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About meHuman. (Well) over 59. Male. Lazy. I look nothing like the picture (I hope) but I love this portrait of Mussorgsky. If I were, like him, a drunken genius, it would perhaps capture me perfectly.

About my libraryThe library is for use. Everything is there because I or my wife have wanted to read it. Now it is all getting a second life as our adult children continually turn up to return what they have read and to borrow something else. And it looks like our grandchildren are turning out booklovers as well. Thus - a good example of Karl Popper's 'World 3', a form of exogenetic information transmission.

GroupsBlack Books

Favorite authorsIsaac Babel, Honoré de Balzac, Mikhaíl Bulgakov, James Branch Cabell, Michael Dibdin, Gavin Ewart, John Meade Falkner, Vasily Grossman, Thomas Hardy, Reginald Hill, Danilo Kiš, Wyndham Lewis, Flann O'Brien, Arthur Schopenhauer (Shared favorites)

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Member sinceDec 16, 2005

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New James Branch Cabell website:
http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/
I envy you your Norman Douglas, 'The Angel of Manfredonia'. It is very rare. Where on earth did you pick it up ? Douglas is one of my favorite authors and you appear to have quite a few books by him.

David Williams
I love your comment about Mussorgsky. fat, drunk geniuses are the way forward!
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