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FavoritförfattareJorge Luis Borges, Joan Didion, Richard P. Feynman, Paul Fussell, Michael Lewis, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, Studs Terkel, Mark Twain, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Wilde, Richard Yates (Gemensamma favoriter)

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Om mig"Harold Bloom weeps for me." ~ Chris Bauman, from "Not Fade Away", Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times

"...a little charming and very mad." ~ Appropriated from Whitehead. Mangled by me.

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"You see, one thing is, I can live with the doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here.

I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." ~ Appropriated from Feynman

Om mitt bibliotekThis is a list of the books I've read. (My apologies to the library catalogers out there.) At some point or another in my life, I've read all book listed here. I don't currently own most of them. It's most definitely not a complete list. There are books I'm pretty sure I've read that I've not added because I'm not certain I've read them. There are books I know I've read that I haven't added, as I'm not sure I remember enough about them.

There very much seems to be a dynamic in my life where the books I own are not the books I've read. The books I've read and not been completely stunned by are very easily parted with. The ones I've read AND been stunned by are very often passed into someone else's hands.

I'm not a fetishist, nor a collector. Over the course of the past four years, I've had to move way too many times, and the books that I now have kept, either by porting them around with me or by pawning them with the option of re-buying are either the cream or the ones I've not yet read, but definitely do intend to. There's no way I will part with my seven volume set of Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down, though this is probably the only title that I will say this of. And this may change once I have a chance to actually read it.

Books, for me, are largely about the transmission of information. So the library, for me, is largely about acquaintance with the information within.

I do realise that this can lead to interesting conundrums. For example, I've not been picky about which particular printing of a book I've read. While I do understand that differing translations or printings can offer an entirely different perspective on the text, I'm much more a dilettante than a completist. As far as I can tell, my reading of the text may change simply as I get older and change myself, so I'm not tied to a static or completist reading of the text.

I'm a bit up in the air about the idea of listing the books that I've not read. Is there somewhere aside from the "tags" portion of the entry to label them as such. I've no problems with listing the books that I own. At this point, what I love about LibraryThing is it's ability to give me recommendations based on what I've already read. I'd rather not have these recommendations diluted by the titles that I've not read. If there's a way to circumvent this quandary that I'm not aware of, I'd be more than happy to oblige.

Please understand that because of this, my ratings are rather wonky, as quite a few of these books were read about 10 years ago. I've done my best to place the book in my memory and assign it a value that matches the book's place in my head and heart. As this changes from day-to-day, I'm sure that in another week I'll look at quite a few of these ratings and wonder what the heck I was thinking. If you've a question about any title, feel free to ask and I'll do my damnedest to give you an answer.

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Riktigt namnJesse Wiedinmyer

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