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Started sorting the library after the move: it came out of boxes as they arrived and is more or less randomly sorted.

Is it wrong of me to want to file The Tao of Physics either under fiction or occult?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:28:39 PM EST
Did you give any books away?  I recently took two bags full of videos and DVDs to the charity shop.  A couple of years ago I took seven bags of books.  (Since then I must have bought about two books: the library re-opened and has, so far, plenty of books about any topic I might be interested in.)

(And, on a Stormy Present recommendation, today I took out a book by Jose Saramago: "The Tale of The Unknown Island"--'coz it's very slim and the older I get, the more I enjoy a slim volume)

The Tao of Physics should go on your special shelf marked: "Beware!"  When guests come round, there they go, over to the books.  That shifty looking chap--he's off in the Alternative Energy section.  That nice lady with the interesting earrings--no!  She's gone over to the...to the...to...

Beware!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:42:13 PM EST
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Did you give any books away?

NOOOOOO!

We have a number of vices. Accumulating books is one of them. If ever I were to go on a life-simplfying and decluttering binge I count "one library": that's not too many.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:44:53 PM EST
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Oh, that's a nice little story, that one.  Just barely a taste of what you'll get in Blindness and Seeing (companion volumes of a sort, not really a sequel, but they do go together) and The Cave.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:51:23 PM EST
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I've got a special shelf in the toilet for books like that to help with constipation.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:13:15 PM EST
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So all the people going to the toilet at ceebs's....beware!

(In our quiet room--quiet except for the, er, cough cough!...sound of the shower, that's what I meant...I have a book of Go problems, Get Strong At Invading, and Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair.)

(I have to say I haven't got any better at invading.)

(In fact, I think the Go book was removed by popular request--so maybe it has the opposite of a laxative effect.)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:27:05 PM EST
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Fiction - yes.

Occult - no.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:43:44 PM EST
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I've just discovered a lost cache of my "to read" stack that went missing last year and was forgotten about, which brings my "to read" stack to a completely out of control seventy books. I mean, some of that is light novels that I'll get through in an hour or so and some is Tintin books in French, but some of it is heavy duty as well.

I think I'll take a month off to read.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:57:53 PM EST
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It should be under bad humour.

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:02:11 PM EST
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