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CYRANO DE BERGERAC av Edmond Rostand
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America av James Green
Money av Martin Amis
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks) av Amanda Foreman
E Pluribus Unicorn : A Collection of Short Stories av Theodore Sturgeon
Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas av Arthur Schnitzler
A Man in Full av Tom Wolfe
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TaggarFiction (163), Novel (139), Non-Fiction (46), Memoir (45), Collection (34), Social Commentary (33), Satire (29), Classic (28), Short Stories (26) — se alla taggar
GrupperAmerican History, American Revolution & Founding Fathers History, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Ask LibraryThing, Banned Books, Californians Who LT, Canon, Christianity, Cognitive Science, Czech books — visa alla grupper
FavoritförfattareJorge Luis Borges, Joan Didion, Richard 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 (Delade 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.
"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
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Om mitt bibliotek This 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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The post that you have singled out for (what I would consider excessive) praise was only a semi-clever substitution for something that I was advised against submitting. I could share it with you, but I must urge upon you the same discretion that I had urged upon myself. If conveyed via "private message", it may only be seen by you and the proverbial "flies on the wall" that are the LibraryThing administrators.
Again, you are too gracious.
inlägg gjort av LordNigelKnickKnack vid 4:58 pm (EST) Sep 6, 2008
...a map is a map primarily by virtue of what it excludes...Can one view scientific modeling as a form of narrative technique?
On the first part, here Borges makes this point in a witty way: A completely detailed map would be of little or no use.
Regarding the second part, we do a lot of modelling in Economics and I always start undergrad classes with a little section about models being a framework/structure/narrative that we impose on data. It seems that “models” is the standard word in mathematically-inclined fields and “narrative” is the word of choice in the humanities. They’re very similar if not identical concepts though.
Finally, if you find this intrusion into your exchange with Bob irritating, my apologies. It piqued my interest because I just went over this in class yesterday.
inlägg gjort av Carnophile vid 11:58 am (EST) Sep 4, 2008
Gee, I'm flattered you'd ask me. I have all of two courses in the POS (...and some grad work in experimental design, which sort of counts, I guess) - but that was over thirty years ago.
I found What is this thing called science? to be a useful survey of the state-of-the-art in POS (most of the sources cited there are later than my formal exposure to the field...) but it's probably more superficial than what you're looking for.
Seriously, you could do worse than to ask user cshalizi: he's a stats/physics genius at CMU, AND an LT user. He's blogged extensively about POS-related issues. And he's approachable.
inlägg gjort av AsYouKnow_Bob vid 4:05 pm (EST) Sep 1, 2008