Show us yer shelfies!

[mx wcfc]

If I take a photo of all my bookshelves can hitmouse's dad put them in a spreadsheet please

I don't think I've posted these ones yet


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I have no idea why, but suddenly, I need a copy of Soviet Bus Stops.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I have no idea why, but suddenly, I need a copy of Soviet Bus Stops.

When I saw that, I mentally placed it on a shelf with the fake KFC shop photo book

 

[mx wcfc]

I have no idea why, but suddenly, I need a copy of Soviet Bus Stops.

Fifteen quid via Amazon!

Soviet Bus Stops: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher Herwig, FUEL, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell: 9780993191107: Books

Buy Soviet Bus Stops 01 by Christopher Herwig, FUEL, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell (ISBN: 9780993191107) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[klang]

Found the spreadsheet:

Along with an absolutely massive spreadsheet of what's still on their living room shelves:

I'm not gonna respond with a spreadsheet, but I have a surprising amount of them.

 

[klang]

Eldest, proving apple/tree thesis etc

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[hitmouse]

I'm not gonna respond with a spreadsheet, but I have a surprising amount of them.

Do you have difficulty keeping track of all of them? Would it help if you had some kind of document listing them?

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[hitmouse]

Was having some chat with someone about Iris Murdoch novels, so took photos of the special Murdoch bits of my book collection. The exciting life I lead. I think this is all of them, except for Under the Net, which was elsewhere cos I was reading it at the time, and The Sea, The Sea, which is elsewhere cos it's too big to fit with the others. The thing that looks like a screw is a screw, not an Iris Murdoch novel, unless it's a bolt or something.

I think that's also a picture of all the Lispector I own as well.

 

[chilango]

Was having some chat with someone about Iris Murdoch novels, so took photos of the special Murdoch bits of my book collection. The exciting life I lead. I think this is all of them, except for Under the Net, which was elsewhere cos I was reading it at the time, and The Sea, The Sea, which is elsewhere cos it's too big to fit with the others. The thing that looks like a screw is a screw, not an Iris Murdoch novel, unless it's a bolt or something.

I think that's also a picture of all the Lispector I own as well.

What sort of order are those books in? You haven't even separated fiction and nonfiction. FFS.

 

[DaveCinzano]

What sort of order are those books in? You haven't even separated fiction and nonfiction. FFS.

The postmodernist ponce

 

[hitmouse]

What sort of order are those books in? You haven't even separated fiction and nonfiction. FFS.

The pile is sorted in "largest to smallest", more or less, and that shelf is for "books that are the right size to fit on that shelf, many of which are by Murdoch". It's a perfectly logical system. I am now finding myself wondering where "1066 And all that" (horrific capitalisation, but that's what it says on the spine?) would fit in your fiction/nonfiction dichotomy, though?

 

[hitmouse]

I have now clearly outed myself as a person who doesn't pick up my copy of Lefebvre and leaf through it on a daily (hah!) basis, though.

 

[chilango]

The postmodernist ponce

Speaking of which...

...mine have been added to and rearranged.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Speaking of which...

...mine have been added to and rearranged.

Sort ya focus out

Can I see Tom Vague's RAF and Angry Brigade books, left of centre top row?

ETA

Stone Age Economics sounds interesting, is it?

 

[chilango]

Sort ya focus out

Can I see Tom Vague's RAF and Angry Brigade books, left of centre top row?

Yup

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yup

** Anonymously emails Prevent **

 

[chilango]

** Anonymously emails Prevent **

Do you know what's sandwiched in between them

 

[chilango]

I haven't read Stone Age Economics for a looooong time. Primmo canon though innit.

 

[hitmouse]

Thinking about it, the absolute pinnacle of my collection, neat-order-wise, is my shelf of "all Sartre and de Beauvoir, except for that one book at the end that isn't":

Followed by its slightly-less-coherent cousin, the shelf of "all Joan Didion, James Ellroy, James Baldwin, or Jaroslav Hasek, except for the one book by John Kennedy Toole, and that one by Flann O'Brien but at least that one has a very similar spine to one of the Didions":

But I suppose under chilango's fascist dictatorship, you'd have to have Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Fire Next Time or Slouching Towards Bethlehem on one shelf and The Mandarins, Just Above My Head, or Play It As It Lays on another?
Anyway, urban's librarian cacus will be glad to hear that I am available to give training courses if anyone wants to learn more about my system.

 

[hitmouse]

Do you know what's sandwiched in between them

I completely can't make out what's in between them, don't suppose it might have anything to do with industrial society and/or its future?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Do you know what's sandwiched in between them

Well it's not T*w*rds A C*t*z*n's M*l*t*a - could it be a cookery book contains lots of delicious recipes?

 

[hitmouse]

Something edited by a large pachyderm, perhaps?

 

[chilango]

I bet you play your music on shuffle hitmouse you philistine

 

[hitmouse]

I'm not a monster!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yup

Borrowed that from a dude in London, years later bumped into him in Thailand, asked if he'd like me to post it back to him, he said no, you're alright there

 

[chilango]

Something edited by a large pachyderm, perhaps?

Bingo.

Although I think - technically - it's under the Bratach Dubh imprint.

I met Jean Weir once many years ago. Left with armfuls of iffy books

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm not a monster!

We'll be the judge of that

 

[chilango]

Well it's not T*w*rds A C*t*z*n's M*l*t*a - could it be a cookery book contains lots of delicious recipes?

Nope. Never owned either of them. Both v disappointed irl. Did have the minimanual by Marighella though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Something edited by a large pachyderm, perhaps?

Very much out of print by the look of it!

 

[chilango]

...but tbh I've tended find the insurrectionist stuff pretty dull reads so have never really had much