THE GRAPHIC CURRENTLY DISPLAYED ABOVE)
UPDATE-01-22-07...
Please forgive the laughably ominous and sillily sinister graphic on this profile. I earnestly assure you that it was none of my doing. The "Illuminated Ones" have singled me out for some (probably Godforsaken) reason and this is their version of the urban street gang's spraypainted "tag". Sir Cyril had a few run-ins with the Bonesmen, but I do not believe that I inherited any of his adversaries. This is miching mallecho nonetheless.
UPDATE-01-31-07...
Have availed myself of some expert assistance and have successfully deleted the heathen "high sign"...Mayhaps this will be the end of that.
UPDATE-02-14-07...
It seems that I am someone's special someone...
I've never seen a heart so green.
Not even in an artichoke.
And it looks as if it is very near a stroke.
Gardening of the arteries is no joke.
UPDATE-02-15-07
"Adieu, thou fickle, pickled thing!"
I hope that its absence makes the heart grow fondrils.
As you can see, precautions are being taken against its return.
UPDATE-03-03-07
Geronimo! Geronimo! So nice of you to visit!
UPDATE-03-18-07
Alas, poor Yorick! I should have known him well enough to know that he would overstay his welcome.
UPDATE-03-19-07
An appeal was made, a deal was made. Details forthcoming.
UPDATE-07-05-07
As much as I treasure my privacy, I felt that fairness dictated the revelation of my countenance. It is not my most recent photo, but I look pretty much the same today.
There is, HOWEVER, a portrait locked in the attic...
UPDATE-07-31-07
To "conspire": to "breathe together"...in hell, ex hell...a bellows-blasted yellowed steam of foetor...mistic and malodorous...dampened by faint prayers...moistened by poisons unknown...wetted and abetted...a halitoxic hegemon of whispering shadows...a...well, I can't say I care much for it.
UPDATE-08-08-07
Innocence restored!
UPDATE-09-18-07
The third pig built his house of bricks...
UPDATE-10-10-07
The Road Not Taken
UPDATE-11-16-07
!@#$%&!
UPDATE-11-22-07
For fowl and fare, my thanks are there.
UPDATE-11-30-07
Who -or what- is carving up the bird? -Ask Adam Smith.
UPDATE-12-31-07
Felix sit annus novus!
UPDATE-01-16-08
And now, for something completely difficult to consider?
Google "Aleister Crowley Barbara Bush".
UPDATE-01-25-08
The horror! The horror! I cannot shake it...
-but THESE GUYS can!
UPDATE-01-29-73
This is what passed for cool back then.
UPDATE-02-24-08
Art d'Echo.
UPDATE-03-09-08
And the strugggle continues to this day...
UPDATE-03-14-08
Getting jiggy with it.
UPDATE-03-22-08
Hoorahs, hoorays, bouquets
to Lord 2K's 2K.
UPDATE-05-18-08
The latest number.
UPDATE-08-09-08
For those who missed this it's first time out:
A less-than-genial ology.
UPDATE-08-12-08
Minutiae
UPDATE-09-05-08
*Smashing, don't you think?
*I wrecken so.
UPDATE-11-01-08
For my independent friends:
Aways vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -John Quincy Adams
If you boarded the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. -Dietrich Bonhoffer
UPDATE-11-12-08
I'll resign when the coffee cools down.
UPDATE-11-21-08
Poultrygeists!!!
UPDATE-12-23-08
Know well that this indeed occurred. Noel.
UPDATE-12-31-08
It's Twelve and Eight will turn to Nine.
You'll toot your horn and I'll toot mine.
UPDATE-01-24-09
Back cover mentions Nobel Prize quite proudly.
Front cover tells a different tale quite loudly.
It seems the folks at Signet were out to cast a big net.
UPDATE-02-17-09
54 and counting...
UPDATE-02-27-09
There is the known known,
the known unknown
and the fullblown threat.
UPDATE-03-17-09
Hibernian high-jinks.
UPDATE-04-08-09
There are few things as soothing as blue things.
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posted by Makifat at 11:22 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2009
Some common ground: I notice that you and I are among the handful of those who use the tag "worst president ever".
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 5:31 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2009
Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Saw you liked Butcher Boy, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also about a disturbed adolescent and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...
Thanks,
posted by cmtusa at 2:08 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
To be quite honest, I marked your library as being interesting without actually perusing a single book that you own. :)
That's because I view the LT "interesting libraries" feature as being the only method on LT available to me for bookmarking a profile that I might wish to revisit some time in the future (for whatever reasons). I guess most people on LT will wish to revisit a profile after having spent some time viewing the catalogued library inherently associated with it (hence the name of that LT feature, I suppose). However, in you particular case, my good lord, I had merely explored your profile after having read and enjoyed a few of your LTMB posts. My motivation for marking your esteemed profile was not so much, "Crikey, this geezer's got tons of ripping good yarns I might friggin' wanna read too!" but was more along the lines of, "Hmmm, I had best watch out for this particular character, because I detect a bit of a wit ... better tag the blighter now so I'll recognize this chappie should I happen to stumble across him again on the LTMB some time in the future ..."
Actually, my "carousel bookcase system" (as you like to call it) is not really as labor-intensive as you imply it to be - and it's definitely not as labor-intensive as entering in (and correcting!!!!) data for around 2000 additional books would most certainly be! Besides, it serves a completely different purpose than my (partial) library catalogue. My "CBS" permits me to remember what I've most recently read; to not completely forget about what I've temporarily put aside but am still actively reading; and to marshal the works that I fully intend to read in the future (not that I ever stick to that plan!). It also allows me to avoid having to respond with anything more than a brief "Read my profile" reply to any of those, "Hi Ruley, haven't talked to you in quite awhile, watcha been reading lately?" type personal messages that I'm sure we all get inundated with at LT.
But I also honestly believe that there is no real advantage to tediously cataloguing 20+ works by someone rather than just 2 or 3. In fact, given that there is a "favorite authors" feature, even entering individual books into your library catalogue may be redundant WRT the networking aspect of this site. For instance, your list of "favorite authors" quickly tells me we share in common a love of Mark Twain, EAP (although he fails my 6 works threshold WRT my own list) and Shakespeare (but only if one knows anything about Edward de Vere! :) ). Similarly, you can determine that exact same reading commonality by perusing my own list of "favorite authors" - despite the fact that I haven't got a single work by any of those three fine authors catalogued in my library even though I own their complete canon in each case. So the "favorite authors" feature is quite a nifty capability.
Which, of course, is why I'm particularly miffed with those LT "members" (read "dicks") that insist on abusing that LT feature by including hundreds of authors in their own "favorite authors" lists that they cannot possibly be that intimate with - if they've even read many of their listed authors at all! Those people just come across to me as being desperately seeking attention and popularity. But then again, so too do those members that have 10,000+ books catalogued on LT!
OTOH, I don't think you are being anything close to extravagant in having chosen only 7 favorite authors. But what a contrasting combination, eh? Philip K. Dick and Shakespeare (if not the swan of Avon that everyone else adores)! I've not read any PKD because I fear much of his work might be abysmal ... in my mind he's more of an HAITE writer (if you would, a kind of real life manifestation of Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout, although I believe Vonnegut actually had Theodore Sturgeon in mind when he created his Trout character - or perhaps I just think that because I like the fishy wordplay on Trout and Sturgeon ?!). Even most of PKD's staunchest fans admit that his works are very variable in quality, and it would be just my luck to only choose the very worst stuff in his canon if I started in on him. However, now that LoA have added a volume of his works to their catalogue I thought I might give that one a whirl. Will I be disappointed?
posted by Rule42 at 2:54 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2009
I'll have frisk with those dogs.
Merry Christmas
posted by Porius at 3:29 am (EST) on Dec 25, 2008
thanks and many thanks for being a good sport. i am a diletante in the john fowles tradition. and iv'e read not a few of the controversy die-hards. i have no dog in the fight, but i have great respect for the ogburns,greenwood, michell, and others. ch. ogburn got my attention by his louis halle refs. i love old halle; and greenwood is no one to be trifled with. i am aware that it is bootless for a lord to rub shoulders with his rude-mecanicalls, but i can be a shadow friend?
merry christmas, i'm and old RC schoolboy myself,
pgt
posted by Porius at 3:30 am (EST) on Dec 18, 2008
you promised explication of that yeats poem. i eagerly await its arrival. i sent it more as a gift than a test, but i am known for a little weggery now and then. i know it's not quite proper to play this sort of game with a lord. but merriment keeps breaking through.
i remain, your devoted servant,
pgt
posted by Porius at 6:05 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2008
what does alord have to say abt. a little yeats poem that drops in on him from the blue?
The Mother of God
The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Through the hollow of an ear;
Wings beating about the room;
The terror of all terrors that i bore
The heavens in my womb.
Had i not found content among the shows
Every common woman knows,
Chimney corner,garden walk,
Or the rocky cistern where we tread the clothes
And gather all the talk?
What is this flesh i purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my heart's blood stop
Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up?
pgt
posted by Porius at 3:03 am (EST) on Nov 25, 2008
posted by Jesse_wiedinmyer at 4:59 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2008
I think it was more classist than classicist. We should ask Doug to clarify this. Judging by his profile picture, he has evolved from socialist to socialite.
is brilliant. I don't care who wrote your speech. It's fucking brilliant.
posted by Jesse_wiedinmyer at 5:27 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2008
posted by Makifat at 10:53 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2008
Except for maybe when the cat fell down the well...
posted by Makifat at 2:31 am (EST) on Aug 8, 2008
With regard to "The Matter", that is...
posted by Makifat at 2:02 am (EST) on May 18, 2008
I'm afraid (but not, perhaps, as much as I should be) that your distinctive message has put me at a distinct disadvantage. How do I address it, much less, how does one/anyone address a semi-demigod fairly high up in the Hindoo's Pantheon? In a trunk-ated manner.
I would have responded more promptly, but I was on one of those very infrequent forays off the grounds. When I returned to find your note, I just as quickly found myself dumbfounded. A younger person was brought in to explain the allusions to Thomas Harris and Douglas Adams. It was also explained to me that your post was intended as high compliment and was in no way to be construed as threatening. For this I offer up a somewhat belated but greatly relieved Thankyou!
posted by LordNigelKnickKnack at 5:43 am (EST) on May 16, 2008
&$# Bang! Whap...jiggle-jiggle **spark** (sorry, my BabelFish seems to require an adjustment)
One more time,then... "fella, I'd love to pick your brain, uh-huh!"
posted by Ganeshaka at 10:53 am (EST) on May 7, 2008
May I offer my congratulations? You have won the thread, if not the entire Internet.
- Bob
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 9:35 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008
"Lovely AND lively remarks in PoliCons!"
I had nothing better to do than to stimulate the Neanderthals into expressing their traditionalist gruntings, while soiling their cages with the unmentionable offalings of infants. It should be obvious, of course, that I prefer the singing of frogs -- and can't stand that any more than I can tolerate the rubber-legged screechings of crickets that anticly believe they are stars in some creakingly antique opera.
"-And some turtles ARE slow enough to allow gems to be hammered onto their shells."
Over the top: turtles are in themselves symetrical gems.
posted by JNagarya at 7:45 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2008
Took picture down because it made me uneasy to have it up. Not sure why.
And have added nary a book nor been to this site because have been too busy reading and writing, which might pass in some circles as irony.
Yrs,
Little Orphan Any
posted by claireonsixth at 4:04 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008
posted by varielle at 7:30 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008
posted by LordNigelKnickKnack at 10:05 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008
Is that "Old Saint KnickKnack" and one of his deer friends?
posted by W_J_Clinton at 9:45 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008
posted by DexterDiffring at 3:33 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2008
posted by W_J_Clinton at 7:05 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2008
I hope you realize that you've had the same graphic all year.
posted by W_J_Clinton at 5:46 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2008
It's been a while, but I just got an early Christmas present/book shopping spree, and finally picked up two of your recommendations - Mr. Mee and the Philsopher's Stone. Will report.
Did you ever get around to reading the Third Policeman?
Cheers!
Joanna
posted by overtheseatoskye at 8:53 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2007
posted by W_J_Clinton at 6:53 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2007
posted by DexterDiffring at 6:40 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2007
Thank you so kindly for your eavesdropping. I've seen the book priced outrageously on Ebay but never in the flesh. I appreciate your vigilance.
Ashley
posted by ashleybessbrown at 6:16 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2007
I fear it may be bad form to be silly in the Political Conservatives group. I hope your lordship will escape unscathed after this afternoon's postings, but I fear the worst.
Yrs etc
A Friend
posted by claireonsixth at 4:52 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2007
Doggerel? Maybe.
posted by LordNigelKnickKnack at 3:51 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2007
Can I also say in my defence that I am amazed you do not own a dog, I definitely had you down as a dog owner.
posted by AnneBoleyn at 8:04 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2007
I shall let the immediately previous comment stand unaltered and undeleted as a bad example. If no other purpose is served, future commenters will know that, yes, it's been said before.
And to answer the all-too-inevitable and not infrequently asked big questions from small minds: This "old man" does not own a dog and won't feed others' dogs, does not "whack" Paddys or otherwise abuse his cousins and co-religionists, and does not leave his ancestral manor except on the rarest of occasions which, of course, makes the requisite "rolling home" the seldomest of past-times.
posted by LordNigelKnickKnack at 3:04 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2007
Give the dog a bone;
This old man came rolling home.
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posted by AnneBoleyn at 8:10 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2007
Anyway it was nice to meet you
Regards,
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posted by gregfindley at 6:23 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2007
The West rocks!
And I'm not going to apoligize for it.
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