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« on: 10 Aug 2006, 02:21 »
Since a thread about stuffed toys became a discussion on the contents of two barely glimpsed shelves, it must be pretty interesting, so here, from top to bottom (Just my bookshelf, doesn't include my music unit)

Not that I'm a total alchy, in fact the opposite since I seem to be incapable of finishing a bottle.

I painted that piggy bank, its obviously a zombie-cow, right?

Hmm, I don't have many dvds really.

The geeky shelf.


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« Reply #1 on: 10 Aug 2006, 02:26 »
geewaff is cute! best part of this pictureset.
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« Reply #2 on: 10 Aug 2006, 03:44 »
Ahh that is a nice bookshelf. I see three Steven King books, and I must ask, have you read Hearts in Atlantis, if not I suggest you do and put it right next to Dreamcatcher.
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« Reply #3 on: 10 Aug 2006, 03:51 »
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Ahh that is a nice bookshelf. I see three Steven King books, and I must ask, have you read Hearts in Atlantis, if not I suggest you do and put it right next to Dreamcatcher.
Also, The Dark Tower.
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« Reply #4 on: 10 Aug 2006, 06:05 »
Fuck King - she's got Gormenghast on those shelves.  Top marks!
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« Reply #5 on: 10 Aug 2006, 06:15 »
Dude, Gormenghast was hard work. It was a real slog to stay interested when its pages and pages of nothing but Titus sat in a lesson daydreaming.
also note the Gormenghast DVD which is excellent.
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« Reply #6 on: 10 Aug 2006, 06:21 »
But . . . but . . . but the T.V. series was all bright colours and sunshine and lollipops!  Well, maybe not lollipops.  When Gormenghast is meant to be all gloomy and mouldering and crumbling and full of old crones and hags and completely absurd and rococco because of all that and and and and . . .

And the books were so awesome!  And the T.V. show was so bad!
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« Reply #7 on: 10 Aug 2006, 07:02 »
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And the books were so awesome!  And the T.V. show was so bad!


Quoted for gospel.

I took heaps of photos of my (copious) shelves, but I realised that the (phone) camera was terrible and you can't read any of the titles. So I'l get something up as soon as I can get a good snapshot.
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« Reply #8 on: 10 Aug 2006, 09:54 »
i wish i could post a pic of my bookshel but with all the moving around i've been doing the past few years most of my collection is in my sisters attic in boxes :(
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« Reply #9 on: 10 Aug 2006, 10:42 »
Gotta say this for the TV series though: Steerpike was BAD ASS.

Bookshelves you say?



Dust and audiobooks!



A few more audiobooks and some other random things.



A mess of manuals and similiar documents



One over, at the top of the vaguely paranoid shelves



Since we are appreciating fluffiness, this was just out of shot in the last one, say hello to (left to right) Capy Guevara, Pudgachu and Horatio E Hedgehog.



There's a few shelves filled with completely random crap (crocodile skulls, buddhas, dragon statuettes, TARDIS moneyboxes etc.) then these two shelves

And now the main stack:



If we're piqued by Peake, the three books of the Gormenghast trilogy are on the bottom shelf in this picture, between the Mastermind quiz book and the complete Genevieve the Vampire omnibus. The top shelf is almost completely Pratchett: everything he's ever written bar a few awkwardly shaped books stuffed elsewhere and some stuff I'm lending to my girlfriend, who is woefully under-educated in the ways of the Disc.



Please note White Dwarf collection and full Akira manga on bottom shelves. I'm more nerdy than you can EVER be!



Some more random manga and antiquated programming manuals crammed in next to part of my CD collection.



Stack of more manga, playscripts and york notes, some sci-fi short omnibuses and all the Iain Banks stuff not on the vaguely paranoid shelves.



More books!



Last few random volumes propped up against a statuette of Darth Maul that once held chocolates.

This is my personal collection, by the way, which is why it contains so much pulp and trash. There's another 3000 or so books in the study, my parents bedroom, the spare room, the sitting room and the bath room that includes all the more worthy stuff.
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« Reply #10 on: 10 Aug 2006, 11:56 »
I noticed the Anne Rice Vampire series in SK's shelf.
Just yesterday I finnished Interview with the Vampire. I'm about to start Lestat.
Is it worth it?
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« Reply #11 on: 10 Aug 2006, 14:12 »
Ok, I didn't say the Gormenghast book wasn't good, just hard work considering I saw the program first.

Anyway, Lestat, yes definately, if I remember correctly it was my favourite, but carry on with QOTD too, in fact all those.

Khar has a whole bloody library! I wish I had room for all that!
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« Reply #12 on: 10 Aug 2006, 14:32 »
I liked lestat more than interview. they're all kinda trashy. i couldn't get through interview. when she talked about cameos for like 3 chapters I said "fuck this" and threw it across the room.
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« Reply #13 on: 10 Aug 2006, 16:44 »
Some of you have really neat bookshelves, there :). I used to keep mine organized by alphabet (that quickly drove me nuts), then by genre (one shelf for fantasy/sci fi, one shelf for "literary classics", one shelf for general fiction, one for nonfic, etc etc), until I got lazy again and just started stuffing books where I could find room.

Then I ran out of room and started stacking books horizontally on top of vertically placed books. Like Stupiditykills, I have way too many stuffed animals on my shelf :).

I'll post a pic later, if I get off my ass. Actually, I should probably take a pic of the corner of my room where books/magazines I plan to read now rest. I can't open my closet anymore :(, they're blocking the entryway.
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« Reply #14 on: 11 Aug 2006, 04:44 »
I'm jealous of your shelves Khar. Particularly your Pratchett collection. I don't even own one but that's alright cause I've met him twice and read every book at least twice.
My shelves are stocked with Star Wars toys, old school books, snowboard parts and sheet music.
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« Reply #15 on: 11 Aug 2006, 15:00 »
You people make my bookcase seem inferior. I have many little bookcases scattered around the house. Here is the one in my bedroom.

I don't know why Harry Potter is there.

I certainly didn't put him there.

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« Reply #16 on: 11 Aug 2006, 15:25 »
My shelves are limited, and these pictures do not chronicle all of them, but they show you the most important stuff.



This one has some of my Orson Scott Card stuff, Hitchiker's guide, a couple Sci Fi anthologies.



More Sci Fi and Orson Scott Card (I really like his books, thought not his views).



Another bookshelf holds my CD's, the amount of CD-Rs I have compared to actual CDs is depressing.  The copy of Takk... standing up is actaully empty, my sister lost the cd, so she bought me a new one (visible in the stack).



This one shows some of the random crap I have on my shelves.  Some bottles, and my paltry bottle cap collection in a giant pickle jar.
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« Reply #17 on: 13 Aug 2006, 08:49 »
Man, Khar, do you live in the local library?

My shelves are dull. One it full of my CD collection. If I took a picture, you'd see my whole CD collection. It's an awesome collection, but you'll have to take my word for that because it'd be like namedropping 204 bands at once.
The other just looks like a pile of assorted pieces of card and paper.
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« Reply #18 on: 13 Aug 2006, 09:47 »
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Some of you have really neat bookshelves, there :). I used to keep mine organized by alphabet (that quickly drove me nuts), then by genre (one shelf for fantasy/sci fi, one shelf for "literary classics", one shelf for general fiction, one for nonfic, etc etc), until I got lazy again and just started stuffing books where I could find room.


My stuff is only organised basically by authors and rough categories lumped together. It has to be so because all my shelves are different sizes and not all books fit everywhere, because I have lots of hardbacks and other annoying sized books.
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« Reply #19 on: 13 Aug 2006, 10:35 »
Redwall? Astaldo is a furry!

Also I have more nerd fodder than you, Khar.

I need to read more.
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« Reply #20 on: 14 Aug 2006, 00:02 »
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Also I have more nerd fodder than you, Khar.


Do I really have to bring out my Alexander Anderson cosplay outfit with the swords signed by Monica Rial? Do I have to produce my Star Trek ship blueprints? My Warhammer collection? Can you not see my unwholesome collection of White Dwarf magazines and Roleplaying rulebooks?

Don't let the thing veneer of humanity I project, or the fact that most of my nigh-on autistically nerdish energies have now been directed into music fool you. The blood of a LARPer flows in my twisted veins.
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« Reply #21 on: 14 Aug 2006, 11:36 »
Um, Khar, I work at a LARP camp.  And you should come.  Don't let the Atlantic ocean stop you.

I wish I were kidding, it'd make it funny or something.
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« Reply #22 on: 14 Aug 2006, 12:49 »
Hey guys, I have a piece of bread we can all jerk off onto.
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« Reply #23 on: 14 Aug 2006, 12:54 »
I don't get it.
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« Reply #24 on: 15 Aug 2006, 15:27 »
WHOOORAY I GOTS A CAMERA!

BOOKSHELF TIME!

the top, filled with memorable bottles and a dragon+rider I still have to put together and paint up. (yes Im a geek, more to follow)

The Ballantines was the first whiskey (whisky? dont care that much) I bought and drank in ye olde Scotland, the Voda bottle(behind the dragon-to-be) was a stylish waterbottle from Macedonia, the rest I dont really remember.



Then we have the photo's-in-map/some big books/bank stuf/MR COMMON COLD shelf.



Then more books/wallet, phone(now to be replaced), bike lights, keys, and other random crap, and a storm lantern (why the hell is that there?)



Then the White Dwarf collection/other geeky books shelf (well, and some cooking book/photo album)



CD's (all emptied and put into a map which I lost :() and DVD's.

Oh, and ofcourse MR YEAST.



And then there are the shelves with alarm clock/study books/ maps filled with educational chitchat. (and the toy soldier bag



Oh, and what you have been seeing on the right side is my (touristy)kilt, which is hanging like this



So... now you know my bookshelf/stuff

*edit* DAMNIT, I keep missing stuff */edit*
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« Reply #25 on: 15 Aug 2006, 23:34 »
DVD shelves first (I already had the pictures uploaded)






my wrestling DVDs:


EDIT: Adding bookshelf pics

Too big to fit on the other shelf, so it gets its own spot:

And a couple video editing program manuals and a thing of royalty-free computer animation:
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« Reply #26 on: 16 Aug 2006, 18:47 »
What's the dvd count there? I'm hovering just around 700.
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« Reply #27 on: 16 Aug 2006, 20:11 »
somewhere around 300
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« Reply #28 on: 16 Aug 2006, 20:48 »
LOTS OF PICTURES! I love books.

BOOKSHELF NUMBER ONE

David Eddings is my favourite fantasy writer. All those DE books (minus the smallest 4)? First editions. Those H2G2 books? First editions. The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander was my first fantasy series (5 books in that one) I ever read. The last book on the right, The Redemption of Althalus is 1st edition, London press, signed.


I also really enjoy Robert Jordan. Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Swords and The Path of Daggers are 1st edition signed. Other RJ and George R. R. Martin books (minus the mini Game of Thrones) are just 1st editions.



I like Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. Don't bother with his others. Also, p/b Robert Jordan.


Miscellaneous books. Included are some science fiction masterpieces - Neuromancer, Starship Troopers and Dune. The last, long book is Josh Mirman's Punks and Nerds Vol. 1, #2 of 100 limited signed & sketched edition.


Honestly, unfortunately, I've not read any of those Terry Brooks novels. I got as far as The Sword of Shannara and left it at that. Dunno why... I also feel ashamed that I have a Tom Clancy book. But I only read Rainbow Six 'cause of the video game...

BOOKSHELF NUMBER TWO

Top of #2, my theatre bookshelf. Bottom book is the Yale edition of the Compleat Works of Wllm. Shkspr.


Like I said, theatre bookshelf.


Yes, that's a limited edition can of Spam featuring Spamalot. I saw the original cast (Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, et. al.) in Chicago before it went to New York.


My script collection. I'm pretty sure I've read all of them at least once; most twice; some way more than that.


Ok, so not all scripts. Lots of sci-fi there. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, starting with Red Mars, is my all-time favourite Sci-Fi series. I highly, highly recommend it. That Tad Williams quadrilogy The Otherland Series is a complex, difficult read, but very smart and entertaining.


More theatre stuff, a 1st-edition signed RJ World of the Wheel of Time, music books, and my pathetic vinyl collection.


My "nice" display. Sorta. Lots of really good stuff there.


The two shelves below the one above. Nothing needs be explained.


Stereo and indie-rock CD collection. Everything else I own I won't display.


A bunch of random books. A lot of good stuff there. A few cookbooks, a few random comic compilations (Fox Trot, Charlie Brown, The Journal Comic), a bigass binder of all legal stuff for the condo I bought...


My PS2 with NCAA 2006 Football and Final Fantasy X. Bottom shelf holds Civ4 & ES:Oblivion boxes, my DS, as well as Men's Health, WIRED, Magnet and Harp magazines.


Finally, my copies of Hoppípolla and The Meadowlands on vinyl.


Hope you liked my pikshurz!
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« Reply #29 on: 17 Aug 2006, 07:21 »
Have you seen any plays by Tom Stoppard?  I just saw The Real Thing at the Guthrie.  I had read a couple of his plays before, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and After Margrite and loved them.  The timing is even better when performed.

I noticed some of the older hhgttg trilogy dust jackets on your shelf.
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« Reply #30 on: 17 Aug 2006, 09:54 »
i am not organized enough to have a bookshelf.
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« Reply #31 on: 30 Aug 2006, 17:22 »
I'm in the middle of the second last exams for the fianl year of school.....
so my bookshelf looks kinda like this


however most of it is on the floor :D
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« Reply #32 on: 31 Aug 2006, 05:39 »
i couldn't show my bookshelf, coz i have way too many books, that it would take 50 photos to show them all. i've got a massive varied collection from Don quixote to midnights children.
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« Reply #33 on: 31 Aug 2006, 08:49 »
Now that I have a Flick pro account, I can upload a picture!  yay!
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« Reply #34 on: 03 Sep 2006, 19:24 »
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LOTS OF PICTURES! I love books.

Hope you liked my pikshurz!


My, you have neatly organized bookshelves. We have very many of the same books. You have good taste in reading material.
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