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Tagsfiction (311), adventure (287), history (247), nonfiction (201), pulp era (182), Doc Savage (178), mystery (137), politics (93), literary criticism (75), philosophy (71) — see all tags

GroupsA Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Adventure Classics, Ancient China, Ancient History, Archaeologists, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Baker Street and Beyond, Books on Books, Byzantinistik, Central Asia — show all groups

Favorite authorsIain Banks, David Brin, James Lee Burke, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, C. J. Cherryh, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kahlil Gibran, Michael Grant, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Kenneth Robeson, Salman Rushdie, Rex Stout, Leo Tolstoy, John Updike, Jack Vance, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)

About me Thomas Fortenberry is an American author, editor, reviewer, and publisher. Owner of Mind Fire Press and the international literary arts journal Mindfire [www.mindfirerenew.com], he has judged many literary contests, including The Georgia Author of the Year Awards and The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction. Among other awards, such as twice winning Best Novella of the Year, he has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has edited many publications, including most recently the journals Mindfire and The Istanbul Literature Review. His award-winning work has appeared internationally in English and translations.

About my library I am a bibliophile, well, probably bibliomane. I absolutely love to read and read as widely as possible in all genres and areas. Literature is the backbone of civilization and reading needs to be taught from the earliest possible ages. I am also a firm believer in the validity of genre fiction as literature, worthy of study and respect. I collect books insatiably, much to my wife's woe. I also review books for a living and thus receive hundreds of review copies each year from publishers around the world. My collection is massive and there is no way to ever list it (unless I had a warehouse to unbox and categorize them all), but I thought I would give this Library Thing a go and list a few random texts just to see how it works.

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Member sinceApr 15, 2006

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hi Thomas, it's my pleasure and honor to discuss mysteries with a distinguished author like you. my email can be found on my profile page. feel free to contact me at any time!

posted by fang at 2:29 pm (EST) on May 1, 2008

For many years the walls were covered, floor to ceiling, side to side....in fact a friend of mine had a grand old english style reading roon, where the back of the door was even a shelf, so when closed, you could hardly tell where the exit was. Never got to duplicate that. Now my kids are all grown and all love to read, anything and everything...all the time....In spain I had a villa on the beach, with a huge room, stand up flireplace and shelves built into the stucco walls, 12 ft ceilings, iron gates covered in greenery and ivy, filtering the light from the beach, sitting on the terra cotta floors, listening to the waves kiss the sand, the snick flip of the pages turning in the sunlight...a magical time to be sure.....

posted by oldmanriver1951 at 5:20 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2008

and I see a Doc Savage fan as well...at least in comparison to what we share....

posted by oldmanriver1951 at 1:27 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

I thought that I had the dream job, storyteller, musician, library, all rolled into one, but to make a living reviewing books?...ahhh..bliss to be matched by sitting on the porch, eating madelines and reading Proust! But I know how difficult it must be to have the deadlines necc. to review and publish when you need to. I came back from Europe (after 8 years) with a collection of approx. 12,000 books, but have since sold the bulk of the special collections, and now hold on to about 3,000 of my favorites, which I have managed to keep, but the walls are bursting..so it may be time to weed.

Welcome to librarything! Its a great application and a wonderful way to meet fellow bibliophiles...My good friend is a prof. of eng. lit, and we spend many hours sitting and reading to each other...tis a wonderful life indeed.

posted by oldmanriver1951 at 1:21 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

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