Member: lorax

CollectionsYour library (1,909), To read (96), Currently reading (3), Read but unowned (71), Wishlist (141), Reviewed (46), Jane's (144), E-books (8), Favorites (6), Didn't like (41), All collections (2,120)

Reviews46 reviews

Tagsmmpb (757), science fiction (643), tpb (601), fantasy (473), hb (396), nonfiction (372), unread (241), ftppl (192), short stories (187), humor (184) — see all tags

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GroupsArr, me hearties!, Birds, Birding & Books, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Combiners!, Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Early Reviewers, Flaggers!, genderqueer, HMS Surprise — show all groups , LC Classification Challenge, Lesbian Bookworms, Librarything Series, Making Light Denizens, Non-Fiction Readers, Progressive & Liberal!, Purely Programmers, Queer and Trans Lit, Reviews reviewed, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, The Random Group for Fogies and Curmudgeons of All Ages, Travel and Exploration literature, Until the hunt is done

Favorite authorsIain M. Banks, Alison Bechdel, Steven Brust, Raphael Carter, Diane Duane, Jasper Fforde, John M. Ford, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Keys Moran, Terry Pratchett, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, David Zindell (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresA Different Light Bookstore, A Different Light Bookstore, Book Alley, Bookmans - Grant, Brand Bookstore, Know Knew Books, Mystery and Imagination Bookshop, Powell's City of Books, Vroman's Bookstore

About my libraryNotes on Collections:

Books in "Your Library" are those I own. The default state, for books not tagged "unread", is that I have read them. This seems obvious to me. The two collections that are not just subsets of my "Your Library" are:

"Read but unowned": As should be obvious, this does not include every book I've ever read. This is not an exhaustive list of every book I've ever read. Including all the crap i read as a kid or in high school (or, for that matter, the high-school required reading) would make this much, much, much longer. This primarily includes books I've read in graduate school and later, plus a few I read in college that I remembered.

"Wishlist": Books on my wishlist are those I have definite plans to either purchase or borrow from the library. Books I'm only considering do not appear in my account.

Notes on a couple tags:

"not recommended": Hopefully targeted recommendations will soon mean I can just exclude this tag, or the largely redundant "Didn't Like" collection, and get meaningful suggestions.

"jane's": Books belonging to my wife, Jane. I've only entered a fraction of her books, those which I've read and enjoyed, (or found useful, in the case of reference books), plan to read, or those I would have bought if she hadn't. I may end up entering her collection in the future.

"ftppl": Books purchased from the formerly-local (Tucson, AZ) Friends of the Library booksale. Incomplete, since they were tagged from memory and not all are ex-library editions.

Zero stars means a book is something that I can't assign a rating to (like an anthology with stories of variable quality). Half a star is the lowest meaningful rating.

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LocationPasadena, CA

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Member sinceSep 15, 2005

Currently readingThe Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
Taking wing: Archaeopteryx and the evolution of bird flight by Pat Shipman
India: A history by John Keay