Of books thats is! Fellow bibliophiles, let's see those stacks of paperbacks, shelves of hard covers and maybe even first editions? Large or small how about a picture of your personal library?

My books are all just piled around my bed, under clothes and what not. Maybe I'll line them up later and take a picture if I can bring myself to it. Saying that, lets see your rack!... Shelf.

I can't post a picture, but I can tell you that Wuthering Heights is just under my bed and The God Delusion is lying next to the heap of clothes on my floor.

I can't remember where the rest are.

Here's some of my book shelves. Sorry about the poor quality...it's from my webcam.



Highlights from the top shelf include:

Rubicon, Persian Fire and Millennium by Tom Hollands
The Fall of the West by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Confident Hope of A Miracle by Neil Hanson
A Great And Terrible King by Marc Morris
Billy Ruffian by David Cordingly
The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather
1434 by Gavin Menzies
The War For All The Oceans by Roy & Lesley Adkins
Britain AD, Britain BC, Britain in the Middle Ages by Francis Pryor
The Adventures Of English by Melvyn Bragg
The Penguin Historical Atlas Of Ancient Rome by Chris Scarre
Chronicle Of The Roman Emperors by Chris Scarre
Please ignore the "children's encyclopedia"...I was a child when it was brought and now it's just old and needs a home...



Highlights include:

A History of Britain (3 Volumes) by Simon Schama
Empire by Niall Ferguson
Various damaged academic books about Rome that I got cheap in some bookshop.
The Penguin Historical Atlas Of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot
Classical Mythology by ArthurCotterell
Arthur's Britain by Lesley Alcock

Oo, you're a facts hound. Now I'd be too embarrassed to post my frivolous collection. Do you read those sorts of texts for enjoyment?

The ultimate book of cross-sections sounds awe-inspiring. I like Helicopters too... AT WAR, that is. They got the capitalisation the wrong way round.

You can see a few of them here, I guess. Feel too lazy to go take a picture of them all; got three bookshelves
and then shelves nailed into the corner of my wall and above the fish tank that have more books. Of course,
they are all arranged by topic and author, OR they are located somewhere in the room where I have a theme
going on. All my China books are on the shelf with stuff I bought in China, my American politics books are
all next to maps of the Americas...etc.


Don't watch all that. It's boring. Plus you can see the books in like the first ten seconds.

I wouldn't be able to read them if I didn't enjoy them...there's a few I didn't really like, but most have been fun to read.

Yeah I love those cross-section books...out of shot are 3 more by a Stephen Biesty, one of which covers Castles and the other Man O War ships. They're wonderfully illustrated. I agree about the capitalisation. lol When I was younger I went through a phase with military jets, buying books on them, putting up posters etc. Not so much into anymore but the books are still sitting there. I'm more of an ancient and meideval history person now.

I asked because sometimes people buy books like that because it's a subject they're interested in, but never really get round to reading it. Or start and find it a little too staid to carry on. My father is like that, he has a whole pile of technical books which have seen little to no use.

Most of my factual reading is done through the internet, the only exception has been whilst studying Japanese. I've never really had a desire to buy a book just to learn more about something. Which gives me alot of respect for yourself and Senmee.

I guess I'll take a picture. I hope it's okay them not being in a shelf because I don't bleedin' have any. It's really dark in my apartment today too. This place is like a cave. On overcast days like today, it might as well be night time. God I hate this this place. I hated it ever since we moved here.





I like Wodehouse, but I'm not really that into him as it might seem. I always warn my father not to get me too many by the same author because I'll start recognising the patterns to their writing and grow bored. He never listens though. He mostly got those books because he wanted them rather than I, I feel.

Goodness knows where my copy of Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe went. My father probably burnt the latter, as he hates Christian parable and I kept urging him to read it.

Edit: I just realised I don't have a single book from a female author. Jeez.

This is the ideal opportunity to organise my bookshelf I'll try to get get some pictures up tonight!

Well granted, a big chunk of those were college books. As a history major, reading (or skimming, also a useful skill) is pretty much what you do. The books I like to read "for fun" are mostly ebooks, because I've gotten used to reading on the computer. I really like books that sort of explore the mechanisms of thought, like memeplexes and anything Robert Greene.

I downloaded Don Quixote recently, actually. Haven't gotten around to it yet, though.



Heheh...do I even need to say it?


Okay, I will. Women suck at writing. *shudders at memories of V. Woolf and S. Plath*

I was planning on picking up something by Woolf, I still might despite your strong objections. At any rate I haven't read any modernist literature, so I feel like I should but perhaps I'd be better with James Joyce instead. Though it could be that modernism is so insufferable that I should just go with Woolf and with 1 stone hit 2 birds. Is it a coincidence that both the authors you mentioned committed suicide? Maybe they didn't like their work either...

I haven't read Joyce, but I hear Ayn Rand is good as far as female authors go. Shes the one that all sophomoric libertarian, gold-standard promoting basement dwellers (such as myself...though really I prefer bimetalism, but that's getting off topic) seem to quote a lot.

Woolf was simply horrid. She was into that stream-of-c0nsciousness crap, and I just can't stand to read something as disorganized as a human brain. And then, of course, there are the feminist undertones. A Room of One's Own made my eyeballs throw up a little.

Oh, thats a good suggestion. I really need to go to a book shop myself anyway, and see what they have (At the very least I could order online). The dad is horribly unreliable; I've asked him a number of times to get something by Lord Dunsany, but he never manages it. But, I gave him a great list of other writers I'd be interested in reading and maybe he got the wrong idea and thought I meant for him to avoid those writers at all costs.

Ulysses is stream of consciousness too, I believe. So, you'd have the same reaction to Joyce it seems.

Amazon.com -- for all your shopping needs. :P You can use a debit card, if you don't have credit. Or paypal.

Thank god for topics like these. I didn't think I fit in here at all! Here's mine:

I love you.

Oh! ye-....Do you only love me for my rack?

What can I say? Books matter.

(get it? cuz like, books and looks rhyme and stuff.....




fail. )

Oh right. Well when it comes to my e-library, I do download books that I will probably never read or have time to read, but because I can get them for free, I do so. The cost of paper books puts me off buying just any old thing, though I do have one or two I've had for years and not got around to reading. I also have a drawer full of uni books I doubt I'll look at again.

I liked it...it sort of made me half smile..you know. ......>_>;

OMG. U GUYZ REED? Y?

you asked





cant find a bigger pic of this shot


just had to include this pic (:

noisy: much bigger rack than I expected! You own a bookstore?
Reanimator: How did you find Dune? Also, are those H.G Wells unabridged? I was thinking of buying that set on Amazon but they looked a bit small.
aconcit: that's an....interesting rack


Here's some of mine:

Shelf 1 & 2:


Shelf 2&3:


Small Stack:


There's a few others around the house but the majority are in boxes packed elsewhere...my place is kind of small

i don't own the store, i just work there. but i take ownership of the racks, i work very hard on them

p.s. you got way too many math books! my brain can only take so many numbers until it starts leaking