Member: bookstopshere

Hi Scott -- Just fyi. there's a new James Branch Cabell website, here http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 3:42 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2013

Thank you for your PM and thanks for the book recommendation. I'll keep Wasp Factory in mind but it will not be any time soon. I have to get my brain settled after reading Geek Love and so far I haven't been able to get it out of my head haha.

posted by brenzi at 10:36 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2013

To be preferred over "he writes like a great many of his living colleagues", who I need not name, as they are on the tip of everyone's tongue ("at least they read", some half-full types might say). MV is someone I would like to read -the same for everyone affiliated with the Tartarus Press - but whose distinct works I haven't quite felt motivated to purchase for the reasons lightly laid out below.

posted by benwaugh at 3:09 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2013

Thank you, Scott. You know, I carried a subscription to Wormwood for awhile, and have a few early issues. I will investigate some of Valentine's stories in the anthologies I have. I think I have become a sort of ghost story bigot - not reading anything by anyone still drawing breath. An OCD'd bigot at that - reading my dead only in autumn and winter.

posted by benwaugh at 6:44 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2013

I will be sure to look into them. I was hoping your follow-up would read something like "I happen to have an extra copy" ;).

posted by benwaugh at 8:26 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2013

Context/How do you rate them?

posted by benwaugh at 4:18 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2013

Hi Scott --
Thanks much for your help. I feel for you, as we have a similar number of books. I have vowed to never move again, having almost ruined my body last time

Hmmm... funny you should say Grant Richards because my copy says Richards on the spine but John Lane Bodley Head on the title page. It appears from an online bibliography that Richards did the London in 1904 and Lane the US issue in 1907; apparently Lane used already bound English copies and tipped in a new title page. Confusing.

Of the titles you mention as being in the Owen edition only three are in mine, so I guess Owen is not a straight reprint of the Richards/Lane edition (whatever it purports) but a later selection using Pope Jacynth for its title (that is, unless Lane 1907 differs from Richards 1904 which seems unlikely). So I should catalogue these separately;l and the Tauchnitz appears also to merit its own listing, as it has at least one story which is in neither the Rcihards nor the Owen. If it's not too much trouble (and the book is not yet packed!) can you tell me if the Tauchnitz contents are the same as the Richards aside from the addtion of the Ariadne story? I'll add all these contents to the CK for the various Pope Jacynth entries.

Thanks, and good luck moving,
Bill

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 11:03 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2012

Hi bookstopshere -- I see you have two versions of Vernon Lee's Pope Jacynth, the 1906 Tauchnitz and the 1956 Peter Owen. I just got the 1907 John Lane edition, and I notice all three of these have slightly different titles. I wonder if the contents are the same, as I want to catalogue mine correctly. Mine has six stories and says "and other fantastic tales"; the Owen says "and more supernatural tales"; and the Tauchnitz says it contains seven stories.

This one has the title story, plus Prince Alberic, Wedding Chest, Lady and Death, St Eudaemon, and Featureless Wisdom. This differs at least from the Tauchnitz which is said to include Ariadne in Mantua. What does the Peter Owen contain? -- the same six stories as the John Lane? or is it a later selection? or the same contents as the Tauchnitz? and does the Tauchnitz differ from the Lane by only that one story?

Thanks for your help,
Bill (Crypto-Willobie)

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 10:22 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2012

thhanks for speedy reply. internet is amazing. I retired 9 months ago and its terrific to have shed responsibilities , pressure and tensions of running a large faculty in a sizeable university. My husband built me a 3 room library in our house so not moving to anything smaller yet. Wonderful to have time to read and now to catalogue my books and have a big shedding pile too ( go off to super local Hospice bookshop ) except I buy from them too. Also time for research and writing in heritage area. Yes also read about a book a day but seldom fiction unless really special. good luck

posted by Africansky1 at 3:57 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2012

greetings, lovely introduction to yourself,your library, the demads we make on books and visa versa and poetry. yes, problem is one of finding time to read all one wants .

posted by Africansky1 at 12:57 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2012

Gracias. :)

posted by artturnerjr at 6:19 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2012

Enjoyed 'Engine Summer' very much. I'm sending you a copy of 'Prince of Thorns' today.

Cheers,
Mark

posted by mark_lawrence at 8:03 am (EST) on Jul 26, 2011

I know, I have to fix my tags. But they all come up if I do a search for Subterranean Press, no matter how I've capitalized them, so that demotivates me to fix it. Your library has some nice copies.. including some small press China Meiville!

posted by jlabeatnik at 8:55 am (EST) on Jun 10, 2011

Engine Summer arrived yesterday - thanks so much! I owe you one! If you're interested in a signed copy of Prince of Thorns come August, just send me your address.

Cheers,
Mark

posted by mark_lawrence at 6:24 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2011

ha, your first rate mind comment made me laugh. I noticed that we had a bunch of books in common that aren't the usual mainstream books (Brandon Sanderson and Robin Hobb caught my eye - I would read them every day if they could write that many books). I'm alw2ays looking for good reading recs so I thought I'd connect.

posted by AlexandraRobbins at 7:14 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2011

As it happens it was Sign of the Burning Hart I just ordered on Amazon, as I'd seen it compared to Cabell, although if Keller displays a crudeness of style, I'm not sure how that works...

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 7:43 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2011

re Engine Summer - sorry for the tardy reply, been in hospital with my youngest most of the week - just escaped and we're off to the hospice.

Good news - how much will I owe you & what's the payment mechanism?

Cheers,
Mark

posted by mark_lawrence at 12:21 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2011

What a fabulous fantasy art collection! I've just been having a darn good nose (I've seen a lot of interesting and extensive libraries on LT but this is the first time I've actually whimpered with longing to browse amongst one properly) and I think I've spotted a gap. You don't have (unless I overlooked it) Agatha Christie: The Art of Her Crimes by Julian Symons. It's a book of the paintings that Tom Adams did for the British Fontana-published paperback art of Christie's books. You seem to be a fan of Dame Agatha, and it would certainly speak to your interests in books, art, illustration and - because of the surreal nature of the cover art he created for those books - fantasy art.

Well, I'll drop my 2c off here... I've loved looking through your tags; truly an 'interesting' library!

posted by eleanor_eader at 2:33 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2011

Hi! I wish LT had a space for comments on the friend request thing... I saw how many books we had in common, and thought your profile was great (I need to spruce mine up a bit).

posted by Stewartry at 6:38 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2011

I considered "too lazy to be crazy" and decided that it sounded wayyy too much like a song you'd hear on Texas radio! *grin*

posted by Maladee at 12:22 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2010

Dear bookstophere,

I have rather odd taste, don't I?

At the moment I'm accosting everyone who likes SF and trying to impress Weinbaum's name on them. (This is, at least, a relief from trying to hand them a copy of Islandia: I could not find it for 10 years after reading about it in LeGuin's essays, then copies began appearing wherever I went...)

I am very glad to meet anyone who knows Weinbaum and Pirandello.

Well met,
Lisa Shapter

posted by LisaShapter at 5:47 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2010

Thanks a lot for taking the time out to read my work, on Deviant art there is a mix of before study (full of cliches, sappy, romantic stuff) and during study (which are hopefully an improvement on the old stuff), I still have two years left to work on my poetry even more, so come September time there should be a lot more work on there.

posted by themower at 9:33 am (EST) on Jul 2, 2009

Dear Bookstopshere,
Your collection is to die for!!!!!!!!!!I have only been a member for two days but am amazed at the number of people who have read A. Merrit and E.R Eddison.

posted by unorna at 6:01 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009

Hi Scott. Things are reasonably good. A poem of mine will be on New Verse News website again for Earth Day, April 22.

posted by Poemblaze at 7:37 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Uh oh. Philosophy was always a closed book to me however hard I tried to open it. My theological bent kept horning in, I think. It's interesting to me to find that Neal Stephenson's latest, Anathem, has given me more philosophical insights that I could follow than anything else I've read. I need to get back to that so that I can finish it.
I have a most accomodating husband who throws up a new bookshelf every time the library floor becomes overrun. He doesn't even say, "And when you've filled this one, DON'T BUY ANY MORE BOOKS!" as he used to. He does put them on the shelf for me - one reason that I'm not sure of what I have or where it is. Anyhow, Gass goes on the "to buy and read" list.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 4:34 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

You have trash????? I have trash, and I love every piece of it!! I also see that I'm going to have to read some William Gass ----- thanks, I think. Now I'm off to catalogue as many of my Ed McBain's as I can do before supper. I read (and as soon as I could afford to) bought mysteries all my life and have come only lately to science fiction. I wish it had been the other way around. Anyway, well-met.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 5:21 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2009

I see why I, with my 2,839 books catalogued so far, don't show up on your books-in-common list, but with 495 in common, why don't you show up on mine? I don't even know how I got here, but I will add your library to my "interesting " list and hope to speak someday.
Thanks,
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 1:16 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

I understand completely. Send me your mailing address (my e-mail is mail@christophertusa.com) and I'll send out a signed copy.

posted by cmtusa at 1:32 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

Hi,

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 The Wasp Factory, 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=1687

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 11:48 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

i once commented to a friend that maybe we should use pi as a base number, seeing as it has such meaningful properties. he came straight back with "it would be a bugger to do your tax returns though."

not sure if my anecdote is relevant but thanks for saying hi.

o.t.

posted by orangethunder at 3:12 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2009

Enjoyed the comments on your page. I too have a significant other, in my case a daughter who collects books herself...first it was surviving the baby years, then middle school, now it is books on high schoolers which are much more threatening, but cannot stand MY collections. Since I have 2 houses I also have 2 collections of a sort. But at 75..I have decided I have a right. I don't have enough bookcases in my condo, so recently sorted the out what I have here by subject and put them in stacks on the floor.

It is interesting to see what books we have in common.

Also, check out my international realia collection of international dolls which I have managed by using "change cover" to put photos in. My ultimate objective is Dolls Overseas Lending Library and in Library Thing I can connect them with book for lending packages to libraries and schools, maybe retirement or nursing homes...if anybody is interested.

posted by carterchristian1 at 10:05 am (EST) on Jan 30, 2009

well, thank you I appreciate that. I only read Twilight because I wanted to see what the hype was about. It only took me a day to read, and I guess I was just having one of those romance fantasy days, because I actually liked the book and ended up buying the whole series -- not one of my best decisions ;)

posted by nearlycivilized at 10:09 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2009

haha, yes, thanks for pointing that out. I guess that's why I'm not a book editor, just a reader :)

posted by nearlycivilized at 7:12 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2009

Hi Scott! Oh, lots of things.

Reading, of course. ;)

I also like writing, dancing, swimming, journaling, scrapbooking, yoga, learning new things, watching movies, going to the park to walk or read, I want to learn to knit.

What about you?

posted by thisismebecca at 1:12 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

Hi Scott. Got published online. I wish I had tweaked a couple things beforehand, but here it is. Wish "Mall" had been with a capital M.

http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2009/01/20-january-2009.html

posted by Poemblaze at 8:30 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2009

Upon your recommendation and reading the first few pages on amazon.com I have ordered my own copy of Carlos Maria Dominguez's THE HOUSE OF PAPER. It looks decidedly delicious!

posted by coleaj at 10:40 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2009

Not too many people have read Figures of Earth!

posted by Shinwa at 1:13 am (EST) on Dec 26, 2008

Just dug it out of obscurity this afternoon at my favorite (and should add, only) local biblio-shrine.

posted by benwaugh at 4:54 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2008

Hi,

I was wandering through the libraries here on LibraryThing and came across yours. Pretty interesting. (we have 759 books in common!) It's always nice to run into someone else that enjoys Science Fiction & Fantasy to the extant that I do. At least you seem to judging by the size of your collection.
If you don't mind, I'm a very curious person, an unrepentant bookaholic and I like to talk books whenever I can.
How long have you been collecting? Do you have all or most of your collection on shelves or boxed up?
I finally have all my books on shelves. Every wall and a few places people didn't think of!

Thanks a lot. See you in the funny pages.

posted by battlinjack at 11:25 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

I chose the word "enfold" because I wanted to say that for the speaker in the poem day and night are merging into one. Have to think about the other word. Thank you for the thoughts on all the poems you have commented on. It always helps to have another point of view to consider.

posted by Poemblaze at 2:24 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2008

Yourcenar's tales... Oh yes!

posted by which at 5:04 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

Thanks for the feedback. It helps to get others' take on what I've written.

posted by Poemblaze at 6:55 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2008

I have a up scan of the following, though the publisher is different so the jacket illustration may be different. To find it search on the author's surname, as mine isn't somehow "connected" to other copies --

Art of the Rhyme
by B.J. Pendlebury

I also have a scan up of Light Up the Cave.

I may also have other scans you can use -- I don't know the covers of the books for which you don't yet have scans. But I certainly know I've not as many volumes of poetry (and related)!

Here's an idea: how about an annotated bibliography/review of the many books you have on poetic forms?

posted by JNagarya at 11:21 am (EST) on May 13, 2008

Stop by my catalog and check my Levertov and related, to which I'm continuing to add. Should be at least another two (British "Relearning the Alphabet" being one of those) within a month or so.

Alas, not all yet have covers. And some in the catalog aren't of the copies I have -- of special note the British "Sorrow Dance": of that my copy is gooorrggeeeous -- finer than merely fine! Same for "Footprints," "To Stay Alive" and a number of others.

posted by JNagarya at 5:35 am (EST) on May 12, 2008

Having lived most of my adult life in small apartments, my library size has always been fundamentally limited by the number of Staples bookcases I could squeeze into my room. But home ownership has set my library free -- at least for now :-D

posted by jxmas at 5:39 pm (EST) on May 10, 2008

Nice library, we have some things in common. Wish I had something by William Russell Flint though! I just uploaded cover for the Howard Pyle book Henry Pitz. I've been putting up a lot of covers, there may be some now for more your books.

posted by Marxchivist at 10:06 pm (EST) on May 7, 2008

Hello fellow Mononan (?) Monona-nite? Impressive library - I guess that's an understatement.

posted by dougwood57 at 5:24 pm (EST) on May 6, 2008

Too many books, indeed. But listening to your tales of paring down the library by the odd 20,000 or so volumes makes me break into a bibliophilic sweat. Next time you dumptruck, just back it up to my door. LOL

By the way, I love the fact that on your 10 Books on Robinson Crusoe's Swiss Family Castaway With Tom Hanks Redundancy Island Vacation List, Minus Gilligan and the Skipper Too, you have Calvin & Hobbes. I purchased (though they could have been kinder on the pricetag) the nice, hardbound, complete set they (finally) issued a year or two back, and agree with you: ESSENTIAL READING. Calvin & Hobbes is hands down the best cartoon in America (past and present). I hooked my own young sons on it immediately as well.

Cheers,

Thomas

posted by kurvanas at 11:02 am (EST) on May 1, 2008

I have a feeling joining librarything is going to be expensive - I haven't even logged a tenth of my collection and I have already identified half a dozen books on my wish list. House of Paper was recommended to me by a friend, after reading that quote I think it moves up in ratings.

posted by SpicyCat at 4:08 am (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

I was just checking out the larger libraries and was amazed to see that, although I've only listed a little over 500 of my books, we share 101! Partly it's the sci fi/fantasy interest, but not solely . . . I'm sure I'll be back to browse for suggestions when I've made a little more inroads on my TBR pile.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

posted by ejj1955 at 4:05 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

Here's a nice quote (if you haven't already seen it).
"Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore! ... Then, too, the subtle process by which the man convinces himself that he can afford to buy. No subtle manager or broker ever saw through a maze of financial embarrassments half so quick as a poor book-buyer sees his way clear to pay for what he _must_ have."
[Henry Ward Beecher, "Subtleties of Book-Buyers"]

posted by Dragonfly at 3:20 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

Thanks for the advice. I'll definately see about ILL.

posted by MarcusBrutus at 8:33 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

Where did you find Dumas's "Wolf Leader"? I'm searching online bookstores, but I can't find it anywhere for less than $275. :( Dumas is my favorite author, and I absolutely adore werewolves, so you can see why I REALLY want to read it.

posted by MarcusBrutus at 11:36 am (EST) on Feb 21, 2008

Aloha, Scott. I have extra copies of stuff by Julien Gracq, Hans Henny Jahnn and Émile Verhaeren. I thought you might have an interest. Any care-worn pungent doubles you have lying around?

posted by benwaugh at 2:46 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2008

We share an amazing total of 67 books. . . but you really need "Too Loud a Solitude" by Bohumil Hrabal (also, if possible, his "I Served the King of England." )

posted by Esta1923 at 12:23 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2008

Oh, if only. If only I had so many books (sound of drooling). Oh, well. Maybe not that I own a house I can start collecting again. Looking forward to perusing your collection more in depth!

posted by lesleyap at 1:57 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2008

I sent it to you before it was critiqued by my writer's group. Got feedback which will revise poem a bit, as will consideration of your ideas.

posted by Poemblaze at 2:55 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008

She is good and YES! New books are always good. I am pouting right now because
books promised for today have yet to arrive. I always have trouble with Barnes
and Noble online. It was two day delivery .. i ordered on the 27th...
and it was promised for today. sigh. I have also gotten dirty and torn books from them.
Never from Amazon!..

Well. Maybe they will be here when I get home fro work tomorrow.. I can finish the one that
I am reading tonight..

I have given away or traded on many hundreds of books...
I now only have maybe 800 or so... moved more than that to
Boston and Back to Pa once a couple of decades ago.. and made a resolution..
ahem

:P

posted by mckait at 5:52 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2008

I checked out your authors.. I see that you like sci-fi and fantasy.. me too.. but just the good stuff :)
I see no mention of Mary Doria Russell... you have got to read her books The Sparrow and Chldren of God.. seriously..fantastic reads...bet you would like them..

I love deLint, too..

posted by mckait at 6:32 am (EST) on Jan 3, 2008

Wow! great library! wish we were neighbors. :)

posted by mckait at 8:06 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2008

I see, with green eyes, that you have a copy of The Wolf Leader. Where do you do your shopping? Is it the Blaine edition?

posted by benwaugh at 12:29 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2007

Hello,

What a wonderful catalog of books! I see that we have a number in common (although I am a long way off from the number you have, I too love to collect books and find it hard to shed them). We're not in the same place in our lives for sure - as you describe yourself as "an old guy" and I'm a 34-year-old mom of two small children. BUT what can tie people better than a love of reading? My catalog right now is just the books I've kept track of reading sinc 2003 (I think). Motherhood brings it's own kind of senility - so I started keeping lists of what I had read because I'd find myself buying duplicates and re-reading things without remembering I had read them! I wish I could go back and put in all the books I remember reading in my life. Maybe a side project.;^)

Best of luck with growing you catalog!

posted by princessbabs at 11:32 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007

Hope you are doing well... I saw we had a lot of books in common, so I requested your friendship. I look forward to checking out the rest of your library! Hope you enjoy my books.

posted by lisaunger at 10:30 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007

I noticed you have quite a few of Marie Corelli's works. I am absolutely in love with her writing. I am looking for more authors I will enjoy just as much, who would you suggest?

I also enjoy Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence that I am half way through now and all of Hawthorne. Steinbeck's East of Eden is another favorite of mine that I could read over and over.

posted by chevydevil at 10:58 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2007

It is very useful, and I'm looking forward to getting the companion volume. Darned if you don't have the Bleiler, too! ENVY.

posted by benwaugh at 10:41 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2007

Interesting: we are 2 among 5 who have a copy of The Nightcharmer: And Other Tales of Claude Seignolle. The translator is mon vieux professeur, Eric Deudon - who has since become Eric Hollingsworth du Plessis.

Babu-Deudon-du Plessis was quite passionate about the macabre theme in literature... kept in touch with Seignolle. He has since claimed to have moved on to "other interests": the eternally fashionable Nietzsche, etc. Trivia.

posted by benwaugh at 9:08 am (EST) on Sep 6, 2007

Scott - no list per se, as yet - but here is what I have come up with for Garland Publishing's The Decadent Consciousness series:

Arthur Symons: Spiritual Adventures
Arthur Symons: Studies in two literatures
Vincent O'Sullivan: The Houses of Sin (also includes several other volumes of O'Sullivan's verse)
Vernon Lee: Renaissance fancies and studies
Henry Harland: Mademoiselle Miss, and other stories
Henry Harland: Grandison Mather
Robert Smythe Hichens: An imaginative man
A.C. Benson: Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton

Like the list from the same publisher, which you kindly provided - these are 1970s reprints and they are not cheap. The Benson title is priced at over $1000.

posted by benwaugh at 2:27 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2007

Scott - the list is amazing. Unfortunately, so are the prices - for those titles I could track down. No matter - I will print it and keep it on hand when shopping in real bookstores. Thanks!

Have you heard of "The Decadent Consciousness: A Hidden Archive of Late Victorian Literature"? 42 titles in the series, among them, Vincent O'Sullivan's The Houses of Sin. Garland Publishing put them out in the late 70s.

posted by benwaugh at 10:05 am (EST) on Sep 4, 2007

Hey! I'm listing as fast as I can, in between doing a double degree at uni, running a relationship, and living...I find it quite addictive, though - I hope my stuff will be all be listed before the end of the year. Thnaks for becoming my friend on LibraryThing!
Cheers
Leigh

posted by 666777 at 8:33 am (EST) on Sep 1, 2007

Hi
I had to contact you with a comment as you're the only other LibraryThinger with a copy of Leah Bodine Drake's A HORNBOOK FOR WITCHES - a rare book indeed. Mine is in jacket though i note yours is note. Can I ask if there's a story behidn where you picked yours up?
regards
Leigh Blackmore

posted by 666777 at 7:24 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

Regretfully, I do not have access. In fact, I have just got over wanting to consult a professional sorceror to send an imp or venifice whammy to boil and distend the guts of David Tibet, who outbid me a few weeks back on an original copy of Count Stenbock's Studies of Death. Tibet, as you probably know, is the guy whose astonishingly expensive press, Durtro, has reprinted, in limited quantities, much of Stenbock's writings - including studies of death (Oh. Damn. It's coming on again.). i suppose I should feel bubbly or at least compensated for having grabbed a copy of Maurice Level's short stories with no competition....

Thank you again for putting me on to the Wordsworth Gilchrist (great cheap press - my first copy of Hadrian VII was a Wordsworth edition). Please come around and help us liven up things on the fin-de-siecle group... I'm running low on steam (or do I mean ether?).

posted by benwaugh at 8:46 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

Thanks, Scott. I came very close to dropping the full price yesterday - absolutely not what I'm looking for. And thank you for the other leads as well!

posted by benwaugh at 2:16 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Got one from Bob the other day, thanks very much for that.

bt

posted by bluetyson at 7:12 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2007

I gained a bit of space when I shed the wife, but the children stayed and my youngest is also an avid reader with wall to wall bookshelves in her bedroom. I dare not touch her books as she likes to keep them in pristine condition.(It can be amusing watching her read while opening the book by the minimum amount to avoid creasing the back!)
I think it will be quite a while before I try on my CD collection.

posted by Navigator7 at 6:27 am (EST) on Jul 11, 2007

Wow! you must have more space than I have, I'm amused at some of the books we have in common (nigh 300 and I'm still catalogueing). I can't make my mind up on what to take to that desert island but one would probably be a Wild Food Cookbook!

posted by Navigator7 at 4:31 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2007

The books arrived yesterday! Thank you. The analysis of Basho looks interesting. I have already found a couple poems by Stephen Dunn I really like. Also, I hadn't realized Fitzgerald wrote three different versions of the Rubaayat (sp?). Thank you again. All very interesting stuff.

posted by Poemblaze at 2:20 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2007

Glad you got the chapbook. Damn long time since LT has been available. Nice to see it is up and running again. I am taking a ten or fifteen minute break from painting a house today. Very toasty 90+ temperatures here.

posted by Poemblaze at 10:46 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2007

Got the books today and they are just perfect! I couldn't have picked any better myself, thankyou very much. I'm amazed you sent me three books exactly suited for me, I'm away now to enjoy my reading!

posted by sorlil at 4:34 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2007

Just got the books you sent. It hadn't registered with me that one of the books would be of YOUR poetry. Am looking forward to reading them. Haven't had a chance yet. Again, thank you.

posted by Poemblaze at 1:21 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2007

Thanks for the plug for the chapbooks! Glad they arrived intact and you enjoyed them.

posted by Poemblaze at 3:34 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2007

Cheers,

Much appreciate the work! :)

posted by bluetyson at 10:00 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2007

Thanks very much. Millions of Holmes type things, so the only ones I was listing were 'crossover' type stories, looks like this is another one, excellent.

Nice list, thanks.

posted by bluetyson at 9:34 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

Thanks very much for that. A bad film? Didn't know about that, either. If you know of other HRH pastiches when you get a chance, that would be great for the list, too.

Cheers,
bt

posted by bluetyson at 10:09 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

Hi bsh,

Is Peter Tremayne's the Vengeance of She a Haggard pastiche?

Thanks,

bt

posted by bluetyson at 8:51 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

I just entered my collection of Hopkins with a warm, familiar rush of feeling, and I love all of the other authors I've read on your list of ten (Shakespeare, Byatt, Tolkien, Borges.) I'd probably replace Calvin and Hobbes with Moby Dick, add the King James Bible and some of my other loves for yours that I don't know, but it's a gorgeous core, for sure. Thrive.

posted by susanstinson at 4:14 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2007

Over 10,000 books! you must have a real large house. In only have 3500 books and need 2 rooms with 25 bookcases for that. Are yours all in bookcases, or have you gone so far as to piling them up against walls...? Best regards, Martin

posted by islandbooks at 1:41 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2007

Thank you for the kind comments. Should you ever be selling any of your early Arkhams please tell me. Regarding purchasing second hand books, finding information on previous book owners through nameplates can be as exciting as finding the book in the first place (or is that just me?)

Cheers

Richard

posted by richardm123uk at 5:02 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2007

Wow, you have Lovecraft's The Outsiders and Others!. Jaw drops!. Amazing collection sir.

posted by richardm123uk at 9:40 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2007

thank you, I appreciate the time you took to do that

posted by emeraldsofmadness at 2:22 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

wonderful! The more I read poetry, the more I find boland as an echo of people like Rich and even Plath, but she has her own twist that attracted me a couple of years ago.

Her essay on irish poetry and women within that genre is rather awesome. I recommend that as well.

posted by sylvan_eyre at 1:28 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007

Dear Bookstophere,

Three books on your desert isle are also close to my heart...shakespeare (really, do you need much more?), a.s. byatt (like a good rich carbonara sauce), and A. E. Houseman. I'd add Robertson Davies as intellectual dessert as well!

You remind of a very close friend who lived his life inspired by all things beautiful. Alas, he is departed but his inspiration stays with me so. Together, we shared Henry V (kenneth branagh's version) on the big screen, over and over again.

You do LibraryThing great justice with your impressive library!!

Cate

posted by bleuroses at 5:13 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2007

Eavan Boland is one of my favorite poets.

posted by sylvan_eyre at 2:13 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2007

wow, you'd take possession with you on the proverbial island? Interesting choice.

posted by sylvan_eyre at 4:09 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2007

I think you're right.oops heh

posted by emeraldsofmadness at 2:17 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2007

Thank you very much. I didn't really believe my contacting you would prove fruitful, seeing as the last comment left to you was from December of last year. My eyes bugged out when I saw that a reply had been given. It is your willingness to help me that puts humanity in a different light for myself. Again, I appreciate this so much. I noticed that you said you had a few dedalus titles. If you happen to have the Russian anthology, I'd also be very much into seeing what that affords. You're doing me a great favor; it's good karma. I will be looking forward to your reply.Thank you

posted by emeraldsofmadness at 11:11 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2007

I was wanting to know if you could do me an immense favor for a fellow bibliomaniac. I have been compiling a list of authors that follow in the tradition of symbolism,aetheticism,or decadence by order of country. I have cleaned both English and France out but have as yet not found too many german decadent authors. By being able to see the table of contents for "German Decadence: Voices of the abyss" I will be able to gather the authors names and can search out singular works by them. I have tried just about everything to get this list. Amazon and other sites don't seem to have it.I'd appreciate this so much. thank ya

posted by emeraldsofmadness at 11:18 am (EST) on Jan 20, 2007

Rumor has it that the 4th book in John Crowley's Aegypt series is available for pre-order from Small Beer press. As a fellow Crowley fan, I thought I should pass this along. But perhaps you already know?

posted by avaland at 1:07 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2006

Alternatively. The former is where I go to college, the latter is my hometown.

posted by pyrokinetic at 10:53 am (EST) on Nov 30, 2006

You, sir, are a man of taste and refinement (as far as your book collection goes, anyway). On the other hand, someone would pry twenty thousand books from my hands only if they were cold and dead. No such thing as "too many."

posted by pyrokinetic at 12:41 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2006

...and congratulations on breaking 10,000.

- bob

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 7:20 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2006

Awesome 10 books for a desert island--I would probably take more Byatt tho. Maybe we should expand the list to 20 books and a larger backpack!

posted by bevtsao at 9:31 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2006

I signed up for BookMooch, and listed a dozen titles over there as an experiment.
If it works without too much hassle, I'll be using it to get rid of more dupes.

If you'd like to see, I'm "asyouknow_bob" over there, too

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 7:21 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2006

I hear you. Here's a bug that _I've_ spotted: the Amazon look-up will fail, and it will add a line to my catalog - but the line will consist of SOLELY my tags - LT won't have picked up ANY of the Amazon info. If I don't notice immediately - and I must have missed SOME of these when I was starting - that means I have books that I THINK that I've entered, that aren't actually present in my catalog.

Short of conducting a tedious physical shelf check, the only alternative I can think of is to delete entire days of data-entry, and start over.

I'm still scratching my head over a few score of the duplications, too. Most are real, but should have been tagged at the time of entry with "reading copy" or "reprint edition" or something, to reduce the ambiguity. Some I think are just phantom duplicates, and a mystery, and these will also require a shelf check.

I used to READ books; now all I've done (for two months now) is input my books into LT....

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 1:20 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2006

Here's my incomplete list, (I won't complete it until I know positively that I'm going to this alleged island because I might not remember a great book until the very last minute).
This was hard but here goes, (in no particular order):

George RR Martin - A Game of Thrones
Jane Austen - Collected Works
Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
John McCain - Faith of my Fathers
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
Kurt Vonnegut - any or all of them
Robert Frost - Collection
Scrabble Dictionary (yes I do read it. Did you know zzz is a word? But you can't use it on the board, only one z)

About half of the list is in danger of my getting bumped according what is going on in my life. The other half have always been THERE, and will never go away.
Thanks for asking!

posted by TheaMak at 1:43 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2006

Just started cataloging my little (and beloved library) and despite those lessons we learned in kindergarten, I am very envious of YOUR library. I will though, channel that energy into more positive pursuits such as reading and collecting. BTW, how about some George RR Martin on that island...

posted by TheaMak at 10:24 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2006

>your collection keeps getting better and better :)

Thanks. My first couple weeks' of input is pretty inaccurate, especially for pre-ISBN titles. I mean, I DO have lots of dupes, but those are usually deliberate. My LT list shows scores of dupes that are suspicious; and some books are definitely missing from my LT catalog, so I'm going to have to start over from the beginning and do a shelf check on my first 500-1000 entries or so. ( Last night I straightened out my Dozois "Year's Best" volumes - LT was showing a couple more listings than I had books.)

While I'm doing that, I might as well add a tag for "dupe/for disposal", since Tim is making it so easy to arrange book-swapping. Which will amount to a public record of what I will have available for swapping.

I'm down to the last 1000 or so books under my roof; then I'll have to consider what to do about the books that have been relegated to storage. Maybe they aren't worth cataloging; maybe I should build some more bookcases and bring them back... might be good to know what I have, though, so maybe a "storage" tag is in order.

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 11:51 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

Hello again. I followed your example and spent some time over the weekend dividing my "SF" from my "F".
I see my collection trends the other way from yours - I'm 5 SF : 1 Fantasy , your LT catalog runs 3F : 1 SF.

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 12:05 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2006

We have much in common except that I'm only just starting (today) to trade my duplicates. I've only added 200 of my 7000 volumes here and we share 81 of those. Is there anything you are looking for in particular?

posted by Nanaimo at 9:26 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2006

Do you like harry potter and the chamber of secrets or harry potter and the sorcerer stone better?

posted by GroovyLu at 9:34 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

Wow! That is an amazing collection! And I'm thrilled to find someone else who not only has a lot of Nero Wolfe, but a lot of the Spenser mysteries as well. I'm truly envious of all the books - I barely have room for the books I have. I don't know where I would put 9,000 more.

posted by LisaLynne at 2:20 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2006

You rock. How many of these books are unread?

posted by Mathew at 7:59 am (EST) on Aug 26, 2006

Get a barcode reader, it works great !!!!

posted by sstanford at 10:40 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2006

Read your list of ten books. Once had a professor who stated that if he were to be stranded on that island and allowed only one book, it would be George Moore's "Hail and Farewell". Then he stopped himself and added; "that is, of course, if they allowed the three volumes (Ave, Salve, Vale) as one book". Have you ever heard of this rule? Thank you for reminding me of him.

posted by ithuriel at 3:24 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2006

If you want to shed any more duplicate books I would be happy to help you prune your collection. Hopkins and Shakespeare are excellent desert island choices, but I would need a few other poets as well: Rilke & Frost for starters.

posted by Poemblaze at 6:09 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2006

like books by Ayn Rand? LOL

posted by purplemoonstar at 12:27 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2006

ohh my.. I hope I will get to read as many books as you have in my lifetime. How i envy you!

posted by purplemoonstar at 11:28 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2006

Oh, I simply can't help envying your collection! *faints*

posted by miss.deception at 1:03 pm (EST) on Aug 3, 2006

We share 95 books! I think that's very cool.

posted by LisaLynne at 9:38 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2006

I hope at some point I can have the ability to shed as many as you have from yoru library - and my wife thinks I have too many!! - I may have to go out to a bookstore just as a special treat to myself today.

posted by directordh at 8:18 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2006

I too have "shed" more books than I have. When I am alone on a deserted island mabey one of my jettisoned books will float up to the sandy shores inside of a large bottle....

posted by Quotato at 5:51 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2006

Those Willy Pogany books are superb! Charles Vess showed me a copies of Parsifal and Tannhauser....absolutely droolworthy.

posted by Powerslave214 at 7:39 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2006

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Library of Illustration! I am trying to find that, have been for a while. Is it as GREAT as I think it must be?

posted by Vagabondbookman at 2:51 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2006

Just wanted to drop a line and say HI!. I've perused your list and couldn't help adding some more books to my wish list :o) Hope you had a great Tuesday!

posted by magst at 8:07 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2006

I hadn't ever thought of Calvin and Hobbes as a desert island book, but on further thought it's perfect!!

posted by rhenry at 12:32 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2006

I like your desert island list; glad to see Tolkein's trilogy there! Like you, I'm trying to catalog my collection before senility sets in. When I was buying books I already owned, I knew it was time to do something! Also, glad you brought up music. I cataloged my collection in an Excel spreadsheet before I discovered this and other websites. After reading other's comments about your collection, I see I'll have to check it out - should be a lot of stuff I don't have and, of course, need!

posted by OzzieJello at 7:26 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2006

oh, I like your 'top ten desert island picks'...although, I'd have to add a Bible in there too. ;)

posted by annabethblue at 9:43 am (EST) on Jun 15, 2006

Nice collection of Fairy Tales, and Illustrated books! I'm very envious! It looks as though you have the entire collection of Fairy Books by Andew Lang! Sniff...Sniff... I only have two!

posted by WhimsyWinx at 10:30 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2006

Ooh! You have Hopkins' Journals and Papers -- I'm jealous!

posted by perodicticus at 5:20 pm (EST) on May 24, 2006

I'm building a site for cataloging CDs, though it's going to be months before it's up. I'm trying to make it very much like LibraryThing, though many things will of course need to be different.

When there's something worth showing, I'll mention it on the LibraryThing group.

posted by grunin at 4:17 am (EST) on May 15, 2006

Cool. Glad you have some help. :) You are bound to have something, for sure, I would think, not on the list. There is that Howard character, Bran, I think, for one? You can get the list via the tag, but if you want, I have a text file, too. Seems some are fragile indeed, I wonder how much stuff Paul Allen has, for one? :)

posted by bluetyson at 9:30 am (EST) on May 12, 2006

Have you made it to the main part of your books yet? :)

posted by bluetyson at 3:03 am (EST) on May 12, 2006

Go for http://www.cd-tracker.com to catalog cds, it's a great site, though you have to enter each one individually.

posted by cdub at 10:45 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2006

http://www.rateyourmusic.com if you get the audio urge :)

posted by bluetyson at 9:30 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2006