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Lend me your..... Books. - 4/21/2010 5:53:36 PM

pyroaquatic

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Okay Good Ladies and Gentlemen. Gaze upon your bookshelf and pick out your favorites before the intraweb eats them for fiber.

edited because I am backwards and wanted to place this in the OFF topic section.... please. Thank you. ;_;

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/21/2010 11:19:45 PM

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Books in electronic form ? Got a bunch of them. Of course the core collection. Turner Diaries, Fame Of A Dead Man's Deeds, Mein Kampf, about three inferior versions of The Anarchists Cookbook, the whole Dune series, among others. And there is alot more. I also have quite a few law books from the 1990s that are EXEs, so to run them you might have to tell the OS to emulate an older OS, I can tall you how to do that if you don't know. Also some of the EXEs are simply self extracting ZIP files, but not all. Some of the law books setup a directory for you for faster finding of something you want. Some are PDFs, in fact most of what involves the gov is. Probably about a gig worth in all.

What were you looking for ?

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/21/2010 11:57:27 PM

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anything by DIana Gabaldon, Eric Flint, NOra ROberts/JD Robb, Sherilyn Kennon, To Kill a Mockingbird, the ANita Blake books, James Patterson stories, and I do like Jeffery Archer as well. The Jack Reacher series (Lee Child), David Baldacci rocks, too (he really needs to publish more.. I'm all caught up and waiting for more Camel Club stories), Kinsey Milhone series, WEB Griffin, and anything non-fiction about SPECOPS.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 12:01:22 AM

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I have found 147 gig. So far I have not read any.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 12:19:38 AM

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I've got a couple ebooks, but I prefer to have the physical copies of most things

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 2:32:03 AM

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The Gormenghast books, the Hitchikers Guide (duh), Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Robert Rankin.

I, Robot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Fuck me but I loved that book). The Wasp Factory (although I don't think it would be half so powerful if you don't know the desolation of the Hebrides firsthand).

There are a couple of Peter Dickinson books (Eva, and something-or-other involving the word Rope) that I read as a teenager and still haven't quite gotten over-they are still running around my bloodstream- but I'm not sure if my adult self would love them as much if I read them again. Ditto The Speed of The Dark (the Alex Shearer one, not the one by somebody Moon).

Looking back at that list, it's all basically sci-fi, comedy and fantasy. I'm *much* more widely read than that, but clearly the stuff I gravitate towards is all kinda trivial...

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 3:26:50 AM

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 6:11:25 AM

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A few of my favorites in no particular order:

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"    John Berendt

"Homer Price"   Robert McCloskey

Numerous John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell "Scarpetta" books

"Jaws"   Peter Benchley

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 6:37:34 AM

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Hitchhiker's Guide, Dirk Gently series, Valis, Great Apes and My Idea of Fun (Will Self), Nabokov (Pale Fire, Pnin, Invitation to a Beheading in particular), Infinite Jest, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, couple of Wallace Stevens collections, Roethke collection, Our Man in Havana, Borges Collected Fictions, American Psycho, Kafka's The Trial, Either/Or (Kierkegaard), Beyond Good and Evil, War and Peace (and Berlin's essay about War and Peace) and The Last Days of Socrates (all the dialogues beginning with his trial and ending with his death). Those are the books I can see from my desk that still resonate with me really strongly.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 6:54:52 AM

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Book are pretty.

but lets not break the binding. Or write in them. in fact- put them in the room that is there for pretty.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 7:03:50 AM

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I´m such a book freak... nothing on ebooks, I love the feel of a book in my hands. At a quick glance of what´s on my shelves right now ( it changes constantly)

The Agony and the Ecstasy, a fantastic book on the life of Michael Angelo
All of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Tales of the Otori
Billy, a biography of Billy Connolly written by his wife
Wild Swans
The Flash House
just to name a few...

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 8:52:14 AM

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WAR AND PEACE remains the Titan of all novels ever written.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 11:21:53 AM

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HHGTTG the trilogy and others.Simarillion and LOTR Brian Lumley, Clive Barker,Patricia Cornwell, Michael Slade, Michael Preston, Asimov, Anne Rice, Tons on e books but prefer hard copies. Claudia Varrin, Dossie Easton, Making latex clothing, Two Knotty boys and bondage for sex(chanta rose) are this weeks bondage selection

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 12:21:57 PM

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Great Apes...(Will Self)

Will Self! The Quantity Theory of Insanity is my favourite short story collection. I feel daft now for leaving him off my list.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 3:20:00 PM

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What were you looking for ?

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The Summation of the Body of Knowledge.
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Vaguely Curious has Neil Gaiman messed with your head yet?

I hardly read fictional books. The Sandman is a pick out of a few that I have read.

I have read some of the harry potter books. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit.....

I gravitate towards dictionaries, and encyclopedias. Factual Books.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 3:23:44 PM

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Book are pretty.

but lets not break the binding. Or write in them. in fact- put them in the room that is there for pretty.

You're channeling my grandmother, lol.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 3:24:37 PM

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What were you looking for ?

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The Summation of the Body of Knowledge.

Ah, for that you need Umberto Eco. But not the one about Foucault's Pendulum, because that particular summation of knowledge will leave you paranoidical. The Name of the Rose is what I would go for.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 9:49:46 PM

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quote:

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What were you looking for ?

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The Summation of the Body of Knowledge.

Ah, for that you need Umberto Eco. But not the one about Foucault's Pendulum, because that particular summation of knowledge will leave you paranoidical. The Name of the Rose is what I would go for.

I have Der Name Der Rose in both English and German.

All my books are hard copy.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/22/2010 10:55:22 PM

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quote:

I hardly read fictional books.

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I gravitate towards dictionaries, and encyclopedias. Factual Books.

That lets me out, my faves are all fiction

Dean R Koontz's "Twilight Eyes" currently tops the list for me. While fiction, the things he writes about carnys and their lifestyle/ society are pretty factual. It makes a nice counterpoint to the whole goblin/ demon thing

I also love the "Dragonriders of Pern" series by Anne McCaffrey, the "Elenium" and "Tamuli" series by David Eddings, and wayyyy too many others to name, from legal thrillers to horror to sci-fi.

On the nonfiction front, I have rather specific tastes. I really enjoyed "Game Wars" by Marc Reisner, "So that Others may Live" by Caroline Hebard, and "Chelsea: The Story of a Signal Dog" by Paul Ogden.

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RE: Lend me your..... Books. - 4/23/2010 3:55:25 AM

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I can only handle so much reading and well, with school on top of work, pretty much all I read is theory. Also, though I enjoy some great works of fiction (OA & VC named some of my favourites which is not surprising at all) I'm more a theory buff overall.

What I have been enjoying lately actually are audiobooks and I load them on my iPod. It's great for the work-home commute except for when I accidentally giggle out loud on the metro.

I have a few in the waiting for the semester to be over...

- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A Whole New Mind & Drive by Daniel Pink

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