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Jäsen: revelshade

Kirjasto1,897 kirjaa — katso kirjasto

Arvostelut1 arvostelu — katso arvostelut

Pilvetavainsanapilvi, tekijäpilvi

Avainsanatscience fiction (1,263), fantasy (374), collection (221), anthology (71), frazetta (61), horror (59), sword and sorcery (54), time travel (38), fiction (36), mystery (30) — kaikki avainsanat

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Tietoja minusta I did a search and found that (as of 9/03/2007) over a thousand LibraryThing members owned Gene Wolfe's "Shadow of the Torturer" in some form, but not a single one was using "book of gold" as a tag, which seems incredible to me. The phrase is so perfect, and the idea it represents is so simple and must resonate so profoundly for any book person: the Book of Gold is the book you credit (or blame) for making you a librarian.
You say you're not a librarian? Don't kid yourself. Whether you own 50 books or 50,000 you are the caretaker of a collection of fragile, beautiful, valuable artifacts. You own a library, however small, however private, and that makes you a librarian, charged with keeping those books safe until, inevitably, they pass to someone else (you are mortal; so are your books, but with proper care they can out-live you).
So, about me: I found the Book of Gold when I was eleven, in the book section of a department store, back when department stores had book sections. It was a $1.95 paperback (two and a penny with tax), published by Ballantine Books under their Del Rey imprint, categorized as "SF Adventure". The cover bore a painting by Darrell K. Sweet: an enormous, tri-pedal, multi-eyed alien striding through a watery landscape toward three unearthly, ethereal spires on the horizon.
And here I am.

Tietoja kirjastostani To paraphrase Lord Summerisle, I am a fanboy, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one. My first love was science fiction and fantasy, and although you would find Proust and Austen, Whitman and Wilde on my shelves (and will find them here when I get around to cataloging them), as a collector my focus is the sf and fantasy paperbacks I found on bookstore shelves when I was a boy. I am not a completist of any sort; I am not interested in first editions or in books of special value or rarity. I choose one edition of a title over another for aesthetic reasons (my taste inevitably influenced by nostalgia), and I choose the titles I collect based on the admittedly vague goal of gathering a library of "essential" genre titles (broadly and eccentrically defined) up to about 1990, and a much narrower selection of more recent favorites.

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RekisteröitymispäiväJan 7, 2006