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Bibliotheca Arpyandria

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I recently went through the mini-library contained within my closet, and, after clearing out some of the books, decided to post the survivors here so you can see the sort of things I like to read. (Disclaimer: Some of these may not actually reflect my current tastes, since I might have left them on the shelf due to some sort of nostalgic feeling gained from the impact they had on me when I was younger.) It’s an eclectic mix, to say the least. There are Newbery Medals and Honors, cheap ‘80s and ‘90s sci-fi paperbacks, serious books, humourous books (Yay British spelling), dreadfully thick novels and nonfiction, and oh, about 140 Star Trek paperbacks. And then there’s the books scattered about the house and the ones I get from the library from time to time, which aren’t listed.

 

Anyway, here’s the list. I’ve encased the titles in acronym tags with the author’s name in them. They’re in order, left to right, descending from the top of my shelves, and mostly alphabetized by the author’s last name.

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Life, the Universe, and Everything
  • Smuggler’s Island
  • One More River
  • Anna of Byzantium
  • Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits
  • Twenty and Ten
  • Light a Single Candle
  • Spider-Man: The Sinister Six Combo –Gotta love thrift-store finds--
  • The Aquarius Mission
  • Xenocide
  • I Am America (And So Can You!)
  • The Silver Chalice
  • Madame Curie –Not yet read by me, kept because it’s over 60 years old--
  • Boy
  • Going Solo –Used to have more of his books but they disappeared--
  • The Sea Runners
  • The Time Garden
  • The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
  • Bionicle Adventures 1-10
  • Bionicle Legends 1,2, 4-9 –Never bought Power Play, for some reason--
  • Metru Nui, Gity of Legends; Rahi Beasts; Dark Hunters
  • Johnny Tremain
  • Cat-A-Lyst
  • The Slave Dancer
  • My Side of the Mountain
  • Running Out of Time
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Dune
  • Dune Messiah
  • Dither Farm
  • The Dot and the Line –Best mix of geometry and romance ever, highly recommended--
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Shock Waves
  • Karen
  • Last of the Breed
  • Jubal Sackett
  • The Haunted Mesa
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • A Wind in the Door
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  • The Arm of the Starfish
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Dave at Night
  • Out of the Silent Planet
  • Perelandra
  • The Screwtape Letters
  • The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • The Time Traders
  • Zia
  • Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
  • Brian’s Winter
  • The River
  • The Twenty-One Balloons
  • Little Fuzzy
  • Harry Potter and the {insert=“phrase” <RANGE>= 1-7 /end;} –Copy of book one in Latin--
  • Holes
  • The Little Prince –Copy in Latin--
  • The 101 Dalmatians
  • Starfighters of Adumar
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Let the Circle Be Unbroken
  • The Road to Memphis
  • The Hobbit –An on-again, off-again pastime of mine is writing “Honk 4 Hobbits” in the dust on our van’s windows--
  • Anna Karenina
  • Banner in the Sky
  • Dealing With Dragons –WIN, same for the other three books of the Chronicles--
  • Searching for Dragons
  • Goodbye, Vietnam
  • Trapped in Space
  • The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
  • The PreHistory of The Far Side
  • Unnatural Selections
  • Beyond the Far Side
  • The Far Side Observer
  • Bucky Katt’s Big Book O’ FUN
  • The Dog is Not a Toy
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Say Cheesy
  • Scrum Bums
  • Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails --<3 Bone--
  • Essential X-Men Vols. #1-3 –Claremont + Cockrum FTW—
And then there are some miscellaneous nonfiction, old textbooks that I like, a History of the Popes, my Lego Magazine and catalog collection, a couple ancient (read: back to 1945) National Geographics, The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, a solitary issue of Muse, the aforementioned ~140 Star Trek books, and that’s about it. I’d be interested to compare my collection with other people’s personal libraries, so take the time to inventory yours and post it here or in your blog! Please?

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Bundalings
I've only heard of the Hitchhiker's Guide, I am America, the Bionicle books, the Hobbit, and the Get Fuzzy books.

And the Far Side stuff.

What, no LOTR?

BtB

Edit: And Calvin and Hobbes.
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ChocolateFrogs

I've read the Bionicle ones, Running out of Time, The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wrinkle in Time (need to read A Wind in the Door, et all), The Screwtape Letters, Harry Potter, Holes, the Little Prince, The Hobbit, and Calvin and Hobbes.

 

Maybe I should pick up I Am America, but I know very little about Colbert and his humor.

 

I think I'll inventory my collection....

 

-CF

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Dark Wanderer

What about the rest of the H2G2 books? So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless? Or Young Zaphod Plays It Safe? Of course, that's been edited in America due to.... insulting a president. You can get a paperback of the Ultimate H2G2 at Barnes and Noble for $18.95.

 

My favorite books list would take up way too much space. It's roughly a googol characters long.

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Nukora
How is it that you have Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra but not...whatever the third one is called?
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Arpy

Lundabings: No LotR. They're right up there with Wuthering Heights on my list of books that I actively loathe reading due to boringness. The Hobbit isn't nearly as bad.

 

Karzahni's Servant: Alas, would that I had a Barnes & Noble within less than 2 hours' driving time! But I don't like those two as much as the first three, and I can get them from the library anyway.

 

Nukora: It wasn't with the other two when I bought them from a thrift store, and I can get it from the library.

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Dark Wanderer

Yeah, the end of Mostly Harmless is a little.... anti-climactic. Try finding The Salmon of Doubt at a library; it's his biography. And part of a new H2G2 book...

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