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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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About meI teach English (literature) at an Australian university. My main interests, at this point in time, are literature-to-film adaptation and Jane Austen.
I will read just about anything.
About my libraryThe tagging thing has really taken over my brain. I wish I'd thought properly about tagging the novels in a useful way as I entered each one.
I collect editions of Mansfield Park. The earliest one I have is 1883. And unless I find a bag of cash on the doorstep one morning, it's going to remain the earliest.
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posted by Austenprose at 3:25 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2008
First, it's not about you. Which is precisely why I very much intentionally put a public comment on my own profile here. I get these requests all the time and a great many of them are rude, and/or have the wrong end of the stick themselves.
"I can only apologize if my requests sound patronizing, but, since I am creating a single note to post to dozens of folks, with no idea of their level of knowledge about either the book, its authors, or how Library Thing works, my note must be written on an elementary level. Otherwise, I end up in dozens of follow-on exchanges with the less experienced. That's why I post these notes as 'private'. No one should be embarrased, and no one should take the tone personally."
You wrote to me that 'James Boswell is the author of Boswell's journals.' Surely it's safest to assume that anyone interested enough in Boswell's writings to own copies of them will have already worked this out.
"This is a volunteer effort, and I'm sure you would agree that preparing personal notes that hits the 'right tone' for LTers that I don't even know would make the job a bit overwhelming."
No, not really. As the recipient of lots of these notes (my library has a lot of Australian isbns from the 1960s and 70s in it, and they are 50% weird) it's pretty clear to me that it's not hard to strike the right tone. Plus, nobody is forcing you.
"Despite your suggestion to the contrary, [??] I also work to get Amazon data repaired as well. In fact, the Amazon entry for this work has been repaired as a result of my efforts, while yours, apparently, has not."
I think LT would be better off not using Amazon data at all. That's what I meant. There's plenty of real libraries yielding up data.
posted by lucytartan at 9:47 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2008
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And, yes, lissener as in Riddley Wlaker - though don't read too much into it - maybe it is telling, in that I feel at times that I'm blind about the analytical meaning of literature, but connect to the undercurrent. That's what I like about Russell Hoban.
posted by lissener at 7:45 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2005