Post 10 Random books off your bookshelf...:)

[Broken_Hero]

Yes...:)

1. Insomnia-S. King

2. Kingdome Come-Alex Ross

3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-JK Rowling

4. Blood and Gold-Anne Rice

5. Patriot Games-T. Clancy

6. The Chamber-J. Grisham

7. The Black Company Goes South-Glen Cook

8. Promise of the Witch King-RA Salvatore

9. Elminsters Daughter-Ed Greenwood

10. LOTR Trilogy-JRR Tolkien....

[terrya]

1. Ok...

1 "Dhalgren" by Samuel Delaney

2 "1876" by Gore Vidal

3 "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin

4 "Babbit" by Sinclair Lewis

5 "The Manchurian Candidate" by Richard Condon

6 "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood

7 "Middlemarch" by George Sand

8 "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips

9 "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John Dean

10 "The Bush Dyslexicon" by Mark Crispin Miller

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. OK........I'll play!

1. To The Hilt, Dick Francis

2. Bad Love, Jonothan Kellerman

3. Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore

4. Govoni & Hayes, Drug Book

5. Book of Marvels, Richard Halliburton

6. Complete Guide to Needlework

7. Spangle, Gary Jennings

8. Sing Out The Glory, Gladys Hasty Carroll

9. The Origin, Irving Stone

10. Giant, Edna Ferber

[Broken_Hero]

3. damn, two posts

and I haven't read any of the books they listed...man, I got a lot of reading to do...:)

[SteppingRazor]

4. Since I'm at work, I'll post 10 books that are in my cube:

1. The Associated Press Style Book and Libel Manual

2. The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Satellite Radio

3. American Quotations

4. Roget's Thesaurus

5. The American Heritage Dictionary

6. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock

7. The Reporter's Handbook

8. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

9. Covering Islam

10. 100 Classic Cocktails

[Broken_Hero]

7. 8. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

this one sounds interesting, whats the short short, on the book?

[mark414]

9. tom wolfe follows the merry pranksters

and it includes the whole cast of characters - kesey, cassady, mountain girl, Further, Hell's Angels, driving back and forth across america, the house at la honda

one of the best books i've ever read...and from your previous posts i know you'd enjoy it too...

[Broken_Hero]

12. Sounds very good...:)

And yes, I'm looking for more books to read, I got about 5 more books to read, and then I need some new ones...and I need a break from S. King for a while...I just like seeing lesser known, or not as main stream authors/book suggestions...:)

[SteppingRazor]

13. Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is one of my all-time favorites...

Tom Wolfe was never better, before or since.

[martymar64]

68. I LOVE THE KOOLAID ACID TEST!!!

That is such a great book. If you've ever read Kerouac, it's a terrific view into the later life of Casady (Dean Moriarty). It also follows the formation of my favorite band, the good ol' Grateful Dead!!!

[miss_american_pie]

5. Okay

"What is this Thing Called Love" Kim Addonizio
"What we Carry" Dorianne Laux
"The Dead and The Living" Sharon Olds
"The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald
"White Oleander" Janet Fitch
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte
"Plainsong" Kent Haruf
"A Map of the World" Jane Hamilton
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Thomas Hardy
"To the Lighthouse" Virgina Woolf

[mark414]

8. ahhh what did you think of "a map of the world?"

the woman who wrote it lives in my hometown and i had gotten to know her through some wal-mart protesting (they were trying to build one in our town), so for a class in high school i read the book and sat down with her and wrote a paper on the difference between the book and the movie and her reaction to everything that came with it...she's a pretty amazing lady

[miss_american_pie]

16. Oh that is so cool

I liked it. It's hard to read as a parent, though.

[mark414]

6. here you go...

01) the dubliners - james joyce

02) the private sea: LSD and the search for God - william braden

03) the crying of lot 49 - thomas pynchon

04) three soldiers - john dos passos

05) bound for glory - woody guthrie

06) the devil in the white city - erik larson

07) a scanner darkly - philip k. dick

08) in cold blood - truman capote

09) the four loves - c.s. lewis

10) thoughts and meditations - khalil gibran

[reyd reid reed]

10. Only ten?

1. Basket Case - Carl Haissen

2. The Dark Tower - King

3. Everything's Eventual - King

4. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

5. Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

6. Wild Pitch - Mike Lupica

7. The Mermaid's Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

8. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

9. Kite Runner - Hosseini

10. Robert Browning's poems

and...

[Broken_Hero]

14. yeah, only ten for now...:)

sorry...:( How did you like the Dark Tower? Did you see my S. King poll a few weeks back?

[reyd reid reed]

21. I did...

Heh...posted to it several times, actually.

What did you think of Blood and Gold?

[Broken_Hero]

24. Blood and Gold

I thought was good, but at the time...Anne was taking her time on furthering the story from Memnoch the Devil...if you read memnoch, the ending was a CLIFF hanger and a half...and after that book, she put out 3 vampire creations stories...Armand, Pandora, and Marius(Blood and Gold)...I dont' think she has furthered the Lestat story line at all...dammit!

Armand was weak IMO, Pandora/Blood and Gold were good....basically a full back story on each vampire....:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

29. That was my feeling, pretty much

There are a few of the vampire chronicles that have been outstanding, but the more she wanders away from Lestat, the weaker she gets. And she got repetitive, too. My understanding is that she's shelved them for the time being. Have you read Blackwood Farm? I wasn't crazy about it. I think that she needs to reconsider her feelings about editors and go back to one.

[Broken_Hero]

31. No, I haven't read Blackwood Farm

when I first saw it, I was hoping it was about Lestat...but nope, it wasn't...so I ignored it...I'm trying to send Anne a message..."I'm not buying anything more, unless its Lestat!" She left such a huge cliff hanger in Memnoch The Devil(one of my favorite, if not my favorite book), and I'vee been waiting since....damn...98 or 99 for a new continuation. My biggest dissapointment was Armand...unless you like reading about man/boy love relationships, which isn't my cup o tea...

[reyd reid reed]

33. Heh...imagine that.

I know...Memnoch was VERY good, I loved it. And she's alluded to it in other books, but hasn't gone much beyond that. Lasher wasn't bad...a bit bizarre, though.

She's disappointed me lately. I dunno...it's like she's...resting on her laurels and just assuming the readership is going to be there. She's getting a bit eccentric.

I don't think her Jesus book did all that well, though. I know I didn't buy it. Matter of fact, I don't know anyone who did.

[Broken_Hero]

43. yeah, the

Mayfair witches...Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos was an all right series, it was different thats for sure...the Witching Hour was a trip and a half...:) I have also read The Mummy, Cry to heaven, Feast of All Saints, and Merrick...outside of the vampire line that is...I got Servant of the Bones, but Cry to Heaven, and Feast of all Saints has soured me quite a bit...both were lame, Cry was all right, Feast was...uber lame to me.

[anarch]

11. I'm at work, but I'll try to think of ten

Lemme see...

1. The Dark Tower, Stephen King

2. Armageddon, Max Hastings

3. The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks

4. Knowing How To Know, Idries Shah

5. Paradise Lost, John Milton

6. The Complete Works of W.B. Yeats

7. Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer

8. The Tree of Life, Israel Regardie

9. Sympathy for the Devil, Kent Anderson

10. Rumi's Masnavi, translated by E.M. Whinfield

[lost-in-nj]

15. I'll list the authors I have on my book shelf

it should tell you what most of the books are.
:7 :7


S. King

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
together and separate

Dan Brown

James Patterson

Tony Hillerman

Michael Crichton

Hey I never said I was an intellect :silly:

lost

[Broken_Hero]

17. Crichton

I never gave him a chance really...I read like the first 3 pages to The Lost World...and gave up. Not because the book sucked, but other life events took my attention away....

After watching The 13th Warrior, I got interested in Crichton again, but never pursued any of his books...but I will now...:) And Dan Brown, I need to read Angels/Demons, and DVC....I heard so much about it.

[lost-in-nj]

22. Funny

I read 13th warrior and really liked it and heard they were making a movie of it.
I have yet to see it. Was it really good. I do have the DVD :)

lost

[Broken_Hero]

23. yeah 13th Warrior I thoought was great...

I wish they would make more movies like that, I got a soft spot for viking/fantasy related flicks/books...:) I think the book was...The Death Eaters, I think...:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

26. Eaters of the dead...

:hi:


lost

[Broken_Hero]

32. Thanks for the clarification...:)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dean Koontz, I have read one of his(False Memory) and wasn't impressed, but I have come across some fierce Koontz supporters in the past...

[reyd reid reed]

34. Read...

Timeline. That got #2 son hooked on him.

And Angels/Demons was far better than DVC, if you ask me. Neither of them are exactly literary classics, but they're entertaining reads, which is all they're supposed to be, I think.

[Broken_Hero]

38. I have heard the same thing about

angels vs DVC. My friend Angel tried getting me to read Angels/Demons for the past few years, but I would always forget to find it, or I couldn't find it when I did remember to look for it....but nowadays, with a lot of people cutting through them, I hope to find some at a used book store...:)

[Richardo]

18. I have to imagine my bookshelves at home...eenie meany, chili beany...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Blind into Baghdad
Under the Banner of Heaven
Clemente
Big Lies (Conasen)
I'll Be Short (Robert Reich)
Lucky You (Hiaasen)
Rebecca
Misquoting Jesus
O.Henry Award Short Stories - 2004

[terrya]

54. Mark Haddon has a new novel out

The amazingly good writer of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" has a new novel out..."A Spot of Bother". I've already ordered a copy from www.srrclub.com. :-)

[Richardo]

55. I know - I can't wait. If it's out, I'll pick it up at the store tonight

:bounce:

The synopsis looks great.

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. "The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely." Some things in life can't be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie's deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip.

At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden and enjoying the freedom to be alone when he wants. But then he runs into a spot of bother. That red circular rash on his hip: George convinces himself it's skin cancer. And the deeply inappropriate Ray? Katie announces he will become her second husband. The planning for these frowned-upon nuptials proves a great inconvenience to George's wife, Jean, who is carrying on a late-life affair with her husband's ex-colleague. The Halls do not approve of Ray, for vague reasons summed up by their son Jamie's observation that Ray has "strangler's hands." Jamie himself has his own problems - his tidy and pleasant life comes apart when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to Katie's wedding. And Katie, a woman whose ferocious temper once led to the maiming of a carjacker, can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob.

Unnoticed in the uproar, George quietly begins to go mad. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Haddon's hilarious and disturbing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettablefollow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Once again, Haddon proves a master of a story at once hilarious, poignant, dark, and profoundly human. Here the madness - literally - of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon's crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love.

[terrya]

56. I could get it at the B&N a block away.

But I've given them plenty of business lately. :-)

[southpaw]

19. Just at random

1. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
2. Towing Jehovah - James Morrow
3. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
4. The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
5. Fight Club - Chuck Palaniuk
6. The End of Faith - Sam Harris
7. The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor
8. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
9. Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them - Al Franken
10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Guava Jelly]

20. I'll have to unpack before i can answer this

:)

[Zomby Woof]

25. Ok

1. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution - Yuan Gao

2. Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need - Dave Barry

3. RL's Dream - Walter Mosley

4. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power 1492-1763 - Henry Kamen

5. The Grand Canyon Railway - Al Richmond

6. Where The Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

7. Roadside Geology of Wyoming - David Lageson

8. Cervantes - William Byron

9. Arthur Rimbaud's Complete Works - translated by Paul Schmidt

10. The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American 80's - Paul Slansky

[Broken_Hero]

27. 8. Cervantes - William Byron

this one sounds interesting, whats the short short on this one?

[Zomby Woof]

37. It's a detailed biography...

...of the author of Don Quixote, the first modern novel.

Cervantes had a full and interesting life, having been in a few major sea battles - Lepanto being the biggest one of note - and twice escaping imprisonment, once by the Turks. He lived most of his life in poverty, always struggling with debt. Interesting trivia: He died the exact same day as Shakespeare.

[Broken_Hero]

44. thanks, I think I'm going to invest in this one

it just struck me, and your brief description has tugged my curiosity...:)

[Zomby Woof]

46. I bought it at a used book store in 1988

I have no idea if it's in print anymore. But feel free to try, because you might enjoy it, and I am all for spreading the word on the father of Don Quixote. :-)

[idgiehkt]

28. I don't even know if I have ten books left

I'll try
1. Blinded by the Right - David Brock
2. Chrystos - Not Vanishing
3. Chrystos - Firepower
4. Chrystos - Dream On
5. Joy Harjo - She Had Some Horses
6. Dorothy Allison - Trash
7. Haciendo Caras -anthol. prose/poetry by women of color ed. by Gloria Anzaldua
8. Chrystos - In Her I Am
9. Zsuzanna Budapest - The Grandmother of Time
10. Ginny, The Dog that Rescues Cats - Philip Gonzales

[tjwmason]

30. A cross-section.

1. Time on the Cross - The Economcis of American Negro Slavery - R. Fogel and S. Engerman.

2. Paradise Lost - J. Milton.

3. Salt of the Earth - Joseph card. Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict).

4. Two Treatises on Government - J. Locke.

5. The Communist Manifesto - K. Marx and F. Engels.

6. Classic Gin - G. Coates.

7. The Downing Street Years - M. Thatcher (don't laugh, it's actually very interesting).

8. A History of the Arab Peoples - A. Hourani.

9. Early Mediaeval Architecture - R. Stalley.

10. Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat - V. Javarek & M. Sudjic.

[Mutley]

35. My books are all packed in boxes right now

but here are ten from my BIL's bookshelf:

1. The Celestine Prophecy by James Radfield
2. To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf
3. Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony
4. The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
5. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingels Wilder
6. Mine by Robert R. McCammon
7. Watchers by Dean Koontz
8. The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
9. Exit to Eden by Anne Rice
10. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

[Broken_Hero]

69. I've been trying to get

10. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

For quite a number of years, its a hard used book for me to find. I remember reading it through elementary/junior high...:)

[reyd reid reed]

70. I saw someone buying that same book when I was at Target this afternoon.

Might not be used, but...there's something wonderful about a brand new book that's just...

:loveya:

[Mutley]

74. I have the same copy I had when I was a kid.

:D

[RebelOne]

36. I'm at work, but here are 10 that are on my bookshelf here.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynn Truss

Woe Is I, by Patricia T. O'Conner

Abduction, by Robin Cook

Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King

The American Heritage Dictionary

Storm of the Century (screenplay), by Stephen

A Painted House, by John Grisham

The Truth About Dogs, by Stephen Budiansky

Sole Survivor, by Dean Koontz

1st To Die, by James Patterson

[GirlinContempt]

39. The shelf at eye-level, first ten:

Antonio Gramsci Reader
The Assassination of Trotsky - Nicholas Mosley
The Transformers Trilogy - David Cirn and Scott Ciencin (it's really bad)
The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft
Marx and the Marxists - David Childs
Man and Society v1 - John Plamenatz
History of the Russian Revolution - Leon Trotsky
Working Class Experience: Rethinking the history of canadian labour - Bryan D. Palmer
Partition: Crisis in the Indian Subcontinent - Lal Khan
The Renaissance and English Humanism - Douglas Bush

[YankeyMCC]

40. Which set of book shevles and do floors count?

:)

Here's ten from my "collection"

1) The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

2) In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

3) Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

4) A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America by Howard Ball

5) The Divided Ground : Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor

6) The Illiad by Homer

7) The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner

8) Various recent issues of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

9) The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozios

10) Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick

[qnr]

41. Pretty boring - Randomly:

1, The Medusa and the Snail - Lewis Thomas
2. The Far Call - Gordon R. Dickson
3. X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual - David Flanagan
4. Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin
5. Data Structures and Algorithms with Modula-2 - Philippe J. Gabrini & Barry L. Kurtz
6. One Million A.D. - edited by Gardner Dozois
7. Fun With Peanuts - Charles M. Schulz
8. Cheaper & Better: Homemade Alternatives to Storebought Goods - Nancy Birnes
9. 50+ Traveler's Guidebook - Anita Williams and Merrimac Dillon
10. vi Editor Pocket Reference - Arnold Robbins

[querelle]

42. Right. Here Goes.........

1. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
2. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
3. Six Of One - Rita Mae Brown
4. Running With Scissors - Augustyn Burroughs
5. The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
6. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
7. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
8. Blinded By The Right - David Brock
9. The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
10. Smilla's Sense Of Snow - Peter Hoeg

Q

[hopein08]

45. Here are 10 of mine...

1. "The Age of Innocence" Edith Wharton
2. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" JK Rowling
3. "Four Trials" John Edwards
4. "Mammy" Brendan O'Carroll
5. "Rescuers of the Jews" Eva Fogelman
6. "Effi Briest" Theodore Fontane
7. "Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece" Hugo Vickers
8. "The Prince of Tides" Pat Conroy
9. "Elizabeth" Sarah Bradford
10. "Parachute Infantry" David Webster

[RetroLounge]

47. 10 Random Fiction Books

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)

RL

[reyd reid reed]

48. Ooooh...

East of Eden is possibly one of my favorite books, ever. And I don't have a copy.

:cry:

[RetroLounge]

53. I found an original first edition for 50 cents

:D

RL

[reyd reid reed]

72. *thud*

Oh. My. God.

[RetroLounge]

73. Yeah, along with a 1940 Hemingway for the same price.

:woohoo:

RL

[reyd reid reed]

Oh.

What are you trying to do to me????

[RetroLounge]

77. Only what you would like me to...

:hug:

RL

[reyd reid reed]

75. Oh.

What are you trying to do to me????



edited because you got me so excited I clicked twice. I almost never click twice. *ahem* Shame on you...

[RetroLounge]

76. I am known for providing women with multiple clicks...

Until you beg me to stop clicking.

A woman always clicks before the man.

:D

RL

[reyd reid reed]

79. Ah...a gentleman as well as a scholar...

Chivalry is indeed alive and well. Gotta love a guy who can appreciate a good click.

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

80. and I can click with more than just my finger...

:evilgrin:

RL

[reyd reid reed]

82. An individual with your qualifications

is a rare and valuable find. Digital mastery is important, but when there are other variables added to the equation, the possibilities are endless.

:evilgrin:

[av8rdave]

49. ok...

The High and the Mighty Ernest K. Gann

View from the Cockpit Len Morgan

East of Eden Steinbeck

Up From Conservatism Michael Lind

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown

A Man Without a Country Kurt Vonnegut

Garcia: An American Life Blair Jackson

A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean

Ghost Rider Neal Peart

Six Not So Easy Pieces Richard Feynman

[mvd]

50. Good topic, petersond!

Mine:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (I have all the Harry Potter books)
Lisa Scottoline - Mistaken Identity (This book was the answer to my trivia question before)
George Orwell - 1984
John Grisham - The Firm
Mark Crispin Miller - Fooled Again
Charles J. Adams III - Montgomery County Ghost Stories
Kitty Kelley - The Family
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Chris Willman - Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics Of Country Music
Temple Grandin - Animals In Translation

[SoyCat]

51. 1. Shame-Taslima Nazrin

2. 1 Dead in Attic-Chris Rose
3. The Storyteller's Daughter-Saira Shah
4. Cracking India-Bapsi Sidhwa
5. Diving Women-Kaye Gibbons
6. Tom Jones-Henry Fielding
7. Vanity Fair-William Thackeray
8. Complete Novels of Jane Austen-Jane Austen
9. The French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans'
Vieux Carre-Malcolm Heard
10. Storyville, New Olreans-Al Rose

[Lautremont]

52. Ten from the 'politics, history, etc.' shelf, which is both appropriate

and close enough to easily read the spines:

Norman Mailer - The Armies of the Night
William Stevenson - A Man Called Intrepid
Richard Deacon - A History of the Britich Secret Service
Clausewitz - On War
Woodward & Bernstein - The Final Days
Daniel Bell (ed.) - The Radical Right
William L. Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Terence Robertson - The Shame and the Glory: Dieppe
John Reed - Ten Days That Shook The World
Isaac Deutscher - The Age of Permanent Revolution: A Trotsky Reader

[bicentennial_baby]

57. Ok...

American Gods- Gaiman

The 9/11 Commission report

Inside Terrorism -Hoffman

Drawing Blood- Brite

La Peste - Camus

We wish to inform you that tommorrow we will be killed with our families- Gourevitch

Empire- Hardt/Negri

Language and Politics - Chomsky

Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It - Aronson

Au Revoir Les Enfants - Malle

[sarge43]

58. OK

1. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

2. A Long Desire, Evan S. Connell

3. Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

4. A Fistful of Fig Newtons, Jean Shepherd

5. The Promise of Space, Arthur C. Clarke

6. The Merck Manuel

7. Comix: A History of Comic Books in America, Les Daniels

8. An Olaf Stapledon Reader

9. Deathbird, Harlan Ellison

10. An Exaltation of Larks, James Lipton

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

59. Here's a very random sampling...

1. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human -Harold Bloom

2. Nothing but the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image -ed. Susie Bright & Jill Posener

3. The Gnosis or Ancient Wisdom in the Scriptures -William Kingsland

4. The Pleasures of Cocaine -Adam Gottlieb

5. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain -Alice W. Flaherty

6. What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire -Charles Bukowski

7. Whoredom in Kimmage -Rosemary Mahoney

8. Kingdom of Fear -Hunter S. Thompson

9. The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald -F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. The Empty Space -Peter Brook

[SOteric]

60. ~

14th shelf on the west wall, - every 5th book:

1. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
2. The Collected Works of Robert Browning, Penguin Press
3. The Red Pony, John steinbeck
4. Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud
5. The Problem of Knowledge, A. J. Ayer
6. The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth
7. archy and mehitabel, don marquis
8. Attack Upon Christendom, Soren Kierkegaard
9. In Our Time, Earnest Hemingway
10. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints

[ulysses]

78. might've known you'd read Kierkegaard.

:thumbsup:

[huskerlaw]

61. The bookshelf I'm looking at now...

1. The Legal Writing Handbook
2. Fundamentals of Legal Research
3. Constitutional Law
4. How to Find the Law
5. Selected International Human Rights Instruments & Bibliography
6. Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Persuasive Argument
7. Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies
8. The Process of Legal Research
9. Interactive Citation Workbook for The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
10. Law Library Journal

...yes, I am at work. ;)

[LaurenG]

62. I listed mine below.

1. Asimov's Guide to the Bible-Isaac Asimov

2. Man's Eternal Quest- Yogananda

3. Awaken The Giant Within -Anthony Robbins

4. Nag Hammadi Library - James M. Robinson

5. The Essential Koran - Thomas Cleary

6. Living A Jewish Life - Anita Diamant

7. KRSNA - The Supreme Personality of the Godhead -His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

8. Take This Job And Ship It - Senator Byron L. Dorgan

9. Chilton Manual - Toyota Corolla

10. Womans Diaries Of The Westward Journey- Lillian Schlissel

[sir_captain]

63. Ok

1) Genetics in Medicine
2) Gray's Anatomy
3) Moore's Clinically Relevant Anatomy
4) Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy
5) Rohen's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
6) Grant's Dissector
7) Stryer Biochemistry
8) Histology: A Text and Atlas
9) Wheater's Histology Atlas
10) Behvioral Science in Medicine

[YellowRubberDuckie]

64. OK....I'll bite...

The Watcher's Guide: Buffy Seasons 1 and 2
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
BlowFly by Patricia Cornwell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Our tastes in books are the same as our tastes in movies.
Duckie

[Left Is Write]

65. Okay.

1. America by Jon Stewart
2. My Life by Bill Clinton
3. Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
4. It by Stephen King
5. Grimm's Fairy Tales
6. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
7. Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabbaldon
8. Senior Year by Anne Emery
9. The Grass Is Greener Over The Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck
10. The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders

[vixengrl]

66. I'll play-- hmm, damn, soo many (my computer's in

my library!)

1) Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do! Peter McWilliams

2)Fortunate Son J.H. Hatfield

3)The Illiuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson

4)The Other Bible, edited by Willis Barnstone

5)The Science of Good & Evil Michael Shermer

6) The Rat Pack Confidential Shawn Levy

7) With God on their Side Esther Kaplan

8) Suns of God Acarya S.

9) The Truth with Jokes Al Franken

10) Asimov's Guide to the Bible Isaac Asimov


I'm afraid my fiction's mostly in another room, or there'd be a whole lot of David Weber, Stephen King, and Collen McCulloch,

[pscot]

67. Ten I can see from where I'm sitting

Art of North America (Native American)
Complete works of Rabelais
Weather for the Mariner
Poems of Robert FRost
The Leica Manual (15th Ed.)
Peter Gowland's Photographic Style (Cheesecake)
Langenscheidt Compact German Dictionary
Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
Shaping Seattle Architecture
The Devil's Horsemen (History of the Mongols)

[martymar64]

71. My book list

Hand On Training guide to After Effects 6.5 - Lynda Friedman

Chuck Amuck - Chuck Jones

Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Cartoon History of the Universe 1 & 2 - Larry Gonick (Highly recommended!!!)

What's the matter with Kansas - Thomas Frank

Essential Pre-Raphaelites - Lucinda Hawksley

Make Your Own Damn Movie - Lloyd Kaufman

America In the Dark - David Thompson

Bloodcurcling Tales of Horror and the Macabre - HP Lovecraft

Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman

Conquest - Montezuma, Cortez and the Fall of Old Mexico - Hugh Thomas

[ulysses]

81. let's see...

Bully for Brontosaurus - Stephen Gould
Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - Sandra Cisneros
Aquaboogie - Susan Straight
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett
Against Forgetting - Carolyn Forche
Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Unschooled Mind - Howard Gardner
Grendel - John Gardner

[philosophie_en_rose]

83. 1. Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith

2. Neverending Story - Michael Ende
3. Princess Bride - William Goldman
4. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
5. Abarat - Clive Barker
6. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
7. Experience and Education - John Dewey
8. _______ City Phone Book - Greedy Phone Company
9. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Lying Liars and the Lies they Tell - Al Franken

[Broken_Hero]

84. I read the Neverending Story

in the 7th grade...very good...if memory serves, the first movie only took up...maybe 150 pages out of the book....its a great movie as well...

"Moon Child!"......:P

[saltpoint]

85. Okey doke.

Joan Didion. DEMOCRACY.

Andrew Holleran. DANCER FROM THE DANCE.

Reynolds Price. THE TONGUES OF ANGELS.

Roy Morris, Jr. THE BETTER ANGEL: WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR.

Marion Zimmer Bradley. THE MISTS OF AVALON.

Edmund White. NOCTURNES FOR THE KING OF NAPLES.

A.N. Wilson. PAUL: THE MIND OF THE APOSTLE.

Robert Bly. LEAPING POETRY.

Mary Renault. FUNERAL GAMES.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

[aaronbees]

86. here's 10 I can see from my desk:

"1 Dead in Attic," Chris Rose

"Making Certain it Goes On," Richard Hugo

"Nothin' But Good Times Ahead," Molly Ivins

"Jarhead," Anthony Swofford

"Selfwolf," Mark Halliday

"The Devil's Highway," Luis Alberto Urrea

"The Namesake," Jhumpa Lahiri

"Son of the Black Stallion," Walter Farley

"Dreams From My Father," Barack Obama

"The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe

[astral]

87. allright

Composition and Facts about Foods -- Ford Heritage

Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet -- Jess Stearn

Dean Ornish' Program for Reversing Heart Disease -- Dean Ornish

Longevity -- Kenneth R. Pelletier

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America -- Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Rare Earths, Forbidden Cures -- Dr. Joel Wallach

Teachings of an Initiate -- Max Heindel

Reviving Ophelia -- Mary Piper, Ph.D.

Mystery of the Christos -- Corinne Helene

How Children Fail -- John Holt

[u4ic]

100. I have The Sleeping Prophet, too

and a few other books on Cayce. :hi:

[LSK]

88. ok

1. The Zero Game - Brad Meltzer

2. Benjamin Franklin - Ronald W Clark

3. Sacred Hoops - Phil Jackson

4. The Innocent - Ian McEwan

5. Big Lies - Joe Conason

6. Fubar - Sam Seder

7. Politics of Truth - Joe Wilson

8. Peoples History of the United States - Howard Zinn

9. Disarming Iraq - Hans Blix

10. The Choice - Bob Woodward

[u4ic]

89. Okay

1. The People of the Abyss - Jack London
2. Salt: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
3. Racehorse Breeding Theories - Frank Mitchell
4. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
5. The Case for Reincarnation - Joe Fisher
6. The Guide to the Senegal Parrot and Its Family - Mattie Sue Athan
7. The Victorian Underworld - Kellow Chesney
8. Mysteries - Knut Hamsun
9. The Wild Duck - Henrik Ibsen
10. Prick Up Your Ears: The biography of Joe Orton - John Lahr

[aaronbees]

91. I liked that John Lahr book

It's been many years since I read it, though.

[u4ic]

94. Fascinating

as is the movie, and the Orton Diaries. He is one of my favourite playwrights.

I was hoping the Racehorse Breeding Theories would have been more in depth. I've just ordered the Kingmaker, the new bio of Northern Dancer. :hi:

[aaronbees]

95. Oh, tell me how that is ...

I saw that Northern Dancer book at the bookstore Saturday (the Books-A-Million here has a paltry horse racing collection) and was tempted. It looks interesting. I've been eyeing that 100 Greatest Moments in Horse Racing book.

I remember the "Prick Up Your Ears" flick being pretty racy. :9

[u4ic]

99. I will!

I liked her American Classic Pedigrees book. There is a British equivalent that I'd love to get my hands on, but there's no way I could afford it. It's called Classic Pedigrees 1776-2005. £75.00 512 pages. The same author (Michael Church) has another one strictly about the Epsom Derby, 1776-2005. Another one I'd love to get my hands on, and it's even more; £85.00 I think. None of those include shipping...from the UK.

Oh good grief, now I'm drooling over half the books at the racingpost site! :crazy: If you can pick one up, get Vincent O'Brien's biography, to get a good overview of racing in Europe from the mid-late 50's - early 90's. I think he trained Rodrigo de Triano in his 1992 Guineas win, and I believe it was his last classic. He must have been in his late 70's/early 80's when he finally retired from training.

Do you know about this? http://www.racingpost.co.uk/news/master.sd?psection=racingpost.co.uk&page=Competitions&category=News&story_id=851305

I've got Prick Up Your Ears on video - I guess we might have different ideas of racy. ;) However, if you had seen it in theatres back in the 80's, then yes, it definitely would have been considered racy then.

[aaronbees]

101. Well I do believe...

I was 16 or 17 when the flick came out and I then read Lahr's book. So that may contribute to the raciness factor. ;) :spank: :P

Now I'm going to check out the rules on that contest at Racing Post. :pals:

[XemaSab]

90. Almost all my books are in Redding... this is basically in order

On the top row of the shelf, where I randomly put books yesterday.

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

2. Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, and Rollers.

3. Culture Shock! Pakistan.

4. Birds of Europe.

5. A Year in the Maine Woods.

6. The Nature of Paleolithic Art.

7. Jepson Manual to Higher Plants of California.

8. A World Checklist of Birds (Sibley and Monroe).

9. Collapse (which I only made it a third of the way through).

10. The Amber Spyglass.


I am such a stereotype. :cry:

[GoneOffShore]

92. Here goes

Virtual Light , William Gibson

Adobe Photoshop CS - Deke McClelland

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Cryptomonicon (sp?) - Neal Stephenson

LOTR Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien

Selected Poems - John Betjeman

Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken

The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Merde et Merde Encore -

How To Cook a Wolf - MFK Fisher.

[Kire]

93. I don't have a random number generator.

Isn't "Top 10 Random" an oxymoron?

[NMMNG]

96. Here goes

1. The Black Death - Phillip Ziegler
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
4. Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
5. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. Timeline - Michael Crichton
8. Utopia - Thomas Moore
9. 1984 - George Orwell
10. Instant Psychopharmacology - Ronald J. Diamond

[GoddessOfGuinness]

97. 1. The Grass Harp - Truman Capote

2. After the Ecstacy, the Laundry - Jack Kornfield

3. Herbs and the Earth - Henry Beston

4. Eastern Birds - Roger Tory Peterson

5. The Fuzzy Papers - H. Beam Piper

6. Start Where You Are - Pema Chodron

7. Bayou Farewell - Mike Tidwell

8. In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War - Trulock

9. My Life - Bill Clinton

10. Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters - Styra Avins

[Roon]

98. Mine, not quite ten

The dictionary of ASL
Pantomiming Guide
The AA book 12 step program
Various Reader's Digests
The rest are true crime books....including one written by Mark Fuhrman
Oh, and the book written by the Detective in the Jon Bnete Ramsey case

[BrightKnight]

102. Okay

From a Logical Point of View - Quine
Fear & Trembling - Soren Kirkgaard
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Poetry, Language, Thought - Heidegger
Discussion in Contemporary Culture - Hal Foster
The Mind Managers - Schiller
The Psychoanalysis of Organizations - Robert De Board
American Artists on Art -
C Through Design
Troubled Sleep - Sartre

[Mendocino]

103. Strategic Ignorance - Carl Pope

Farthest North-Fridjtof Nansen
Call of the Wild-Jack London
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Sand County Almanac-Aldo Leopold
Walden-HD Thoreau
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Marie Remarque
The Complete Walker-Colin Fletcher
The Last Place on Earth-Roland Huntford

[CanuckAmok]

104. Ooooh, fun...

Confessions of a Corporate Hit-Man - John Perkins

Beauty Parade - Eric Kroll

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (largely unread. Basically used to attract women in coffee bars and at the beach)

Great Apes - Will Self

Welding, Third Edition - James A. Pender

For Keeps - Pauline Kael

You Only Live Twice - Ian Flemming

A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut

The Invisibles: Say You Wnat a Revolution - Grant Morrison

[ComerPerro]

105. I have very "ec-e-lec-tic" tastes. Observe:

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

Jailbird, by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut

Golapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut

Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut

Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut


need I go on?

[jane_pippin]

106. I just moved so I only have eight books on my bookshelf

And it's not a bookshelf so much as a nightstand. They are:

1.The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian

2. Europe Central by William Vollmann

3. Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman

4. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

5. Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

6. The Reasons I Won't be Coming--stories by Elliot Perlman

7. Trouble--stories by Patrick Somerville

8. Severance--stories by Robert Olen Butler


Everything else is still boxed up, but two more from the boxes pulled randomly from memory to make ten are:

9. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

10. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth