02-05-2003 08:26									#1
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If you can, take a picture of it and/or give us a rundown of what's on it, or at least the gist of it.

Attached is a picture of my bookshelf (or at least the top two shelves, since the bottom shelf has books I haven't read in like...12 years and will eventually be displaced by more "interesting technical manuals" ). Also have a whole ton of textbooks I don't use very often (psychology, economics, history, philosophy of logic, linear algebra, calculus, discrete mathematics, etc) in boxes in the basement so they don't take up space. But anyway:

From left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed
A Practical Guide to Solaris
Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days
The Complete Reference: C++
The Complete Reference: Java 2
Pascal Programming and Problem Solving
Practical Visual C++ 6
Practical Visual Basic 6
Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 Hours
Java by Dissection
Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML
Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours
Fundamentals of Computing With C++
Data Structures with C++
Structured FORTRAN with WATFIV-S and WATFOR-11S (1976)
Calculus, Complex Numbers, and Polar Coordinates (1972)
Vectors, Matrices, and Algebraic Structures (1972)
Relations, Transformations, and Statistics (1972)
Technical Communications
Special Effects Programming with DirectX (8.0)
SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and C
Digital Design (circuit design)
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Extreme Programming Explained
Planning Extreme Programming
UML Distilled
Introduction to Algorithms (Second Edition)
Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
Algorithms in Java (parts 1-4)
Algorithms: Design Techniques and Analysis

Fun stuff!

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	02-05-2003 08:31									#2
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All the bookshlef in our house have double lines of books, unless the books are in crates, or in one of at least half a dozen large book boxes in storage, so it would take too long to write down what was asked.

Man, what a boring bookshelf

	02-05-2003 08:41									#3
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The Criminal Elite: Understanding White collar Crime
Testosterone Advantage
48 Laws of Power
Code of the Samurai
Mean Justice-The Bakersfield Incident
Insomnia-Stephen King...but never read it
a lot of criminal related books
and a lot of Star Wars books.

	02-05-2003 08:49									#4
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HI Franky.......



ACK!

	02-05-2003 08:50									#5
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2 years worth of Maxim and a tub of Vaseline...

	02-05-2003 08:51									#6
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Fate of the Earth
1876
August 1914
Russia The People and the Power
Compact Greece Maps and National Info
Germinal
Russia
Victorian People
Monkey
Revolution and Revolutionaries
Villa and Zapata
Inevitable Revolutions

can't be arsed to list the authors.

	02-05-2003 08:53									#7
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Oh, a bunch of Mursing books, my wifes, and a bunch of other books that are there also, but I'm at work so I can't see them.

ACK!

	02-05-2003 08:57									#8
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Imagine 16 shelves of books (one taken by CD's and Tapes), all but 2 witha double row of books, with extra books stuffed above these, each shelf holding an average of 50-60 pieces (for a total of about 900-1000 books, magazines). 4 shelf at elast are novels of all types, several mroe filled with history and political books, and some cookbooks.

There.

	02-05-2003 08:57									#9
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Except for GePap's, those are tiny bookshelves.

	02-05-2003 09:01									#10
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I got books laying around everywhere... but where my lamp is, is where most of them are:

Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
See No Evil - Robert Baer
Ronald Reagan (American Life) - Autobiography (Reagan)
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths At the CIA - Ted Gup
Art of War - Sun Tzu

	02-05-2003 09:01									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Except for GePap's, those are tiny bookshelves.

I don't do much (or any, to be more precise) reading aside from the technical stuff. And lots of the technical stuff is online now.

	02-05-2003 09:03									#12
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Most of my computer books are in the basement or the other study. There's only so much good that one can draw out of Visual Basic 4 Unleashed.

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	02-05-2003 09:04									#13
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BE HONEST LEO... WE KNOW YOU OWN "HOW CANADA CAN CONQUER THE US IN 10 DAYS"!!!

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The Rasputin File

	02-05-2003 09:15									#15
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BE HONEST LEO... WE KNOW YOU OWN "HOW CANADA CAN CONQUER THE US IN 10 DAYS"!!!

Why would I need to own it? After all, I had written it myself on this very computer.

	02-05-2003 09:17									#16
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touche!

	02-05-2003 09:24									#17
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Since I really got no bookshelf.. here are the five books laying around my room...

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	02-05-2003 09:31									#18
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Wow. Four really bad books and one really good one...

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Hmm............I got many books, but my FAV is:

WHY RUSSIA IS SUPERIOR TO AMERICA IN EVERY SINGLE WAY, a 5 paged report by MY SON

	02-05-2003 09:35									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Tassadar5000 Hmm............I got many books, but my FAV is: WHY RUSSIA IS SUPERIOR TO AMERICA IN EVERY SINGLE WAY, a 5 paged report by MY SON

No wonder why your anti-American arguments are never coherent.

	02-05-2003 09:37									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Asher No wonder why your anti-American arguments are never coherent.

	02-05-2003 09:42									#22
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Oh geez - thousands.

When I moved from Vancouver to Toronto last year I had the pleasure of packing them all, so I know that I have way too many. Many are still in boxes, storage, etc.

I go through books like water. I also have a compulsion to buy and read everything of an author or series that I get into. For example, I have 73 Star Wars novels.

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Please tell me you were 14 at the time of purchase.

	02-05-2003 09:55									#24
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Wow. Four really bad books and one really good one...

Sucker.

You don't know what is bad or good... They are all good.

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I should also mention: Bily Wilder: American Film Realist, and a Stanley Kubrick reader, plus a book on dadaism and modern art. A really good one, too.

	02-05-2003 10:14									#26
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Depends what bookshelf we're talking about here. I will go with the one that has the books I actually enjoy on them:

THE AGE OF REASON (Thomas Paine)
1984 (George Orwell)
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (Kurt Vonnegut... borrowed)
THE MASKS OF GOD: OCCIDENTAL MYTHOLOGY (Joseph Campbell)
THE POWER OF MYTH (Joseph Campbell)
THE INNER SECRETS OF OUTER SPACE (Joseph Campbell)
ANDROMEDA STRAIN (Michael Crichton... the only book of his I actually like)
KING RAT (James Clavell)
BOURNE IDENTIY (Robery Ludlum... tasty pulp)
EUROPE: A BRIEF HISTORY (George A. Rothrock)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENAUER
UTILITARIANISM (J.S. Mill)
THE NAZARENE (Sholem Asch)

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Yes, I know I am pitifully undercultured.

Don't shame me with your gigantic bookcases!

	02-05-2003 10:30									#27
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One of these days, I'm going to set up a card catalogue.

Yes, I have that many books.

	02-05-2003 14:43									#28
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I've got 25 shelves of books, 23 if we consolidated them all... and I consider our collection to be rather small. Laura and I constantly recycle books as we read them, meaning that we have to get rid of books periodically as they pile up.

My shelves are divided in to 2 sections: Non-fiction and fiction. With a few exceptions, fiction books are alphabetized by author and then by title/series (I'll ignore the title if the book is part of a series - then I'll put it in the series order). My non-fiction shelves are divided into categories (Biography/business/entertainment/history/etc), then within the categories author/title alphabetizing takes over again.

	02-05-2003 14:44									#29
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Wow. Four really bad books and one really good one...

Had no idea you were such a big Clancy fan... or is it the Reagan book that you like?

	02-05-2003 14:45									#30
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Most of my computer books are in the basement or the other study. There's only so much good that one can draw out of Visual Basic 4 Unleashed.

I have quite a number of those books, myself. Hyperion rocks!