Member: jfclark

Library5,363 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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Tags20th century (635), Fantasy (525), Early fantasy (452), 19th century (419), 17th century (254), Poetry (249), Children's (235), 20th century British (225), Theology (194), Mystery (193) — see all tags

GroupsBaker Street and Beyond, Birds, Birding & Books, Christianity, Council of Elrond, E.F.Benson, Flashman and Fraser, Folio Society devotees, Ghost Stories, Past and Present, Lawyers, Military History — show all groups , Nabokov!, Readercon Conversations, The Turk's Head, Travel and Exploration literature, Weird Fiction

Favorite authorsLancelot Andrewes, C. E. W. Bean, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Blackwood, Kyril Bonfiglioli, James Boswell, Ernest Bramah, Sir Thomas Browne, Robert Browning, John Buchan, John Bunyan, Robert Burton, James Branch Cabell, Thomas Carlyle, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Winston S. Churchill, Edward Earl of Clarendon, Edmund Crispin, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Norman Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Dunsany, Lawrence Durrell, Umberto Eco, E. R. Eddison, John Meade Falkner, Patrick Leigh Fermor, C.S. Forester, J.W. Fortescue, H. Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, R. A. Lafferty, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, John Lukacs, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, A. A. Milne, John Milton, Vladimir Nabokov, Patrick O'Brian, Mervyn Peake, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Frederick Rolfe, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Jeremy Taylor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Jack Vance, Evelyn Waugh, Edward Whittemore, Charles Williams, P.G. Wodehouse, Gene Wolfe, Dornford Yates (Shared favorites)

About me College, which ought to have led me to become an English lit scholar, instead took me to law school, where I learned just enough real law to frighten my future clients. I'm now a mutual fund attorney, drafting boilerplate disclosures that nobody reads but which are required nonetheless in all their multitudes. The chief blessing of this vocation has been to enable me to buy and read (nearly) all the books I want, which is probably the next best thing to literary scholarship, with none of the publish-or-perish nonsense. I'm also married with two young daughters.

About my library Interests evolve, of course, but presently I'm most interested in 17th century English literature (including theology, drama and poetry), 18th century English lit (particularly Boswell & Johson), and "early" (pre-Tolkien) fantasy literature (including Lost Race books and pulps). In the past couple of years I've been building out my Victorian novel collection and also been acquiring 19th & 20th century collections of ghost stories and psychic detective stories. From time to time I also supplement my collection of books relating to the First World War.

Recently I seem to have developed a weakness for multi-volume critical/scholarly editions. This has substantially increased my library in the 16th-18th century areas, and substantially reduced my liquid capital. I tend to think that if in an alternate existence I ever became a professor, my goal would be to produce as many critical editions as possible.

Real nameJames Clark

LocationHaverhill, Massachusetts

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Member sinceApr 20, 2006