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Tagsbooks (3,719), fiction (2,566), novel (1,861), 20th century fiction (1,614), u.s. literature (1,567), non-fiction (1,120), cool cover (987), first printing (648), british lit (585), classic fiction (556) — alle Tags anzeigen

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Über michJames Joyce's Ulysses had an immense influence on me—almost entirely for the bad.
~ J. G. BALLARD, 1990

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
― UMBERTO ECO, Foucault's Pendulum

more than this, there is nothing

Über meine BibliothekA personal library is not a collection of odd volumes: It is the outward representation of one's inner life, a mirror of the soul, the past spread out before your eyes. To pass from book to book to book is to abolish time, to connect the child rapt before the wonders of Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire with the middle-aged man puzzled about the cosmology of Plato's Timaeus. They are one. A line of poetry can lead you through half a library and most of a life. A random note may generate an entire symphony. For a real reader to do without a personal library would be like throwing away a time machine, like waking up an amnesiac, like ceasing to dream.
~ MICHAEL DIRDA, "Readings"

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.
~ VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables (1862)

GruppenAntiquarian Books, Bestsellers over the Years, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Book Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Books in Books, Books on Books, Books on the Paranormal, Booksellers, British & Irish Crime Fiction —alle Gruppen anzeigen, Dystopian novels, Everyman's Library, Exotic Male Dancers Who LibraryThing, Fans of Russian authors, Ghost Stories, Past and Present, Infinite Jesters, Modern Library Collectors, Penguin Books, Post-apocalyptic Literature, Science Fiction Fans, Short Stories, The Chronic Melancholics, The Clocks Have All Stopped, The Globe: Shakespeare, his Contemporaries, and Context, The Hashish Club, The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c, The Weird Tradition, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Used Books, World Music, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

LieblingsautorenEdward Abbey, J. G. Ballard, Paul Bowles, Joseph Brinson, Edward Bryant, Ramsey Campbell, Alejo Carpentier, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Arthur C. Clarke, Wanda Coleman, Joan Didion, Steve Erickson, John Farris, Raymond Federman, William H. Gass, Julien Gracq, Charles L. Grant, Grady Hendrix, Frank Herbert, John Hollander, A. M. Homes, Langston Hughes, Victor Hugo, Fleur Jaeggy, Denis Johnson, Richard Kadrey, Anna Kavan, Anthony Lane, Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, Wyndham Lewis, David Lindsay, Ross Macdonald, Cormac McCarthy, Mac McCaskill, Joseph McElroy, Flannery O'Connor, John Cowper Powys, Marcel Proust, Arthur Rimbaud, J. R. Salamanca, William Sansom, Lucius Shepard, Clark Ashton Smith, Enid Starkie, John Steinbeck, Mark Strand, Terese Svoboda, Hunter S. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, William T. Vollmann, Denton Welch, Robert Anton Wilson, Marguerite Young (Gemeinsame Favoriten)

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Mitglied seitJan 19, 2007

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