Member: messpots

The Cambridge Companions that I have as e-books seem to be exact digital copies of the physical books themselves. The front and back cover are not included, and I have yet to see color photographs. The page ratio is 1:1. Most of the Companions I have are between 3-10mb in size. Hope this helps!

posted by obscured_ at 5:47 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

In reply to your message dated November 2007 (yes, it's been that long since I looked at my Librarything page), my Cajun cookbook was published as a promotion for products made by Louisiana Fish Fry, Ltd. in Baton Rouge. I have eaten at several of the Landry's restaurants (including the original in Lafayette), and I do not doubt that anything in Don's cookbook will be outstanding.

posted by bookcrazed at 10:49 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009

It's different from his more "monstrous" earlier work, more of a straightforward police procedural. But still weird. Mieville is one of only a few authors I'll read without hesitation.

posted by peterburd at 6:47 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009

>Wonderful collection of Buchanalia. That Sir Quixote is a real find!
>Messpots

Thanks - I found it somewhat by chance in Caledonia Books in Glasgow. The rest were collected from bookshops all over the UK (as well as a few in the US) and via ABE and eBay. But I see you have a quite extensive collection of Buchan works, so I imagine you are quite familiar with where to find his books...

posted by Richard_Hannay at 10:19 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2009

Hi

I had been thinking about tagging the Buchan covers - I am just learning about tagging groups of books which have covers I am interested in - so your feedback is not only appreciated by timely.

I noticed that you have a very comprehensive collection of Buchan's works - and in what seem to be nice early hardbacks too. Wow.

Cheers

Caesia

posted by Caesia at 3:46 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2009

...and too bad about Chess Story which has to be a modern classic, n'est pas? I would send you my copy but I am too mean and want it for myself.

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 7:46 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

Well that comment just puts the Twain book on the very top of the TBR pile!!

I have been reading a very good Dostoevsky biography by Frank - only through half the first of a five volume work - basically Frank dedicated his life to his bio.

Out of his early fiction before 1870, House of the Dead wins my vote so far. I have yet to finish The Brothers Karamov, but Crime and Punishment has been read thrice so far.

My daughter who is 17 thinks he is too dark and prefers Tolstoy - I have the opposite liking.

Cheers. Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 7:43 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

I came across you reading your review of the God Delusion today - a book that I read a few months ago. Have rushed out to acquire the Mark Twain recommend and also a bit of Hume for good measure.

I thought your favourite author list uncannily similar to my (unlisted) one. I am having a Dosteovsky, Thomas Mann and Lewis Carroll fest this year.

It is good to expand the horizons within LT - I was pleased to see an entire different group of people frequenting your profile - thanks for the very interesting library. Your Roman emphasis is interesting - are/were you a Classical teacher by any chance?

Cheers,

Karen.

posted by kiwidoc at 3:12 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

Aha! The only other person on LT who has Alan Rodger's new book. It's brilliant - but I guess that the Disruption is a minority interest.

kranf

posted by kranf at 7:08 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2009

Dear Esquire Messpots,

Doubtless you lovely wife has by now finished the aforementioned book. I quite enjoyed it, but for the life of me I can't remember what I got out of it now, except the urge to read "Middlemarch," a project I subsequently abandoned.

Burd

posted by peterburd at 8:30 pm (EST) on Mar 8, 2009

Thank you, Messpots. I'm glad you found it useful.
Gary

posted by GaryWolf at 1:37 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2009

You wrote:
A way to indicate a patently wrong author? David Hume is identified as the author of a work by Adam Ferguson.

If you post a link (URL not touchstone) to the work and, if possible, to the work by Adam Ferguson that it belongs with in the Combiners Fix-It Thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/56061
we can get some folks working on it for you.

posted by PortiaLong at 12:36 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2009

I picked up Westlake's book because he had just died and the mystery writer community and others were quick to lament. I'm amazed that others haven't librarything'd it.

posted by peterburd at 2:09 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

Apparently I'm the only LibraryThing member who's read "What's so funny?" by Donald Westlake. I feel somewhat proud of this.

posted by peterburd at 6:07 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2009

Thanks for your note. I immediately took a look at your collection and was suitably impressed! There are one or two I hadn't even heard of. Cheers.

posted by abealy at 9:30 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2009

WITCH? Interesting. Looks like it's for the younger set. Hope she likes it.

posted by peterburd at 11:17 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2008

Tell Annie thanks again for the vid. And what was the manga she was reading? I'm curious.

posted by peterburd at 12:05 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2008

I have added you to my "interesting libraries" list, impressed by your collection on Roman law. I hope you don't mind...
Regards,
Romanus

posted by Romanus at 9:54 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2008

Thanks for your post on Codex Obama. Who says Latin is a dead language?

posted by freudslip at 3:37 pm (EST) on Jul 25, 2008

We are using LibraryThing to show new books which have arrived in the library the previous week.

posted by lawbod at 9:37 am (EST) on May 16, 2008

A pleasure. I'm always on the lookout for ENO Opera Guides, which are uniformly excellent, thanks to the work of Nicholas John.

posted by frindley at 12:21 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2008

Just added two more. I swear, though, my reading's gone way off the last year or so.

posted by peterburd at 8:54 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2008

I remember getting you the Marsh book, but are you certain about the McWilliams one?

posted by peterburd at 8:11 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

I confess I've never read Muirhead, though have read in it (reference hunting) once or twice. It's my father's book, but I absconded with it when I went to graduate school. I see you've got Leeann Bablitz' new book! I haven't read that either, but I have met the author.

If the Watchman didn't deliver the prolog, who did?

posted by lbowman at 2:29 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2008

Hello messpots,
Thanks for the message,and no I certainly don't mind what you have done with Buchan's 'Nelson's History of the War'. In fact it's a jolly good thing.
As well, it has made me look at my collection of Buchan and tag them together in a more sensible way.I have also looked carefully at your Buchan list,and there are several that I shall now be looking out for.
You will see that I have put you down on my list of interesting libraries too.
Best wishes.
P.S. Who is the happy looking chap heading your profile page may I ask.

posted by devenish at 7:12 am (EST) on Dec 9, 2007

You have an impressive collection on Roman law. I am envious!

posted by Romanus at 10:19 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007

I didn't even see our comment until today. Sorry. Thanks for the tip on the Susanna Clarke mixup.

posted by peterburd at 11:06 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2007

Thanks for the drive-by humor in the site improvements forum. Absolutely fabulous.

posted by philosojerk at 4:09 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2007

My husband, who is the one who reads John Buchan, has the books that we list. He says that is favorite is The Blanket of the Dark. He also likes The Thirty-nine Steps. What is your field of study?

Shaunee Power

posted by shauneeh at 11:44 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

My husband and I were students at the University of Washington and took classes from a beloved professor named Giovanni Costigan. The history of Brasenose College was one of his books that we acquired from his estate. We have a number of his books and have identified them with the tag "Costigan Collection". My mother was nice enough to go to the estate sale and buy all the books that she found for us.

posted by shauneeh at 10:24 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007