Neil Gaiman's

Well... I hate to say this... but his library is cataloged over *there*: http://blog.shelfari.com/my_weblog/2009/09/neil.html

"So we asked one of our all-time favorites, Neil Gaiman, if he’d be willing to give us a peek into his personal library, and he graciously agreed. "

Because they asked. *sigh*

But only 647 of them. Heck, I had more than that in my living room.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5352953/take-a-peek-inside-neil-gaimans-library/ Double checking to make sure this isn't the same article as above. Looks like more than 647 to me.

I like his jackalope.

Perhaps 647 was all they managed to identify from the photos.

Any chance of us getting the library info migrated over here since Shelfari is on the way out?

>2 PhaedraB:

Maybe someone should, I dunno, just ask Neil if he'd care to catalogue here? The whole schmear, I mean, not just the living room..

>6 elenchus: I think I read a post by a staff member somewhere, a long time ago, that he was asked, that we even offered to do a flash mob, but that he refused. I don't remember where I read it, and it's kinda hard to search talk for "Neil Gaiman" and not get 5 billion responses, so finding it is hard.

I could very well be misremembering as well. I think it would be pretty awesome to do a flash mob for him, if he'd allow it.

>7 bestem:

This is how I recall it played out seven years ago.

1. He agreed to do it with us, if we did it carefully and privately. I met him and discussed it at ALA (or maybe the ABA). He was very nice.
2. With their permission, we discussed it privately on a private group.
3. Shelfari members, encouraged by Shelfari, started to catalog it openly, without permission.
4. His assistant freaked out and attacked us for doing everything we said we wouldn't do.
5. The attack was so unpleasant and so false that I felt my integrity and honor were impugned. I explained carefully that they were mistaken—it was Shelfari, not us—and that I would have nothing to do with them again.

I'm afraid I'm sticking to this. I'd love to catalog a famous author. It will not be Gaiman. No doubt someone will port it to Goodreads.

>8 timspalding: I understand where you're coming from. Definitely disappointed, cus his library looks pretty amazing, but I'd probably feel the same way you do if I were in your shoes after that scenario.

Yuck.

Agreed.

Well, because I like to keep track of such things, and this is where I do it: https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1157040864574824467 Quite a few books visible in Neil Gaiman's work space.