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yobarman

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Jan 11, 2001
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Never seen this before, and I know there's a lot of readers on the site, so post your book collection!

my small but slowly growing library

As you can see i'm into DCC (digital content creation)... I didn't include my textbooks for classes or any novels (only have about 4-5). THere's a few books missing that I borrowed out to people... but eventually i just wanna fill my shelf up with knowledge! YAY LEARNING!
 
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ggavinmoss

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All of my books are in those rubbermaid containers because I'm moving soon. I filled 4 or 5 of those 18-gallon containers with books. So I guess you could say I have 90 gallons of books. :D

-geoff
 
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Encryptic

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May 21, 2003
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No digicam handy, but I'll just say that I've got two huge bookshelves at home and a few more boxes of books in the closet that I don't have room for on the shelves. Mostly fantasy on one shelf and the other is mostly fiction, horror and non-fiction with a little sci-fi thrown in.
 
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alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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3 36" shelves full and 5 42" shelves full....everything from peanuts paperbacks, spawn comics, conspiracy, organic chemistry, delphi, java, dictionaries, asp, linux, photoshop, etc etc etc. :)

I have a lot of books

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yllus

yllus

Elite Member & Lifer
Aug 20, 2000
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My personal bookshelf.

Pictured: Among other things, the complete 'Dune' series, a Best Buy Employee Handbook, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game', a English-to-Urdu translator guide, a novelization of the 'Space: Above & Beyond' pilot episode (great but shortlived series), a Koran, an anecdotal history of the Toronto Maple Leafs ($1.88 purchase online), Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged', the LOTR trilogy-in-one, a free Telecom Glossary from Nortel. :)

Uh, pay no attention to the stacks of unlabeled CDs on the bottom shelf.
 
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eliteorange

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Jul 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: yobarman
Never seen this before, and I know there's a lot of readers on the site, so post your book collection!

my small but slowly growing library

As you can see i'm into DCC (digital content creation)... I didn't include my textbooks for classes or any novels (only have about 4-5). THere's a few books missing that I borrowed out to people... but eventually i just wanna fill my shelf up with knowledge! YAY LEARNING!
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why max r3?
 
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yobarman

Lifer
Jan 11, 2001
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Originally posted by: EliteOrange
Originally posted by: yobarman
Never seen this before, and I know there's a lot of readers on the site, so post your book collection!

my small but slowly growing library

As you can see i'm into DCC (digital content creation)... I didn't include my textbooks for classes or any novels (only have about 4-5). THere's a few books missing that I borrowed out to people... but eventually i just wanna fill my shelf up with knowledge! YAY LEARNING!
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why max r3?
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My Max books are really old, and I didn't eard through most of them. I'm a 100% Maya user now though. I don't have any of the big thick ones at home though.
 
yllus

yllus

Elite Member & Lifer
Aug 20, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ameesh
SF Books
SF and Misc Books
Computer Books

i still and shuttleing books from my parents house into this one i have probably another hundred or two papaerback there
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I've seen a bunch of Ben Bova and Greg Bear books at the library I've been mulling borrowing - I'll do that when I return the 5-6 I took out this time. One recommendation for you - try Arthur C. Clarke's 'Trigger':

The early 21st century ushers in a revolution in unified field theory, and free-thinking physicist Jeffrey Horton and his team are pushing the cutting edge. Sequestered on a maximum-security research campus, the scientists are testing 'Baby,' a device they hope will create 'a laser for gravity,' a tractor beam. But during an early run, every gun in the area simultaneously explodes. Follow-up tests soon prove their device was responsible - that it can in fact neutralize every conventional gun, bomb, and explosive - and that's when Baby becomes the 'Trigger.'

This speculative novel by sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke and genre workman Michael Kube-McDowell follows the vast sea changes such an invention would bring, reading as part thriller, part social tract. Horton and his Trigger follow a course not unlike that of Einstein and the A-bomb, but ratcheted up by an order of magnitude - idealistic scientists, overwhelmed politicians, rabid lobbyists, and entrenched generals must deal with the device's deployment and consequences, both political and social, in a gun-rich, gun-dependent culture. A well-researched, plausible plot line keeps The Trigger not just readable but downright engrossing, despite its sometimes distracting lack of subtlety. All in all, a worthwhile, entertaining meditation on how technological progress always proves as unpredictable as it is inevitable."

That Amazon.com summary really sums up everything I'd describe Trigger to be. To clarify, this is not a novel a la Chain Reaction, where the rakishly handsome lead scientist makes a discovery that almost immediately leads to the destruction of his lab, the killing of most of his peers and the protagonist on the run. No, Trigger deals with the domestic agenda and never once steps foot into the issues of international warfare under these new rules.

Instead, Clarke describes the initial idealism of bringing a world at war with itself into an era of peace. The careful, secret introduction of the Trigger into society. The inevitable growing pains as every idiot who is capable of screwing anything up leaves a few bodies in their wake. The to and fro of public opinion for the administration that ushered his nation into this new era of supposed peace. The generals, private companies and NRA-like groups that oppose him at every turn. It's a solid, absorbing read that thankfully doesn't go too far off the charts to bash gun owners. Highly recommended.
 
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ShotgunSteven

Lifer
May 31, 2001
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Maybe once I get it organized, in a year or so. I have a huge locker at work overflowing, shelves, bags, and boxes overflowing at home. Books, books everywhere! :Q
 
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Encryptic

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May 21, 2003
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Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
The bulk of it.
Large series and misc. Top shelf is stuff I've read most recently
Stuff that wouldn't fit on a shelf with the rest
Stuff still to read.

Yeah, I go through a lot :p Last year it was 37 novels (12 496 pages), in 2002 it was 53 (16 863 pages), the year before that 56 (18 977 pages).
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Bah...I just lost all respect for you when I saw that you owned most of the Sword of Truth books. I'm surprised the bookcase didn't try to spit them out when you placed them on the shelf. :p
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: yobarman
Never seen this before, and I know there's a lot of readers on the site, so post your book collection!

my small but slowly growing library

As you can see i'm into DCC (digital content creation)... I didn't include my textbooks for classes or any novels (only have about 4-5). THere's a few books missing that I borrowed out to people... but eventually i just wanna fill my shelf up with knowledge! YAY LEARNING!
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Nice alarm clock. I have the same model :)
 
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yobarman

Lifer
Jan 11, 2001
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Wow I just realized my book collection is small and puny compared to you guys. I feel so inadequate... :(
 
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Wuffsunie

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May 4, 2002
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Originally posted by: Encryptic
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
The bulk of it.
Large series and misc. Top shelf is stuff I've read most recently
Stuff that wouldn't fit on a shelf with the rest
Stuff still to read.

Yeah, I go through a lot :p Last year it was 37 novels (12 496 pages), in 2002 it was 53 (16 863 pages), the year before that 56 (18 977 pages).
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Bah...I just lost all respect for you when I saw that you owned most of the Sword of Truth books. I'm surprised the bookcase didn't try to spit them out when you placed them on the shelf. :p
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Yes, well, that's why they're away from the rest of the collection! The Niven's would likely get sucked into its vacuious nature, the Lumley's would turn that around and attempt to suck its soul (and find that the author did that long ago), and I would hate to see what the Lovecraft's would do! (Shelf second from the bottom, middle, and top of the first pic, respectively)

And, quite frankly, the bulk of the Goodkind's will soon be leaving my collection. Heck, everything after 3 was there soley on the strength of the first two works and the hope that the series could get back to something like that again. The sixth is actually the most insulting book I have ever read! Based on the latest book, #8, (or the quarter of it that I made it though) that series is so gone for me. I'm keeping the first 4, that's it! Goodkind has degenerated into milking his fans and stroking his... ego.

Actually, if you want to see something truly scary, check out the forum section on his website! Man, it is frightening! Complete rabid loyality and blind devotion to the man and his books. You question anything in there, they'll be calling for your head. I stated a thread for the express purposes of questioning the ideological polmec in his latest books and got people screaming at me for not understanding the man's greatness. I would point you to the thread, only the mod literally cleaned house a week or two after it started, flushing the ENTIRE site down the can. Why? Because he felt it had degraded into too much of flamefest with people neffing on Goodkind instead of talking about his books. I was quite annoyed at that, as I was starting to get a fair deal of support from other people regarding Goodkind's pathetic attempts at social commentary and politics.

Hee, I don't suppose anyone here would be interested in buying mint-condition, read none or once, copies of Sword of Truth books 5-7, would they? ;)

-- Jack

This psychotic moment was brought to you by a childhood filled with Ridlin.
-- 2, the Ranting Gryphen
 
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