Topic: 2010 Book Thread (Read 26397 times)

pbsaurus · « **Reply #50 on:** June 11, 2010, 03:41:06 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on May 12, 2010, 03:57:57 PM

25 is the goal this year.

1. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (in progress from last year).-finished 1/20/10
2. 1/21/10 started In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson-finished 1/29/10
3. 2/2/10 started In N Out Burger by Stacy Perman-finished 5/11/10
4. 5/12/10 started The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson-finished 6/10/10

5. 6/11/10 started Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman

BizB · « **Reply #51 on:** June 11, 2010, 09:07:11 PM »

I've given up on reading books for a bit. Instead, I'm making some. (clickzorz for full size)

Socrates · « **Reply #52 on:** June 14, 2010, 07:00:07 AM »

Quote from: BizB on June 11, 2010, 09:07:11 PM

I've given up on reading books for a bit. Instead, I'm making some. (clickzorz for full size)

Are you just making blank journal/sketch books?

BizB · « **Reply #53 on:** June 14, 2010, 09:29:44 AM »

Yup. Here's the next one I did after that one.

Probie · « **Reply #54 on:** July 05, 2010, 05:41:46 AM »

I'm in 50 books.

1. War and Peace by Dostoyevsky Saga: eclipse. - Stephanie Meyer (tick)
2. War and Peace by Dostoyevsky Saga: Breaking dawn - Stephanie Meyer (tick)
3. Brother Odd - Dean Koontz

4. The penultimate truth - Phillip K. Dick (unfinished)
5. The short second life of bree tanner - Stephanie Meyer (tick)
6. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (tick)
7. The Triumph of the Sun - Wilbur Smith (second read, gift...still reading)

Rizzy · « **Reply #55 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:12:12 AM »

Too many to list, so a picture will do - somewhere between 1/4and 1/3 of these books need to be ~finished~. Mostly, the more "academic" things (i.e. the top right corner, a couple of the bottom right section, and half of the top middle section).

Hey, at least I've read all my textbooks I've accumulated over the years...>_>

Demosthenes · « **Reply #56 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:41:06 AM »

Very elegant.

My wife and I have a sprawling book collection that we can't really contain. Here's one of our shelves' worth:

Probie · « **Reply #57 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:47:57 AM »

Decent collection demo

Demosthenes · « **Reply #58 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:49:42 AM »

Much of it is cheap paperbacks.

However, the stuff we have insured is on the top shelf, second section from the right. That's where the first editions, signed copies, and other collectible books live.

This shelf is all fiction though. Non-fiction is in another built-in shelf across the room from the one pictured. Physics, chemistry, history, philosophy, and other non-fic live there.

I don't have a picture of that one though. I should go take one now... brb.

Rizzy · « **Reply #59 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:54:02 AM »

*slowly reaches out to try and grab the books from Dem's library*

It a bibliophile's paradise.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #60 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:55:04 AM »

Quote from: Rizzy on July 08, 2010, 10:54:02 AM

*slowly reaches out to try and grab the books from Dem's library*

It a bibliophile's paradise.

There are two more bookshelves upstairs, too. And a number of boxes containing books for which we don't have shelfspace.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #61 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:00:50 AM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on July 08, 2010, 10:57:57 AM

Man you're so lucky. I'm too poor to have a bunch of books, I just tried to buy 6 books off amazon but the shipping came to $90 CA

I'm not lucky, just obsessed with books and 18 years older than you are.

It's taken me a long time to accumulate all of these.

Probie · « **Reply #62 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:12:19 AM »

I wish i had a long term "book collection" with someone

Rizzy · « **Reply #63 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:17:46 AM »

^ got a criminal record?

ivan · « **Reply #64 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:26:07 AM »

I'm not posting my bookshelves. Too messy.

Probie · « **Reply #65 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:28:40 AM »

I'm in work, the only things on my book shelf here are:

design patterns
geek logik
ikigami

and packet soup

Rizzy · « **Reply #66 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:30:35 AM »

*gasp* no instant ramen?

ivan: dooo eeet.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #67 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:34:40 AM »

We are big fans of the library in my family and the "pass-it-on" literacy club. Once everyone in the household has finished reading a book we:
1. return to it's owner (friend, library, etc.)
2. pass-it-on to someone who wants/needs it

As a result, while my brain has consumed many written words, we have a rather small book collection. Only the rare, old (read:in-need-of-rebinding) and valuable[SS] (signed & sentimental) ones stay. Of course my mother owns two copies of every single book my poems have ever been published in.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #68 on:** July 08, 2010, 01:45:03 PM »

Some of the non-fiction in our library (there's more upstairs):

That's correct. Sun Tzu's "Art of War" is physically separating my George H. Smith atheism books from my bibles and Qu'ran.

Rizzy · « **Reply #69 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:08:58 PM »

Chemistry - like
Black holes - super-duper like
Gray's anatomy - like (what, no Gross anatomy book)?
So you have books about atheism and the Qur'an. But tell me, do YOU have the ultimate chocolate and coffee BIBLE cookbook?

Also, here's where most of my book money went to (a couple aren't even here; back in storage or with friends, or at my parents' house). Including my Arabic books and dictionary (appropriated nicknamed Hans Wehr - the author of the dictionary - by my old classmates).

And yeah, that red Genes X book in the bottom corner, that's what I wanted to burn the other night.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #70 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:33:58 PM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on July 08, 2010, 02:18:57 PM

I see the Qu'ran, I thought this was the nonfiction section ;P.

It's on the "Philosophy" shelf.

I do, however, have a book on creationism and why evolution is wrong. But that's on my "Humor" shelf.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #71 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:44:09 PM »

It's this one. After reading it I decided that there's no way they could actually have been serious when they wrote that book, so the only reasonable place for it in my library was in "Humor".

It's currently on a shelf right between one of my "Dilbert" books and Gary Larson's "A Prehistory Of The Far Side".

Seems appropriate.

Rizzy · « **Reply #72 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:49:16 PM »

Your shelf categorization is how I wish bookstores would arrange things.

Speaking of creationism and evolution, I can't stand when people say evolution is wrong, and back up their argument by only saying "I think God made everything" or "because I believe in God." A legitimate argument that is not.

Besides, if god "made" us as is, then he should have put some better planning into designing our sinus cavities.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #73 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:56:34 PM »

Egads, and knee joints. Especially the poorly engineered knee joints.

* Demosthenes shakes his cane

Demosthenes · « **Reply #74 on:** July 08, 2010, 02:58:29 PM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on July 08, 2010, 02:57:01 PM

Philosophical books up top to deprive short people of intellectual thinking?

"Up" and "top" and "short" are all pretty abstract, relative concepts.

Once you are better versed in philosophy, the location of the shelf is irrelevant. It is always within reach.

News:

Recent Forum Posts

Shout Box

Author Topic: 2010 Book Thread (Read 26397 times)