Whats on your Bookshelf?

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

GW: Excellent collection, good sir. Although I must say, I find your Star Wars a bit frightening, in a numerical sort of way...

Thanks, Gwai. It has taken me about 20 years to collect those +600 books.

As for the 10% SW books i began buying them last year .

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

HB: Nice library. And the Archives of Anthropos; I remember those! I was just thinking about them yesterday, and trying to remember the name of the series!

And did you hear about the newest book? It came out in 03...04...can't remember, but me and my older sis got it as a present for my younger sis (I have seven sisters, so don't complain about all these sis' you see me talk about)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

There's a new one? I had no idea; is it the same calibre as its predeccessors?

[hectorberlioz]

I haven't read it yet...

I'm only as far as Book Two. My sis said it was good...

(It's called "The Dark Lord's Demise" btw)

[Elfmaster XK]

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

EXK: Is American Gods good? I've heard about it, and thought of getting it.

It's pretty good. Everyone seems to prefer it, or Anansi Boys, (not read that one) but I preferred Neverwhere myself. It seemed like a better, more thought out storyworld and I enjoyed reading it. Although my copy was borrowed and falling apart so once I dropped all the pages! But yeah, American Gods is pretty good, though if you haven't read Neverwhere, I think that one is better.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I'll keep that in mind then; thankee kindly.

[BookMasterJMV]

I actually don't own many books at all. The only ones I have on my bookshelf that belong to me are ones that people have bought me.

That said, I work at a public library and have an entirely different shelf of books that are next on my to be read list.

Presenting...
-=drum roll, please=-
Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
Fragile Things by Neal Gaiman
Stardust by Neal Gaiman
New Moon by Stephenie Meyers

That should last me about a month and a half, as long as I actually decide I'm going to read all of them.

[hectorberlioz]

at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...

[Lady Ravyn]

oh, god, on my bookshelf? i gotta go look...

okay, besides a bunch of picture books, animorph book, dear america books, nancy drew and little house on the prairie books, i have:

Non-Fiction

a couple Vatechisms
a Bible
Book of Saints
Who's Who in Mythology


General Literature

Anne of Green Gables
The Time Machine
O'Henry's Short Stories (you know, the gift of the magi, etc.?)
Ruby in the Smoke
Secret Garden
Little Princess
Huckleberry Finn
Black Beauty
King of the Wind
Visions of Sugar Plums
Darcula
Frankenstein


Tolkien

LotR
The Hobbit
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl
Sir Orfeo
Languages of Middle-earth
Guide to Middle-earth


Fantasy that i've read

The Wayfarer Redemption, Starman, and Hades Daughter by Sara Douglass
Rhapsody,Prophecy, Destiny and Requiem of the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Veil of a Thousand Tears by Eric Lustbader
Squire by Tamora Pierce (i used to have Wild Magic too, but I lent it to a friend and never got it back )
Sword Dancer, Sword-Singer, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker,Sword-Born, and Sword-Sworn by Jennifer Roberson
Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman


Fantasy that i haven't read

The Adept by Katherine Kurtz
Green Rider by Kristin Britain
Mirror of Dreams by Stephen Donald
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
The Demon Awakens by RA Salvatore
Sorcery Rising by Judith Fisher
Dragons of a Vanishing Moon
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey

[Earniel]

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
at least give us a ngeneral idea of what you have on there...

Alright then.

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.

Tolkien-related:
- LoTR
-The Hobbit
- HoME (complete-woohoo!)
- Finn and Hengest
- Roverandom
- Letters
- Silmarillion
- UT
- Bored of the Rings
- Hildebrandt brothers: the Tolkien-years
- David day's Tolkien's Bestiary

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

Terry Pratchett:
- Near complete Discworld-series (missing: Last Hero, Maurice and his educated rodents & Wee Free Men)
- Discworld companion
- Bromeliad trilogy
- Johny Maxwell trilogy
- Strata
- Carpet People

Sci-fi:
- 4 books on Star Trek: guides and captain's logs
- around 12 Star Trek-novels
- Starwars: the making of Episode 1 & the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- around 15 Star Wars novels
- Seaquest: official publication of the series
- Creating Babylon 5
- Farscape guide

Fantasy:
- Earthsea quartet - Ursula Leguin
- Wild Roads & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King (got them in Dutch, unsure of English title)
- 20 000 miles under sea, The center of the Earth - Jules Verne

Mythology:
- 10 books on Celtic mythology
- Scandinavian mythology encyclopedia: From Aegir to Ymir
- The Edda
- 1 book on norse myths
- Iliad and Odessey
- The journey of the 10 000 - Xenofon
- Mythology encyclopedia
- Myths and legends: Aborigine- Pre-columbian - Celtic- British- Middle Ages
- North-american folktales
- Russian fairy-tales
- book of werewolves

History:
- 3 books on Celtic art
- 2 books on King Arthur
- 1 book on Aztecs: culture and history
- 1 book on Pre-columbian art
- 9 books on the prehistory and dinosaurs
- 1 book on egyptian hieroglyphs
- 2 books on fossils and minerals

Other:
- 4 books on drawing (and painting) animals
- 2 books on origami
- 5 books on nature and animal behaviour
- Robin Hood
- Beowulf- Seamus Heaney
- 2 Sherlock Holmes-books
- 2 Garfield books
- around 20 Indiana Jones-novels
- my WWF-stamp-collection
- my post-card collection
- my maps of drawings
- 8 dictionaries (Dutch-French-English-Spanish)
- 2 filosofical books
- American gargolyes
- schoolbooks
- at least a dozen other novels and books

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.

[hectorberlioz]

- Bored of the Rings

SGH was just telling me about that.
sounds good.

btw-I got a book called "Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte!

[Earniel]

It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

[sun-star]

Originally posted by Eärniel
It's amusing enough. Though it didn't have me rolling over the floor laughing as I had hoped.

Agnes Grey?!

[hectorberlioz]

Lol, I think Earniel was referring to "bored of the rings".

I try not to spam. but sometimes, I just dont have much to say, but I do have something to say, so I post it, and it ends up looking like spam.

[Linaewen]

HB, I think Sun-star realised that. See smiley?

Originally posted by Eärniel
Alright then.

This is about what I could fit in my own bookcases, the rest I had to move downstairs.
....

Cats:
- Cat world (Desmond Morris)
- 8 other cat books on behaviour, race and keeping

If you want to know a category in detail, ask me but I'm not going to type every title out now.

Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia?

I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet.

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen:
Is that the enthralling Cat Encyclopaedia?

That's the one.

Originally posted by Linaewen:
I'd love to have as many mythology books as you. I don't have any as yet.

It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. And they're not all that good mind you, some overlap and only have the most famous myths, others go a little too much to the side of the fairy tales or christianised myths for my taste. Some have some very pretty drawings too. Yet without the sudden surge of general interest in celtic myths, I never would have found so much. But I'm pretty proud of my collection.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel

It took me at least some 6 to 7 years of going to bookfairs and to the back shelves of bookstores to collect them all. ... But I'm pretty proud of my collection.

Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics.

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.

- 2 x Indonesian dictionaries
- Some Chinese dictionaries, and a tonne of textbooks
- 1 mini Swedish dictionary, a better one and a Swedish course on its way
- Colloquial Spanish Book
- Deutsch Heute ('German today')
-European phrasebook
- Greek-English dictionary
- Italian basic textbook
-Muslihat dengan cermin ('Tricked with a mirror'- Indonesian translation of Agatha Christie's 'They did it with a mirror')

And my Classic books:
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Pride & Prejudice
-Jane Eyre
-Wuthering Heights
-Great Expectations
-Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
-Medea
(I must have lost some, I know I have more)

-Plus 8 Tolkien books, some fantasy books (Including His Dark Materials) and a few non-fiction titles such as
-Children of the Storm'- Children's memories of WWII
-Angkor Wat

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Linaewen
Yeah, I'm just dying to see those lovely Norse myth pics.

I'm more proud of my Language book collection.
[...]
-Angkor Wat

The pictures are from celtic myths mostly, I don't think my norse mythology books have much drawings. (at least I don't remember any) But if I recall correctly, at least one artist on the online Elfwood galleries has some pretty aquarels of a few Norse goddesses, I'll see if I may have saved a link to that gallery somewhere.

You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive.

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Eärniel
You should be proud on that language book collection, it's quite impressive.

Angkor Wat, have you ever seen it? Or Angkor Tom? From the pictures I've seen they're very impressive but pictures sadly don't always convey the feeling of places completely.

Thank'ee. The other day, I required a great amount of willpower to stop myself from buying this Dutch beginner's book, and some classics (though they're really cheap). I can't stand buying books that I don't get the chance to read for a while.

No, I've never been to Angkor. But I'll tell you more about it, if you want. (That would mean having to read the book though, another one on the shelf gathering dust).

[Earniel]

Oh, I don't let no-time-to-read stop me from buying or asking for books. Most of the books I get for christmas or my birthday (in may) are kept for the holidays in july. Also, I usually have exams not long after my birthday, so my mother strictly forbids me then to read anything else than course books and notes anyway.

And yet, I never have shortage of books to read. The number I want to read only seems to grow and grow. But that's what you get in a family where all 4 are reasonably avid readers.

Tell me about Angkor if you want to, but don't let it push you to read the book. My sister got a nice big book on it too, but I haven't read it yet (like so many others). I was just wondering whether you had seen it since, geographically, you're closer to it than me.