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gimli_axe_wielder
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Posted: Tue 01 Mar , 2005 6:57 pm
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I can't tell you how many books I have sitting on my book cases that have never been read. I love going to the bookstore and picking them out. Reading the jackets and finding interesting treasures, and yet somehow once they are taken out of the bag at home, they go on the shelf to be read as soon as I finish the book on the shelf which will be read after the book before it. Yea you get the picture. I don't know why. I do love books and yet I always manage to find something else to do than sit and read a book. I'm either working, online, out side doing something, buying more books :P, something. I never find the time to read. Hell, I've only read The Hobbit, LotR, and The Sil once each and that was before the films came out. I'm ashamed! :(

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Did you read the Just So Stories I got you?

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens?


I try to get you started with children's literature...:P

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Posted: Tue 01 Mar , 2005 8:39 pm
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Gee Thanx love.... :cheers

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I have a problem. Yes, I admit. Whenever I go to the bookstore, I start to twitch and get the urge to buy a book even though my shelf is collecting books like there's no tomorrow. My buying far outpaces my reading. You are NOT alone. :hug:

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Glad I'm not alone..



now if only they would dust themselves...

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I have done that in the past when I was depressed.

I have two books that I still have not read which I bought...The Satanic Verse and the Siege of Lisbon. They've been gathering dust for years now.

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Satanic Verse huh...


er.. I might leave that one where it is... :scratch

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I have tons of books at home- my parents started buying for me before I was born.

However, my main interest now is fantasy and sci-fi. So I buy myself books. And I read them immediately. :D When I'm done I buy a new one.

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Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Axordil? I've been curious about them since I keep seeing them on many top100 booklists.

*hands out feather dusters to all b00kies*

Not much into SF unfortunately, but I did receive Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land for christmas. :D

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Hmm I never had this problem when I was younger, (no money to buy books natch.). Unfortunately this problem is slowly creeping up on me, I see these wonderful 2 for 1 deals and so get these books...

Yet fail to make the time to read all of them... :roll:

Nevermind, at least I've almost caught up with the ones I was given for Christmas. :mrgreen:

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I never thought this would happen to me. I am generally a very fast reader - necessary for the job - because I just love books. Bookshops are dangerous places. I am bound to spend the money I don't even have on something or another there.

As I am too busy reading criticism right now, I have hardly any time for thoroughly enjoyable reading. So since I discovered that a local bookshop also sells English books cheaply on a regular basis, I have also been collecting unread books on my shelf. *sigh* But I do keep them separate from the read books, so I don't forget about them. Somehow, though, they are beginning to take up too much space. My shelves are full and I desperately need to find myself a new one, a big one! :dragon:

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We have more books than we can possibly read, mostly history books. They get delved into, but just don't have the time to do them justice.

They await the moment when I have tiime to read them, or are taken in on the train to read but usually to tired or sleepy to concentrate.

Also have copies of books for reading, and others whih will be display books (five copies of LOTR between us, 2 of Name of the rose etc etc)

So no, Gimletkins, you are not alone, you are as bibiophile-geekoid as the rest of us :mrgreen:

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Display books! Yes, someone else does that! :mrgreen:

But I do read them too. And not just the Kama Sutra either (which is there mostly to annoy my fundie relatives).

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Posted: Wed 02 Mar , 2005 6:10 pm
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Since I started studying literature I've been reading less. :(
currently owned but unread:

Neal Stephenson - The Confusion
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Derrida - Writing and Difference
Eco - Kant and the Platypus
Jeanette Winterson - The World and Other Places.

Rushdie's an amazing author...The Satanic Verses is not sold in India because the muslim population objected. *Birthday present hint*


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Stephenson's not exactly light reading, either, even if you're fast.

Hey--I have a barely used copy for you...when's your bday again?

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MY problem is that whenever I'm reading a new book, It will invariably remind me of an old favorite that I love... too many times I've put down the new book and read the old one before going back to the new... sometimes I forget to go back to the new one :(

I currently have a whole slew of books I own but haven't read that I bought in one of my "that's a classic, I really should have read it" so I buy it phase... like "The Art of War" and "Jane Ayre."

Someday... although I didn't take any of them with me on my temporary move to Boston...

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Well I just got home from town and I have the three volumes of Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. I bought them now as a safeguard because I'm dramatically close to the end of the Tawny Man trilogy...and since it deals with the same characters, I already KNOW I WANT MORE!

:P

That's 150 zl gone in one purchase, but if life has taught me something, it's to NEVER EVER start a trilogy without having access to all three books. I learned the hard way.

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Gimli, read Kay dammit!!!!!! :P:P:P

Ro, you got him "Just so stories"? Is that Kipling's "Takie Sobie Bajeczki"? I loved that book as a kid...one of my all time favs :D My grandpa got it for me and used to read it to me...

Im bad with reading recently. I get into funks and phases where Im just stuck doing what Im doing... and sometimes that includes no "for fun reading"... Its hardest to break out of the rut and pick something up again. Once that happens though, its downhill from then and I enter another reading funk. :)

The buying and not reading rarely happens to me per se because being a poor broke student I usually read library books first, then if I like them I go out and buy them... but I still have a few gifts Ive gotten that are unread as of yet...

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Yep that's the one...I got him a really cool hardback edition with Kipling's drawings...for 3 quid at Oxfam.

I wish we had Oxfam in Poland.

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Posted: Wed 02 Mar , 2005 11:17 pm
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Rodia, I hate to say this but you've read them in the wrong order. It should be Farseer, Liveship Traders then Tawny Man. I'm afraid some of the twists and turns in Farseer will have been ruined for you.

I hate that! :neutral:

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