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How many Books do you own ?

Y_lifter

Y_lifter

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I'm not much into owning CD's or DVD's but I do love books..

I have 2 huge bookshelves maybe 7 ft tall, 5 ft across filled up almost..
Probably 300 or so..

I rarely buy them new ($6 for a paper back?) but rather buy them used
at used book stores or the library.. Mostly paper back due to space.

I've got almost every Dean Koontz novel ..
 
I would say around 300 or so myself as well.

Mostly fiction....I own every John Grisham novel.



But now all i read are stupid fucking textbooks :worried:
 
I recently became interested in reading again. Something I haven't had in years. After I am through with the LOTR (I've about 100 pages left :)), I'm gonna go out and buy something else. Reading is neat.
 
I'm reading the Da'vinici Code FZ. You'd like it.
 
Da Vinci Code was pretty cool. that one was hard to put down. What part are you at Woahdie?

I just finished "Requiem for a Dream." I've never seen the movie before, but what a cool book. It's basically two concurrent stories of a mother and son's downward spiral into drug addiction. Supposedly the movie does the book justice. I'll probably rent it this weekend.
Now I'm reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eudgenides which was written a couple years ago and won a Pulitzer for fiction. It's a novel about a hermaphrodite who grows up thinking he/she is a girl, but then at age 14 doctors find out he's more of a male but has both genitals.

I just started getting back into reading about a year and a half ago after not having done shit basically since high school and have around 80-100 books. I need to catch up with Wodin.
 
supersizeme said:
Da Vinci Code was pretty cool. that one was hard to put down. What part are you at Woahdie?

I just finished "Requiem for a Dream." I've never seen the movie before, but what a cool book. It's basically two concurrent stories of a mother and son's downward spiral into drug addiction. Supposedly the movie does the book justice. I'll probably rent it this weekend.
Now I'm reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eudgenides which was written a couple years ago and won a Pulitzer for fiction. It's a novel about a hermaphrodite who grows up thinking he/she is a girl, but then at age 14 doctors find out he's more of a male but has both genitals.

I just started getting back into reading about a year and a half ago after not having done shit basically since high school and have around 80-100 books. I need to catch up with Wodin.
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Requiem for a Dream is a very good movie... you'll like it.

I didn't realize it was a book... i'll have to read that.
 
supersizeme said:
Da Vinci Code was pretty cool. that one was hard to put down. What part are you at Woahdie?

I just finished "Requiem for a Dream." I've never seen the movie before, but what a cool book. It's basically two concurrent stories of a mother and son's downward spiral into drug addiction. Supposedly the movie does the book justice. I'll probably rent it this weekend.
Now I'm reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eudgenides which was written a couple years ago and won a Pulitzer for fiction. It's a novel about a hermaphrodite who grows up thinking he/she is a girl, but then at age 14 doctors find out he's more of a male but has both genitals.

I just started getting back into reading about a year and a half ago after not having done shit basically since high school and have around 80-100 books. I need to catch up with Wodin.
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That's the best way to do it. Read the book and then watch the movie.

Most of the time the movie will be a little disappointing but in this case the movie is very well done.
 
Ok, I had a library room at one time. It was the size of a double car garage. Floor to ceiling bookcases on all walls. The shelves were FILLED and I had boxes of books still in the garage.
 
Outside of Koontz, One of my favorites has been

Replay
by Ken Grimwood

Jeff Winston, a failing 43-year-old radio journalist, dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact.
After recovering from the shock (is the future a dream, or is it real life?), he plays out missed choices and uses the knowledge of the future to his advantage.
In one life, for example, he falls in love with Pamela, another replayer a housewife who died nine minutes after Jeff; they try to warn the world of the disasters it faces, coming in conflict with the government and history.
A third replayer turns out to be a serial killer, murdering the same people over and over.
 
ChewYxRage said:
That's the best way to do it. Read the book and then watch the movie.

Most of the time the movie will be a little disappointing but in this case the movie is very well done.
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Trudat. That just happend to me with "The Count of Monte Cristo." Awesome shmawesome book, but the movie took a steaming dump all over it.

Y - did you read "Tick Tock?" I haven't read much Koontz...just that and "Survivor," but "Tick Tock" I got a big kick out of.
 
supersizeme said:
Y - did you read "Tick Tock?" I haven't read much Koontz...just that and "Survivor," but "Tick Tock" I got a big kick out of.
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Other than his last 3 books, I have read them all..
Some of the best are the ones from the 80's

Lightning
Watchers
Strangers
Intensity and FUNHOUSE (yowsa gruesome)
Sole Survivor was also good..

Tick Tock ... Kenny Phong was it? His Mom was LOL
The beginning with that thing in his house in the dark.. damn !



Common theme with him is good against evil with evil winning in the end.
 
Yeah Kenny Phong I think...and his mom was a crackup. I had a big crush on that woman who helped him out by the end of that book. What a cool chick.

I totally left out the word "Sole" in "Sole Survivor."
 
I'd say I have around a 1,000 or so...alot of poetry, peterson field guides, biography, and a mix of fiction and fantasy...Love to read, just finished the Divinci Code...Killer Read, and from what I have read...Replay is next on the list.

Thanks for the recommendations...


Ranger
 
I don't know the number, but I have a bookcase five foot wide and about seven foot tall that is packed with books. I also have two large boxes in my storage shed that are full of books.

I need more room. :(


Plus I just bought four more books last night. :worried:
 
Amazon used books are good, but the best is our county Library for used books.
paper backs for .50c and most are in good condition
 
The Ranger said:
I'd say I have around a 1,000 or so...alot of poetry, peterson field guides, biography, and a mix of fiction and fantasy...Love to read, just finished the Divinci Code...Killer Read, and from what I have read...Replay is next on the list.

Thanks for the recommendations...


Ranger
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Ranger, have you read any Stephen R. Donaldson? Fantasy beyond repute: The Gap Series but more importantly The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

great stuff.
 
I have hundreds despite having moved a number of times, throwing out and donating books when I did my packing. I have books from my teens and textbooks I kept from high school and college.
 
that's unknown right now but i'll say around 1000 which consist of comic books,bodybuilding books,starwars books, and other crap i have collected over the years.
 
coldblue1955 said:
that's unknown right now but i'll say around 1000 which consist of comic books,bodybuilding books,starwars books, and other crap i have collected over the years.
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I didn't even think to count comic books. I collected for some years until about 1995 when the 'market' was ruined. I had shares of Marvel then as well. Somewhere among my thousands is an issue of X-Files #1. I don't know if it's worth anything today.
 
WODIN said:
seriously... a couple thousand or so.
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I might be there too. I'm a book fanatic. Once I start a book I usually won't stop until I'm finished. That's a bad habit of mine.

I've been meaning to add them all up, but I haven't been able to get around it. My office has wall to wall bookshelves and that only held a fraction of what I have. I've never sold a book - nor will I. :) I will usually re-read a book sometime down the road. I still have all the books from when I was a little kid and it's pretty neat watching my kids read them all over again.

The movers hate me when it's time to back up my house. It takes them FOREVER to box up my books, then they have to lug those things around.

If I ever build a custom house, it's gonna have a bunch of built-in book cases.
 
hahaha.. this is the "hey fellow morons, look how smart I am, I read books!" thread....
 
I have everything from Danielle Steele, to John Grisham to the harry potter collection....i got over 500 books
 
Between myself, and my mother and siblings(3), close to 10,000

We have like 8 sets of encyclopedias.
 
Y_Lifter said:
One of the most important things I have passed on to my 12 yr old
daughter is the love of reading.
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My grandfather did the same for me, as I have to my daughter.....

Every Saturday, from the time I was 3 until almost 9 my grandpa would pick me up, take me to the library, read to me, and let me pick out a book to take home......than we would go to McDonalds and chow down........Happy Meal, with orange drink.........

Perhaps one of my fondest childhood memories........

I have around 200 or so books...all fiction......and then I have all of my industry (cars) publications in my office.......don't know how many of those there are.........

My daughter loves to read......she just started the Ramona The Pest Series.....pretty advanced for a 5 year old........ :)
 
Y_Lifter said:
Amazon used books are good, but the best is our county Library for used books.
paper backs for .50c and most are in good condition
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The main reason I only have around 200 or so books around the house....is I sell all my old ones on E-Bay......buy em there too.

If anyone likes cop/murder mystery books.......
Check out John Sandford's Prey Series....there are around 11 or so I think......excellent books.......character development is better in the latter books......but they are all good.......the main character Lucas Davenport reminds me a lot of what I think I would be like if I was a cop........ :)
 
ChefWide said:
Ranger, have you read any Stephen R. Donaldson? Fantasy beyond repute: The Gap Series but more importantly The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

great stuff.
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Years ago, I liked the stories of our leper friend....Try Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth series...starting with Wizards First Rule...Best I have read in quite a long time my man...


Ranger
 
The Ranger said:
Years ago, I liked the stories of our leper friend....Try Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth series...starting with Wizards First Rule...Best I have read in quite a long time my man...


Ranger
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Will do, I am in serious need of new fantasy in my den... er... books that is (don't want to arrouse the ire of Mrs. Chef... lol)

I was just re-reading Frank Herbert's White Plague, always works well for a quick one, I am sure you have read that, but its worth a read if not.
 
Y_Lifter said:
I am supposed to be getting a borrowed copy of this today...

I'll let you know how good I think it is...
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If you don't get it my man...I'll save my copy for ya...excellent read, and full of great historical facts and trivia...


Ranger
 
few hundred around the place..in boxes etc usually, cause i cant bear to get rid of them

i used to travel a bit and so got used to using a library...much better if you are organised and order books from other libraries etc

i also read a lot off my laptop..always meant to get a pda just for my ebooks, but never really got around to it..soon soon :)

id love to have a library in my home though...but i get the feeling it would just get too damn big and musty
 
Y_Lifter said:
One of the most important things I have passed on to my 12 yr old
daughter is the love of reading.
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That really is a great thing to teach a child. My family always read to me when I was a little kid and when I was learning to read, I would read to them. We did this with my baby brothers and sister when they were little too. I even remember a lot of the books that were read to me :).
 
My parents have an extensive library - my mother collects books (and inherited a lot from her parents), some date back to the beginning of the 20th century. Me, I love to read, but my books are textbooks, the rest comes from the University library :o
I ain't flipping my dimes, since books are so damn expensive in this country :martini:
 
pitbullstl said:
If anyone likes cop/murder mystery books.......
Check out John Sandford's Prey Series....there are around 11 or so I think......excellent books.......character development is better in the latter books......but they are all good.......the main character Lucas Davenport reminds me a lot of what I think I would be like if I was a cop........ :)
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I love John Sanford's Prey series. I have all of them. Lucas Davenport is the man!
 
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