[SusF]

Getting ready to paint the bedroom and therefore need to empty my catch-all book shelf which is three deep with paperbacks.

What a wierd collection of books! Mind you, mom and I both were English Lit majors, so that accounts for the THREE seperate copies of Heart of Darkness.

Next to Agatha Chirstie, Elisabeth Peters, Ellis Peters, and Dick Francis are Steinbeck, Homer, a GERMAN Steinbeck, my favorite Hemmingway: Islands in the Stream, and scattered throughout all of this are old Star Trek novelizations.

Found my CJ Cherryh Chanur novels. I'll give them another shot. I never could read her writing. She's a brilliant woman though.

Trash next to treasure next to classics. Found some of my old Arthur C. Clarke paperbacks. I'll re-read the ones I don't recognize.

Found three bartender guides plus a Hoyle's Book of Card Rules (I figure it goes with the bartender guides). I have no idea what I am doing with three bartender guides. Maybe they belong to my brother. Who knows.

It's fun sorting through these books. I haven't really looked at them in years. They have just been shuffled from shelf to shelf as I try to find room for them.

I dream of the day I have room for all of my books, but I know that day will never come, since I keep buying more.

Anyone ever read The Lord of Misrule by Gareth Jones? I keep getting bogged down in the same spot. Bought it in England in 1984. What a strange book. Hisotorical fiction/fantasy, kinda.

/ramble off

Susan

[Warewolf]

Since I keep all my books in alphabetical order by author, I usually reorganized my shelves 2 or 3 times a year to file in all the new books I've accumulated since the last time. I enjoy coming across books that I forgot I had or seeing one and thinking, "I have GOT to get around to reading this one."

I love books http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Mithfânion]

Lots of books there that I don't know, but is Hearts of darkness a good read? Is it similar to that film with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas as fierce hunters, in Congo?

[Cygnus]

Susan.. great to see you post again. I was wondering where you'd gotten to.

I like to keep my books in boxes just for the joy of rediscovery! I finally read Clan of the Cave Bear after "finding" it again, though I'd owned it for I don't know how many years.

I tend to find a lot of cookbooks when cleaning shelves. This is surprising because I HATE cooking and barely have the skill to boil water. The eternal optimist I guess. I also have a drawer full of clipped recipies. When I was bored enough one day to clean it out I found about 15 recipies for pumpkin pie.. what was I thinking!?

[fortytwo]

When I buy books they are usually stored in my garden shed.As I read the books from the bedroom it makes room for the books from the shed.All my books then end up in the attic in boxes.(Ilove books and can't throw any away)
To keep track of them all I use Primasoft's Organiser.I also have a little black book listing all the books I own to save me buying the same ones over again...I think I'm faily normal apart from that!

[Llama]

Heart of Darkness similar to Congo? Conrad similar to Crichton? Hell no.

But of course, you could argue it's similar to Apocalypse Now....

[CrazyReader]

CLEAN...shelf...??? What does this mean?? http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Mithfânion]

Llama, the film with val Kilmer is also called Hearts of Darkness. Is it just another atrocious hollywood adaptation of this book?

[Barbarossa]

No that Val Kilmer movie is supposedly based on a real story, and has nothing to do with the Conrad novel. It's just a coincidence both are set in Africa. Apocalypse Now though is based (loosely) on the Conrad novel, but moves the action from colonial Africa to the Vietnam war.

[SusF]

Hmm no, it's not like Congo, which was a pretty terrible book IMHO.

Heart of Darkness revolves around sending a man to Africa to retreive Kurtz, a fellow soldier, who has gone mad deep in the jungle. It is a fascinating book. Written by Josesph Conrad.

The movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness, upadated and set in the Vietnam War. Some of the dialogue comes DIRECTLY from Heart of Darkness.

Someday I may alphabetize my books, after dividing them into genre, but I'm not holding my breath. Too many books, not enough shelves, so they will always end up stacked up three deep, and I will be able to continue these discoveries.

Susan