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About meI like to read for two reasons: first off, reading books helps us learn about the world and avoid mistakes. Second, I read because it is a habit. I will read anything within reach of my hands. My list probably reflects this. I have added some reference books or anthologies to my list that I have not read all the way through, but read often.

As far as ratings go, I wouldn't really know how to do it. Some books are very nice on their own merits, and it wouldn't be fair to compare them to other books. If I compare "Choose your own adventure #4: Space and Beyond" to the Book of Mencius, Mencius is going to win. But on its own merits, Choose your own adventure #4 is a good book too. If I had to rate books into four categories, it would be "Books I love", "Books that are worth reading", "Books that are worth reading if you have a special interest in that genre/subject", and "books that are not worth reading". I wouldn't have bothered finishing many of the fourth type.

Along with reading, I also like writing. I get and send postcards, and am on www.postcardx.net Drop me a line if you want to get a postcard from me.

There is a lot more about me.

About my libraryThe books I have put in my library are books that are both physically in my posession, and that I have actually read. I am still enterting books in.

Some of my books are the same books that almost everyone on this site seems to have and to have read. Others are rather unique.

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The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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MARVEL MASTERWORKS Vol. 10 [Variant Cover] SPIDER-MAN 21-30 by Stan Lee

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How to be a frog millionaire by Kate Calder

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Postmark America: the Story of the National Association of Postmasters of the United States by Tricia Holser

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The Edicts of Asoka (A Phoenix Book, P225) by N A Nikam

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Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) by Einhard

PS - Very impressed you knew who she was.

posted by annie1378 at 5:39 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

You mean, other than not actually being Japanese? Well, you can probably draw your own conclusions about what I look like if you click the Facebook link on my profile. It should show you my picture. Do you actually resemble a glowing fish?

posted by annie1378 at 5:36 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

Adding you to my interesting libraries list just because you can write a funny pithy one-sentence review. I love Antoine de st. Exupery but I still thought your sentence about his book was hilarious. Also, our list of shared books is funny in its own right. Several comic books interspersed with the Baghavad Gita and books by Jared Diamond.

posted by anna_in_pdx at 1:23 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

I don't think less of you for liking Terry Pratchett.

posted by klh at 8:49 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2009

I'm certainly A David Carter. There are a lot of us. Which one are you seeking?

posted by davidscarter at 3:10 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2009

Hi Glowing Fish, 'tis indeed I, maxClimb. Your library reflects some of the traits you exhibit on e2. That's a compliment, I think.

posted by klh at 10:11 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2008

It is because I am 1337!
No, actually it's coincidence.

posted by catenormal at 1:25 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2008

I don't buy them all at full price. :)

posted by abomination at 12:21 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2007

I do like my graphic novels!!! Apparently you do to!!

posted by abomination at 5:59 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007

I like the idea of books by the yard--I think The Strand actually allows you to do that. The problem of course is that I would then need to by shelving by the yard, and then wallspace by the yard, and the next thing you know I've gone broke for leather bindings and esoterica!

posted by Scriblerus at 5:55 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2007

Sorry for the delay in saying "Hello", I've been absent for awhile. Blessings - Archer

posted by NCC1127 at 12:08 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Well, i'd nearly forgotten about this toy.
If i get back onto the cataloguing task, we might find more overlap.

We should go for a walk sometime.

posted by ideath at 6:56 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2006

I assume you know a bit of Elvish. :) Well, "Amon" does mean hill, and my real name Brynn means hill- so my Elvish name is Amoniel. And Evenstar is like evening star, as in Arwen Evenstar. :)

posted by AmonielEvenstar at 9:27 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2006

I read the Metal Gear Worlds of Power book about three times, too. But to be fair, I was young and naive. That being said, I'd probably reread them if I could remember where they are.

posted by kapheine at 2:03 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2006

*g* That's an excellent question! I actually left almost all of them in L.A. in my parents' closet(s). I was originally allowing myself to take only two books to Dublin, but I think the number grew to five or six before the plane was off the ground. Then I bought another book during my brief stay in London (Glen Duncan's Weathercock). And then I amassed several shelves full while at Trinity—which meant I spent something like $200 shipping everything back to L.A. So, those original two books were like evil, softcover rabbits.

Plus, I still had all the books at my parents' place. Moving house with me is such a party, I gotta tell you.

And now, I am going to check out your library...

posted by trinityofone at 11:59 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2006

很笑 I'm afraid I haven't even read the LOTR trilogy in English, much less Chinese. But I may have to if Frodo really all "hey Xiaojie" to Goldberry. It seems too good to ignore.

posted by liao at 1:19 am (EST) on Jul 28, 2006

Actually, it was already there. I guess we both overlooked it. ISBN 9573317249. The Chinese is showing up properly though.

posted by liao at 1:42 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2006

I have now. Thanks for pointing out the oversite. However, it is the Taiwanese edition which I did not think was that good of a translation.

posted by liao at 1:40 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2006

I have no idea what your comment was talking about! Have I studied what with who? I suspect I haven't...

I have read Space and Beyond, though. A friend of mine has a great song about its author, R.A. Montgomery.

posted by casuistry at 6:12 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2006

Yes, I'm in Portland. And, cool, I hadn't known there was a multcolib community! Thanks.

posted by sanguinity at 10:40 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2006

It's funny...I used to really like Piers Anthony books, but after a while the Xanth books started to pall a bit and I haven't gone back to reading him. If I ever do go back, though, he'll definitely qualify as a guilty pleasure read. ;)

posted by janegodzilla at 11:17 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2006

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