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About me Bah, who cares about the person here?

I'm over-educated, over-literate, and usually under-critical of what I read. I read for pleasure, so a trashy easy-read that grips me is just as likely to be well received and well reviewed as something that I'm "supposed" to like or a book that is better crafted and constructed but that fails to grip.

About my library Tagging my books will take a while... reviewing them even longer.

Uploading over 1,900 books at once (the actual library is larger, but some books are old enough they don't have ISBNs) is a pain for tags and things. Although I've read all of the books listed (except the ones that are dip-in resources of course) remembering them all well enough to review them and tag them... sorry that's not me.

I'm thinking about the tags too... Why are fantasy books not fiction? Why are Buffy books not contemporary and horror/fantasy and vampire?

Why are so many contemporary horror/fantasy books also in the detective genre?

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posted by dinner_bell at 4:05 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Ok, thanks for the info. :)

posted by bluetyson at 8:32 pm (EST) on May 12, 2007

Hi ls,

Katherine Kurtz's 'Adept' which I didn't know about - does that veer more to the occult detective or fantasy end of the spectrum?

Thanks,

bt

posted by bluetyson at 10:06 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2007

i saw that you recommended steven erikson's series in a conversation - i'm curious how you got your hands on books 6-8 - especially if you're in the states?

i picked up deadhouse gates when i was in england a couple of years ago, and loved it. i managed to get gardens and memories here in the states, but had to work really hard to even track down books 4 & 5 here - i think i actually paid some $20 to have one of them shipped to me from a seller overseas. now i've been trying to get my hands on book 6 for over a year! i know it's been out that long, yet it still fails to be available on amazon.com or at any bookstore i've found. any thoughts?

cheers
d

posted by philosojerk at 2:15 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2007

I can see that you and I share Katherine Kurtz and Frank Herbert.
I try to put two tags on every book to give some filler to the title.
I am adding books one by one, as I've never catalogued before. I do try to put in books which don't have ISBN numbers isted. My second choice is Library of Congress Catalog numbers. You just type in the number say 63-5466 in the Add books section, using the LC search and something good comes up 80% of the time. If the book has neither, the title + author searh through Amazon, is 1st, 2nd is LC, 3rd is Amazon.uk. Then I start trolling all the other libraries. The Illinois collective is perhaps the next best. Doing this has given me a good obscurity rating.
-- Bob Campbell

posted by vpfluke at 7:23 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2007

I saw thanks, it's not out over here yet, but it's on order.

posted by lewispike at 4:44 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2007

Dude, you're in luck; the sequel to "The Atrocity Archive" just came out: "The Jennifer Morgue."

posted by Shrike58 at 9:13 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2007

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