Soooo....

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Has anybody seen Clean Sweep on TLC? I love that show for the brutality it has in showing cluttered people just how pointless most of their stuff is and how their possessions come to own them. Maybe they've done it but I'd love to see how they'd handle a book accumulator.

THey have, and its equally as brutal. i'll try to find the episode #.

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

and wanna talk about books? Ive donated nearly 2 dozen very good sized boxes of books to numerous causes only to come across at least that many still buried in various places around the house.

ugh...one day the floor and I will once again meet. probably not soon however.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you dont read, right?

[Snowflake]

I love my books, and I got rid of a sheetload before I left VA. I don't miss those, but I love all those I kept, those monetary value and those of purely sentimental value, all good reads, to me. I love me a good used books store, if it's the size of an airplane hangar, all the better.

[Capt Jack]

eh, I read but its mostly code.
for infotainment...no, not really. Last non-technical thing I read (not counting magazines) wasn Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and even that nearly qualifies as 'tech'

[Disneyphile]

Ken's an absolute bookworm, often reading 2-3 books at one time, and finishing them within 1-2 days.

He loves fantasy/sci-fi stuff, and always kept them boxed away in shame (because of his parents' disapproval). So, when he moved in, and I populated the shelves with them, I saw him beaming. I love having his books around. It makes him happy, which makes me happy.

[lindyhop]

Probably six months ago I came to the realization that I should start thinning out my book collection. At first it felt like I was denying who I am. My books represent different parts of my life and for that reason I expected to keep all of them forever. When I finally realized that wasn't practical and I started looking at my collection more critically I realized many of the things that Alex listed, especially that most of what I have could be found again very easily.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by 3894

Hey, it takes a lot of work to write that cheap.

I believe it. And believe me, if I had the talent for it, I'd be churning them out myself! Why not?

The thing that made me happy was discovering that I still have the very first romance novel I ever read. Something I picked up on a supermarket shelf when I was 13 and my mom let me read. She said she used to have to hide them from her mom and she didn't want me to have to do that.

To be honest, the sex scenes aren't the reason I read them. I like reading stories set in certain eras (like anything pre-1900, basically), and I'm a hopeless romantic at heart.

But lately my thing has been potboiler suspense novels, like the much-maligned Dan Brown stuff or a great book I just finished that I picked up for $8 at Target the other day, called "A Great And Terrible Beauty". Has a little touch of the romance to it, but it's mostly a chick-oriented suspense novel. Luckily for me, it's part of a series, so now I get to go look for the next book

Also been reading some of the Phillippa Gregory stuff, but MAN is her stuff depressing! All her books start off great and end horribly. Not much uplifting to finish it off. Great reads though.

[Snowflake]

I have a great weakness for the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. Sigh, to have seen Egypt back in those days, so much treasure, as yet undiscovered.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by AllyOfTheDolls

I used to sneak a flashlight into bed with me when I was little so that I could read books in the middle of the night.

I used to do that! My mom would almost always catch me and make me go to sleep. Or at least pretend to sleep; I had insomnia sometimes.

Originally Posted by AllyOfTheDolls

And, the cover wench must have a heaving bosom spilling forth from her lacy, corseted gown.

It also helps if all the sex scene pages are dog-eared. Not that I'd know anything 'bout that.

Woot! Keep hoping that gown busts but it never does. ::sigh::

Originally Posted by lindyhop

I'm trying to look at all my possessions that way. Do I own them or do they own me?

I'm kind of there with you. I gots me too much crap.

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Ken's an absolute bookworm, often reading 2-3 books at one time, and finishing them within 1-2 days.

I do that... multiple books at once...

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

To be honest, the sex scenes aren't the reason I read them. I like reading stories set in certain eras (like anything pre-1900, basically), and I'm a hopeless romantic at heart.

While I'm not a hopeless romantic necessarily, I used to read those for the same things- the historical setting. My mom used to think I read it for the sex (but it's sex between boys and girls... not really what I want to think about...) but it was really for the adventure around it. I'd skip the sex scenes- boring. Mom never believed me.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

I have a great weakness for the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. Sigh, to have seen Egypt back in those days, so much treasure, as yet undiscovered.

Amelia is one of my favorite characters ever.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

I have a great weakness for the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. Sigh, to have seen Egypt back in those days, so much treasure, as yet undiscovered.

I love those. I want a parasol.