Member: kassetra

Library793 books — see library

Reviews1 review — see reviews

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Tagswishlist (581), fiction (235), psychology (111), language (92), recipes (90), cooking (86), classics (77), literature (74), fairy tales (62) — see all tags

GroupsAustralian LibraryThingers, Bloggers, Buddhism, Common Knowledge and WikiThing, Cyberpunks, National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), Ruby on Rails, The Green Dragon, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsYoshitaka Amano, Wilhelmina Baird, Nick Bantock, Alfred Bester, Jorge Luis Borges, Buddha, Nichiren Daishonin, Liza Crihfield Dalby, Richard Dawkins, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Neil Gaiman, Aldous Huxley, Daisaku Ikeda, Franz Kafka, Eric A. Meyer, Rand Miller, Haruki Murakami, Jeff Noon, Philip Pullman, Thomas Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Rudy Rucker, Carl Sagan, E. E. Smith, Dave Thomas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Burton Watson, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresDalton's Books, Dymocks (George Street), Electric Shadows Bookshop, Galaxy Bookshop, Gilbert\'s Books, Impact Comics!, Smiths Alternative Bookshop

Favorite librariesAustralian National University (J.B. Chifley Library)

About me Like, ok, so like, I was at the mall, and I was like OMG, and then like I saw this totally hot show and then they were all like 'read books' and I was all like, 'I don't know' because like, they're books, but then like my friend talked to her boyfriend and then he talked to some of his friends and then like it got back to my husband to like try out this site and so like, y'know I just joined one day and so yeah.

Oh but this one time I like was reading and it was totally not hot and so like then I had to like go around but then I totally found like a place that wasn't so over and then like I joined it and it has been like, so with it, y'know? I mean like it has like this weird or whatever name or something and I like think it's like not meant to be um serious or whatever but it's like the Green Dragon and like how much more can you be off the normal scale and like stuff, right?

Anyway I was like talking to like this friend and she said I should like um write but yeah, that's like taking efforts or something. So then I got like a cat and like he had like this totally swirl tail and then she was all like, 'he's like broken!' and I was all like, 'that's like not nice to say and stuff!' and so yeah, she totally didn't decide on my cat for me. And then like I totally thought I could name him Chaos y'know for like all the chaos he was causing and right?

Oh then like there was this one time where I totally was like surfing for um some like photos or something online and then like I found like this picture and there was like um, this guy and he was all hot and so like I like emailed him with y'know just 'what's up' and stuff and he like responded and then we like got together and like it was y'know cool and then like y'know we like just moved in together got married like stuff right? I mean, it's not like the first time in the history of ever or whatever.

Well so anyway yeah. I'm like totally reading or writing or something now. Whatever. I have to like work until school like is open or something next year and stuff. Like, placement. So yeah, I like keep working and yeah and so my friend was like so wrong I can write like y'know for reals and stuff.

Yeah, I mean, like, y'know?

Oh like in response or whatever to like um the comments and stuff like well yeah I mean like it's not like y'know the classics were all that hot or whatever I mean like, they could totally use like some kind of new like updates or something like hot, I mean, right? I mean like old or whatever writers didn't like have a market on like y'know the world writing or something. I mean, you can totally look at like the Laurell K. Hamilton novels or something for like real classics in like authoring or something.

I mean, they could so use some of like her like way of writing in like these whatever novels or something.

(All right, all right. I can't take complete credit for this... It's shamelessly semi-inspired by many one-star amazon reviews of classic literature...)

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About my library My library seems to have received a number of odd comments over the years, and as many of these comments have embedded themselves into my brain, I have found myself tagging certain books with the same virus-like comments. (When clicking on any of the links -- be SURE to also click on the SEARCH button on the right as it doesn't actually register the search until you do! odd!)

Behold! I now have my very own, "THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US! HUMAN DISASTER IS AT HAND!" section appropriately tagged with 'apocalypse'. After all, one cannot be too certain as to when you might need a book on how to cure olives. I mean, who wants to deal with sick olives?!

Then of course is the ever popular, "If it doesn't have ANY real science in it, why call it SCIENCE fiction?" section. I have of course made sure that most entries do indeed carry real science (or a semblance thereof). These books are unceremoniously tagged, 'science fiction'. Any and all books that do not contain extrapolated real science are appropriately tagged, 'science fantasy'. Not that we will be including too many of THOSE kind of books here, nosiree.

Since I have a morbid fascination with Psychology and Abnormal Psychology, according to comments from some of my friends, I have thus tagged all of my morbid books on how messed up humans are in their brains with 'psychology'. This group can be further sub-divided by including other tags such as 'textbook' (for school), 'fiction' (for fun), 'philosophy' (for morbid fascination), or 'sociology' (for even MORE morbid fascination!).

I have many programming, developing, and implementing books of a technical nature in my library, and not only have I tagged them with their topical association, I have also ingeniously added WHICH technical language applies to the book. How incredibly original of me! In this group, you can expect to find tags like, 'ruby', 'rails', 'web development', 'programming', 'css', etc. It truly takes a certain kind of mind to develop these classification systems -- only the best and brightest of the programming world, as you know.

My Vegetarian/Vegan selection of cookbooks, recipe books, project books, and similar are tagged just how my grandma used to do it. Her homecooked style is baked right in for a taste of tagging you can't get anywhere else. Look for old classics such as 'recipes', 'cooking', 'vegan', 'vegetarian', and 'canning' when you want that fresh-from-the-oven, hug-from-the-inside feeling. Or for something a little more colourful, try a taste of adventure with the 'apocalypse' tag.

If you'd like to walk on the wild side, you could always pick from my eccentric grab bag of tags and take your pick from the following (I WARN YOU, SOME OF THESE MAY BE SHOCKING! PARENTS AT HOME, PLEASE BE ADVISED!): 'literature', 'classics', 'language', 'buddhism', or 'philosophy'. WOAH THERE NELLY!

Eventually, I will get a complete record of my library, including all of the books that were stolen out of my car one day when I went to buy some coffee beans during the holiday season. It's quite difficult, however, when things are in storage boxes all over the world. No, really, I mean that literally.

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