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What do you keep on your Bookshelf?
ipokino at 9:05AM, Dec. 18, 2008
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Like OzoneOcean, I have entire rooms of my house dedicated to books--which you can actually see in Robot Wars Issue Six--as I use my home as the homebase for the RW Gang. However, since you cannot read the titles easily from the comicbook pages, I include a link to my GoodReads Site which hold my online Bookshelf. It is growing slowly, as I really don't take time to add everything to it. I currently--with my wife--have 4500 books, and my kids bookshelf--with all my and my daughter's faves from when we were kids is quite large...

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1055362
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Mushroomcomix at 6:59PM, Dec. 18, 2008
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I read it, but that was so many years ago that I can't even recall what it was about now.


It was kind of like a Hitchhikers guide to the Apocalypse only the four horsemen were on motorcycles and the Anti Christ got switched at birth. Possibly my favorite book of all time.
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DRose at 6:53PM, Feb. 16, 2009
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I've got a lot of books in storage because my bookcase is too small (I must remember to buy a new one). Still there are a lot of books on the shelf so here are my favorites.

Manga:

Rurouni Kenshin/Couple/Dramacon/Full Metal Alchemist

Novels

By Stephen King: Gerald's Game/Delores Claiborne/It

By Shirley Jackson: Haunting of Hill House/An Ordinary Day/We Have Always Lived in
the Castle

By Neil Gaiman: American Gods/ Coraline

By Gregory Maguire: Wicked

By Christopher Pike: Remember Me (VERY old. I read this in eight grade and found
in a box a few weeks ago)

By Amy Tan: The Opposite of Fate/The Kitchen God's Wife

Art Books:

Art of Mass Effect/ Art of World Of Warcraft
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Dave7 at 12:11AM, May 7, 2009
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Got a ton of books, but the one's that stick out in my head are:


The Origin of the Species by Natural Selection- Charles Darwin
The Mars Trilogy- Kim Stanley Robinson
I Am Legend- Richard Matheson
The entire works of H.P. Lovecraft, including some first-edition Arkham House prints from the 30's and 40's, which I've been reading since I was a kid.
The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
Nemesis- Isaac Asimov
1984- George Orwell
A Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
A Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter M. Miller Jr.
DOOM Series of Novels- Daffyd ab Hugh & Brad Lineweaver

Don't have very many comics, since I'm more primarily a writer than I am an artist.
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Shinigami_Shimai at 12:49AM, May 10, 2009
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I think we have about 8 or so book shelves and started making our own just to handle them all. My wife came up with an interesting idea to turn all the old VHS tapes into book shelves and they fit most of my manga, the stuff I got from Japan that is... the translated stuff barely fits if I'm lucky. Ever since she moved in we have more books then I know what to do with. She inherited a ton of books from her grandmother and I've been spending the past year trying to read them all. A good chuck I'd already read, her grandmother had the same taste as me it would seem. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Baker and many many more.

As for older stuff from when I was young, I lost most of it during my many moves, but my wife remembered me talking about my childhood fav novel series, Bunnicula, and she went out and bought me the series for my birthday. She is such a sweetie. I wish I had more of my old books, but not much I can do about that. Right now I've been told I can't get more books until I finish reading all of these that we already have... so I guess nothing new for me for a little while at least. LOL

Kat
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Pandafilando at 8:56PM, May 18, 2009
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a lotta books about the Seneca Nation of Indians, H.P.Lovecraft, Carl Sagan and other space stuff, and some misc sci-fi stuff. all my comics are stuffed into boxes.


wow i also have some Sagan stuff !!
and also:

Some Asimov books
Japanese manga
Rius comics
Miguel de cervantes Saavedra
Kafka
Goethe
Plato
Mexico a Traves de los siglos (12 volumes, each 3000 pages = Huge)
Some Mythology Books
Coran
Many Bibles (from all the religious groups i could find)
H.G. wells
Tolkien
Mesoamerican Studies
Jules Verne

dear lord i can't remember all of them, they would be like 300, just counting MY bookshelf, in my whole house, there's easily over 5000 Books (we are talking about books aren't we??)

Most of my stuff is classic literature masterpieces, or encyclopedias, my dvd or comics collections pale in comparison to the number of books i have.








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Nicotine at 5:51AM, May 20, 2009
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Oh boy, I have soooo many books. A lot of the ones I no longer read are kept in boxes, but the ones I'm still interested in/read for school are kept on my book shelf which has two levels. On the top one I keep my manga and other types of comics (Maison Ikkoku, Detective Conan, Koko Wa Greenwood, Down, to name a few), and on the bottom I keep my childhood book collections (all the Doctor Seuss) and other books I love (The Fountainhead, China Boy, my Edgar Allen Poe collection...arg so many!).
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korosu at 6:01AM, May 22, 2009
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I gave away all my Goosebumps and Baby-Sitter Club books years ago, sadly. :/ I have a wide range of books that it's hard for me to list them all. But namely, I have...
Harry Potter 1-7
Several C.S. Lewis books, and an anthology
The Best of Wodehouse
Some Chuck Palahniuk
"The Giver" - Lois Lowry
"The Host" - Stephenie Meyer
"The House of the Scorpion" - Nancy Farmer
"Silence" - Shusaku Endo
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde
"Animal Farm" and "1984" - George Orwell
Christopher Marlow's "Dr. Faustus" and Goethe's "Faust" (of course!)
And several photography books (like The Family of Man) and art/anatomy books.
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lefarce at 3:04PM, May 22, 2009
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Lots of comics. Book shelf is currently:

Akira volumes 1-6
Hellboy vol.1 and 2
Death Note Vol.4 (still swear that this series owns until L dies)
Bleach 1-4
Dragonball 14-16
Dragonball Z 10
Battle Royal 3
Berserk 4,5
Long Halloween
Batman: Year One
The Mask
Dark Knight Returns
Y the Last Man 1-3
Deus Ex Machina
Batman complete newspaper collection hardcover... thing.
The Phone Book (it's an actual phone book)
Maddox' The Alphabet of Manliness
To Kill a Mockingbird
and last and sorta least The Holy Bible


 
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ParkerFarker at 7:24PM, May 22, 2009
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books.

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