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About meGeek, DJ, Once & Future Economist

I joined LibraryThing for the chicks.

About my libraryI've managed to catalog almost all my books--at least, the ones made out of paper. I'm currently trying to get rid of books in preparation for moving in the next few years, but I've reached the point where it's difficult to let go of more.

Special tags I'm using:
"____ library" (borrowed from ____ library),
"nae" ("not actual edition"),
"blewmymind" (books that gave my head a good shake at some point in my life), and
"BOX1", "BOX2", etc. (no room for these on the shelves).

Yes, I have that many books in progress at one time (sometimes for years); I like to nibble on a large buffet of books, and sometimes I just get stalled at some point. Fiction and poetry I tend to zoom right through, though. Most of my "Read but unowned" books are fairly recent; cataloging all the books I've ever read is a Sisyphean task even I'm not crazy enough to undertake!

Want to make a book cover mosaic like the one in my profile? Look here: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/01/you-are-what-you-read.php

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Favorite authorsNizametdin Achmetov, Douglas Adams, Armen Albert Alchian, Abdul Alhazred, John Barnes, Gary S. Becker, Samuel Bowles, Susie Bright, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, G. K. Chesterton, Milton Friedman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Herbert Gintis, F. A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Douglas Hofstadter, Julian Jaynes, C. S. Lewis, Anne McCaffrey, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Malcolm Muggeridge, Pablo Neruda, J. K. Rowling, Adam Smith, John Maynard Smith, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, George J. Stigler, William Strunk, Wisława Szymborska, Alan W. Watts, Robert Anton Wilson, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

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Favorite librariesConnecticut Judicial Branch Main Library, Homer Babbidge Library (University of Connecticut Main Library), L. Eugene Smith Library - Eastern Connecticut State University, Otis Library

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posted by ThufirHawat at 3:52 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2011

Nope. I didn't get any further than you did with Bill TGH. I'm sure it was Jim.

Thanks for the reply.

posted by BriarE at 4:25 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2009

You, and a couple of others, recommended A Canticle for Liebowitz in response to my Anathem. It's one of my lifetime favorites (i.e. read more than twice). I looked at your author cloud and saw that Harry Harrison is one of the big names.

Which leads me to ask if you remember one of the adventures of Slippery Jim (the stainless steel rat) in which he is hired to help out some colonists who are being attacked by waves of local wildlife, each wave with larger, meaner and smarter animals than the one before. Jim figures out that the only place on the planet where this rapid and deadly evolution is taking place is in a ring around the colony, and that it's stimulated by the presence and increasing destructiveness of the colonists. Ring a bell?

I can't recall which of Jim's many adventures this was, or even if it was a novel, and I have only a couple of his books. I need to find copies for a couple of friends who still believe that the best response to a failing strategy is more of the same.

Can you remember?

Thanks,

BrierE

posted by BriarE at 5:08 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2009

Noticed you liked Clockwork Orange, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a group of violent kids (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 10:16 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2009

Unfortunately I've never used Bergstrom so I can't comment. I have used fairly standard texts when I've taught Micro. I find the Intro texts to all be pretty much the same.
If I ever teach Micro again - I usually teach Macro, only Micro when we have a gap in the teaching line-up - my plan is use a standard text like Tucker, Lipsey-Ragan-Storer, etc., and maybe supplement it with one of the cute new ones that have come out lately: Sex, Drugs, and Economics, Naked Economics, Economics for Life.
In my experience, students know when they’re being patronized, so my idea is to use this “pop” stuff sparingly and only when it buttresses the “real” material.

posted by Adaptive_Agent at 9:27 am (EST) on Apr 26, 2009