welshbairn Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said: 7 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Have you read the Iain M Banks collection? If not you've got a serious treat ahead of you. I'd start from the very beginning. No! I'm a bit intimidated by sci-fi. Have you got one of those you'd recommend? I'm willing to give it a go. As a bit of a sci fi fan anyway Excession was a bit of a mind blowing favourite. But a lot of them are more about his thoughts about how we could go about things in a post resource limited world from a radically socially liberal perspective. I loved them. His second book might be a good intro, Player of Games. Banks was well into computer games but this is a very weird game. Can't remember his first one, Consider Phlebas. Some of the one off books are a bit experimental language wise, but I quickly adapted by not worrying too much if I missed something. Thinking Feersum Endjinn in particular here. I'm well jealous, and don't get too put off by the sci fi label, they aren't too different from the likes of Whit, for example. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 As a bit of a sci fi fan anyway Excession was a bit of a mind blowing favourite. But a lot of them are more about his thoughts about how we could go about things in a post resource limited world from a radically socially liberal perspective. I loved them. His second book might be a good intro, Player of Games. Banks was well into computer games but this is a very weird game. Can't remember his first one, Consider Phlebas. Some of the one off books are a bit experimental language wise, but I quickly adapted by not worrying too much if I missed something. Thinking Feersum Endjinn in particular here. I'm well jealous, and don't get too put off by the sci fi label, they aren't too different from the likes of Whit, for example.I'll definitely give one of these a try! Next time I set foot in Armchair Books on West Port. (Great second hand book shop.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) Edited May 29, 2020 by Granny Danger 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 1 hour ago, The Skelpit Lug said: I love books. This is one of three book cases. Someone tell Cosgrove we've actually found someone who bought his book on soul.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Official background shelf picture and also lockdown achievement- I sorted out 30 years of programmes into season order .. I also have a bookshelf for my non football books but it's too messy to show! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Like f**k I'm showing you fucking deviant my literature!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: Like f**k I'm showing you fucking deviant my literature!! Topsy and Tim go to the Dentist and The Beano Book.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 3 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Topsy and Tim go to the Dentist and The Beano Book.... Aye..will get my books our their boxes, about.... maybe 3 months from now..! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 (edited) And no, it was Chip, Biff and Kipper so f**k you Edited May 29, 2020 by HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 3 hours ago, mathematics said: There’s too many dodgy books in my and Mrs Mathematics’ collection to post photos online. This cartoon in Private Eye hits the mark though. There seems to be a number of fellow eye subscribers on here. Mine didn’t appear so had to go buy a copy this week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 1 minute ago, RH33 said: There seems to be a number of fellow eye subscribers on here. Mine didn’t appear so had to go buy a copy this week. It’s an amazing publication 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said: Drag me I'm sensing the books on the far left are the one's you haven't even thumbed through, good choice by the looks of it. No idea what the bottom shelf tome is though. Rest of them look well read though so I'll avoid any debate about it with you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 1 hour ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: Like f**k I'm showing you fucking deviant my literature!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 2 hours ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said: Drag me Got enough Hobsbawm, m8? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 13 hours ago, tamthebam said: Someone tell Cosgrove we've actually found someone who bought his book on soul.... I bought it too, but it's on my kindle. Here's my bookcase, although it also contains CDs and DVDs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atfccfc Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I'm in desperate need of a larger new book case. I've an eye on one in the British Heat foundation store on Dairly road when it opens. I usually give novels away to charity shops when I'm finished with them. The ones I keep are museum and Historical building guidebooks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcor Roar Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 14 hours ago, tamthebam said: Official background shelf picture and also lockdown achievement- I sorted out 30 years of programmes into season order .. I also have a bookshelf for my non football books but it's too messy to show! I've got that same 'Football Grounds of Great Britain' book on loan from a work colleague. Excellent photos of an era which was fading out by the time I starting going to games as a child. The section on safety, which was written prior to Hillsborough, was notable as the conclusions were that a disaster of the scale of the Bradford incident would be unlikely to happen again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 15 hours ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said: Drag me The biggest travesty of this shelf is the single volume of McCarthy sitting on it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 My books like in my wardrobe. 2.6 more columns like that pictured available on request. I wish I had space to properly store my books, CDs and video games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Willie Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I have a virtual library of over 200 books in pdf format. They range from a ‘Shipwreck of the Antelope’ published in 1783 to the 2017 publication of the UK Labour Party manifesto and the Scottish Labour Party manifesto of the same year. I have loads of books on the American Civil War and the French Revolution. Most of the books are downloaded from the American and Canadian Libraries. I preface each title with the year so my books are always in chronological order https://archive.org/details/americana 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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