what... are... you... READING

[DirtDawg]

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.

I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.

I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.

[DirtDawg]

Classics, indeed. I have three different translations of Odyssey and Iliad,  two of Homeric Hymns  and  Phocais, one each of Thebaid, Nostoi,  and  Epigone.

Another one of my personal heroes, Homer! I keep him near my toilet, just in case.

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

that is a capital offence, at least!   

It's a physical space "lack-of" thing. I must choose between music I have heard and books I have read.

It sucks, but I can't stop buying books or music. I just don't have any place to keep them forever.

[Tristeza]

I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.

I'd do the same thing, I know it! 

Don't think I could donate many books.  I always scribble so many notes in most of mine.

[DirtDawg]

I feel your pain   My mum always moans that I buy too many books.  I have to keep them in several stacks around my room because there is no space for them 

I have the Rieu translation, do you know it?

Yes, quite. I found a reciting of that one on CD for my son. I don't know how much of it he actually absorbed, but the narrator's accent intrigued him and he finished the collection.
I ripped it. I'll have to look and see if I noted the voice talent.**



**Ian McKlellan.

[DirtDawg]

I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.

I'd do the same thing, I know it! 

Don't think I could donate many books.  I always scribble so many notes in most of mine.

That's cool. Why not?

[ozymandias]

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.

I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.

I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.

 I hear you, but I have given away more books than I can count for the following reasons:

A) No space
B) I'll never read them again.
C) Lost interest in the subject
D) I have read it so many times that I have the plot memorized.
E) I am so tired of carting them around from place to place to place
F) It frees up more space to buy more books!    THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON!  

[DirtDawg]

(I own too many books. My wife wants me to screamline my books (YET again!!) and fucking give some MORE away, FFS!)

I could never agree to that sort of thing. Never.

I get to choose who and which ones. I have given many books away to special people, but just the right book, if I can.

I donated a few hundred (sixteen good sized boxes) to the local library (I died a bit) when we sold our big house and moved into this one. She laughs at me when I go there and check one of them out to re-read.

 I hear you, but I have given away more books than I can count for the following reasons:

A) No space
B) I'll never read them again.
C) Lost interest in the subject
D) I have read it so many times that I have the plot memorized.
E) I am so tired of carting them around from place to place to place
F) It frees up more space to buy more books!    THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON!  

Saw right through me, eh?

 

[Parts]

A technical book on oil burners

[Lucifer]

"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

[Nocturnalist!]

"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.

[Lucifer]

"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.

i'll let you know, shall i?

the problem for me is that it's by an american psychologist, so some of it isn't pertinent to brit crime and stuff. 

[Nocturnalist!]

"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.

i'll let you know, shall i?

Yes please

Question: why is it different in England... is it the phraseology. Surely we have similar crimes in the UK as in the US... I thought it was only the English language and the NHS that separated the two nations.

[Lucifer]

"the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

That one sounds REALLY interesting... I might buy that also.

i'll let you know, shall i?

Yes please

Question: why is it different in England... is it the phraseology. Surely we have similar crimes in the UK as in the US... I thought it was only the English language and the NHS that separated the two nations.

police procedures are different, plus diagnosis and treatment, generally.

it hasn't been a problem so far, but i'm sort of being a cassandra about it.  i'm not terribly good at optimism. 

[odeon]

"what you make it" (short stories) by michael marshall smith; "the intruders" by michael marshall (yes, it's the same person); "the criminal mind: a writer's guide to forensic psychology" by katherine ramsland.

That Katherine Ramsland? Anne Rice's #1 fan?

[odeon]

"Beggar's Banquet" by Ian Rankin, and "The Tony Blair Years" by Alastair Campbell.