mikeweil Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 I had to rearrange the bookshelves in one room during the last two weeks, all fiction, and noticed that I own the complete or collected works, some in single volumes, some in boxed editions, of many more authors than I thought. Now I became curious about what complete works other members might have. Here are mine, sorted by languages (I don not pretend I have read through all of this!): German: Jean Paul Ernst Theodor Amadée Hoffmann Wilhelm Hauff Johann Heinrich Zschokke Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) Friedrich Hölderlin Ernst Weiss Hermann Hesse Leo Perutz Fritz von Herzmanowsky-Orlando H. C. Artmann Erich Fried English/American: William Shakespeare Daniel Defoe Oscar Wilde Dylan Thomas D.H. Lawrence Joseph Conrad Malcolm Lowry Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler Carl Barks French: Gustave Flaubert Raymond Queneau Raymond Roussell Julien Gracq Italian: Luigi Pirandello Andrea de Carlo Spanish/Latin American: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Jorge Luis Borges Julio Cortázar José Lezama Lima Alejo Carpentier Slavic: Vladimir Majakovskij Velimir Chlebnikov Mircea Eliade I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this ..... Already too late. It might be possible to get through the words but the ideas will bog you down. Better to go back to arranging the library. I would file by "philosophy type" then by era (or alpha). YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Man, you kicked my butt...all I can list is Dashiell Hammett, Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain. Carl Barks??? Aren't you ducking the issue here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Harper Lee. Wait. Never mind, that was my mom's copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Not many and, as with music, mostly people who didn't write much Shakespeare Lewis Carroll (not the maths!) Patience Sonko-Godwin (West African historian) Thomas Beckford (Gothic horror) Peter Ratazzi (travel writer) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I hope I will grow old enough to read all of this ..... Already too late. It might be possible to get through the words but the ideas will bog you down. There's always hope! Better to go back to arranging the library. Done already! Next are the music books shelves as I gained some space there ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Carl Barks??? Aren't you ducking the issue here? No kidding! I have the single volumes Gladstone edition and love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Lewis Carroll (not the maths!) Thomas Beckford (Gothic horror) I forgot Lewis Carroll! I have some William Beckford ?!?! Any relation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Seems like there's a seed for a new thread here: Why do we collect all these books? It'll just have to wait until we solve the music addiction thing first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 There's no such thing as "(re)arrange the bookshelves" around this place. They, like the music, are random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Why do we collect all these books? That'a what I asked myself all the while - but, as with CDs, no cure in sight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 There's no such thing as "(re)arrange the bookshelves" around this place. They, like the music, are random. So, how are chances you buy doubles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 very small...but I've been known to replace copies that are really worn and still keep the first copy - usually because of a signature or some other personal connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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