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[digitaldiscipline]

[i figure half of you get that. . . maybe less]

From critus, only because he's the last person I saw this on:

Instructions: Take one list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. Bold indicates newly-added authors.

Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
X - JRR Tolkien
Douglas Adams
X - J.K. Rowling
X - Robert Anton Wilson
X - Clive Barker
X - William Shakespeare
X - George Gordon, Lord Byron
X - Kurt Vonnegut
Stephen King
William Gibson
Stephen Brust
Neal Stephenson
Orson Scott Card
Richard Adams
Robert Heinlein

Comments

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

No Shakespeare? Some English major YOU are!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I've read it, I don't -own- it. Unless you want to count the "Norton Anthology of Poetry," the only "english major-y" books I own are a collection of Robert Frost poems, a Sylvia Plath collection, and a moderate stack of "dark contemporary classics" [farenheit 451, 1984, catch-22, lord of the flies, etc].

Honestly, I didn't enjoy reading Billy Wigglestick for class, and certainly am not going to do so for pleasure. That's why -I- own books - to have them when I want to read them, not to look smart to someone who can navigate to my upstairs bookcase. *g* If I need a pertinent quote, I can either go without, or google it [see also: the_tsm's comment regarding the Heinlein quote about violence in one of his journal threads yesterday].

I think I'm down to owning maybe a half-dozen books I never, ever want to read again [2 anne rice, a couple of other bits of crap fiction]. I limited my list to authors I own more than one book of, which made me substitute Richard Adams [Watership Down, Shardik] for Ray Bradbury [F451], because I've lost my copy of "Something Wicked This Way Comes."

Now that the credit cards are paid off, however, I suspect that my book-buying habits will return. . . which will again necessitate buying bookshelves, as the three-shelf unit we got this spring is already stuffed.

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

whoa, cowboy. I *was* joking, ya know!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Sorry - half-dose of coffee this morning after a poor night's sleep. Didn't mean to get up your nose, dearie.

alas, no room....

[aishlynn.livejournal.com]

already stuffed....

BY the collection of MAXIM, et al.

but seriously, fear not intrepid reader sweetie. i am going to be donating a quantity of my old tomes to ye olde Volunteers of America soon. maybe i'll even post a list around here first to see if anyone wants to scavenge. anyhoo, new space will shortly be available!

How could you have left Christopher Moore off your list??

plbbbbbt!

feh.

see ya in a bit;)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

A) The MAXIMs are all under my desk with the computer parts anyway - there's no book room on that shelf already. Heh.

B) The Christopher Moore books are all yours. I've just read 'em and liked 'em. ;-)