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Darwinian Evolution (Social Policy and Social Theory Series)

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About me I am an editor by profession, which makes me a reader and writer by definition. In addition, i enjoy composing music, with recent works featuring the acoustic scale and a peculiar, rarely-used octatonic scale.

About my library For years I used used book stores as a kind of lending library: buy a book, read it, trade the book back for "store credit." This has left me a private library of many books I have yet to read. And I find myself buying editions of books a second or third time, to read over. Hardly the most economical method of acquiring reading matter. At present I have lots of space at low cost, so accumulating books doesn't present quite the disutility it might be for others.

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I'm glad that's now better, since it's clear from some of your reviews that this is a subject you care about. Your review seems to have got lost: IIRC it was just contents and maybe a few words of summary.

posted by jimroberts at 4:27 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

Hi,
you have three volumes of The Principles of Sociology by Herbert Spencer, but Volume 1 leads to a book Between the lines by Jessica Page Morrell, and the author page for Spencer shows only Volumes 2 and 3. I don't know how LT got confused about this, but since you seem to be the only owner of these volumes, maybe the easiest way to sort it out would be to re-enter Volume 1, or perhaps making a small change in the title will fix it.
Regards, Jim Roberts

posted by jimroberts at 1:48 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2007

Your review of Adam Johnson's Parasites Like Us is good reading. Someone trashed it the next day. And I mean trashed it - not just found it wasn't her cup of tea. Yet, she is a big Palahniuk fan. (Strange, eh?) Anyhow, I was so astounded I wrote a review that is not as good as yours so as to take the top spot from her incredibly negative review. I linked yours.

posted by slickdpdx at 7:32 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2007

It was a pleasure to give a "thumbs up" to your review of The High Place. I couldn't agree more.

posted by paradoxosalpha at 8:13 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2007

I have only dipped into it. I know the story line, but do not consider myself good at rating "poetry". I really like Seamus Heaney's "Beowolf". His introduction alone is worth the book. The Gilgamesh was purchased because of a review, and I have and have reead the author's (Stephen Mitchell) new translation of "Genesis". What are your other tanslations?

posted by robertsgirl at 10:57 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

Thankyou for the listing as an "interesting library". I am returning the compliment.

posted by LordNigelKnickKnack at 8:20 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

Oh, hi.

There's actually a Talk Group for the "Ballantine Adult Fantasy" series;

http://www.librarything.com/groups/ballantineadultfant

it's not very active, but, hey, you should check it out....

- Bob

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 12:37 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

I write to you because you left a note on improbus' site. Looked at all 109 book we share. Some of my very best.

posted by robertsgirl at 12:30 am (EST) on Aug 13, 2007

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