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Same things I've been reading for the last month, except that I've steamed through a biggish chunk of Capra's Web of Life. Other than that It's Tariq Ali's Shadows of a Pomegranate Tree and a history of the Mediterranean, both of which are rather harder work.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 01:25:15 PM EST
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I saved something like €500 in a bookshop the other day by failing to buy anything. Fixing the size of the groaning "TO READ" bookshelf in the study in my imagination is moderately effective.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 01:26:30 PM EST
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A Fundamental Law of the Universe inscribed upon Space and Time at the very instant of the Big Bang is:

Books exceed bookshelf.

by ATinNM on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 02:06:46 PM EST
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That's why god invented floors.

by MarekNYC on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 02:13:55 PM EST
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I'm a happier man since I stopped buying books by weight.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 02:16:27 PM EST
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i've sold them by the cubic metre before.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 08:35:41 PM EST
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But if you use the floor to hold your books where do you file your papers?

by ATinNM on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 02:31:37 PM EST
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On top of the books, of course.

That way you can't see the books you haven't read, freeing you up to buy more...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:12:07 PM EST
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Thus spawning the discipline of Bibliographical Archeology.

by ATinNM on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:30:28 PM EST
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I was always into Bibliographical meteorology. watching the carpet gradually overcome by a mist layer of books, then organising either the aquisition of a new bookshelf, or the dreaded tidying up when the occlusion of the floor hit seven octares

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 08:38:49 PM EST
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Or, as I like to put it, if I didn't spend so much money on books, I could afford a house big enough to keep them in.

by Sassafras on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:34:43 PM EST
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"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink....I'd spend it on drink!" -- Sir Henry Rawlinson

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 08:40:27 PM EST
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As told to Old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 05:59:12 AM EST
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with that I'm going to the garden to play at sundials.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 06:26:07 AM EST
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You know how sometimes you read a novel and it was an OK but not great novel - but there was something in it that will stick in your mind forever? Last year I read The Dive from Clausen's Pier and there was a character in it who was a great reader but only owned one bookcase. He never allowed himself to buy more books than would fit in the one bookcase and once it was full, if he wanted to buy more books he had to start divesting.

I was simultaneously horrified and fascinated by that concept. I've never been able to get it out of my mind.

by Maryb2004 on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 09:05:40 PM EST
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Books are fabulous. There are few you're going to read twice.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 10:30:40 PM EST
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but you never know which ones, so you'd better keep them all.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 06:27:12 AM EST
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Colman:

I've steamed through a biggish chunk of Capra's Web of Life

How do you like it? I know his "Tao of Physics" and liked it. Is the new one worth reading too?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:02:44 PM EST
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Recall that I don't consider the Tao of Physics worth reading ...

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:09:14 PM EST
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Okay, but is the "Web of Life" worth reading?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:11:25 PM EST
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I'm working that out at the moment. Give me a few days.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:13:07 PM EST
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