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Over mijn boekenMy library is best described by a Feynman diagram: it is surrounded by a cloud of virtual books. Some are tagged 'borrowed from library' or 'get this'. Some have been annihilated: they are tagged 'deaccessioned' or 'discarded'.
Some are bosons: they are tagged 'dup'. Also see those tagged 'for sale on half.com'.

Each book's antibooks may be identified by using the UnSuggester. My recommendation is to look up the UnSuggestions for L. Ron Hubbard's 'Dianetics' -- this will give you a good reading list.

"A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up reading them". -- Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

"But my true glory lies within my books: printed or anciently written, bound or unbound, there are near four thousand of them. ... But I need not tell you that there are also marvels within my books -- among them wonderful and rare works by Zoroaster, Orpheus, and Hermes Trismegistus, as well as the sheets of old ephemerides. ... These are not to be found for money at any market or in any stationer's shop, since in truth they are works for secret study." -- Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee

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Aan het lezenThe 12th Planet (The Earth Chronicles, Book 1) door Zecharia Sitchin
Torah yesharah door Charles Kahane
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10) door Jim Butcher
Axiomatic Set Theory door Patrick Suppes
The invisible country : stories door Paul J. McAuley

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Noticed you liked Clockwork Orange, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a group of violent kids (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

door cmtusa op 2:37 pm (EST) om Sep 15, 2009

The critic and erstwhile blogger Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, a polemic against online habits, makes a list of "five open supersecrets" about bloggers:

1. Not everyone has something valuable to say.

2. Few people have anything original to say.

3. Only a handful of people know how to write well.

4. Most people will do almost anything to be liked.

5. "Customers" are always right, but "people" aren't.

The above is quoted from http://www.nplusonemag.com/lingering

door bertilak op 11:51 am (EST) om Jun 18, 2009

Late Spring in Philly
Sees migratory oysters
Back on Sansom Street.

door bertilak op 12:02 pm (EST) om Jun 11, 2009

Saw your comment in the "LT names" thread re: hapax legomenon. Don't suppose you're a Dinosaur Comics fan? There was one recently on the subject:
http://qwantz.com/archive/001434.html

door Medellia op 3:50 pm (EST) om Apr 13, 2009

Hello! Thank you for your suggestion about the Merton title Our system doesn't own it, so I've requested a copy thru ILL.

Your library here looks VERY interesting. I am very new at this. Seeing your library gives me something like a goal to shoot for: Can my interests and my reading result in a library that might be equally as broad and (I hope) as interesting to other readers.

Thanks again!

Best -- jt (traderj -- the "handle" I go by in my offline life is jt)

door traderj op 9:53 am (EST) om Mar 12, 2009

Hi,

I see that you are interested in books about religion and atheism. So am I. By far the best I have read recently in that area is "Atheism Advanced" by the anthropologist David Eller. You should really take a look at it on amazon!

Not the angry type of book like Dawkins or Hitchens. None of the boring refutations of the proofs of God's existence. But a very interesting analysis of religion as a cultural/socialogical/psychological phenomenon by an anthropologist.

Hans

PS: We are also sharing other interest, like cosmology and and evolution.

door hnn op 11:25 am (EST) om Mar 9, 2009

Dropping by to mention that I really liked your review of Nashe's Unfortunate Traveler AND your reply to the earlier reviewer on the Tosches book! Having visited, I also enjoyed the quotes you've posted.

door slickdpdx op 7:17 pm (EST) om Jul 3, 2008

"Coal will run out one day – that much is certain. So a forced idleness will impose itself on the entire world's machinery, unless some new fuel replaces carbon." --
Jules Verne, 1877:
The Underground City

door bertilak op 1:05 pm (EST) om Jun 29, 2008

Hello to Bertilak in Lansdale!

We share 32 books, although that's not really a lot considering you have almost 9,000 books listed! Still, I had to stop by and say hello, since you live in Lansdale, and I pass that exit every time my family drives the NE extension of the turnpike from Chester County on our way to the Poconos, where we have a vacation home at Jack Frost Mountain.

Our shared books include some of my favorite authors -- Bujold, Zelazny, Willis, Pratchett, McDevitt, and Tepper.

door dsalerni op 11:42 pm (EST) om Mar 29, 2008

"Love is a sweet essence that burns before God, but it is so secret a mystery that few can describe it or tell by what inward affections it is conveyed to the heart. Few know that content and gladness, when the powers of man and woman leap in the bowels of the body for joy at the instant of recognition." -- Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee

door bertilak op 8:28 am (EST) om Aug 26, 2007

“The Nothing is a big place,” I said without fear of understatement, “and mostly empty. Theoretical storyologists have calculated that the readable BookWorld makes up only twenty-two percent of visible reading matter – the remainder is the unobservable remnants of long-lost books, forgotten oral tradition and ideas still locked in writers' heads. We call it 'dark reading matter.'”
Jasper Fforde,
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels

door bertilak op 10:37 am (EST) om Aug 25, 2007

"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in. The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models."

Freeman Dyson,
HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

door bertilak op 1:50 pm (EST) om Aug 21, 2007

Quantum fluctuations are the monkeys that program the universe.
Seth Lloyd,
Programming the universe : a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos

door bertilak op 8:46 pm (EST) om Aug 14, 2007

Saying that we often manage to work around shortages is not the same as saying that "natural resources are basically infinite." We've staved off the calamaties of Malthusian prediction through an extraordinary explosion of scientific endeavor. We'll see how things stand in a century or two, with fossil fuel depletion, topsoil erosion by cash crops (and growing corn for fuel), increased environmental pollution (especially the loss of food fish in the oceans), global warming, unrestricted population growth, etc. (the usual progressive litany). Survival may well depend upon a cooperative model rather than the competition of the marketplace. Food for thought, as it were.

door jhevelin op 3:02 pm (EST) om Aug 3, 2007

"To me, the Internet is as basic a thing for humanity to be doing as cities have been. It’s that primal."
William Gibson

door bertilak op 1:11 pm (EST) om Aug 1, 2007

Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu -
no carrier.
- Charles Stross

Very Short Stories

door bertilak op 4:36 pm (EST) om Jul 24, 2007

"... prescriptions are futile. One can't tell writers what to do. The imagination must find its own path."

Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize Lecture, 1976.

door bertilak op 11:15 pm (EST) om Jul 19, 2007

"Imagine a child playing in a woodland stream, poking a stick into an eddy in the flowing current, thereby disrupting it. But the eddy quickly reforms. The child disperses it again. Again it reforms, and the fascinating game goes on. There you have it! Organisms are resilient patterns in a turbulent flow—patterns in an energy flow.... It is becoming increasingly clear that to understand living systems in any deep sense, we must come to see them not materialistically, as machines, but as stable, complex, dynamic organization."

Carl Woese quoted by Freeman Dyson

door bertilak op 5:30 pm (EST) om Jul 17, 2007

The late economist Julian Simon was in the habit of claiming that natural resources are basically infinite. His refrain: "A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118461857225767963.html?mod=opinion_main_review_...

door bertilak op 8:26 am (EST) om Jul 17, 2007