In your book collection...

[Jax]

... do you have books you haven't or won't read? Books you always meant to get around to reading but just never do? The cover put you off reading it?

[Caerwyddyn]

Doesn't everyone ??? :eek:

:faint:


:balloons: ~Caer

[Faren]

I picked up a book in a library sale by David Brin. Haven't quite managed to open it yet. :roll:

[JayEgo]

A whole load... I've got some books that I bought, thinking I'd like 'em but have never gotten round to opening, others that were given me that hold no appeal and some, which I've started reading but can't get into.

One book, I found so offensive, yet compulsive, that I read all up until the last few pages and finally decided not to finish it as a protest! :eek:

Ja¥son xx

[lccorp2]

Actually...I don't buy books I know I won't read.

That's what libraries are for .:D

[Beisla]

No, especially not because they have terrible covers. When choosing a book by an author I've never read, I might pick one because the cover looks so good. :D

[Jax]

LOL Jayson - and you were the only one to know about that protest, until now? :D

Iccorp2 - I generally try to buy books I already know I like, but sometimes there are ones I'll see at a second hand stall that I think I'd like to try, at only part of the normal cost :D unfortunately, the library that's closest to me is kinda sucky, especially compared with the last one I was at (which I still complained about ;) ) that even bought books I asked for! :D

[JayEgo]

LOL Jayson - and you were the only one to know about that protest, until now? :D
Yeah... well... Erm?

There's logic in my method somewhere! I know and that's worth a lot in my book at least! :evilgrin:

Ja¥son xx

[Mausey]

I've got a book called the Black Trillium that I've started 4 times and I just can't finish. I don't know what it is about the book, it seems interesting enough and it's well written, but I just CAN'T get into it.

[Gryphon]

No.

[AnnMarie]

Nope. There are books here that belong to the hubby that he keeps saying I should read, and I haven't...but if I own it, I've read it.

Mausey, I remember reading Black Trillium. It's part of a trilogy.

[Shadow*]

Nope...the great thing about having had to start from scratch collecting books again is that I now read every one that I buy.
I don't quite have enough yet that I can use the excuse of 'forgetting' I bought it, or the luxury of having too many that I can ignore one.
Although I did have quite a number in my old collection which I won't replace as they didn't live up to expectations. I will probably be a bit choosier from now on with any books I get.

[Bob12]

I have several that I haven't read - yet. Just haven't gotten to it yet.

[Jozell]

Yes, I've got a couple, Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman is one. Don't know why I have't read it though - the others I've all started and not been interested in enough to finish.

[Jax]

Hey Joz, check out my location :D ;) :razz:

[granath]

There are a few I know I should read but keep putting off and reading something else instead.

[C_ris]

The only books i have and haven't opened are uni books... :blush:

[tmdragon]

Of all the books I have...............probably have read 2/3's of them. There might be some I never read but love knowing I never have the lack of choice. I have many times picked up a book I purchased a few years ago and when I was done wondered why I hadn't read it sooner.

But I agree about covers..........sometimes that can deter me from reading a book. Never seem to have that problem with Anne McCaffrey books :ok: though!

Thanks for the smiles
tmdragon

[ladyholdermara]

There are a couple that I just couldn't get into :)


Mostly author's I have loved in the past such as Piers Anthony and Kevin J. Anderson, I'll get a book in a new series and well lol just don't GET it, or can't get into it so I don't finish it.

[Calaedros]

I have some books that I haven't read, although I fully intend to get round to them eventually :D Of course, there are a couple of uni books I haven't, and won't, open... ("The Pleasures of Counting", anyone? :crazy: ).

Cal

[ladyholdermara]

I have some books that I haven't read, although I fully intend to get round to them eventually :D Of course, there are a couple of uni books I haven't, and won't, open... ("The Pleasures of Counting", anyone? :crazy: ).

Cal
I cracked open one of Piers Anthony's "Mode" Series, the first one I think can't remember the name now and was a bit shocked to see it start off with attempted suicide :irked: , I've tried to continue it once in a while when I have NOTHING else to read lol but it's no use.

[Bertrand]

There is a strange book among my collection, its part of the X-Wing series. I bought the "Iron Fist" at the begining of the year along with few of my Pern books, but I never got to reading it, until now. I just had new books coming in and I was more intrested in them. I feel sorry for it and just have to get around reading it. :noface:

[Greenrider Tresa]

Yep...fairly few of them though, as I tend to only get things after checking them out properly in the store - back cover, maybe first page...

Hawksbill Station and 20,000 leagues Under the Sea have that dubious honor of not being completely read.
I started on I, Q, before it became one of a very few Star Trek boooks I haven't read at all. Only skimmed through Being Human in the New Frontier series. Same thing with Nemesis, only I didn't go back to read sections more thoroughly. Haven't read Prometheus or Demons! at all but then they were out of print by the time I started.

And Restoree...never got past the first page! :;sheepish::

There were a couple others I put off reading for a bit then got around to....Q Squared, All Good Things, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Sing Down the Moon, I forget what else.


Tresa

[Anareth]

Bertrand: Iron Fist, "strange"? What's so strange about it? Just that you haven't gotten to reading it and you usually read books right off? If it feels strange like you don't know what's going on, it's because it's book #2 of something like 4 in the Wraith Squadron series and it would probably be less so if you read "X-Wing: Wraith Squadron" first. If it's just trying to pronounce the warlord's name, I can't help you, but I can ask the one person who could say for sure. Because thinking about it, I don't know how to pronounce "Zsinj", either. I'm going to have to tweak him about that. Though it might have been Dave Wolverton who named the character in CoPL and Aaron was stuck with it...

Or if you just find it as a book weird, full stop, please say so because I think that would crack Aaron up. I don't know that he DELIBERATELY tries to be strange, but he can be. Oh, and if you want to read an X-Wing book without having to read a series, get Aaron's "Starfighters of Adumar", which is sorta stand-alone.

Mausey: IIRC, and if "Black Trillium" is the one written by May/Bradley and a third author whose name I don't recall, there are three more books, "Blood Trillium", "Golden Trillium", and one whose name I don't remember but which features the third of the sisters from "Black Trillum" and is by MZB alone. I liked "Black Trillium" and "Blood Trillium" but couldn't finish "Golden Trillium."

I have some paperbacks and older hardbounds picked up at used bookstores or library sales that I've never gotten around to reading, but which looked sorta interesting and were cheap enough I could pick them up just on the off chance I'll read them.

[Marie-Eile]

I think I have 3 I haven't read that are actually mine, though like Annemarie my hubby owns tons that he thinks I ought to read. Among my own though, only War and Peace - a wildly silly choice for a travel book I know now, where a scorecard is need to remember all the nicknames for all of the russians - and 2 books with lovely covers called A city in Winter and The Veil of Snows.

I am more likely to check out a book I'm not sure I'll like from the library than buy it.

[la sirena]

I've got a book called the Black Trillium that I've started 4 times and I just can't finish. I don't know what it is about the book, it seems interesting enough and it's well written, but I just CAN'T get into it.
That title sounds familiar. I may have read it. Obviously it didn't make much of an impression! ;)

[la sirena]

I've had Anne's Freedom series for years but just haven't gotten around to reading.

[Oldrider]

Faren: Earth and The Postman are both iffy, but the rest are great! Practise Effect still ranks as one of my all-time fav's!

Jozell: Good Omens is funny! Do give it a try! :wave:

Jax: Meet Jozell! She's great fun! :ok:

tmdragon: :wave: long time no see! :wave:

GT: Restoree is the first AMC novel I ever read (Weyr Search was a short!) and loved!

Sanya: Shame on you! ;)

I have quite a few books I haven't read, but I tend to build up a store of books, so that I always have a choice of what to read next. I also have quite a few books I've read a number of times: I think the aforementioned Practise Effect by David Brin has been read at least half a dozen times :blush:

Luff 'n' stuff,
Oldrider

[KC.]

I've got a book called the Black Trillium that I've started 4 times and I just can't finish. I don't know what it is about the book, it seems interesting enough and it's well written, but I just CAN'T get into it.


Mausey - it is a good book, but all books don't appeal to all people.

I have never read Terry Pratchett - I've tried and tried but I just can't get into them. :roll:

[Mausey]

I cracked open one of Piers Anthony's "Mode" Series, the first one I think can't remember the name now and was a bit shocked to see it start off with attempted suicide :irked: , I've tried to continue it once in a while when I have NOTHING else to read lol but it's no use.
I believe book one is called Virtual Mode. We had a parton in the library this morning looking at the series. Somebody had written "Dirty and a bit stupid" on the first page of one of the books so she said after a comment like that she was interested. :laugh:

[Kitsch]

I'm afraid one of mine that falls into that category is 'Skies of Pern'. I really think All the Weyrs...formed a natural end to the series and I just don't see myself ever reading it.

[Nurianna]

I have lots of books, and some of them have been gifts by people who werent really sure what I like, so some of those haven't been read yet, but they also haven't been recycled either...

They will be attempted before I sell or pass them on~ I just havent taken the time.... I need to clear my shed and get the rest of my stuff in the place where we live~ but that needs a bit more room than I have~ :D


Has anyone ever hung a bookshelf (little ones) on a wall? If you did, how big of a screw or mounting hook did you use?
right now I have more empty wall space than I do floor space, so I thought I'd get some of the tall slender DVD racks and turn them sideways on the wall... that way I could put stuff inside the 'box' and also outside on the top... and maybe add a few cuppy hooks to the bottom to dangle items that dont sit well~ Yep, it is proof that I watch a lot of Trading Spaces type shows....

[AnnMarie]

Has anyone ever hung a bookshelf (little ones) on a wall? If you did, how big of a screw or mounting hook did you use?
Nurianna, wall shelves could never deal with my books!

I bought myself an unfinished pine bookshelf and put it together and finished it myself. In college, we used rough-cut planks and either logs or cinderblocks to make shelving units.

[ladyholdermara]

Bertrand: Iron Fist, "strange"? What's so strange about it? Just that you haven't gotten to reading it and you usually read books right off? If it feels strange like you don't know what's going on, it's because it's book #2 of something like 4 in the Wraith Squadron series and it would probably be less so if you read "X-Wing: Wraith Squadron" first. If it's just trying to pronounce the warlord's name, I can't help you, but I can ask the one person who could say for sure. Because thinking about it, I don't know how to pronounce "Zsinj", either. I'm going to have to tweak him about that. Though it might have been Dave Wolverton who named the character in CoPL and Aaron was stuck with it...

Or if you just find it as a book weird, full stop, please say so because I think that would crack Aaron up. I don't know that he DELIBERATELY tries to be strange, but he can be. Oh, and if you want to read an X-Wing book without having to read a series, get Aaron's "Starfighters of Adumar", which is sorta stand-alone.

Mausey: IIRC, and if "Black Trillium" is the one written by May/Bradley and a third author whose name I don't recall, there are three more books, "Blood Trillium", "Golden Trillium", and one whose name I don't remember but which features the third of the sisters from "Black Trillum" and is by MZB alone. I liked "Black Trillium" and "Blood Trillium" but couldn't finish "Golden Trillium."

I have some paperbacks and older hardbounds picked up at used bookstores or library sales that I've never gotten around to reading, but which looked sorta interesting and were cheap enough I could pick them up just on the off chance I'll read them.
oooooooooooooooooooo I LOVED the x-wing books :D the ONLY starwars series I have read about 6 or 7 times all the way thru :D

[ladyholdermara]

I believe book one is called Virtual Mode. We had a parton in the library this morning looking at the series. Somebody had written "Dirty and a bit stupid" on the first page of one of the books so she said after a comment like that she was interested. :laugh:
lmbbo well dirty and a bit stupid about sums it up lol at least as far as I read hehe but I guess some ppl would like that, I'm not really into it although I'm impressed by most of his books, k lol impressed does not quite sum it all up lol how about ADICTED lol

[Japes]

I have quite a lot of books I haven't read yet, I buy a lot of second hand books and stock pile them! I also borrow LOADS of books from the library. It is not very often I dislike a book, or can't get into it and have to give up, but if I do, I can't just put it down, I read the last chapter or two to see how it turns out! my insatiable curiosity!
I have so many books, that every now and then I have a purge and get rid of some, but never as many as I plan (or need) to! I just luurv books!
:reading:

:xmas2:

[Jozell]

Jozell: Good Omens is funny! Do give it a try! :wave:

Jax: Meet Jozell! She's great fun! :ok:

Luff 'n' stuff,
Oldrider

:O Thanks for the good word, Oldrider! :ok:

Recently, due to renovations at home, I had to clean out, shift and rearrange the bookcase, and since then I've been rereading a few faves that I haven't seen for a while - it also had the benefit of making a lot more room in the bookcase too!. Perhaps I'll give it another crack then, just to be fair to it. I did buy it because so many people had recommended it and more importantly, because Terry Gilliam was trying to make a film out of it...

[Lady Legira]

lmbbo well dirty and a bit stupid about sums it up lol at least as far as I read hehe but I guess some ppl would like that, I'm not really into it although I'm impressed by most of his books, k lol impressed does not quite sum it all up lol how about ADICTED lol

I love the Xanth books but I also think the Mode books are excellent as well. I enjoyed seeing Colene recover slowly from her depression and finding out the reasons behind it. The stories are good too :) although I thought Doone Mode seems like it had been rushed.

[Jax]

Jax: Meet Jozell! She's great fun! :ok:
Luff 'n' stuff,
Oldrider
Am planning on it OR! :D ;) :razz:

Tami - glad to see you around again!! :D {{{{{{{{{{{snugsels}}}}}}}}}}

[Japes]

I love the Xanth books but I also think the Mode books are excellent as well. I enjoyed seeing Colene recover slowly from her depression and finding out the reasons behind it. The stories are good too :) although I thought Doone Mode seems like it had been rushed.
I started reading the mode books many years ago, but lost track of them, could you give me their titles? :wave: many thanks

:reindeer:

[dae]

i have one book i should read but i can't beause i know it will be sad and one of my fav person from it dies i just can't read it because i know that it will make me cry

[prekharper]

I'll read just about any book, but last summer my son bought Bill Clinton's My Life, and I'm still only on page 15. No matter how many times I pick it up, I can't get past there. Let's face it: I'll wash the dishes as an excuse not to read it. Perhaps I should concentrate on it this weekend, since I've lots of the dreaded housework ahead of me.

[Elisabetha]

I work in a bookshop, and one of the benefits of that is that some publishers want you to destroy a book instead of sending it back to them. Penguin does it with there cheap published paperbacks and so does Time Warner. Usually they want you to send them the back cover or the title page. Because of this I have a lot of books on my shelves that I have not yet read. Mostly because they are not the books I would have bought, but brought home to try someday.The problem with this is that a lot of the books are second or third parts in series and I have yet to find book one. So even though I have lots of unread books, I have hardly anything to read at the moment.
I could of course start on my collection of Dickens, but my head does not feel like Dickens at the moment. He requiers to much concentration. Same goes for Affinity by Sarah Waters and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. These books will have to wait untill after the baby has been born and I have some power of concentration back (though with a new baby in the house it is a big question when this is going to be).

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:

[lisap]

lol yah. When I bought my first Pern book I also bought another. I read the Pern first, and got so hooked I didn't even glance at the other one. I then had to go to the library and read all the others.

Now I really don't have any inclination to read the other book, although I've heard it's a good author. I think it's called "Polgara" or something by somebody Eddings.

[Jax]

Lisa, I'd thoroughly reccomend that you read those books :ok:

You said the book you had was Polgara, but I think it'd be better for you to read the Belgariad (set of 5 books I think) and the Mallorean (also a set of 5 - I /think/) before you read Polgara, as it'll make much more sense after those. The thing I loved about those books were the little jokes, they were sometimes quite subtle, but were so funny I'd be laughing out loud!! :D

[Lady Legira]

I started reading the mode books many years ago, but lost track of them, could you give me their titles? :wave: many thanks

:reindeer:

Virtural Mode
Fractal Mode
Chaos Mode
DoOon Mode (found in the US, due to the fact it was never released in the UK)

hope that helps :)

[Nagetier]

Just. Don't buy 'Natural History.'

The only book I have ever not been able to finish. :)

Otherwise, I own 2400 books, amongst myself and the rest of this family.

There are only about 10 I haven't yet read. I don't do anything else, you see.

[bisb]

I have about 10 books I keep picking up and putting back down, just can't get into them. They are usually books given to me.

[Tabra]

Yes, I counted 43 unread books. I will read them, I just keep saying I won't buy any more until I've read them all. But then a trilogy comes up on ebay for $8 and who can resist?

[Anareth]

oooooooooooooooooooo I LOVED the x-wing books :D the ONLY starwars series I have read about 6 or 7 times all the way thru :D

Lol, when it came to Star Wars books in the Bantam series, my rule was pretty much "Tim, Mike, Aaron, and sometimes Kathy Tyers!" (I have yet to forgive Barbara Hambly for the awful ending of "Children of the Jedi", and the less said about KJA the better.) For Del Rey--well, I made it halfway through before I gave up, read Mike's, liked Aaron's, sorta liked Kathy Tyer's, and outside NJO I loved Troy Denning's "Tatooine Ghosts", plausibility problems or no.

[Dawn]

I have a stack of books waiting for me to read. Most I already know I'll like since they're by authors I've read before. There's a few new ones, though, that I hope I'll like - they come with good recommendations anyway. :ok:

I do have a few books that I keep putting off - most because I'm not in the mood for the genre, but a couple I just don't like. I'll probably donate them to the local library book sale. :)

[tmdragon]

I work in a bookshop, and one of the benefits of that is that some publishers want you to destroy a book instead of sending it back to them. Penguin does it with there cheap published paperbacks and so does Time Warner. Usually they want you to send them the back cover or the title page.


I had a friend a long time ago that worked in a book store and that is how I received the first three "Dragonriders of Pern" books. I was going thru a tough time in my life then and he thought it could help to occupy my mind :banghead: ......it worked and to my delight fell in love with the writing! Those three books helped me more than I could ever imagine and I still have them! They will always be the pride of my collection.........ripped off covers and all :)

Don't know if I would ever survive working in a book store though......would probably never see a paycheck :roll:

tmdragon

[Elisabetha]

Don't know if I would ever survive working in a book store though......would probably never see a paycheck :roll:

tmdragon

That can get to be a bit of a problem, luckily, we don't have to pay immediately, so I can collect bills and save up for them. I can also put the bills together in a way that is comfortable for me. Another good thing is the huge discount I get. It varies between 25% and 40% (the last on all english and dutch paperbacks) So sometimes buying new can be cheaper then buying second hand. Especially at the moment with the dollar being low as opposed to the euro. It gets to be cheaper to order books from the USA then from England.

Ripping the books takes some getting used to, but once I realised the benefits I started to have real fun in it, though it still seems like a waste.

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:

[Hans]

That can get to be a bit of a problem, luckily, we don't have to pay immediately, so I can collect bills and save up for them. I can also put the bills together in a way that is comfortable for me. Another good thing is the huge discount I get. It varies between 25% and 40% (the last on all english and dutch paperbacks) So sometimes buying new can be cheaper then buying second hand. Especially at the moment with the dollar being low as opposed to the euro. It gets to be cheaper to order books from the USA then from England.

Ripping the books takes some getting used to, but once I realised the benefits I started to have real fun in it, though it still seems like a waste.

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:25-40% :eek:

....

Elisabetha, will you marry me?

Boy, I hope both my wife and your hubby can stomach polygamy...

[Orianna]

I started a book one time by Stephen King, 'Geralds Game'. About a woman left handcuffed to a bed with her husband dead from heart attack at the end of the bed. They were in a remote cabin, no phone.

I could see the writing on the wall, did not want to finish this.

[Elisabetha]

25-40% :eek:

....

Elisabetha, will you marry me?

Boy, I hope both my wife and your hubby can stomach polygamy...

LOL, I don't think he will go for that Hans, besides it isn't very nice to ask someone just because of their money (or books) now is it :devil:

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy:

[Emmy]

I have a few...mostly gifts that I intend to get around to reading someday, but they are the kind of thing I would usually only read for school and I don't do school anymore.
I usually read something from the library before I go and buy it.
But, at the moment, because I was awarded a gift voucher for a bookstore, I have done something I rarely do, and bought the second book of a series without having read the first (they didn't have it and couldn't guarantee they could get it in), but I will get the other one with a voucher I'll be recieving for Christmas for a bigger bookstore - if they don't have it in there they'll be able to tell me which of their stores has it.
I contributed to this today by buying a whole trilogy (half price), and the last book in another series that I adore.

[Michael]

Well, I hate to admit it, but I have some unread Anne McCaffrey books. I read the first few Freedom books, but haven't read Freedom's Ransom (even though I'm listed on the dedication page). :blush:

I haven't read the last couple of Acorna books either. It's not my favorite series, and I just haven't been able to get into them...

Hmmm, I guess Tom Clancy is another I've gotten behind on. I need to read three of his to catch up, I think. I am up to date on Stephen King now, so maybe I'll break out one of Tom's newer ones soon.

Take care,
Mikey

[PsychDyke]

Of all the books I have...............probably have read 2/3's of them. There might be some I never read but love knowing I never have the lack of choice. I have many times picked up a book I purchased a few years ago and when I was done wondered why I hadn't read it sooner.

But I agree about covers..........sometimes that can deter me from reading a book. Never seem to have that problem with Anne McCaffrey books :ok: though!

Thanks for the smiles
tmdragon


I've probably read about 2/3 of my books as well. I've had the same issue with books. I had the bookclub editions of the first 6 Pern books for about 2 years before I read them. Also, Robert Lynn Asprin's 'Myth' series which I got at the same time as the Pern books, when I was 16. I was about 22 when I started those. Upon finishing the first (there were 4 in the book) I went to the tiny bookstore where I was living and ordered all the rest that I could afford. (the guy at the bookstore said he'd order them only if I didn't make him say the titles... :roll:)

I've got quite a few psychology and history books that I haven't read. I buy them because they sound interesting but they're not the easiest read. Things like: "Therapy with Troubled Teens" or "Hitler's Pope". I've got quite a few books that I've started but have been reading a bit at a time for a while. Like, "The Lies of George W. Bush" or "1876" by Gore Vidal. I try to get myself to read 'classics' but tend to end up reading them forever. The last book like that I actually finished was "Common Sense" by Thomas Payne. It was good and very interesting, just dry.

I've finished (or have yet to give up on), most of the books I've ever started. Books I've never finished and don't intend to I can count on one hand. "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test", "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Firestarter", "Mein Kampf". I think that's about it.

Pretty good for 32 years of reading, I'd say.

Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[Ravien Coromana]

i have a problem trying to read the rest of Renagades of Pern

[PsychDyke]

Renegades was good. I've yet to read Skies of Pern but only b/c I started it and realized that it had been so long since I'd read most of the others that I wasn't sure who some of the characters were, so I started re-reading.

The only fiction books I have and may not ever read are when I bought ahead in a series I enjoyed and the series turned dud. Like, Chapterhouse: Dune and all the Thieves' World books after, I think I forced my way through the 6th or 7th book and just couldn't go any farther. However, I own several after that. Wild Cards is another, although they weren't quite the level of dud, so I may actually read those some day.

That is the problem with sci-fi. As Piers Anthony's about the author says, 'His early problems with math manifested themselves in him trying to fit (x) books into a trilogy' Sometimes they just need to stop, there's just nothing more worth saying.

Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[jen]

War and Peace!
can
not
stand
it
!

[bisb]

There are very few books I have that I haven't finished. I usually put them aside and come back to them in a couple of years.

[Japes]

i have a problem trying to read the rest of Renagades of Pern ;) Persevere, the second half of the book is MUCH better than the first! :ok:

[quote from Elizabetha] It gets to be cheaper to order books from the USA then from England....

You got that right! I live in England, and sometimes find it cheaper to order from the USA!! :roll: :eek: :ok:

[PsychDyke]

I rather like the international options of the internet. I got a copy of Pink Floyd: The Wall for my mother for xmas...from Bulgaria. For a lot less than from the music store down the street.


Go figure. :ok: :good:

Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[IanSF]

I bought the first three Landing books as a job lot after reading the short from 'Get off the Unicorn' but have never read them. I also bought the 'Word' trilogy by Terry Brooks as I enjoyed the 'Shannara' books so much but never got past the first few pages of book one. I've still got hem, so there's hope for me yet

[Nurianna]

<snipity>

Don't know if I would ever survive working in a book store though......would probably never see a paycheck :roll:

tmdragon

I do seasonal facepainting in our local bookstore, we set out a tip jar for those who wish to give, and the owner gives me a book credit~ between the two, I end up broke instead of really broke~ lol~

[Lady Arwyn]

I have read every book I have ever brought home, I wouldn't have brought it home unless I wasn't interested. However, my husband also brings home books that I have little or no interest in, I MIGHT consider reading them if I was stuck in the house for a week during a major blizzard, no chance to go to the library and no electricity for television/videos.

[zankoku]

I have the Great Books Collection that I inherited from my Dad. Such things as Plato, Shakespeare, etc. Some of them I had read years ago in school, but this is a nice hardback collection.

Also have a couple of old books that were my mother's - collection item.

I found a Sherlock Holmes, Jack London, Journey to the Center of the Earth that I found in my wife's Aunt's things after she died.

I do have a couple (2 are Anne's books. One I am reading and one I just got,) I also have several books that I have actually read and wanted to save. One was written by my cousin, so I had better keep it.

Once I got into reading Fan Fic, I stopped buying books as I was too busy reading other's stories or writing my own.

Jim

[PsychDyke]

I've been in the middle of a book for weeks. It's not a bad book, it's actually pretty good but, I was in the mood for something a little different so I've been reading 'Scully slash' fan fic for the last couple of weeks. I found a new source. :D I'd read some years ago, about the time Jodi discovered Xena fan fic but it wasn't that good or that varied. It seems to have gotten better.


Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[McClance]

Do I have any books in my collection that I haven't read yet?

*thinks for a second*

Yep. I most certainly do. I have yet to half of the Star Trek books in my collection and a bunch of other books that I inherited from the school library which I thought would be interesting to read. I got many of these books over the past 3 years. I probably would be working on them right now had I not been thirsting for Dragons, resulting in me finding Pern. Since my discovery of Pern, I have read 2 books that I had in my collection before I started buying Pern books.

[TamTam]

Yes, I have a tonne of books that I've bought from the used bookstore and haven't got around to yet. The great thing is that, if I don't like them, I can just sell them back!

Have I read a book just for the cover? That's how I got into AM in the first place. The White Dragon cover just called to me.

I started Shogun a couple of times, but couldn't get past page 300. Can't imagine why...

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I have plenty of books that I haven't read yet, but none that I won't read, though some I am less inclined to dive into. I've probably read 2/6 of my collection so far. But it always seems to stay at that level because I buy them as fast as I read them :roll: and sometimes friends or family give me large stacks of books they don't want anymore. I NEVER get rid of books, and thats some of my problem, most of my wallspace in my room is taken up by stuffed full bookshelves :D

[PsychDyke]

Yes, I have a tonne of books that I've bought from the used bookstore and haven't got around to yet. The great thing is that, if I don't like them, I can just sell them back!

Have I read a book just for the cover? That's how I got into AM in the first place. The White Dragon cover just called to me.

I started Shogun a couple of times, but couldn't get past page 300. Can't imagine why...


I've a copy of Shogun that I've owned for 20+ years and have yet to even start. I have The Bastard by John Jakes, the first of his 'Kent family chronicals' that I started and have yet to finish. I've picked up the whole series over the years (very cheaply) but have yet to finish the first book. Now, his 'North and South' series I've read twice. and his newest trilogy I've been waiting for the third book for years. go figure.

Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[Bamy]

one or two but they tend to ones given to me so itsnot a case of buying it andnot reading it. ok it DID take me three years to read lord of the rings once i bought it but i DID read it eventually!

[Bamy]

oh and some of the text books i have have remained un read but that will change this semester.

[Shani]

ooh this was a good topic, thought I'd ressurect.

Any books I've bought that I couldn't read have all gone now in my huge pre-move cull but there have been plenty. I Couldn't quite get into Janny Wurts "mistwraith' books (sure it was her) they just didn't do it for me unfortunately...

Hmmm now what else..

[Kitsch]

One of mine was the Skies of Pern...I eventually gave it to a charity shop collection bag.

Also a Ted Hughes poetry collection which I finally admitted to myself I will never read...went in the same bag.

All the others I probably will read *one* day, it's just being in the mood for them.

[GoldriderAria]

Oh definitely a bunch I haven't! I buy good books when I see them and then get around to reading them when I have time. Grad school killed my book-a-week down to about 2-books-a-semester :P So now I'm working on catching up!

As for 'won't'... I usually only have those I won't if they were required reading for a class. And then it's a 'never again' situation and those I usually sell or give away. (I really think there's only been 2-3 of those)

~Aria

[Keita]

Oh yes! I have lots! Many of them are Anne books. I don't read them because I seriously dislike reading books out of sequence...unless I can be sure I can get my hands on the pre- or sequel in a hurry! Mostly I can't so I just don't read them. I'm not about to drive myself batty wondering what happened or how the characters came to be in the situation they are.

I buy books as I find them...and then only if I know from experience that the author is good or if somebody I trust recommends them. That can lead to me buying "the fifth part of the series" when I've only read one...or even if I haven't. So they just gather dust on my bookshelf. I'll get to them once I have the complete set!

[Hans]

Yeah, quite a few but they just have to wait until it is their turn to be read! :D

I don't have "books for show" :) not even one among the several thousand.

[Japes]

i have just tried to do a book blitz to make room for more :D
I have four bookcases sagging with books and all I managed to clear is the equivalent of one whole shelf! :eek:
I told myself I must be strong, but I love books and can't bear to part with them. :roll: :sad: :O

[leahiniowa]

I started the whole Rowan/Damia series, but lost interest. I have a few books from authors I enjoy that are not quite my cup of tea (Robert J. Sawyer's Far Seer is one) and some "airport" books (Grisham, etc.) that people have given me. I also bought some books recommended by friends that never really appealed to me.

What was it with Skies of Pern? I read it too, but didn't find it so compelling. I suppose I'm part of the faction that thinks everything needs to be chronoligically between Dragonsdawn and All the Weyrs, although that seems too limiting.

[Zei]

Do fan-fictions count? :evil: If not, then no.

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

Oh yeah.. I definitely have books that I just keep MEANING to pick up and read, and others I've started a few times but never managed to finish.

One of these days.... :D

[PsychDyke]

Oh definitely a bunch I haven't! I buy good books when I see them and then get around to reading them when I have time. Grad school killed my book-a-week down to about 2-books-a-semester :P So now I'm working on catching up!

As for 'won't'... I usually only have those I won't if they were required reading for a class. And then it's a 'never again' situation and those I usually sell or give away. (I really think there's only been 2-3 of those)

~Aria


I can relate!! That's why I'm trying to read as much as I can this summer while I'm not taking classes.

[Elianth]

I have multiple books on my shelf that I haven't read yet .... :erm:

[SpaceCowboy]

Dune- I received it for Christmas one year and never was able to finish it. It's around my collection somewhere. Maybe I'll find it while going through my books before moving next month and give it another try.

[queenrider melody]

Too many to list.

[Brenda]

I got the Lord of the Rings trilogy plus The Hobbit, read through to the end of Two Towers, started the last book, put it down and started something else and kind of forgot about it. I don't know what it is about Tolkien - his writing makes a fairly exciting story just drag for me.

I have a lot of books I've bought from the library, including stacks of SF and mystery magazines for ten cents each, which are stacked somewhere until I get around to them!!!

My parents really enjoy Nevada Barr and Tony Hillerman mysteries, and I've tried both and just can't read them.

[TamTam]

As for 'won't'... I usually only have those I won't if they were required reading for a class. And then it's a 'never again' situation and those I usually sell or give away. (I really think there's only been 2-3 of those)

~Aria
Aww, not all required reading is bad reading. Margaret Lawrence's The Stone Angel was required for my English 30 class. I loved it so much that I immediately read it through two more times. :ok:

Unless you're talking about text books. In that case, more power to you. Sometimes it's hard to sell those, they seem to come up with a new edition every year!

[Brenda]

Don't even get me started on that!!!

Freshman year of college... brand new edition of an Algebra textbook.
End of the semester... can't sell it back because they're getting a new edition.
It's ALGEBRA, for Pete's sake! What new dramatic discoveries have taken place in the field of algebra over the last semester?
*still fuming*
It was an EXPENSIVE textbook too!!!

[PsychDyke]

Don't even get me started on that!!!

Freshman year of college... brand new edition of an Algebra textbook.
End of the semester... can't sell it back because they're getting a new edition.
It's ALGEBRA, for Pete's sake! What new dramatic discoveries have taken place in the field of algebra over the last semester?
*still fuming*
It was an EXPENSIVE textbook too!!!


:rofl:

No kidding... I got stuck with a Statistics book in much the same way. My favorite though was my first semester at KU, I took a 'History of Feminist Theory' class :sleep: Firstly, there is about a 5 book minimum for history classes at KU (I had 21 books for 2 history classes and one psych class). Since I was new there, I had pre-ordered my books. One of them was 'The Feminine Mistique' by Betty Fridan. I didn't read it at all, they wouldn't buy it back at the end of the semester, and, it turns out that I paid them $5 for it and it's a used old paperback. The New cover price was only $1.75 :eek: :irked: :roll:

I'd give it to charity but I don't hate any charities that much. :shake:

In grad school I'm learning to be ok with highlighting since most of the books you get at this level you'll really need to keep... However, years of avoiding that so that I could get a higher buyback price are hard to put aside.


Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[Greenrider Tresa]

Not very many...and two of those are now in storage. One's Restoree, which I could never get started on.

Would have put Acorna's Triumph in too, only that box got sealed before I could and I didn't want to untape it just for that.

I've got too many Star Trek books to reread many of them anymore...But most of the ones I haven't got back to are ones that I just didn't like enough to bother. Not sure of exactly how many that is...



Tresa

[Flinx]

... do you have books you haven't or won't read? Books you always meant to get around to reading but just never do? The cover put you off reading it?Only a few hundred, some are more than 20 years old. Going to sell most of my book collection soon.