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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: AND Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Classics) av Lewis Carroll

Nostromo (Wordsworth Classics) av Joseph Conrad

In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) av Truman Capote

The Beach av Alex Garland

20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea av Jules Verne

The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics) av F.M. Dostoevsky

Manon Lescaut (Penguin Classics) av Abbe Prevost

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vänner: BHenricksen, Cinnamon-Girl, michaelbartley, wisewoman, wonderlake

intressanta bibliotek: aluvalibri, bookgrl, emaestra, ForrestFamily, homeschoolmom, John, KromesTomes, michaelbartley, plastic_princess, raggedprince, shelterdowns, solitude1984, wonderlake

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SamlingarDitt bibliotek (420), Nobel Laureates (14), 1001 Books (155), Multiple Visits (8), Ska läsas (54), Booker Winners (4), Alla samlingar (474)

Recensioner411 recensioner

Taggar1001 (157), read in poland (102), love (93), nonfiction (78), read in 2009 (63), read in 2008 (62), death (58), read in 2007 (51), america (51), classic (48) — se alla taggar

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Grupper1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Books Compared, Books in Books, Central Asia, Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Science Fiction Fans, TEFL Teachers on LT, What Are You Reading Now?

FavoritförfattarePaul Auster, Richard Brautigan, Bill Bryson, Philip K. Dick, James Ellroy, Shusaku Endo, Alex Garland, Malcolm Gladwell, E.H. Gombrich, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Alex Kerr, Milan Kundera, Stanisław Lem, Sven Lindqvist, W. Somerset Maugham, Muriel Spark, Olaf Stapledon, John Steinbeck, Paul Theroux, Leo Tolstoy, H. G. Wells (Gemensamma favoriter)

Om migI'm an English language teacher, currently living and working in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. My ambition is to have visited 50 countries by the time I turn 50 myself; I'm doing well so far, with 28 countries in 29 years - last on the list was the Republic of Ireland.

Om mitt bibliotekMy other ambition is to read 2000 books, which should keep me going until I'm fifty. That's why I have the pro account here. I love books - I am a true bibliophile, like the rest of us here. I have a lot more books than I've listed; I'm really using librarything as a way to keep track of which books I've read. It's a lot of fun going through my catalog and reminding myself of what I've read, what I liked and what I didn't, and I've gotten so many recommendations from this site I frankly don't know where to begin.

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Riktigt namnChristopher Walker

PlatsBielsko-Biala, Poland

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Allmänna faktaSerier (64), Utmärkelser (260), Gestalter (2541), Platser (568)

Medlem sedanDec 18, 2006

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Hello

I see that we have 11% of the same books. Thats pretty high here. I have visited 47 countries and if you look at my profile you will see a link where you can place them on a world map.

inlägg gjort av bergs47 vid 4:18 pm (EST) Dec 18, 2009

Hello there! I noticed you rated Les Mis with five stars. I meant to answer your FB question — Les Mis is probably my all-time favorite work of fiction. Amazing book. We're going to have a long-awaited group read of it here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thequ... if you wanted to join us :)

inlägg gjort av wisewoman vid 8:16 am (EST) Nov 17, 2009

Hi Chris:

I'm new to LibraryThing and wondering why you chose as your name "soylentgreen23." I imagine many of us know of the movie. Is there a book too? Might be interesting to post some of this in your profile.
Charles

inlägg gjort av CharlesBoyd vid 11:09 pm (EST) Sep 13, 2009

Noticed you liked Fight Club, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a disturbed bunch of kids and a bit dark :) I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

inlägg gjort av cmtusa vid 10:29 am (EST) Jul 29, 2009

Hi Chris!

Just read your message - thanks! I don't check into library thing more than about once a month.
We're in krakow for another month, so please, if you can, come and see us.
stil with the BC, and will be there next year too. At the mo, i'm doing some celta training for IH.
I've recently read 'on the road to xanadu' by willy dalyrimple. he's a modern travel writer who retraced marco polo's steps. a really good 'travel' book: informative, funny and entertaining, mixing backpacker anecdotes with some quite scholarly and informed nuggets of history. if you chicken out of Polo's book, you might read it.
I'm having quite a booky phase at the moment.

regards

james

inlägg gjort av raggedprince vid 4:36 pm (EST) Jul 24, 2008

Hi, Chris!
Thanks for the suggestion of "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene. I will try to pick it up this week. I had heard of it, but did not know anything about it. I really loved "Our Man in Havana" so I think that I will try to read all of his works now! I just got back from out of town and had not read much while gone, so I am eager to catch up some.
--BJ

inlägg gjort av billiejean vid 10:10 am (EST) Jul 14, 2008

Hi, Chris!
Thanks so much for your input on "The Quiet American." I had seen the movie without realizing that it came from a book. I guess almost all movies do come from books. Anyway, when I got my copy of "1001 Books," I saw that it included this one. I can hardly believe that I had not read any Graham Greene books in all these years since I do like that genre. A trip to Borders did not yield a copy of it, but I did get "Our Man in Havana" (not on the list). I liked it. I guess I will try Barnes and Noble or Amazon next. Anyway, thanks so much for your note.
-- BJ

inlägg gjort av billiejean vid 11:22 am (EST) Jun 20, 2008

Hi Chris!

I read your review of 'the God Delusion'. It made me all the more determined to read it myself. I saw the first half of the documentary film. I'm glad you're still active on Library thing. I'm doing quite alot of reading at the moment.

All the best,

James

inlägg gjort av raggedprince vid 5:17 pm (EST) Jun 2, 2008

Hi Chris, I just read your comments about Anna Karenian and War and Peace. I thought you had some very good insights especially about the living conditions of the serfs. After reading your comments I went to your profile and thought you are an interesting person and someone I would like to spend time with discussing books and other great topics. I love this website! Anyway happy reading
Michael

inlägg gjort av michaelbartley vid 11:03 am (EST) Mar 7, 2008

Wow! Am I jealous! I own (and have read) several of his books, but certainly not his complete works! This past year I read The Magician and thought it very good. Quite different from the Razor's Edge, though. I also have all of his short stories and think those are fun to read here and there. I think I will read The Painted Veil this year. Of what I have read so far, Up at the Villa was the only one I didn't enjoy, and perhaps I should give it another chance.

inlägg gjort av marise vid 1:25 pm (EST) Jan 4, 2008

I saw your post on 50 book challenge where you gave The Razor's Edge as your all time favorite book and I just had to say Happy New Year to a kindred spirit! It is one of the few books I have EVER re-read and I do it at least semi-annually. Good luck on this year's goal!

inlägg gjort av marise vid 10:29 am (EST) Jan 3, 2008

Hi Chris
"Google alerts" alerted me to your review of my book. Many thanks!
Actually I agree with you about that "hilarious" blurb on the cover. While the publisher was good most of the time about getting my input before adding things, they selected the cover quotes without consultation. Hence thatinaccurate Daily Mail quote. If I get a chance in a future edition I'll request that they remove it.
-- Niall
www.niallmurtagh.info

inlägg gjort av niall24 vid 8:53 am (EST) Aug 30, 2007

Thanks for the comment. Chopper is indeed live and well and not only producing poetry but has had a couple of art shows as well. But in my opinion as an artist he makes a great criminal!

inlägg gjort av judylou vid 10:01 pm (EST) Aug 26, 2007

I love your tags - literally laughing out loud funny. I'm not sure if the fact that you actually read Hawking's book is impressive or creepy. Interesting library.

inlägg gjort av emaestra vid 6:13 pm (EST) Jul 28, 2007

Christopher - what does it mean when a user named soylentgreen23 speaks of his "renewed faith in people"? I am enjoying "A Little History" though. Cheers, Hugh

inlägg gjort av HughLynch vid 5:25 pm (EST) Jul 18, 2007

Welcome to Books Compared. Hope you'll contribute a comparison review soon - perhaps of some books that your broad cultural perspective will help you illuminate for us!

inlägg gjort av margad vid 1:41 am (EST) Apr 6, 2007

Christopher,

Thanks for the kind note. I'm intrigued by the books we have in common. I keep adding more titles as time and inspiration allow. let me know what you run across that is worth adding to the stacks.

inlägg gjort av heidilove vid 10:02 am (EST) Feb 16, 2007

Hello there and thanks for the hello on my profile. Poland sounds very interesting. I would love to visit fifty countries. Only two so far for me. Canada probably doesn't count though, since I grew up fifteen minutes from the border. Enjoyed looking at your library!

inlägg gjort av homeschoolmom vid 6:47 am (EST) Feb 1, 2007

Hi and thanks for the invite. I do actually have a WICE TEFL certificate although I don't use it much nowadays and I hope I will be able to make some useful contributions to your group but in the meantime I am off to amazon to order some Bill Bryson (who is this guy?? - always so happy to discover something/someone new). Thanks again.

inlägg gjort av aemilys vid 4:05 pm (EST) Jan 12, 2007

Lovers and loathers of Dan Brown and his on-off relationship with the English language are directed to http://chasmsoftheearth.blogspot.com/ You know it makes sense. Well, more sense than the book.

inlägg gjort av TimFootman vid 7:53 am (EST) Dec 31, 2006

Re; Catcher in the Rye review, I felt very much the same after finishing The Wasp Factory, ie. that I would have enjoyed/ 'got' it a lot more if I had first read it at a more compatable age with the narrator.

inlägg gjort av wonderlake vid 7:10 am (EST) Dec 29, 2006

Christopher: Thanks very much for your comment on my reviews. I do enjoy doing them. I fell out of the habit a couple of years ago, but am back to it now especially as I enjoy the luxury of time in early retirement. I see that we do share a number of books, and scrolling through your list of reviews, I see a broader, similar taste in writers. Life in Krakow must be fascinating. I visited Warsaw once, in 1975, but Poland is certainly a whole different world now. Good luck on your targets for travelling and reading...though 500 books is far too modest!

Cheers....John

inlägg gjort av John vid 8:37 am (EST) Dec 27, 2006

Cheers Chris
thanks for introducing me to this website. I'll be posting more books. Watch this space!

inlägg gjort av raggedprince vid 4:52 pm (EST) Dec 20, 2006

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