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Benedict Arnold

What sort of books do you (would you) own?

Do you own any fiction, non-fiction, reference books, manuals, or would you answer by asking "What's a book?"

Posted - March 6, 2017
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  • Most of my books are non fiction. Mostly theology, exegesis and the like. Classics as Beowulf, Sir Gwain, some Will Shakes. Ol' Chaucey.  Currently reading some Charles DeLint.
      March 6, 2017 6:16 PM MST
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  • I was never able to summon up enough interest to read Chaucer. I must do that one day. It'd be a shame to shuffle off this planet without ever having read him. But Charles de Lint: Didn't he write Greenmantle? Fascinating story.
      March 6, 2017 7:47 PM MST
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  • The Miller's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale, The Knight's Tale... read them.   Not sure about Greenmantle.
      March 6, 2017 8:00 PM MST
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  • Greenmantle: Think of the Mafia in Fairyland. That's not quite it. It's almost as though Brigadoon ws transported to Canada and the woods were populated with mysteries.
      March 6, 2017 8:03 PM MST
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    nonnee there's plenty to read on the internet- especially from sites like this.
      March 6, 2017 6:22 PM MST
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    lol. you're welcome WingedWonder :D 
      March 7, 2017 9:26 AM MST
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  • Well, there's always that. But I'm a little surprised, Skunky. Haven't you even read this one:
     
      March 6, 2017 7:52 PM MST
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    but its all a conspiracy.  its just what they want you to think about Skunks but as for the slug... he's just harmless slow poke.
      March 7, 2017 9:28 AM MST
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    The only books I keep are the ones I haven't yet read.  I only buy paperbacks which I send to my best friend, she reads them, her sister and neighbor read them and then we send them off to Operation Gratitude to include in their care packages to the troops.  I have no book shelves anymore - just dust collectors - and I rarely read a book more than once.  I prefer fiction - adventure, spy novels, etc.
      March 6, 2017 6:25 PM MST
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  • A few people have said similar things. Thanks, Spunky.
      March 6, 2017 7:53 PM MST
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    So I notied and I'd be willing to bet that none of them are Millenials. :)

      March 7, 2017 1:55 PM MST
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  • I own hundreds of books. I often don't keep literature, since I can find it easily at the library and I rarely re-read fiction, but I do have a collection of some more esteemed fiction, especially if it's a fairly pristine copy that I picked up at a used book store. I also own many linguistics books, including textbooks and collections of research papers. I also own plenty of reference books, dictionaries, grammars, atlases, and maps. 
      March 6, 2017 6:34 PM MST
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  • Quite a wide selection. I also have a couple of necessary grammar texts but my reference books are minimal now. It's so easy to find what I need on the Net.
      March 6, 2017 7:55 PM MST
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  • 318
    Fiction, non fiction, many classics. I enjoy old books like Mark Twain, Some poetry
    I have two sets of Gibbons Rome (The older was never read and many of the pages were never cut properly, so pages are not all separate) The newer set I tried to read, but after half of the first volume I gave up. Maybe I should try that again :))
      March 6, 2017 6:47 PM MST
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  • Have you read Twain's humor classic "1601" and "On Onanism"?
      March 6, 2017 7:16 PM MST
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    No, I have not. Perhaps I can find them and give them a try.  I really enjoyed "The Innocents Abroad" Whenever we go on a cruise I see people from that book onboard, and get a good laugh.
      March 7, 2017 9:19 AM MST
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  • You will find both online for free.
      March 7, 2017 9:20 AM MST
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  • "Another thick book for me to read, Mr Gibbons?" Yeah, that would be a bit daunting. It'd be well worthwhile, though.
      March 6, 2017 7:56 PM MST
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  • As we are discussing books here are some curious books. The following have been translated into Klingon: The Bible, Macbeth, Hamlet and Gilgamesh.  The Bible has been translated into lol cat speak and is available free online.
      March 6, 2017 7:15 PM MST
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  • I hope somebody wrote a program to do those translations. It would be difficult -- and time consuming -- to do it by hand. 
      March 6, 2017 7:58 PM MST
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  • I have several hard copy IT books to reference if I need them for Windows PCs and servers as well as Linux PCs and servers. For a while, I had two copies of The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman (which I highly recommend) but now I can't find either one of them... I hate moving. I own several fiction books like Lord of The Rings but they are all e-books through Kindle including your own book, The Mistress of Dimmiga Berg.
      March 6, 2017 7:24 PM MST
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  • Always gives me a good feel when somebody says that. Thanks, Corey. 

    I have a ricepaper edition of LOTR. Mrs Didge gave it to me for a birthday back in the 1980sl 
      March 6, 2017 7:59 PM MST
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    My eyes are old and tired, so books are not as much fun as they used to be. But I am a member of this bunch: https://www.facebook.com/groups/littlefreelibraryofficial/
      March 7, 2017 8:35 AM MST
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  • I didn't know they had a group like that. Thanks, Jewels. 
      March 7, 2017 1:33 PM MST
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    All sorts of non-fiction, instruction-manuals & reference books but little fiction.

    I'm part way through a hefty science-fiction novel, Peter Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction, but haven't re-started reading it after a long break, so I'll have forgotten who's who among its long, complex cast, characters and settings, and will have to start again!

    BBC TV once dramatised Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast - with great gusto - and it so appealed to my liking for a mixture of fantasy and surreal daftness I promised myself I'd buy the book, but still haven't some 20 years later! 

    BBC Radio Four also once dramatised a British children's novel Disney had mangled and I'd endured vicariously thanks to my young sisters having seen the film and insisting on singing bits of the ghastly songs, and I made myself listen to see what the fuss was about. It was enlightening: I can't say I enjoyed it, but the "real" Mary Poppins was stranger and rather darker than the Hollywood travesty of Mary Traver's story.   
      April 1, 2017 5:43 PM MDT
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