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Ghost Town Treasures by Lambert Florin
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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The first book I ever bought and read of my own volition!:
.....I was 12 and bought it at a rummage sale for 10 cents. After reading it, still in shock that a book could actually be enjoyable, I decided it must have been because it had the word "mystery" in the title. So, for a while, I would only read books with titles containing the word "mystery."
.....At some point, after scavenging all the "mystery"-titled books in the youth section at the local public library, I somehow ended up with a Nancy Drew book (which I'd never heard of before) with "secret" in the title, but since it was sub-titled "A Nancy Drew Mystery," I decided I could bend my rule a little. After discovering that there were other Nancy Drew books (in a separately shelved section of the library), some with neither the word "mystery" nor "secret" in the title, I tossed out the rule altogether and just started reading all the Nancy Drews.
.....Eventually, a kind librarian hesitantly asked, "Umm, young man, why aren't you reading the Hardy Boys mysteries?" I replied, "Hardy Boys? Who are they?"
.....Uhh, yeah. Duh on me.
.....Anyway, it wasn't long before I'd tracked down every mystery in the library, having fully opened the door to the world of reading.
.....It would be another year or so before my attention turned to science fiction (starting with Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End"--the first book in the "Favorite Cover Art" section below) (and what a fitting title!) Then the doors to all the worlds started to open....
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(Not to judge a book by its cover or anything...)
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About my libraryClick here to see a few shots of my actual library. (Once you're on the page, just click on the "View Slideshow" link in the yellow box. You don't need to sign in. Then click on the yellow forward arrow on subsequent pages to see the additional shots).
As far as entering all of my books into LibraryThing, I've finally finished! There are a few paperbacks I haven't enetered, since they are part of my share pile or give-away pile and thus not part of my "permanent" collection. But for all intents and purposes, I'm done! (except for additional stuff I buy!)
Also note: Regarding my LT entries for some of the series' (Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, etc), I've played with the Date field a bit in order to get them to display in proper sequence/groupings. I've done my best to keep them in the approximate era of their publication (not an easy task, considering the multitude of publication variations of these series), so please forgive the seeming date-entry errors. (I've left the correct dates in the Publication and Summary Line fields; it's only the Date field that I've tinkered with).
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posted by tarpfarmer at 11:43 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
posted by thegreattim at 11:00 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
Thanks for your message you sent me ages ago! Very sorry for my long silence. I had not done any cataloging in LT for some time and had not checked my account in months. Yes, am trekking along with others in the FBS, and I certainly have seen your name on the roster. Would you please autograph my copy of the ABCs of Book Collecting?! Hope to see you when the FBS resumes meeting this fall.
Best in bibliophily,
Mike Bryan
posted by mbryanbook at 9:23 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2009
I actually saw your LT event posting of it (I was already aware though being in the Library Science grad program, next door to the library).
I thought you might be interested in the updated time (4pm) and might want to update the event page (thanks for posting that btw).
Best!
John
posted by JFDR at 1:35 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2009
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posted by JFDR at 10:16 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2009
I say... "meh".
I might try more later, but probably not for a while.
~T
posted by thegreattim at 8:58 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2008
Hamilton writes gigantic tomes of space operas. Think selected works by Stephen Baxter, Robert Reed and Paul J. McAuley. Actually he mght be rather like Reynolds, many people have him in the same libraries and tags. Might be worth checking out, although don't take it from me! :-)
I have the complete Uplift series (both old and new) but only got halfway through "Sundiver" before puting it down. Actaully to be fair I have read "The Postman" many years ago, but that hardly counts as being a Brin reader. I have a good deal of LeGuin including the two you mentioned although, again, I have not read them. I trend towards hard SF, not the social SF she writes, so that may have been why I have not read them yet. Actually I got halfway through "Lathe Of Heaven" but had to stop when my copy was destroyed in an unfortunate coffee accident. Liked what I had read though.
Gaiman is pretty decent, although I didn't like "American Gods" as much as all the hype had me believe I would. Much rather prefered "Good Omens". "Neverwhere" and "Stardust" were pretty great too, and I'm looking forward to reading my copy of "Coraline".
Take care,
~Tim.
posted by thegreattim at 8:53 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2008
I see you have Alastair Reynolds on your upcoming list. I have many of his books but have not read them yet. Have you read much of him? Any good?
I like the idea of liking him. :-) But have no evidence to back that up!
~Tim
P.S. I like the idea of liking many authors I have not read yet... Peter F. Hamilton, Ursula K. LeGuin, David Brin, etc... I really need to get around to proving myself right. :-)
P.P.S. Up to an even 200 shared now. Nice!
posted by thegreattim at 7:09 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2008
Finally updated my LT reading list status and popped over to your page to take a look at your's. I noticed you are currently reading "Lisey's Story". I just finished that one (on audio) this week! I'm not sure how I did not "read" this one earlier. I bought it in hardcover when it came out and actually read through 3/4ths of it and somehow put it down (being distracted probably by some bright shiny new thing I just picked up) and never got back to it... Too bad, this is the only one I have not finished in hand and had to resort to the audio version.
Anyway let me know when you are done with it and what you thought. Some interesting insights are in order, methinks.
Also, I just noticed, reading over your comments page below, that we talked about the hardcover release of "Little Sisters..." back in July! I'm not sure how I forgot about that... :-)
Hope all is well and I hope you have happy holidays,
~Tim
posted by thegreattimsbooklist at 8:13 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2008
posted by OriginalOgre at 2:04 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2008
Seriously, though- let me know how you like the [Colorado Kid] by King. I tried to like it but put it down after a bit. I'm afraid I didn't give it its due.
Happy Reading,
Bryan
posted by OriginalOgre at 10:27 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008
Cheers,
Randy
posted by rbrandt at 12:41 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2008
In Answer to your question:
I actually worte down on a legal pad all of the books that I have in my personal library--that is how I started--I worked very fast to get those titles in. Then I wrote down as many titles as I could remember reading over the years, from childhood onward. These are the books I don't own.
I am still adding every day, I look at other people's library's and remember reading the same books...or something sparks my memory...etc.
But it was a daunting task to enter all of the books...
I can actually say, when I was growing up, being able to immerse myself in a Ray Bradbury book actually saved my life.
When we know each other better, I will clarify that...but I can honestly say, Bradbury saved my life...and thus began my love affair with books!
Thanks,
TONY
posted by silversurfer at 10:52 am (EST) on Aug 9, 2008
I only just started to Tag the books...I should have done that when I was putting them in...but I am knew at this, was introduced to this by a friend. How did I enter my Library so fast? I don't know, I just wrote down all the books in my personal library at home and then started to think about all the books I have read in my lifetime...still not finsihed, titles keep popping up.
I am a big Sci-Fi, Mystery Fan as you can see.
Thanks for your comments "Friend" !
Looking forward to chatting and sharing.
TONY-NYC
posted by silversurfer at 8:03 am (EST) on Aug 6, 2008
Thanks for your message. I am living in Belgium and I have taken the picture from the rim of the Canyon of Chelly during a journey in the South West of the USA (September 2006).
I am collecting the Armed Services Edition pocketbooks. I have found all this pockets on fleemarkets in Belgium. I am interested in the history of the US Army during WW2 because we owe very mutch to the American boys who liberated Belgium in 1944 (the year I was born).
Best regards
Geo
PS I am French speaking and I do my best to write in English.I hope you will forgive my orthographical and grammatical errors.
posted by Nedrin at 3:23 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2008
So, I was at the neighborhood comic shop picking up the last issue of "The Long Road Home" DT story arc (very nice, by the way, finaly some new material) and I saw this sitting on the shelves...
http://www.librarything.com/work/5793294 (5 issues this Sept)
Looks light you were right about the increase in the number of specials. :-) Still, though looks like it will be fun. Just also saw that Donald M. Grant is publishing a joint "Little Sisters Of Eluria" & "DT:1" with all new and the original art as well. I'll probably have to pick this up, also. :-|
Hope all is well, take care.
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 11:30 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2008
So who knows. I've been getting some cataloguing done recently, forced on my by lack of shelf space. Horrors! I had to box up nine boxes of books that I had no room to display. :-( So now the only things on my shelves are my wife's books, (I have vastly more, so I didn't think it would be fair to box her's) the non-fiction, the science fiction, and of course, the Stephen King's. I already have the boxed books logged in, and I will start the shelved books soon. Many are already logged, although not with the condition tags I have taken to adding, but many of my BookMooch incoming books have been neglected.
I actually anticipate on being done by the fall completely! From then on, it should be simple to input individual books as I get them. :-) Wee!
Finished my first class two weeks ago and start the next one Monday. By the fall I should be full time. It's good to be back after all these years. Anyway take care, hope all is well. By the way, I pre-ordered "Just After Sunset" a few weeks ago. I can't wait to see that one! His short stories have always been among my favorites.
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 11:38 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2008
A quick reccomendation, if I may. Ever hear of Scott Sigler? I just finished his novel Infected. It's like the early Stephen King (Misery, Pet Sematary)... on crack. Unreal! The book's prose isn't quite the same as King... but man, the stroy is relentless!
Give it a try if you get some time. :-)
~Tim
posted by thegreattimsbooklist at 9:32 am (EST) on May 1, 2008
P.S. I did notice my amatuer HTML coding was off, on my other profile. If you're bored sometime, feel free to send me the code your using. I have a feeling I know what it is, but every time I edit something I mess up something else and loose the whole thing... :-P
Later,
~T
posted by thegreattim at 6:38 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2008
- Bob
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 11:22 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2008
posted by LittleMaggie at 9:06 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2008
What does it look like from you're point of view? Just curious...
posted by thegreattim at 11:04 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2008
Thanks for the comment and thanks for stopping by my MySpace page. I'll pop over there after this and see your page. I love making new friends and I love snooping around in the libraries of other people. LibraryThing...Yay! Hope to see you around.
~Terrie
posted by Treeseed at 4:43 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2008
Rock on,
Joyce
posted by starcitywoman at 4:30 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2008
Hope you don't mind, but I "borrowed" your reading queue/history idea for my "reading list" companion profile I am keeping.
Thanks! :-)
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 8:57 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2008
I had not realized that you were not entering paperbacks, I have beeen doing that all along (by the way; up to 167 matched already.) Although, truth be told I have very few paperbacks these days. About five years ago when I moved to Chicago, I was forced to get rid of most of my collection, only keeping the hardcovers. Since then I have bough only maybe 75-100 paperbacks (mostly J's books, but for me mostly books that are too expensive or rare to get the hardcover version; or that only come out in paperback).
And Yes! Pop Art was my favorite from 20th Century. It moved me so much, more than probably any short story I've ever read. And the others are just as good. I may be going out on a limb here, but I think this collection is better than any of the short story collections his father put out. Hill is a genius. I can't wait to see more material from him. A New novel would be very exciting.
Anyway, good luck with the entering of books! I've fallen pretty far behind myself lately.
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 11:46 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2008
posted by LittleMaggie at 3:28 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008
posted by thegreattim at 11:36 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2008
I'm going back to school this summer, also. I imagine my reading will get way behind as I am taking a full load of classes and working two jobs. It makes me sad, in a way, although I am excited to finish my degree after 8 years off.
Anyway, good luck with all of those. The new comic looks pretty great, with new material this time instead of rehashing W&G. I heard that Marvel and Furth have scripted a total of 5 mini-arcs, this one being only the second. It sounds great!
Cheers,
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 11:47 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2008
I got to ask, have you finished Duma Key yet? What do you think? I just need chat about this with someone.
Also, I see you have 20th Century Ghosts in you queue. Let me know what you think about that one too... :-)
And The Long Road Home?? Lot's of great new stuff!
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 11:38 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008
posted by thegreattim at 4:42 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2008
Cheers!
posted by Makifat at 1:54 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007
Now for my library, I just need to get some custom shelves built in like you have. My various stand up shelves are already overflowing. It's not as nice as I would like them to be. But one of these years I will get that done!
So, NO, I never did get the Secretary Of Dreams 1. I was going to buy it on Amazon, they were actually listing them new for weeks, when the book first came out, for about $46. When I actaully went to purchase it, they were gone! And right now the $75 is just too much to spend on one book. My wife would have my head! :-) With the new house and all the associated expenses... I'm probably goign to have to suck it up and buy them for around $100 a piece when I can actually afford it!
I'm still debating as to whether or not to pick up the DT comic hardcover. I probably will eventaully, but I do already have two each of the comics, sketchbook, and guide. The art was amazing, no? But I was sad that there was no new material. All just re-hashing of DT:4. I heard rumors that mabye another arc was coming out in '08. Hopefully they will do some new work for that one. I personally would love to see an indepth look at the battle of Jericho Hill and the events leading up to it and after it.
Anyway, I'm about to finally pass 1000 books too! I probably only have another 200 to add and I will be done (if I don't buy any more). 132 books shared already! That's very cool.
Enjoy the holidays!
~Tim
posted by thegreattim at 9:40 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2007
Tricia
posted by hailelib at 8:54 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007
I just love your library! Do the two cuckoo clocks go off at the same time? I showed my daughter your album, and even she approved! Do you have an ugly floor lamp that had to be moved for the picture, or do you read by the room light? All you need are are floor lamp and a window seat cushion. The globes and leather wing chair are beautiful!
webecca
posted by webecca at 8:43 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2007
So you still need to enter a ton of books!? Wow... I'm finally getting close to being done with mine. (2 boxes left?) As a huge science fan, fiction and otherwise, it will be interesting to see how many more books we have in common.
We also probably would have more "favorite" authors if I listed them all, Bradbury and KSR just quikly naming a couple if see in your list... I was just trying to name a representative selection. :-)
So was HP worth it all? (don't give anything away!)
posted by thegreattim at 5:33 pm (EST) on Jul 23, 2007
posted by lgaikwad at 9:01 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2007
posted by thegreattim at 12:10 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2007
posted by thegreattim at 11:57 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2007
T is for....?"
Captain Napalm and the evil forces of well....evil
oh yeah put thecomplete c+h evidition in your library
:(=)
posted by blackpig at 10:30 am (EST) on Feb 21, 2007
there is this collection (like 20lbs or somthing) that has it all
...to be debriefed. little do they know, our hero is not wearing briefs....
:(=)
posted by blackpig at 10:38 am (EST) on Feb 16, 2007
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!!!!!!!!!!!
How much do you love calvin and hobbes?
they are my absolute un questionable FAVORITE cartoon
Our hero, space man spiff... CALVINNNN!
sorry
I REALLY like 'em
have heard of any Watterson auto/biographies?
posted by blackpig at 3:48 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2007
I am eagarly awaiting my purchase of The Secretary of Dreams. Are you picking this one up as well? And I'm super excited now that Marvel's DT comic is finally here.
Anyway, Bravo!!
posted by thegreattim at 9:06 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2007