Independents' Library (Browncoat Domination)
POSTED BY: Delia
UPDATED: Sunday, May 9, 2004 23:31
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Gunhand,
Well, I'm not saying that we aren't going to need a BIG library, but there's a lot of stuff in the library of Congress I can't imagine we'll want. I can easily see our Independent' Library running to hundreds of thousands of materials, but not millions.
As for your list of cool stuff, let's have some highlights.
Delia
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Delia, my choices must be stored in the "cool" section.
Must haves:
Stephen King: The Stand, The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, Night Shift, The Dark Tower Books and The Green Mile. [You should also have a few of the books he wrote under his wife, Tabitha's, name: The Trap is the best.)
Dave Barry: Anything. Everything. (FYI, Dave Barry ROCKS.)
Clive Cussler: All of the Dirk Pitt books.
John Sandford: All of the Prey novels.
Patricia Cornwell: All of the Kay Scarpetta books and the Jack the Ripper book. (She has convinced me that the artist guy was the Ripper)
(I'd donate my collection to your library, but I'm afraid someone might look at or touch them. Just thinking about that gives me the wiggins!)
EDIT* I forgot to add anything by James Thurber!!
Mal-licious
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Originally posted by Malicious:
Delia, my choices must be stored in the "cool" section.
(I'd donate my collection to your library, but I'm afraid someone might look at or touch them. Just thinking about that gives me the wiggins!)
Don't worry about having to donate your collection -- I'm all for owning books (I've got 100's) and I'm counting on our raid--er, bargain hunters to get anything we need.
As for the cool section, no worried, as the Director of the Independents' Library, I'm officially announcing that I'm putting any item requested by any browncoat in the cool section. (Unless, of course, a browncoat requests the DVD's of the Simple Life or any other reality show. But I somehow don't think a true browncoat ever would.)
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Originally posted by msckaren:
Good list!
I would add David Brin's Uplift series and just about everything else he's written. He (like JW) knows how to make alien/foreign styles of life become real and mostly likable in spite of faults. Great storyteller, too! Definitely outside the box/circle/hexagon.
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"Appears they've canceled the show and we're still here. What does that make us?"
"Big damn junkies, Sir!"
"Ain't we just."
Those sound interesting. I'll have to put them on my post-grad school reading list.
By the way, I love your signature.
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Good choices!
However, don't forget a few classics...
George Orwell - 1984
Jules verne - ANYTHING
James herbert - Fluke
Orson Wells - Time Machine and ANYTHING else
C.S. Forrester - The Hornblower series (Fantastic read!)
And who can forget JRR Tolkien! (Love the films, but the books are waaaaaay better!!!!)
Jayne:> Do'nt know these folk and don't much care to neither...
Mal:> They're whores.
Jayne:> I'm in!
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Good choices!
However, don't forget a few classics...
George Orwell - 1984
Jules verne - ANYTHING
James herbert - Fluke
Orson Wells - Time Machine and ANYTHING else
C.S. Forrester - The Hornblower series (Fantastic read!)
And who can forget JRR Tolkien! (Love the films, but the books are waaaaaay better!!!!)
Jayne:> Do'nt know these folk and don't much care to neither...
Mal:> They're whores.
Jayne:> I'm in!
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