Writer's Block: Open book test

[donutsweeper]

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That I have multiple personality disorder?

From where I'm sitting I can see a bible, a Koran, several mythology books, the entire run of Harry Potter books, many old school/well known scifi authors (H.G. Wells, Verne, Heinlein, Brin, Brust, Harry Harrison, Mike Resnick, Pratchett, Burroughs, Douglass Adams, etc), mystery authors (Braun, Penman, Millet, etc), many "classics" of one sort or another- Dracula, Frankenstein, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth, The Prince, The Republic, Don Quixote- also the Sharpe's series by Cornwall, Norton Anthologies, several Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert and FoxTrot cartoons and Marvel Masterworks comics. Oh and cookbooks and craft books. And a bunch of random other things. There's no particular order, although I like to think the Bible being next to 'The Double Helix' was done on purpose.

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[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I don't have as many as that within view as the room with the computer is not the room with the books but from here I can see a book on Chinese proverbs, an Irish dictionary, the Klingon dictionary, 2 books of names, The Dresden Files, my Torchwood and Doctor Who novels and magazines, Ace - the inside story of the end of an era by Sophie Aldred and Mike Tucker, The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy and scripts from Doctor Who, Firefly and Star Trek. This is my fannish room. *g*

I don't think I have as varied a collection as you but I have a ridiculous number of books on mythology and ancient history as well as maps and atlases - both for fantasy worlds and the earth.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Those kind of collections are the best!

I was on my laptop not desktop, so the bookshelves are the ones in the main room. The desktop is in the computer room where all our junk paperbacks are- tons of books we got in clearance bins and brought to college way back when, etc. And boxes and boxes of comic books.

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Wait, do we only consider the books that are actually on shelves?

I love that kind of random irony or synchronicity that can occur with book placement sometimes.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'd say any books you own are fair game. Books around here tend to get randomly left in piles and not put away

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I only wish I had such a collection...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

We're a bit obsessed with books around here

[fritti13.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, from where I am sitting on my couch, I can see the entire works of Shakespeare sitting next to the entire Little House on the Prairie collection. Also the Bible sitting next to the Final Prophicies if Nostradamus, (other interpretations of the Bible scattered about the house) the Chronicals of Narnia series, several books of poetry, the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus, Beowulf, the entire Harry Potter series, the entire Xanth fantasy series along with a couple of dozen other high fantasy books, 10 books in a series called The Youth Classics (collected works of stuff like Tom Sawyer, etc.), A sprinkling of philosophy books (Seven Theories of Human Nauture, The Bonds of Womanhood, etc.), The Red Badge of Courage, King Arthur and teh Knights of the Round Table, The Secret Garden, Captains Courageous and an entire set of Encyclopedia Brittanica from 1942. That's just one bookcase. I have another just full of paperbacks. Another just full of graphic novels (I used to be a comic book artist for DC and Marvel)like Elfquest and Sandman, another just for hard back sci-fi and fantasy (including LOTR and a couple of signed Neil Gaiman books that he gave to me when I was still in "the biz"), another just of reference, how to and self sufficiency books and one more with a mish mash of biographies, childrens books, magazines and misc. books.

Yes. I'm a book hoarder. I need help. I have read them all, too. I've sold off gobs of books in years past, as well, when I'm short of cash. I think I have a disease. It's called biblioitis.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome collection. I have a bunch of those elsewhere- not signed Gaiman books though, totally jealous about that.

Every so often we sell off a bunch of books too, but there never seems to been any more room on the shelves after we do that... no idea why *attempts to look innocent*

[fritti13.livejournal.com]

Our large entertainment center got turned into a bookshelf with a TV in the middle instead of electronic doo dads. A couple of ordinary bookshelves also in the living room. Downstair in the "den", however, are three huge floor to ceiling bookcases and another in the bedroom. Still ran out of room, so they are also lined up on the deeper window wells, window sills, various wall shelves, on the dresser in the guest room and in the bookcase headboard and under lamp stands. Still the house looks orderly and not crowded. Just very book friendly! Back in the old days, I was on the mailing list for Marvel and DC employees and got on copy of everything they produced for about 10 years. I sold most of the comics (I still have around 5 boxes under the guest room bed) but kept all the graphic novels! Another good friend, Bernie Wrightson, gave me signed copies of the Frankenstien novel that he spent a decade doing illustrations for.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

OMG wow, I love houses like that. We've winnowed down our comics collection here, but still have a number of graphic novels and probably 8 or 10 comic book boxes filled. Most of our bookcases are double stacked, books behind books and it's hard to remember where to find what sometimes

[fritti13.livejournal.com]

I solved that with my deeper bookcases by making little stands of wood. I measured boards as long as the interior of the shelf unit and as wide as a paperback book. As tall as a standard hard copy. Then I placed the little "shelf" behind my hard copy books and place paperbacks on them so I have two rows of books on one shelf, the back row elevated above the front. Only works with deep bookshelves, tho. And if the shelf isn't high enough to house a double decker set of books, then just rise the back row high enough to be able to see what they are or stack them on their sides.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat idea! We have cheap crappy bookcases, so I don't think that would work though