Your bookshelf

[Hudson]

Now I consider myself an avid, I read alot, and my to read pile is growing to encompass now 60 books or so, some of them only a first one in a trilogy.
I got fantasy mostly and I've recently begun buying Crime fiction, got some Raymond Chandler, James ellroy, Dashiell Hammett, and some other good stuff.
What's your bookshelf like?

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

true crime studies, some fantasy (especially Piers anthony), tv and movie trivia, various editions of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, Stephen King, and natural history/mysteries

 

[black_dust]

Not very full.

I have both Bruce campbell books
A Few Andy Kaufman books
The Terminator books after T2 by Cameron
And 5 Phillip K dick books.


Thats it!

 

[Darthphere]

Top shelf is TPB's, Graphic Novels and Hardcovers, Second shelf is an array of novels, 3rd shelf is reference material, and bottom shelf is art books.

 

[enterthemadness]

Umm...AVP Novel...Jason X 2 and 3...and the anamorphs prequel book.

 

[BRUTAL]

Lots of Chrichton, an almost complete works of Poe, some Robert Frost and various books I've collected while reasearching stuff for screenplays... and of course graphic novels galore...

 

[muertevilla]

stephen king, anne rice, james o'barr, lama surya das, dan brown, and a crap load others..but stephen is the man and i read mostly him...

 

[redmarvel]

Ok, I buy books, read them and give them away...

However, there are some authors who remain on my shelves:

The entire Readers Digest collection of Agatha Christie
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series (approx 10 of them so far)
Earl Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series (approx 10 of them so far)
Douglas Adams - Hitch-hikers Guide Series, Long Dark Teatime of the Soul series, Last Chance to See & Meaning of Liff #2.
H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy Series (including the 2 books written by other authors after his death)
Some stuff by Anne McCaffrey, Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
The entire Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

and there's a lot of other stuff up there too... The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, a couple of music books, and I don't know what all else... and that's not including my comic collection which I keep in Binders on my Bookshelves... I have 5 or 6 Bookshelves standing 7 feet high and 3 feet wide filled up.

Now we're getting children's books for my son too...

 

[BRUTAL]

King's ONLY good stuff is the non-horror short stories, outside of that he's a hack... same with Koontz, except Koontz sucks all the time.

 

[C. Lee]

I have too many to name, but here's a quick list;

All Robert E. Howard
All Edgar Rice Burroughs
All Isaac Asimov
All Ray Bradbury
All Robert Heinlein
All Doc Savage
All The Avenger
The Shadow
The Spider
All Louis L'Amour
Max Brand
The Tarnsman of Gor series
....many many more of all genres

 

[Kyalesyin]

Holy hell, I have more books than I can ever hope to name or memorise. We're pushing the multiple thousands in this little house.

Lot of Asimov. Lot of Heinlein, lot of Poppy Z Bryte, Pratchett, S L Viehl, Kelly Armstrong...

I spend so much of my time reading its incredable, and my wife is a writer, so the inspiration comes in handy.

 

[Immortalfire]

FoxTrot collections
Calvin & Hobbes collections
Garfield collections
History books
Titanic books

 

[Hudson]

books I've read:

my little to read pile:

my bigger one:
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[Kyalesyin]

Squeak! You have the Green Angel Tower series! I love that! I read the last two books over one weekend. I love Tad Williams. Seriously, read that series next. Or I'll tell you how it ends.

 

[Hudson]

Squeak! You have the Green Angel Tower series! I love that! I read the last two books over one weekend. I love Tad Williams. Seriously, read that series next. Or I'll tell you how it ends.

I've read it, that was my Already read pile.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Crap. That'll teach me to get excited and not read the thread.

Did the false messenger thing kick you in the head at the end too? I had no idea the false messenger was the propehcy about the swords all along.

 

[Hudson]

Crap. That'll teach me to get excited and not read the thread.

Did the false messenger thing kick you in the head at the end too? I had no idea the false messenger was the propehcy about the swords all along.

honestly I found the ending somewhat anticlimatic, compared to the build up through 2 thousand pages.
but they were really good books.

 

[Kyalesyin]

I didn't so much, although the 'wow, the servant boy is really the legitimate heir' thing rang kind of hollow- overdone cliche much. Even so, the whole thing kept me hooked. I was kind of glad it was over though, considering the sheer size of the series. Epic doesn't quite cover it.

 

[Hudson]

I didn't so much, although the 'wow, the servant boy is really the legitimate heir' thing rang kind of hollow- overdone cliche much. Even so, the whole thing kept me hooked. I was kind of glad it was over though, considering the sheer size of the series. Epic doesn't quite cover it.

I've read longer series and it aint even done, but yeah it was a huge story. Really good though.

 

[04nbod]

let me see
his dark materials
harry potter- all
lord of the rings
regeneration-pat barker
enduring love- ian mcewan
crappy kids books i haven't thrown out yet
star wars stuff
lord of the rings visual guide
various encyclopaedias and history books
the complete art of drawing
how to draw anything
discovering life on earth
Hippie- a look into hippy art and culture
a cookbook
mucha- his art
art of x2 and x3
and neighbours- thats not mine, i swear

...and lots of shakespeare ...of course

 

[Kyalesyin]

I've read longer series and it aint even done, but yeah it was a huge story. Really good though.

I think its the biggest one I managed to read all the way though. I was impressed that he was able to keep the characters consistent all the way through.. enough that I can still remember a lot of their names now, nearly five years on.

 

[redmarvel]

I have too many to name, but here's a quick list;

All Robert E. Howard
All Edgar Rice Burroughs
All Isaac Asimov
All Ray Bradbury
All Robert Heinlein
All Doc Savage
All The Avenger
The Shadow
The Spider
All Louis L'Amour
Max Brand
The Tarnsman of Gor series
....many many more of all genres

I have some Doc Savage, they're fun.

I tried reading Louis L'Amour once... and that was more than enough. His female characters were just too laughable for me to get into the book.

When I'm done reading Asimov or Heinlein I give the books to my sister, so I don't own any copies but have read many of their books.

 

[Childlike Wild]

My bookshelf is taken over by DVDs, and my books, which are scattered around the room, are either for school or one of fewer than ten books I have for my own amusement.

The fewer than ten includes a book on etiquette, an excellent book on punctuation, a copy of The Preppy Handbook from the 80's, Kahlil Gibran, and things related to my major that are not actually for school.

At home I have more, but my personal library at school is limited.

 

[twylight]

To many to actually name authors off so I'll give a brief genre list:

Mysteries (Mostly Agatha Cristie, Rex Stout, Louis L'Amour and Dashiell Hammett)
Fantasy/Sci Fi (C.S.Lewis, Douglas Adams, Frank Peretti)
Graphic Novels
WWII History Books
Military Biographies
Classics

Doesn't sound like a whole lot bit it's a largeish bookcase and the books are stacked one on top of another precariously.

I need another Bookcase.

 

[Hudson]

I just bought, 7 books today... god help me