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Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 by United States.,
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Favorite authorsSir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nadine Gordimer, William Green, Patrick F. McManus, Herman Melville, Victor Mollo, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway, Earl Frederick Ziemke (Shared favorites)
About meI'm new at this. And at FaceBook. I need mentoring for LT (LibraryThing).
Oh, about the picture, it took 10 months to get that far. I'm afraid focusing may take a while longer. (I don't even own a cell phone - My expertise is with a hammer and chisel.) The T-shirt is a skeleton with remnants of a beer can, bottle caps, etc. It was Halloween. The background is my complete set of the 'Green Books', the 78 volume, official history of the U.S. Army in World War II.
Retired from IH (etc.) as a computer programmer/systems analyst (IBM mainframes, OS 360) after 37 1/2 years. Was a scab 3 times: Columbus (OH) Plastics - 2nd shift fiberglass pressman #205, Waukesha (WI) foundry - milling machine operator and Melrose Park (IL) engine plant - piston ringer and fork lift driver. Really helped me to appreciate my day job.
Professional pilot major in college (Univ. of Ill.). Have a commercial license with multi-engine rating. Have a ground instructor license, with advanced and instrument ratings. My CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) license is expired. But, no flying since college.
Six kids. Stopped (cut down) on book buying when the first one was born (July '72). Started up again in 2007.
I'm also U.S. Army, Pentagon (computer programmer, MOS of 74Foxtrot), two years (69-70). Basic at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. Three daughters went into the Air Force.
I have a love of aviation, hunting (none since early teens), fishing (never enough), scale modeling (no skill), education (but no more homework) and the outdoors (South Table Mountain, CO). Loads of college. 7 universities. 3 degrees (9 years worth, 4+2+3).
Married, for soon to be 40 years. 10 grandchildren (as of 4:44 Eastern, Wednesday, March 25, 2009). The 11th has an ETA of December 9, 2009, and the 12th February 2010. Many more are expected. One daughter hasn't started yet. She had better get cracking! And more are planned.
I love my books. NO! I love my family. I am very fond of my books. (My wife, looking over my shoulder, just corrected me: 'No, you love your books.')
About my libraryI view my first three months (plus) on LT as development. Only one tag per book. The titles are useful for my initial cataloging purposes (i.e., Volume 04, not Volume IV). I am slowly getting more into LT.
About 1,800 books, but constantly growing (my wife keeps threatening my debit card).
With the help of my grandchildren, especially 6 year old Rylan (she is dynamite with a power screw driver) we have assembled 3 new 48" by 72" bookcases. I pretty much have all of my books out of cardboard boxes and in nice to acceptable bookcases. 1 or 2 more bookcases are needed.
Now I need to handle my paperbacks (a cabinet?), magazines (binders?) and LOA books (enclosed shelving?).
All of my books are in LT, including the paperbacks and on order (lest I forget). Now for the magazines, games, VCRs, DVDs, maps, jigsaw puzzles, record albums and scale model kits.
My main interests are military (heavily oriented towards World War II, reference, official histories and esoteric subjects) and quality literature (i.e., Library of America or LOA, Black's Readers Service, etc.). I actually read my books. I have enough to get me to 140 years old, at least.
I started seriously buying books (a few) when I was in the Pentagon. There were two book stores in the Pentagon shopping mall. The mall was open to the public, as were the bus depot and some cafeteria's(?). One book store was the GPO (Government Printing Office). I need to record the following series and/or official histories:
2 of 122 volume Britain WW2
5 of 22 volume Australia WW2
1 volume Polish RAF WW2
1 volume Prussia 1868
28 of 55? volume Black's Readers Service literature
? of ? volume Ballantine's Violent Century (Leaders, Campaigns, Battles and Weapons)
9 of 14? volume Aircraft in Profile
Etc.
What happens to my books when I am gone is a big concern to me.
What happened to:
The Putnam Aviation Series
William Green's "War Planes of the Second World War" (any past volume 10?)
"Aircraft in Profile"
Etc.
Due to my kids, I have been out of touch since the early 70's.
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Glad that I could help! I think that there will be a stack of packages (books of course) waiting for me when I get home tomorrow from my business trip. So my credit card could get pulled too! :-)
Steve
posted by rudel519 at 8:10 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2009
I really like the Luftwaffe Colours series - I have them all, and I pretty much have all of the books that Classic Publications has published. I think that they are one of the best publishers of books on WWII aviation currently. The Luftwaffe Colours series does have its limitations, perhaps they try to do too much in too little space (under 100 pgs), but they are covering areas few other books have covered - seaplanes, ground assault, support a/c, night fighters, recon, etc. Personally, I agree 27% off at Amazon is best and they have free shipping. WWW.ABEBOOKS.COM or WWW.BOOKFINDER.COM are also good places to check for what are usually used copies, looks like the price for some listed there are in the $18 to $23 range on the low end (which includes shipping). But if buying used, make sure to check the condition before buying.
I hope that helps!
Steve
posted by rudel519 at 9:08 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2009
We're the ones who have to shine
If there's no one in control
We're the ones who draw the line
Though we live in trying times
We're the ones who have to try
Though we know that time has wings
We're the ones who have to fly.
- - -Rush "Everyday Glory"
posted by theoldman at 9:05 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
There are several Menagerie books by Mollo and several more published after his death which contain some unpublished material and some new material by Robert and Phillip King. I swiped the following list from Mollo's entry on Wikipedia:
* Bridge In The Menagerie (1965)
* Bridge in the Fourth Dimension (1974)
* Masters and Monsters (1979)
* You Need Never Lose at Bridge (1983)
* Destiny at Bay (1987)
* The Hog in The 21st Century (by Phillip and Robert King, 1999)
* Winning Bridge in the Menagerie (by 'Victor Mollo and Robert King'. 2001)
* Bridge in the Fifth Dimension (by 'Victor Mollo with P & R King', 2002)
* Murder in the Menagerie (by 'Robert King, Phillip King, and Victor Mollo', 2002)
I hope that I have not just made your life more difficult with this information as some of these are out of print.
It is hard to give an encapsulated answer as to what I think of Flannery O'Connor. I've been meaning to get the Brad Gooch's biography of her which came out this year. The LOA collection is a good one. The short stories I would direct you to first would be, "A Good Man is Hard to Find", "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Everything that Rises Must Converge".
posted by themockturtle at 8:25 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2009
Considering that multiple series names are allowable, I see no problem.
posted by surly at 4:08 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2009
I've figured it out. I like what you did with the Green Books in Common Knowledge!! It makes sense to me.
Thanks,
Steve
posted by rudel519 at 6:53 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2009
I see the Common Knowledge - Series entries, but not quite sure what one does to denote that a book belongs to a certain series. I see that it's missing most of my Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45 books.
How did you change yours?
Thanks,
Steve
posted by rudel519 at 6:30 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2009
I'm back again, briefly. I see that you've joined quite a few mystery- related groups, so no input from me will serve you very well in that department, since you've pretty much found everything I know about. My involmement with various groups started off pretty strong but, for whatever reason, has slowly dropped off to almost nothing in the last year or so, so I'm pretty out of touch.
Regarding that Battle book, I just happened to see it a few years ago (and I think it was selling for 50% off after Christmas) and I just snapped it up as a resource to learn about various arms and armor mentioned in the fantasy and historical fiction novels I enjoy. I haven't picked up the follow up books but one of these days the weapon book, at the very least, will be in my library.
So, since it's one of my smaller tags in comparison with others I'll need to search, I figured I'd start with some espionage recommendations for you:
1) Len Deighton is supposed to be a master, but I haven't read anything by him (just seen the movie The Ipcress File). However, I've had his Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match omnibus/trilogy in my "to be read" pile for a while now. Here's some info on Deighton: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/len-...
2) Brian Freemantle's Charlie Muffin books are a lot of fun (see here: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/bria...) I've read the first four books but stalled out after the fourth because the fifth was never released by a US publisher; I only recently obtained a copy of that one so I'll start up the series again soon, no doubt. Also, Freemantle has written a couple of Sherlock Holmes sort of pastiches about Sherlock's son, Sebastian (I don't know if Sebastian ever existed in the Conan Doyle books or if he's a completely new character from Freemantle), so those may interest you.
3) Anthony Price is another UK espionage writer (starting in 1970) that I only became aware of last year. I've read his first Dr. David Autley novel, The Labyrinth Makers, and liked it enough to track down almost all the other Autley novels; but, I haven't read any more yet as they too were boxed in one of my previously mentioned house de-cluttering assignments:) Anyway, here's the page for Anthony Price: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/anth...
4) Gavin Lyall is another UK author whom I've yet to read, though I've purchased many of his books based on the recommendation of a bookstore owner whose opinion I respect. Here's his page: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/gavi...
There are, of course, many others such as Ludlum, Greene, Littell, McCarry, all whom I've yet to read. As far as really recent authors go, I've enjoyed David Stone's Micah Dalton character (I'm reading the third book in that series now; see www.davidstonebooks.com) and I read Olen Steinhauer's book The Tourist a couple of months ago and liked it a lot. Steinhauer also has several police procedural novels in an Eastern European setting that I own but have yet to read (you'll find that to be a common theme with my library as I have yet to read 3/4's of it).
Sort of a sub-set of the espionage thing is the contract killer novel, and one of my favorite authors for those (he pretty much only writes hit man novels) is Kevin Wignall. He was nominated for the Edgar award last year for his latest book, Who is Conrad Hirst?. His first novel, though it's been out since 2001, was just released in a mass market paperback format in the US a few weeks ago, so you should have little trouble finding it; it's called People Die. For a rather touching Christmas hit man short story by Wignall that can be read on the web, go here: http://www.kevinwignall.com/shorts.htm
Well, that wasn't as brief as I thought it would be, but hopefully you'll find some books to interest you.
Cheers,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 12:23 pm (EST) on May 23, 2009
Thanks for devoting a fraction of whatever life you have to my profile:) I have returned the favor and found much amusement, so I don't begrudge the time spent on your profile at all. Given that it's May 22, I hope you have the news you and your Daughter-in-Law were looking for. Me, I'm fine with hanging out with my 4 1/2 year old niece (did that all day yesterday) and then letting her go on home to her parents where they do all the real work.
Voodoo...you know, I'd completely failed to consider that option. I like the way you think. I did just see a voodoo doll at my local B&N store, so if you can work some computer hacking magic on LT and get me that fellow's identity, I'll track him down and get the requisite hair/nail clippings...and his LT identity will soon be mine, all mine! (cue the canned maniacal villain laugh track).
Regarding James Munro's books, thanks for reminding me about them. I read the first two last year, I believe, but buried the others in a box after one of my wife's not infrequent "requests" that I do something with my stacks of paperback books and I promptly forgot about them (at least once a month I go searching through my boxes in the garage for a particular author/series/book and, strangely, a whole bunch of other books always seem to come back into the house with me, perpetually cluttering up my wife's--excuse me, I mean--"our" house, heh). Anyway, as you may know, James Munro is a pseudonym for the late UK author James Mitchel. Here's a website with some useful information, and it has a link at the bottom to Mitchel's official website, so if you want to read other things by him, I hope this helps: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/jame...
Unfortunately, it looks like there are only four John Craig books. Give me a few more days to leaf through my library and I'll see if I can come up with some other good espionage/mystery books for you. You may also want to make the acquaintance, if you haven't done so already, of Devenish here on LT. He is most likely the king of the mystery genre here (and he's a big Sherlockian, to boot) with a rather remarkable library that I'm not envious of at all (no, not at all). Devenish can probably narrow down which medieval monk author you're looking for, too, as I haven't read any of those particular series (you will find my library lacking in most things of a religious nature, though I do own a couple of Boris Akunin's Sister Pelagia mystery novels out of loyalty to Akunin rather than any particular interest in things holy). If I had to guess at an author for you, perhaps you're thinking of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels? If that's not it, then you can probably find links from Peters' books to other medieval monk mystery authors on Amazon.com.
I'll also work on science fiction recommendations for you. Do you have any authors you can list that you like? And, do you want strictly science fiction or are you interested in fantasy books, too?
Finally, regarding your desire to protect your LOA books (I'm with you 100% there), I offer my experiences with IKEA's Billy bookcases with glass doors. I have 10 of them for my hardcovers and trade paperbacks and they've kept my books beautiful and dust-free for years now. Plus, the glass doors cut way down on the yellowing effect of light, sun and otherwise, so your pages stay crisply white as long as possible. If you go to message 42 (or somewhere around there) in the "bookcases, build/buy them" group, you can look at some pictures I've posted. Unfortunately, the camera was an old instamatic with old film (and a lousy camera operator, no doubt), so the photos are a weird color and the bookcases look warped (they're not), but at least it will give you some idea about them.
Well, it's past time for lunch out here in SoCal, so I'll sign off now.
Talk to you later,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 4:38 pm (EST) on May 22, 2009
I believe I said if you like the Green aviation books you should get in touch with RUdel & SHrike who seem to own every aviation book known to man! Feel free to run questions by me or those guys RE lt or anything else. My friend Donogh
is also very sharp & has a great colleciton as well. CHeers, A
posted by Ammianus at 7:25 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009
posted by elhoim at 4:46 am (EST) on Feb 16, 2009
When you have a chance, you should join the following groups in LibraryThing -
"Second World War History" and "Military History". The people in them are great and they keep everyone updated about new books, reviews of what they're reading and just posting information that the others in the group could be interested in. We'd love to have you join and it would be great if you could post a reminder about the GPO web site there! To find those groups easily, just go to my Profile and click on their links which appear in the Groups section towards the top of my Profile. Once you're in a group page, look around, and if it looks like something you'd like to join, click the "Join this Group" button on the top right of the screen. If you prefer to watch it without joining it, there's also a button for that. Hope to see you there,
Steve
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