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From the age of 7 it's my ambition to have the world's largest private library :D

I'm just a couple of million books short :(
 
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oggbashan said:
I irritate my wife and her women's book group. I have read almost every book in our house, including hers and her book group's selections.

Since a very early age I have been a speed reader......

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My speed-reading has slowed down with age. A large novel 5-600 pages takes me about an hour. It used to take 30-40 minutes.

What really irritates my wife?

She can take a week to read the same book and I know more of it than she does.
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LOL ogg, great story. I was enthralled. Read every word...and still that pic that Fata Morgana posted hasn't downloaded :(
 
kotori said:
Faint praise from someone who doesn't know how to use an adverb.

The was in today's New York Times.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/moving-on/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130528
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If you don't read, or don't use your books, they can collect a lot of dust very quickly. Deciding that you will never use some of your books again is worthwhile - as long as you are absolutely sure.

Several times I have outed an author's books, only to buy them again years later. For the classics I use Project Gutenberg, but even that doesn't have some of my old books.

I always want to re-read Q - Quiller-Couch's essays on reading and writing; Charles Lamb's Elia and Eliana; Bacon's Essays; Julius Caesar; Virgil; and Homer. My collection has many odd authors - Raphael Sabatini; Robert Van Gulik; Arthur Upfield; Jeffrey Farnol; Russell Thorndike's Dr. Syn; and Thomas Love Peacock. I know that my public library hasn't got them. If I disposed of my copies I would have trouble replacing them.

But I give away about 200 books a month. (and acquire another 100)
 
~Fata Morgana~ said:
I wish Ogg was my uncle.
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I'd probably be your great-uncle. :rolleyes:

I did one good deed as an uncle. My nephew was studying English Literature. When he was accepted for the degree course I loaned 1,000 books to him.

He returned them when he had his Masters.

But I had filled the shelf space vacated by those 1,000 books. :D
 
oggbashan said:
I'd probably be your great-uncle. :rolleyes:

I did one good deed as an uncle. My nephew was studying English Literature. When he was accepted for the degree course I loaned 1,000 books to him.

He returned them when he had his Masters.

But I had filled the shelf space vacated by those 1,000 books. :D
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You remind me of a lady I worked with when I was about 23. She was full of interesting anecdotes and tales, I could listen to her all day too.
 
There were/are disadvantages to being a speed reader.

In one office the Director wanted to know what had been said in Parliament that might affect the company. He asked me to read Hansard (the official record of the day's activities of the House of Commons) and the equivalent for the House of Lords, and all their committees - and give him a report by 10am each working day.

Those documents were about the length of the complete Bible - every day.

But I could flip through quickly to find anything that might possibly be relevant, then read those debates in full. In four years I didn't miss one reference.

Now? I'm involved with community activities and I have to monitor our local councils. I receive all their agendas and minutes daily and read the lot. If there is anything important I inform our other activists.

This week we are discussing our proposed Local Plan. The main draft is 300 pages of A4. The backing documentation is 2,000 more pages. I've read all of them since they became available ten days ago. My colleagues are still reading the first 300 pages. ;)
 
I've read some of Farnol's works, and they usually bring a smile to my face. I enjoy the tongue-in-cheek style of writing, especially when it involves classical settings.
 
AllyRose said:
I've read some of Farnol's works, and they usually bring a smile to my face. I enjoy the tongue-in-cheek style of writing, especially when it involves classical settings.
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His research was slapdash. Unlike Georgette Heyer's. Hers was meticulous, so much so that she wanted to suppress some of her early novels because of historical errors.

Sir Walter Scott's Scottish history? Most of it was romantic tosh. Last night I saw Rossini's Opera La Donna Del Lago. Scott's history interpreted by Rossini and sung in Italian? How can a Scots King use a pseudonym of Umberto? Or a ferocious Highland warrior chief be called Rodrigo? Or the heroine's lover, a brave highlander, be sung by a woman? But the production by the Royal Opera House showed than even rubbish history can be great entertainment.
 
oggbashan said:
His research was slapdash. Unlike Georgette Heyer's. Hers was meticulous, so much so that she wanted to suppress some of her early novels because of historical errors.

Sir Walter Scott's Scottish history? Most of it was romantic tosh. Last night I saw Rossini's Opera La Donna Del Lago. Scott's history interpreted by Rossini and sung in Italian? How can a Scots King use a pseudonym of Umberto? Or a ferocious Highland warrior chief be called Rodrigo? Or the heroine's lover, a brave highlander, be sung by a woman? But the production by the Royal Opera House showed than even rubbish history can be great entertainment.
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I generally take every work of fiction with a grain of salt... or several.
 
“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”

I love it [and very, very true].
 
AllyRose said:
“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”

I love it [and very, very true].
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Change that to:

“You're only a voter! You've not our power! I can tell you! Why, a politician can believe a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
 
oggbashan said:
Change that to:

“You're only a voter! You've not our power! I can tell you! Why, a politician can believe a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
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"Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politicians myself, none can regard it as personal."

- Abraham Lincoln
 
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