Hey does anybody have the whole Foundation series?? It seems like you guys all have pieces of it.

I have a boxed set of the entire series. It isn't actually "my" set though. I borrowed it from my brother-in-law about seven years ago and haven't given it back to him yet.

Most of my books:



A semi-big collection, I guess. OK - my collection isn't all that big, but it's quality that matters more than size. And my current collection is much bigger than the measly size my collection was not even a year ago; I used to mostly get books from the library. Prior to getting these, I had never really bought books other than when I was a kid.

I'm currently awaiting more books in the mail.

My other books are in another room. I plan on selling them eventually.





Hmm, so I was wrong - I don't have the entire series. I have what was the entire series in the early 80's . . . that's when the boxed set I have is from. Looks like there's also a book called Foundation and Earth and two prequels that were written in the late 80's and early 90's. I'm mostly interested in the original trilogy though, but I may eventually read the entire series. I was really fond of the first book in the original trilogy; I read it at my sister's when I was 18 or so. I really should read the damn trilogy already.

The stuff you don't have is the less interesting stuff anyway so you don't really have to bother.
When I read a book and like it I have to read the whole series. I read all the crappy sequels to 2001 and the really crappy sequels to Rendevous With Rama. And I read most of the Dune garbage written by Frank Herbert's son.

(WARNING: I was very bored so it's rather detailed~)

Here's what I collected during the last 4~5 years (lost most of my old books because I had to move so often and couldn't always take all of my belongings with me)



close up:
(not sorted in any way)

First Shelf



Second Shelf


Third Shelf

Fourth Shelf


Desk


StuffThatDidn'tFitOnTheShelves

That sounds like a wonderful collection but unfortunately none of your pictures would load for me. I'm a big fan of Reclam editions, I think I have at least ten. It's great that they're making good literature available to the general public at affordable prices (and quite often they're even more affordable than Penguin Classics editions). Of course, this is not as much of an issue as it once was, now that we all have easy access to the Internet and the vast quantities of e-books that are available on it.

I'll include some pictures of my current racks of books in this post. These are just books that I bought since moving to this house about half a year ago, I have many, many more books neatly packed away in boxes in my parents' basement.

There are one or two first editions in the collection, but I don't purposely go out of my way to acquire them. For me, a book is only as valuable as the value of the words written down inside it, and these words will only have value when the book is being actively read. Use your books! Don't let them slumber forever on dusty shelves!







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