Member: s0fist

CollectionsRead but unowned (168), Your library (320), Nonfiction (77), Textbook (98), All collections (663)

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About meI enjoy and appreciate classics, science fiction, and some fantasy, detective, and mystery novels.

About my libraryTAGS:
en|ru|ge|sp|jp : book language - read, not written
translation : book not read in original language
fiction - nonfiction - textbook : mutually exclusive
own : physical copy
unowned : read as ebook or borrowed copy
unread : not this copy, possibly not this language

RATING (stars) roughly as follows:
0.0 most likely unread, or nothing good to say
0.5 pick 0: no LIT, no MSG, and LIKE; ex. humour
1.0 pick 0+ LIT or MSG, and LIKE
1.5 pick 1: LIT and/or MSG and/or LIKE
2.0 pick 1+ LIT or MSG and/or LIKE
2.5 pick 2: LIT or MSG or LIKE
3.0 pick 2+ LIT and/or MSG and/or LIKE
3.5 pick 3: LIT and MSG and LIKE
4.0 pick 3: LIT and/or MSG and/or LIKE and/or masterpiece
4.5 pick 3+ LIT and/or MSG and/or LIKE and masterpiece
5.0 pick 4: LIT and MSG and LIKE and masterpiece
where
LIT : world class recognized literary value
MSG : noteworthy message
LIKE : I like it, these is my ratings!
masterpiece : must read
Ratings err on the strict side: a low rated book might be one of the best in its genre (ex.: mystery, detective, etc) and still be only 1.5-3. Probably positively biased towards science fiction.

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 20-Something LibraryThingers, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, Banned Books, Books on Books, Books that made me think, Brooklynites, Dystopian novels, Fans of Russian authors, FantasyFans —show all groups, Geeks who love the Classics, Group Reads - Literature, Group Reads - Sci-Fi, Humor, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Kindley Book Club, Language, Librarians who LibraryThing, Literary Snobs, Mathematics, New Wave Science Fiction and Fantasy, New Yorkers City, Non-Fiction Readers, Physics!, Playing games and solving puzzles, Purely Programmers, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Russian books and language, Russian readers, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, Steampunk, The Green Dragon, Used Books, Weird Fiction, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsGreg Bear, Samuel R. Delany, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert A. Heinlein, James Joyce, Michael Moorcock, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Terry Pratchett, Ayn Rand, Erich Maria Remarque, William Shakespeare, Charles Stross, Leo Tolstoy, Vernor Vinge, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

LocationBrooklyn, NY

Account typepublic, lifetime

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/s0fist (library)

Member sinceJul 25, 2010