Member: smerus

Library4,131 books — see library

Reviews8 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Tagsfiction (1,482), history (240), biography (197), autobiography (195), poetry (186), architecture (162), l (158), musicology (145), art (130), guide (100) — see all tags

GroupsBlack Books

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

About me Human. 58. 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 library The 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.

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Real nameDavid

LocationLondon

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Member sinceDec 16, 2005