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AvainsanatScience Fiction (262), Books to movies (106), Heinlein (61), Read 2007 (60), WW2 (59), Age of Sail (55), History (53), Have but not read yet (52), Top 50 favorites (50), American Literature (48) — kaikki avainsanat

Ryhmät50 Book Challenge, Science Fiction Fans

LempikirjailijatEdward Latimer Beach, Charles Dickens, C.S. Forester, Pat Frank, Daniel V. Gallery, Marcus Goodrich, Robert A. Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Kent, Richard McKenna, Herman Melville, Brent Monahan, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Barbara W. Tuchman, Mika Waltari, Morris West (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta Old enough to know better, young enough not to care :)
Married three children (My wife and I lost the war we're out numbered).
Like many LT'ers I tend to have more than one book going at the same time (book surfing is what I tell my wife)

Tietoja kirjastostani The bulk of my library is made up of Sci-Fi and a large number of nautical/naval/military history and fiction books. But I'll read almost any thing that strikes my fancy at the moment.
I like the idea of a book that was read by another. I'm the romantic type, and ask; Who read this? Did they like it? Why did they underline that word, phrase or sentence? Was it for a report or did it touch some chord in them in some way? And why would "Sally" agree with this passage?
Used books are travelers and I wonder where they have been and where they are going.

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones." -- Joseph Joubert

"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books." (Carlos Maria Dominguez, "The House of Paper")

'It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again.'(Carlos Maria Dominguez, "The House of Paper")

Also from Carlos Maris Dominques "the house of paper"
"...the books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them"

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
--- A.E. Newton

"That is a good book that is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
--- A. B. Alcott, "Table Talk"

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
--- Milton, "Areopagitica", sec. 6

From "The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"...Every book, every volume you see has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its sprit grows and strengthens."
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SijaintiStaten Island , New York

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RekisteröitymispäiväMar 19, 2007