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Member: henkl

Library5,462 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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Tagspoetry (1,488), dutch (1,386), translation (963), english (956), novel (935), anthology (631), stories (612), german (393), french (380), history (359) — see all tags

GroupsAncient China, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Combiners!, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Karl Shapiro and Company, Nederlandstalige lezers, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Recommend Site Improvements, Spruitjes (Brussels sprouts), Stalking Tim & Company — show all groups , The Chapel of the Abyss, The Globe, What did YOU buy today?, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

Favorite authorsGerrit Achterberg, Dante Alighieri, Apuleius, Agrippa d' Aubigné, Ingeborg Bachmann, Georg Büchner, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey, Robin Lane Fox, Natalia Ginzburg, Nikolai Gogol, Herman Gorter, Heinrich Heine, Willem Frederik Hermans, Friedrich Holderlin, Homer, Johan Huizinga, Alfred Jarry, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Bo Li, Lucebert, Niccolo Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Eugenio Montale, Multatuli, Robert Musil, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Paul van Ostaijen, Georges Perec, Petronius, Marcel Proust, Alexander Pushkin, Raymond Queneau, Francois Rabelais, Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Sadi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Sei Shonagon, William Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu, Laurence Sterne, Wallace Stevens, Georg Trakl, Lao Tzu, Willem die Madocke maecte, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cao Xueqin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Zhuangzi (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAntica Libreria Croce, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Bibli-Trastevere, Boekhandel de Vries, Boekhandel en antiquariaat Erik Tonen, Boekhandel Het Martyrium, Boekhandel Robert Premsela, Buchhandlung Die Weisse Rose, Computercollectief, De Boekenbeurs, De Drukkery, De Slegte Antwerpen Wapper, Demian, Fahrenheit 451, Feltrinelli Libri e Musica (Torre Argentina), FNAC Antwerpen, Foyles, In \'t Profijtelijk Boeksken (Antwerpen), International Theatre & Film Books, L’Arbre du Voyageur, Librairie Delamain, Librairie La Hune, Librarie de l'Harmonie, Mel Bookstore, Rinascita, Selexyz Broese, Selexyz Donner, The American Book Center, Waterstone’s - Amsterdam, Woeste Willem

Favorite librariesKoninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek

Other favoritesMuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum, Letterkundig Museum

About me Quotes:

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. (Sir Thomas Browne)

If one reads the Strange Tales just for the plot, and not for the style, one is a fool. (Feng Zhenluan)

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About my library Mostly literature, with a penchant for poetry. Some history, philosophy and other non-fiction.
And then there is SF; actually my third collection of SF: I sold my first one in the sixties, started anew somewhere in the seventies, gave it away in the eighties; started my third collection around 1990. Recently I sold most of my SF novels: to me SF is primarily a short story genre. Especially in SF I hate things called "sagas" or "epics".

My ratings:

1...Nice
2...Good
3...Masterpiece
4...Classic
5...Dante





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Real nameHenk Lensen

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