Books half-read, waiting to be read, or otherwise unfinished.
It'd help if these guys weren't recommending new books every half-hour, mind you.
And before the snarky comments begin, yes, my house is named "The Villa." What of it?
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*snarky*... I've learnt a new word!
Thanks, Stef. That in itself is NOT a snarky comment.
Nice bookcase. I recognise Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World, and, I think, Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness--am I right? All good stuff.
i'm rereading fahrenheit 451 at the moment.
that is all.
Hi Bill--
Couple of Bakhtin in there: Dialogic Imagination, half-read, and Rabelais and His World I've read all of bar one or two chapters. Must get it finished at some point. No Jameson there though. All of his stuff I have, I've read, oddly.
Couple of half-read Gramscis, Marxism in the Postmodern Age unread (strangely, given the appetizing title). Couple of books to the left of Bakhtin are my prized calf-bound editions of Shelley and Milton.
I try to pick them off one by one on my way out of the door to the train, but I always seem to plump for the slimmest books: Easier to carry.
Oh yes, you were right with Lukacs as well.
Hey Griff--
No crime in re-reading. Just don't burn it afterwards.
I am currently reading John's next birthday present.
Is it today's Guardian?
Or as Griff would say, "Is it the piper?"
i have to memorise it!
What's the one with a dark red spine, top left hand corner, lying horizontally? Could've sworn it's *Marxism and Form* or Aurbach's *Mimesis*. I can see *Dialogic Imagination* now--next to Rabelais. A better book, in my opinion--well worth finishing.
I will when I've finished J.G. Ballard's A User's Guide to the Millennium, which currently holds pride of place in the smallest room and which comes in small, easily digestible pieces, if you'll forgive the metaphor.
Bill,
I think that's A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives and "Low Mechanicks" by Clifford D. Conner. Just arrived last week.
As for the bookshelf itself, it's 100 years old. Irish pitch pine. Maria's family are notorious bookhoarders, a bit like your good self. :)
Stuart and Dave--
Up there next to the Assassin's Gate is The Evolution of Culture, by Knight et al., too. Don't tell me I've wasted my hard-earned cash tracking that down as well? Where do you recommend I read that?
who's "cakes", by the way?
She's either:
Our silent partner currently enjoying a break in Las Vegas with Kev Jones
or
the token bird we brought onboard to preempt accusations of sexism.
erm, B.
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