Member: xenchu

Thank you for you excellent recommendation, I will try to lay my hands on this book as soon as possible.

SHADOWS is indeed excellent, since it has been great fun to see Mr. Holmes confronted with Lovecraft's unspeakable abominations.

posted by LadyLovecraft at 5:56 pm (EST) on May 9, 2009

FYI
I have uploaded a cover for The War to End All Wars: The The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman. This is from the 1968 Oxford University Press hardcover edition.

posted by DVanderlinde at 4:30 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2009

Thank you for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 9:43 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

I note that you have the majority of the erotic novels that Robert W Marks wrote as 'John Colleton'. I'm currently tracking down the two of the fourteen book sequence that I need for completeness. Colleton has a unique style, erudite and humorous as well as racy, particularly remarkable in the erotic genre, and I was pleased to find someone else with perhaps a similar view. Where I live, in Southern England, I'm only a few tens of miles from the original home of the original John Colleton, before he left England to become one of South Carolina's 'Lords Proprietors'. Marks/Colleton deserves better recognition, and as he died in 1993, perhaps, by now, family sensitivities have diminished enough to make this appropriate. His New York Times obituary refers to the books somewhat coyly as 'historical romances', a description that is as odd a viewpoint on 'romance' as it is on 'historical'! I'd like to know if this author retains any greater recognition for these books in his home country.

posted by CliffordDorset at 10:09 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2009

Hi, I see that we share Masterpieces of Murder, essays by Edmund Pearson, one of 105 we share. Today I refound (if that is a word) this book on my shelf and was intrigued again. Only three of us have this book. I can`t remember where I got it. Your tremendous number of books must take three houses to store. Where to put ANOTHER bookshelf is my problem.

posted by kerrlm at 8:31 am (EST) on Nov 22, 2008

just commenting on your recent trip to barnes & noble. i have the same problem with that store. just fyi, they are have a fantastic online clearance sale right now. u may want to check it out!

posted by amanaceerdh at 4:27 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

Thanks, China - interesting - I'll check it out, and for the Empire, pleased to hear you enjoyed it!

posted by JannyWurts at 10:23 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Thanks, China - interesting - I'll check it out, and for the Empire, pleased to hear you enjoyed it!

posted by JannyWurts at 9:28 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Hi Xenchu - how fun!
I see we share 13 titles - that is a relatively high correlation, considering I only put up fifty some favorite titles.

By all means, if you care to share any recommendations and curiosities.

posted by JannyWurts at 10:31 pm (EST) on May 15, 2008

Hope you're well...haven't heard from you in a while. Would love to see you back at Art is Life.

posted by TheresaWilliams at 3:32 am (EST) on May 15, 2008

Hello,

I am new to Library Thing and still screw up some of these details. I just posted a note to you at the bottom of a lengthy thread from the Art as Life group. At any rate, I just wanted to comment on your interest in Edward Hopper and Vincent Van Gogh--two of my favorite artistic spirits. I just finished the Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin last week. Fabulous work. I had been blocked as an artist since 2008 began, and now, thanks to his legacy, I am painting again. Van Gogh also thrills me--I just finished assembling a slide lecture of his work to deliver to a high school audience in the morning. I took a break and got onto Library Thing and read your post. Anyway, nice to read your remarks.

posted by DMTripp at 1:07 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Hi Xenchu

Have you tried www.casca.net? Its the Casca fans website and has everything there about the series, fans feedback and news about forthcoming books coming out soon.

Cascawebsite

posted by Cascawebsite at 1:10 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

Hi xenchu,

Thanks very much for the group invitation and for adding me to your interesting libraries. I'm not 60, but I don't see that as a problem :)

posted by Ex_Libris at 12:59 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2007

"Did you check every entry?"

No way! I just noticed those points while looking at shared books, which I did because I entered something fairly obscure and saw you had it. I often write such little messages if I happen to notice something strange and apparently unintentional, but I don't set out to check up on people.

Anyway, having looked again, I now see that HP and the Goblet of Fire and Northanger Abbey have dodgy author entries too! And you have The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B twice, once with author and once without. I suspect that quite a few of your authorless books have authors really.

Regards, Jim Roberts

posted by jimroberts at 6:29 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2007

Hi,
Your entry for Life,the Universe and Everything has author "Douglas, Adams" rather than "Adams, Douglas" which you have have for the rest of his books. I suppose that's not what you wanted: maybe an import from an unreliable source? You might want to check the author for The Ascent of Man, The Poems of John Milton, The Tents of Wickedness and The Canterbury tales too.
Regards, Jim Roberts

posted by jimroberts at 11:53 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2007

Thanks for the recommendations!

posted by TinazReading at 11:12 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2007

I'm fairly new to Science Fiction, but once I discovered the genre I was hooked! From the gist of your comment, I think I like space opera (Alfred Bester's 'The Stars My Destination' is in my library). I'd appreciate more of your recommendations when you have the time. You library truly boggles the mind!

posted by TinazReading at 2:40 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2007

Hi :)

Your Scifi and Fantasy selection is impressive. Any recommendations?

posted by TinazReading at 12:00 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2007

thanks for the invite - I'm old, but not yet that old :)

but I love Lafcadio Hearn

posted by bookstopshere at 11:59 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2007

Another Lafcadio Hearn fan? Must be an endangered species.
Ever see the film of Kwaidan? An old favorite.

posted by tros at 1:23 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

Thanks for adding me! It looks like we have a lot of favorite authors in common. Did you check out our press's website yet? http://www.valancourtbooks.com :)

posted by valancourtbooks at 7:49 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2007

xenchu, do you have one of the old fashioned cassette recorders? If you record yourself on cassette, you can use software like audacity to transform that into digital. I downloaded audacity free from the internet. Or if you send me a cassette with your voice on it, I will make it digital and then add some images to it and put it on You Tube. I don't know how to upload just audio. Let me know if you're interested in doing any of this. I would love to hear your voice.

posted by TheresaWilliams at 7:26 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2007

As one of those who list Sufi Studies Eas and West in their library, I dropped by to visit your collection We share 58 books.

posted by Naren559 at 1:35 pm (EST) on Jun 21, 2007

I've joined - now what (-: I really haven't figured out how activity takes shape in this setting. Maybe one someone has a suggestion or two I can follow.

posted by Oldude59 at 7:53 am (EST) on Jan 8, 2007

I am 60 and would join but how? My user name is Oldude59.

posted by Oldude59 at 7:39 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2006

Hello again, I received your reply. The problem is that I can't join a private group unless I am invited. Can you send me an invitation and then I will send an invite to edandkathy, the other half of my collection ( with the sci fi and fantasy ) I think it would be interesting to see the group zeitgeist for the over sixy age group.

posted by kathrynnd at 5:26 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2006