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Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels- from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe - tekijä: Anthony Arthur
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Draussen vor der Tür und ausgewählte Erzählungen - tekijä: Wolfgang Borchert
Pride and Prejudice - audio - tekijä: Jane Austen
Man's Place in Nature - tekijä: Thomas H. Huxley
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ystävät: Biomusicologist, brendajanefrank, LaurenNoshoes, NCSE, The_Butterfly_Girl, TommyB
kiinnostavia kirjastoja: angrystarlyt, Biomusicologist, brendajanefrank, bwogilvie, CharlesDarwin, cshalizi, cwzimmer, darwinsbulldog, DonSiano, evolve17, folkfan, hogervo, KoobieKitten, ksbioteacher, LaurenNoshoes, lisa211, obsessedwithbooks, psiloiordinary, rjohara, srott, The_Butterfly_Girl, TommyB, yapete
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Jäsen: danielx
Kirjasto1,678 kirjaa — katso kirjasto
Arvostelut60 arvostelua — katso arvostelut
Pilvetavainsanapilvi, tekijäpilvi
AvainsanatFiction (751), History (205), Evolution (162), Biography (150), not owned (147), History of science (138), not finished (127), Children's fiction (112), US politics (109), Classic fiction (96) — kaikki avainsanat
RyhmätNone
LempikirjailijatPeter J. Bowler, E. Janet Browne, Vincent Bugliosi, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Charles Dickens, Rebecca Goldstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Bill Griffith, Ernst Haeckel, Dashiell Hammett, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Henry Huxley, Robert Green Ingersoll, Ian Kershaw, Paul Krugman, Gary Larson, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernst Mayr, Ian McEwan, Marge Piercy, Matt Ridley, John Steinbeck, Trevanian, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, H. G. Wells, Edward O. Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Carl Zimmer (Yhteiset suosikit)
Tietoja minusta Bipedal primate with the physiology of a large tropical mammal; species origins, Africa; interests, varied.
Tietoja kirjastostani My online listings are a virtual library of books that I've read, most of which reside in my home library (plus some that I've not finished, and some signed books that I want to keep track of). My "library" started out being a listing of fiction, but I've been adding works of non-fiction as time permits. My areas of special interest include evolutionary biology and history of evolutionary ideas. However, I also like to read politics, history, and biography; and at one time, was drawn towards books on such topics as philosophy, Nazi Germany, and the JFK assassination, among others.
I love this site for many reasons. One is that listing books allows me to keep records and notes on what I've read, and to arrange books by multiple categories -- something not possible (try as one might) in the two dimensional space provided by real bookshelves. Another is that I can relive the experiences that the book provided; viewed chronologically, they provide a sort of diary of the mind. And yet another, that I can record my own reaction in written reviews (which I used to write for my own private enjoyment).
For most of my books, dates indicate date of publication of the original work, and not necessarily that of the illustrated volume cover. I list dates of publication because I'm more interested in the contents than the particular edition -- except when it comes to the collectibles (such as signed works and books on evolution).
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RekisteröitymispäiväOct 12, 2007
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Lähettänyt: oldliesandfireflies 6:14 pm (EST) Jul 21, 2008
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 6:23 am (EST) May 7, 2008
Did you get an Early Reviewer Book, I hope? I am REALLY excited because I got the newest Faye Kellerman book. She is a big time favorite author of mine. Also, Tom got one of the National Geographic books that I secretly signed him up for. At first he was grumpy when he heard that I signed him up, but he was very happy about it when he saw the book that he snagged. :)
Brenda
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 10:34 am (EST) Apr 12, 2008
Did you read Toby Tyler? How about The Enormous Egg? I just added them.
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 9:32 pm (EST) Mar 2, 2008
I just finished Decision at Philadelphia. It made me realize how little I knew about the period between the Revolution and the adoption of the Constitution -- or the struggles that went on about it. All my political science courses except one were about other places than here. Very interesting to see how big an issue the states rights issue was at the beginning of the country's history. Patrick Henry, among others, was a big proponent of the idea that the states could join or leave the union as they saw fit. He, among others, was fearful of the power a national government could have and the possibility that the power could be abused.
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:50 pm (EST) Jan 29, 2008
I'm glad I could help. Feel free to ask if you have any doubts or want to talk about it... Let me know how it goes.
Good luck!
Lähettänyt: littlesnail 11:04 am (EST) Jan 26, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 11:17 pm (EST) Jan 20, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 11:12 pm (EST) Jan 20, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:37 pm (EST) Jan 12, 2008
You are not weighted as high on my library list as I am on yours. BrendaJaneFrank is first and BumpersMom is second, I think. She may drop down, however, as I add more of the serious books. (I think it would be hard for BrendaJane to drop down, however; she has too commanding a lead.)
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:29 pm (EST) Jan 12, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:50 pm (EST) Jan 10, 2008
I haven't been too eager to put on all the childrens' books I read -- I read them buy the dozens. I tried to put some particularly memorable or symbolic books on the list, however. I probably should add some Swift Jr. books.
I can't remember Corbett. Did we have any of his books growing up?
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:48 pm (EST) Jan 10, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:44 pm (EST) Jan 10, 2008
Lähettänyt: TommyB 10:40 pm (EST) Jan 10, 2008
I find that listing the books gives a greater sense or ownership -- plus it is satisfying to review and remember the books after they are on the list.
I also find that now that I have done this for a month, books simply pop up in my memory while I am doing other things; then I make a note (mental or otherwise) and list them when I get a chance. It's an interesting process.
I haven't begun to list all the books on philosophy and political science from college other than two of Lenin's writings that I added this morning). Are you listing that sort of books (other than purely textbooks)?
Lähettänyt: TommyB 9:53 am (EST) Dec 24, 2007
Lähettänyt: TommyB 4:09 pm (EST) Dec 22, 2007
Lähettänyt: TommyB 2:58 pm (EST) Dec 22, 2007
Lähettänyt: TommyB 2:26 pm (EST) Dec 22, 2007
Lähettänyt: TommyB 11:25 am (EST) Dec 22, 2007
Lähettänyt: TommyB 9:09 pm (EST) Dec 9, 2007
Check this discussion re 1/2 stars. http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... Guess things are still in flux. Don't give up on 1/2 stars yet.
I added books this afternoon and the site seemed sort of glitchy. Guess there are still some bugs to work out.
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 9:19 pm (EST) Dec 3, 2007
It is really fun to read reviews and share libraries. I remember books I have missed by seeing your library and TommyB's. Also, I am beginning to find lots of books that I have not read and would like to.
Are you going to add more of your nonfiction to your library? That would interest people who like to see what books a specialist in a field reads. I am not particularly a specialist, but I am adding my horticulture books, with brief reviews for the benefit of others.
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 12:40 pm (EST) Dec 2, 2007
If you look at your tagcloud you can easily see needed edits. For instance, Newbury Award and Newbery Award are 2 different tags.
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 1:45 pm (EST) Dec 1, 2007
Maybe you should take a look at Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear. I just added it to my library.
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 1:15 pm (EST) Dec 1, 2007
Yeah, I did get out of control yesterday. But, I made up for it today - I took 2 books off! I had listed 2 books that I hadn't actually read, so I had to read them. One was by Faye Kellerman, a story about Shakespeare being a sleuth and trying to find out who killed his actor buddy. After struggling to get through it, I just quit and removed it from the Library. It felt so good, like getting out of jail. Same with Tristan Jones, The Incredible Voyage. I just didn't like the way it was written.
Do you remember reading any Raggedy Ann & Andy stories? I tried to find the version given to me by your Mom to read to Mike and Lauren, but I couldn't figure out the right edition. I wanted to review it.
None of us will ever forget the time I read Raggedy Ann & Andy for the bedtime story. The children were young, about 3 and 6. We were all in bed together and I began the first story. After a page or 2 I was laughing hysterically! The text was totally inane, just vapid. Then, I just couldn't get through a sentence without losing control. Of course, my buddies loved this and wholeheartedly participated in the hysteria. The story was lots of fun, but didn't do what a bedtime story was supposed to do. (I never shared this with your Mom, of course.)
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 9:15 pm (EST) Nov 29, 2007
Glad to see that you've expanded your vision of your Library to include early years. There are lots of children's books out there, but there are not a lot of timeless, excellent children's books. I think it is fun to reexperience the books that we enjoyed as children, and, for me, the books I enjoyed sharing with my children. TommyB waxes eloquent about some of the books he loved while growing up.
It also gives our libraries completeness in a sense of our reading history.
The LibraryThing can serve many purposes. I started a small, free library just for books that I haven't read and intend to read. Those books keep popping up and the LibraryThing helps me keep track of them.
This website is sooo useful. I just keep backing up my Library by downloading to my hard drive because I worry about the Betaness of it and I fear losing it. The LibraryThing easily becomes an addition or obsession, or is it the reading that is the obsession? You know it's bad when the site is down for a short period and you experience withdrawal, or when you don't have time to read because you are so busy cataloging books!
Although I find it relaxing to enter ISBN numbers, I look forward to the day when I am "caught up" and can just enter new books. Hope I'm getting close; it's scary to discover just how many books we have in our basement, bedrooms, kitchen and familyroom. Our daughter uses our house as the public library, borrowing and returning huge bags of books. Does anyone ever have enough bookshelves?
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 7:11 am (EST) Nov 28, 2007
Re your median date of books catalogued, does this mean that you did most of your reading in your early years? Could it mean that you relate more to the past than the contemporary? Could it mean that the good stuff happened a long time ago?
I think that the statistics give us insight into our reading habits. Actually, I think that a peek at a person's bookshelves is very telling and much more interesting than a look at someone's medicine cabinet :)
I do think that a lot of the good stuff was written long ago. However, when I began reading the first chapter of Harry Potter, I immediately felt that I was reading a classic, as good as Baum or Lewis Carroll. It was good to know that contemporary writers can match the old classics.
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 6:53 am (EST) Nov 28, 2007
This was a tricky proposition. First I put the question to the Site Talk discussion group: How can I copy an entire library to another user's account? They had no answer and suggested that I write to Tim and Abbey, which I did. The bottom line is use import and export of a library saved to the hard drive.
The results were close and usable, but not perfect. The CSV file worked better than the tab delimited file. Most books were imported but some seemed to be missed. Many covers made the transfer but not all. Tags and ratings are not imported. Caution: do not look at the catalogue while importing. If you do, books are duplicated, tripled or quadrupled.
Note: In power edit mode under misc. you can find and delete duplicate isbn's from your library.
Good Luck,
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 5:13 pm (EST) Nov 23, 2007
To save your library to your hard drive you click on the "tools" tab above. You will see "export import" in the right column. Then, you can Export as CSV or Export as tab-delimited text.
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 1:11 pm (EST) Nov 18, 2007
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 7:37 am (EST) Nov 12, 2007
Do you remember all the books that you read? I'm finding books on our shelves that I read ages ago that I really don't remember much. Also, sometimes seeing other books by a listed author reminds me of unlisted books that I have read. For instance, just after law school I went through an Irving Stone period.
I worked on refining my listings, making tags consistent. The tag cloud is very helpful for that. You could also review. I'm finding the LibraryThing reviews often to be more useful than Amazon reviews.
Are you limiting your library to fiction? I'm including reference and nonfiction. You do have the germs, plague book, so I guess you have some nonfiction.
BTW, I adopted your original publication date method.
Do you regularly export your library to your hard drive? I do. Guess I feel a bit insure and fear losing all this work.
Yeah, what a deal! All this fun for $25.
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 7:32 am (EST) Nov 12, 2007
It's interesting to use the date of original publication in the catalog. However, as a collector I thought that you would need the actual date of publication of your book, just like the correct dustjacket. So, there are 3 important dates: date of original publication, date of edition owned, and date read.
My library is becoming more refined with time. At first, I was just happy to have a record of the book read. Then, I realized the value and importance of the tags, so I am working on complete, accurate and consistent tagging.
Now, I realize that many of the books entered are the wrong editions! For instance, I did not read the 2005 version of Little Women, Alcott. So, to improve the catalog I should find the correct edition and change the current entries.
But, I am not a book collector (except for a few first editions of the Oz series). The focus for me is not particularly accuracy of the edition, but simply the entry of the title and description in the form of tags. I really want a record of books read, sort of like a travel journal.
The reference books are an exception, since they aren't "stories." For reference, I want a record of the value and importance of the work. Hopefully, I can use the libraries of others to find useful nonfiction works, and they can use mine. I think that the exchange and dialogue potential of the LibraryThing is a wonderful bonus to the cataloging.
BTW, do you export your Library? I try to routinely save the file, just in case ...
Brenda
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 11:10 am (EST) Nov 1, 2007
Yes, it was indeed Philip Jose Farmer who wrote VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL, riffing on Vonnegut's hapless SF fictional author Kilgore Trout. This was Farmer's idea to do, as he wanted to expand on his fictional characters in the Wold-Newton universe. Explaining what THAT is would take more time than I have before dinner.
Frankly, I have NEVER seen V.O.T.H.S. attributed to Harlan - and Harlan would certainly have never made such a claim. I have a room full of obscure material by and about Harlan and have never seen these two things mentioned in the same paragraph. Having said that - SF is a small incestuous place and there are connections.
Harlan helped package and blurbed one of Vonnegut's earliest collections. Harlan also published Vonnegut's story THE BIG SPACE FUCK in the anthology AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS. Harlan has known both Vonnegut and Farmer since the 1950's. Harlan published RIDERS OF THE PURPLE WAGE in the original DANGEROUS VISIONS anthology. I'll have more to say about that...perhaps, someday.
The Kilgore Trout character may have been partially based on the life of Theodore Sturgeon, thus Trout/Sturgeon. But I have heard from other editors that Kilgore is based on one or two other authors who had lives of even more quiet desperation. Sturgeon also knew Harlan since the 1950's and lived with Harlan for some time in the 1970's. There are other Sturgeon/Ellison connections. So, there you go.
I do know that Vonnegut got really tired of explaining this and wished he had never let Farmer proceed. But it's too late now.
Regards - Barney Dannelke
Lähettänyt: Dannelke 5:54 pm (EST) Oct 26, 2007
I can't remember how I first knew it, but after reading your comment I checked it on Wikipedia, and (if you can believe Wikipedia), it is in fact Farmer. Where and how did you hear it was Ellison?
LT member Dannelke is an expert on Harlan Ellison. You might see if he can shed any light on the subject.
Oakes
Lähettänyt: oakesspalding 3:48 pm (EST) Oct 26, 2007
At first I didn't understand tags, so I entered lots of books without them. Tags can be very useful. It's also fun to do searches based on tags. The LibraryThing is really a great tool for people like us.
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 9:15 am (EST) Oct 26, 2007
BJ
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 6:59 pm (EST) Oct 25, 2007
Based on your recent additions, I just ordered from Amazon Stalking the Nightmare, by Harlan Ellison. He's new to me but sounds interesting.
Lähettänyt: brendajanefrank 10:37 pm (EST) Oct 24, 2007
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