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FataMorgana

FataMorgana

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The annoying idiot that is Adele has just purchased over 1k in books to look good behind her in zooms etc. See this article.

Adele spends £1,000 during Chelsea book splurge https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...plurge.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

Also check out that Twitter mentioned 'bookcase credibility', it's bloody hilarious pisstaking.

During the pandemic I was asked tons of times if mine were real or fake backdrops. Someone was perturbed I had Mengele and Elvis side by side. There was a great post your bookcase thread here years back, or show me yours here! If you like...
 
Ha! My background is my messy home office that doubles often as storage. It was ok to be seen, a menagerie of music stuff and other hobbies, until I started rummaging around. Now I have to blur it out on calls because it's a complete mess.
My bookcase is in the bedroom, so... special access required... *Brings pinky to mouth*
 
I'm not showing my bookcase. I'd have to choose one out of dozens and 200 feet of shelving in my garage/man shed.

But the Duke Of Windsor, in his Paris apartment had shelved books behind him for his official photos. They were all leather-bound, but they were unreadable books such as an incomplete run of the annals of the society of accountants for the 1920s. They were arranged only by size, in no meaningful order. It was obvious they weren't there to be read.

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Dining room: Cookery books, Dictionaries in various languages. general art, local history.
Living Room: Atlases, Maps, guidebooks, Books on Literature, German and French texts and textbooks general reference.
Landing: Children's classical and Asterix.
Guest room: Many more children's books and family heirloom books.
Bed 2: Family History and topography of areas the ancestors lived in.
Bed 1. Cars, Trains, Buses, Shipping and Navies, Gibraltar and probably 100 to 150 fiction books to read currently.
Study: Bound volumes of Punch and other Victorian periodicals, Australian topography, literature and reference, Bernard Shaw, John Buchan, Jeffery Farno, Rider Haggard.
Garage: Main fiction collection (about 2000), Poetry, Drama, Various reference, Greek and Roman classics, French Revolution etc.
 
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i lost the majority of my book collection to a natural disaster. slowly rebuilding. the current shelves are a hot mess! adele is a posh cunt.
 
When I downsized to a slightly smaller house and closed my secondhand bookshop I had to downsize drastically. At the time my personal collection (not my shop) was about 30,000 books. I had even shelved the toilet for sci-Fi and westerns. As I reduced my collection and my remaining shop stock after a closing down sale I gave seven tons of books to a local attraction who had opened a second-hand bookshop. Twenty years later they still have two tons unopened.
 
Adele could get the dick, that's all I'm gonna say as my book collection is in white boxes under my pool table.
 
FataMorgana said:
The annoying idiot that is Adele has just purchased over 1k in books to look good behind her in zooms etc. See this article.

Adele spends £1,000 during Chelsea book splurge https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...plurge.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

Also check out that Twitter mentioned 'bookcase credibility', it's bloody hilarious pisstaking.

During the pandemic I was asked tons of times if mine were real or fake backdrops. Someone was perturbed I had Mengele and Elvis side by side. There was a great post your bookcase thread here years back, or show me yours here! If you like...
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You mean like the Nazi Mengele? I'm from the deep south, so I'd be kinda pissed that you had Elvis right next to him. Otherwise, please carry on.
 
allclad said:
You mean like the Nazi Mengele? I'm from the deep south, so I'd be kinda pissed that you had Elvis right next to him. Otherwise, please carry on.
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Yeah. I'll put that prick next to Shane McGowan. He won't mind.
 
InternationalFunboy said:
Ha! My background is my messy home office that doubles often as storage. It was ok to be seen, a menagerie of music stuff and other hobbies, until I started rummaging around. Now I have to blur it out on calls because it's a complete mess.
My bookcase is in the bedroom, so... special access required... *Brings pinky to mouth*
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You keep your books in your bedroom? Smooth, sexy bastard.
 
Sean said:
I have bookcases in every room in this house bar the kitchen and the upstairs bog.
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I don't have any cases in bathroom or kitchen or in my bedroom now. Got two in the spare bedroom, one in living room and five in the front room. I wanted my bedroom to look less like a secondhand bookshop/done over by burglars after I decorated last year so had a big cull and reorganise.
 
What about those freaks who put their books in spine first...what the fuck is that all about?
 
FataMorgana said:
What about those freaks who put their books in spine first...what the fuck is that all about?
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TV shows did it to avoid having to pay licensing fees on the books. Then dickheads saw it on the telly and thought it was some kind of high class decorating trend. The world is full of fucking morons.
 
Sean said:
TV shows did it to avoid having to pay licensing fees on the books. Then dickheads saw it on the telly and thought it was some kind of high class decorating trend. The world is full of fucking morons.
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Oh for fuck sake.
 
Sean said:
TV shows did it to avoid having to pay licensing fees on the books. Then dickheads saw it on the telly and thought it was some kind of high class decorating trend. The world is full of fucking morons.
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When they made the movie, and London stage show, of 84 Charing Cross Road, the booksellers of Charing Cross Road lent real antiquarian books for each.
 
I have a cousin who collects china toast holders.

She has hundreds of them, the psycho.
 
Back in...mmm... the early nineties(?), my wife and I "hired" a couple of college kids from work to help us move with pizza and beer. One of them looked up and asked "Have you actually read all these books?"

Baffled, I looked at the twelve boxes of books and said, "those are the ones I liked well enough to keep and maybe reread someday."

A little over a month ago, my late wife's son and his wife and my baby sister and her son helped me for what will most likely be the last time. Rather ironically, once again there were just twelve boxes of books. (Really just couldn't tell you how many boxes we donated when we lost the house a decade ago. Nowhere near Ogs tonnage. But, probably a couple of thousand at least.) Once they got them upstairs (they wouldn't let me carry anything after I tripped over my cane trying to manage the stairs with a box in my off arm), our son looked at his wife and said "no more hardcovers." (They've got enough to be the envy of a few small libraries I could name themselves.)

It just doesn't make any sense to me how someone could have a book near to hand that was theirs and not explore it. The idea of books as decoration... that sounds like the sort of soulless zombie that you go to their house and they have a bowl of M&Ms that has actually been around long enough to collect dust.
 
I don't buy book anymore. I use our wonderful public library and one a book really hits me cold and hands me my ass, i buy it.
 
FataMorgana said:
Yeah. I'll put that prick next to Shane McGowan. He won't mind.
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Do NOT put Elvis anywhere close to a Nazi. We get grumpy about that.

Aside from that, I could take pics that would fill an entire room of books I've read. I will admit that I tried to read The Sound and the Fury but I gave up pretty quickly.
 
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