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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 2370 Views
Well... jh - 12/07/2012 10:08:20 AM 999 Views
The obsessive compulsive in me won't let me stack books in corners. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:53:57 PM 855 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 375 Views
My collateralized debt obligation? I hate those things. Tom - 17/07/2012 08:15:30 PM 879 Views
No, no... CDO is just... jh - 18/07/2012 11:19:20 AM 865 Views
Ah...see I'm not quite that bad in that respect. Tom - 18/07/2012 01:19:06 PM 1241 Views
And neat piles are still clutter. *NM* Tom - 17/07/2012 10:29:00 PM 407 Views
Um nossy - 12/07/2012 02:05:17 PM 1004 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 918 Views
Maybe if we constructed some kind of spatial distortion device? nossy - 16/07/2012 02:55:50 AM 960 Views
we just keep buying more bookshelves... and putting books in different rooms *NM* temeraire - 12/07/2012 04:26:56 PM 393 Views
That worked for the first ten years in this home... *NM* Tom - 15/07/2012 01:48:35 PM 382 Views
Karl May? Interesting. Legolas - 12/07/2012 07:36:42 PM 923 Views
The Führer loved him, so I'm sure I will too. Tom - 13/07/2012 04:46:10 AM 898 Views
Heh. Legolas - 13/07/2012 11:00:41 PM 957 Views
You people are wussies Larry - 12/07/2012 07:56:20 PM 1207 Views
I got the BUR edition in a little box. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:48:04 PM 843 Views
That is odd Larry - 17/07/2012 02:56:52 PM 991 Views
Well, you know my opinion of used books Tom - 17/07/2012 05:00:13 PM 946 Views
I must not be very sensitive to those smells Larry - 17/07/2012 05:57:35 PM 1026 Views
When I run out of space on my bookshelves... HyogaRott - 12/07/2012 08:50:13 PM 1037 Views
And what will you do when you run out of space for bookshelves? Tom - 15/07/2012 01:42:18 PM 938 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 380 Views
Books from paper ? How peculiar. Orange - 13/07/2012 09:48:50 AM 871 Views
Some of us hate eBooks. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:40:27 PM 888 Views
Thankfully I haven't had to make such hard decisions yet A Deathwatch Guard - 15/07/2012 08:11:57 AM 940 Views
Yeah, I can't go and buy a 21st bookcase. Tom - 15/07/2012 01:38:56 PM 827 Views
*snorts* We'll see how long that lasts this time. *NM* Legolas - 17/07/2012 10:56:16 PM 352 Views
A long, long time this time. *NM* Tom - 18/07/2012 03:50:45 AM 398 Views
I could have sworn I saw a hardcover Lovecraft omnibus. Ghavrel - 18/07/2012 01:25:00 AM 1243 Views
I have it. It doesn't have lots of things. Tom - 18/07/2012 03:50:28 AM 861 Views
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