Member: Michael.Rimmer

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About my libraryLots of sci-fi and fantasy books that I've kept from my youth and can't bear to part with. Then, the usual eclectic mix of fiction, classics and non-fiction.

GroupsBooks in Books, Cthulhu Mythos, E. F. Benson, Ghost Stories, Past and Present, ROOT - 2014 Read Our Own Tomes

Favorite authorsBrian W. Aldiss, Nelson Algren, Anon, Richard Ashcroft, Marcus Aurelius, Chet Baker, Pauline Baynes, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, E. F. Benson, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Ray Bradbury, Billy Bragg, Dave Brubeck, Tim Buckley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kate Bush, John Cale, Joseph Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Cherry Ghost, Cocteau Twins, Alice Coltrane, Joseph Conrad, Julian Cope, The Coral, Bernard Cornwell, Elvis Costello, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Charles Darwin, Dead Can Dance, Paul Desmond, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison, Elizabeth Fraser, Alan Garner, Kahlil Gibran, Gomez, David Goodis, Edward Gorey, Robert Graves, H. Rider Haggard, Dashiell Hammett, Frank Herbert, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, Icicle Works, The Icicle Works, Robert Irwin, Tove Jansson, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Carl Gustav Jung, Omar Khayyám, Jack Kirby, Laurie Lee, Stan Lee, Fritz Leiber Jr., C. S. Lewis, Jack London, Elias Lönnrot, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Colin MacIntyre, Thomas Malory, Richard Matheson, Linda McCartney, Geraldine McEwan, Patrick McGoohan, Gustav Meyrink, Spike Milligan, Michael Moorcock, Patrick Moore, Van Morrison, Nico, Nico + The Faction, Larry Niven, Mervyn Peake, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Bruce Pennington, Pixies, Portishead, Lou Reed, Steve Reich, Carl R. Rogers, Sax Rohmer, Sa-da-kO, Pete Sanders, William Kean Seymour, Mary Shelley, William Sieghart, David Smail, Clark Ashton Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Squeeze, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Bram Stoker, Kae Tempest, The La's, The Smiths, Mark Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, T. Rex, Lao Tzu, Chad Varah, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Scott Walker, Margaret S. Warner, H. G. Wells, T. H. White, Roger Zelazny (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBoardmans Bishop's Stortford, British Museum - Bookshop, Broadhurst's Booksellers, Daniel Thierstein, Buchantiquariat, Dillons, Freshfields Animal Rescue Charity Bookshop Southport, Gosh! Comics, Great Grandfather's Books, Halewood & Sons Secondhand Bookshop, Mighty World of Comicana, News From Nowhere, Planet Eater, Reid of Liverpool, Topping & Company, Waterstone's Gower Street

Favorite librariesTarleton Library

Other favoritesPCCS Books

Favorite listsBest African Books, Books Read in 2014, Books Read in 2015, Books Read in 2016, Books Read in 2017, Books Read in 2018, Books Read in 2019, Books Read in 2020, Books Read in 2021, Books Read in 2022, David Bowie's Top 100, Lovecraft's 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' Reading List

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LocationHesketh Bank, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Account typepublic

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Member sinceMar 29, 2013

Currently readingThe Masterpiece Library of Short Stories: The Thousand Best Complete Tales of all Times and all Countries: Volume I: Early Stories & Volume II: Italian by John Alexander Hammerton
Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations With Remarkable People by Fritjof Capra
Walpole's Letters by Horace Walpole
Simple Self-Care for Therapists: Restorative Practices to Weave Through Your Workday by Ashley Davis Bush
Hesperides or Works both Human and Divine together with his Noble Numbers or his Pious Pieces by Robert Herrick
Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block
The Heart Sutra by Red Pine
Supporting People through Loss and Grief: An Introduction for Counsellors and Other Caring Practitioners by John F. Wilson
The Age of Enlightenment: An anthology of eighteenth-century texts: Volume 1 by Simon Eliot
William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney by William Wordsworth
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