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The Führer loved him, so I'm sure I will too. Tom Send a noteboard - 13/07/2012 04:46:10 AM
Seriously, I am not averse to popular writers as long as someone doesn't ascribe to them some sort of value they don't have. With Druon I think I was expecting too much. With May I am looking for Orientalist condescension and adventure writing, no more. It's more that Germans love him, he's been translated widely, and as a "cultural" phenomenon I'd like to read his six-part "Oriental Series". I doubt I'd like his American Indian novels, given that they're so inaccurate and I live in the US, but his Orientalist novels...well, sure, I'll go along for the ride as he explains the life of the savage Mussulman heathens.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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/Survey: the changing face of home libraries Tom - 12/07/2012 12:27:26 AM 2449 Views
Well... jh - 12/07/2012 10:08:20 AM 1079 Views
The obsessive compulsive in me won't let me stack books in corners. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:53:57 PM 937 Views
Not even if you stack them in really neat piles? You need to get your C.D.O. checked. *NM* jh - 17/07/2012 08:07:42 PM 412 Views
My collateralized debt obligation? I hate those things. Tom - 17/07/2012 08:15:30 PM 943 Views
No, no... CDO is just... jh - 18/07/2012 11:19:20 AM 948 Views
Ah...see I'm not quite that bad in that respect. Tom - 18/07/2012 01:19:06 PM 1320 Views
And neat piles are still clutter. *NM* Tom - 17/07/2012 10:29:00 PM 442 Views
Um nossy - 12/07/2012 02:05:17 PM 1088 Views
You had a free bookshelf above the headboard of the bed in a spare room? Lucky you Tom - 15/07/2012 01:52:42 PM 983 Views
Maybe if we constructed some kind of spatial distortion device? nossy - 16/07/2012 02:55:50 AM 1041 Views
we just keep buying more bookshelves... and putting books in different rooms *NM* temeraire - 12/07/2012 04:26:56 PM 428 Views
That worked for the first ten years in this home... *NM* Tom - 15/07/2012 01:48:35 PM 420 Views
Karl May? Interesting. Legolas - 12/07/2012 07:36:42 PM 1008 Views
The Führer loved him, so I'm sure I will too. Tom - 13/07/2012 04:46:10 AM 972 Views
Heh. Legolas - 13/07/2012 11:00:41 PM 1035 Views
You people are wussies Larry - 12/07/2012 07:56:20 PM 1294 Views
I got the BUR edition in a little box. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:48:04 PM 945 Views
That is odd Larry - 17/07/2012 02:56:52 PM 1084 Views
Well, you know my opinion of used books Tom - 17/07/2012 05:00:13 PM 1025 Views
I must not be very sensitive to those smells Larry - 17/07/2012 05:57:35 PM 1111 Views
When I run out of space on my bookshelves... HyogaRott - 12/07/2012 08:50:13 PM 1114 Views
And what will you do when you run out of space for bookshelves? Tom - 15/07/2012 01:42:18 PM 1007 Views
I take books I haven't read in several years to Half Priced Books... a tiny refund on my purchases. *NM* Macharius - 13/07/2012 01:44:18 AM 421 Views
Books from paper ? How peculiar. Orange - 13/07/2012 09:48:50 AM 942 Views
Some of us hate eBooks. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:40:27 PM 966 Views
Thankfully I haven't had to make such hard decisions yet A Deathwatch Guard - 15/07/2012 08:11:57 AM 1013 Views
Yeah, I can't go and buy a 21st bookcase. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:38:56 PM 904 Views
*snorts* We'll see how long that lasts this time. *NM* Legolas - 17/07/2012 10:56:16 PM 386 Views
A long, long time this time. *NM* Tom - 18/07/2012 03:50:45 AM 435 Views
I could have sworn I saw a hardcover Lovecraft omnibus. Ghavrel - 18/07/2012 01:25:00 AM 1335 Views
I have it. It doesn't have lots of things. Tom - 18/07/2012 03:50:28 AM 926 Views
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