Member: TheoClarke

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About my libraryMy library is an eclectic assemblage of some 8000 books. Feel free to send me anything on my
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My Your library collection includes only books that I own. Ordered means bought but not yet received. Hotlist is the books I plan to read next. LT Talk means recommended on LT Forums. LT Cataloging is for books that I have added to LibraryThing to complete the bibliography of an author.
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★ - no significant merit (often abandoned unfinished).
★★ - disappointing.
★★★ - average. Enjoyable or interesting but nothing special.
★★★★ - very good.
★★★★½ - thoroughly recommended.
★★★★★ - so good that I hope to read it again.

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Favorite authorsD. J. Watkins-Pitchford, Douglas Adams, Dante Alighieri, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jane Austen, G. R. Balleine, M. C. Beaton, Ambrose Bierce, William Blake, Lawrence Block, William Boyd, Malcolm Bradbury, Ernest Bramah, Bill Bryson, Eddie Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Leslie Charteris, Tracy Chevalier, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Bernard Cornwell, Will Cuppy, Len Deighton, Philip K. Dick, John Donne, Umberto Eco, James Ellroy, Ian Fleming, George MacDonald Fraser, Brian Freemantle, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, H. Rider Haggard, Dashiell Hammett, Harry Harrison, Jack Higgins, Anthony Horowitz, Clive James, Jerome K. Jerome, Fritz Leiber, Edward Marston, Armistead Maupin, Spike Milligan, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, Baroness Orczy, Robert B. Parker, Philip Pullman, Damon Runyon, Dorothy L. Sayers, Alexander McCall Smith, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, Studs Terkel, James Thurber, Hervé Tullet, Evelyn Waugh, James Howard Wellard, Donald E. Westlake, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBesleys Books, Brattle Book Shop, Bridport Old Books, Chapel Books, Claude Cox Old and Rare Books, Poor Richard's Books, Stanfords, Wild and Homeless Books

Favorite librariesBiblioteca Ricardo Güiraldes

Other favoritesSuffolk Record Office - Ipswich

MembershipTinyCat. https://www.librarycat.org/lib/TheoClarke
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Real nameTheo Clarke

LocationIpswich, Suffolk, UK

Account typepublic

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Member sinceFeb 23, 2008

Currently readingThe Librarian's Almanaq by Roy Leban
A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
Codex Enigmatum: Unique and eccentric brain teasers, puzzles and enigmas by Rami Hansenne
The Board Game Family: Reclaim your children from the screen by Ellie Dix
1001 books you must read before you die by Peter Boxall
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Arrival: Interactive Puzzle Escape book by Matthew Rowe
Exile by James Swallow
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Fell Volume 1: Feral City by Warren Ellis
Flintlock: Book 1 by Steve Tanner
Invisible blood : seventeen crime stories from today's finest crime writers by Maxim Jakubowski
The Toff And The Runaway Bride by John Creasey
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