tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post5125188820811770004..comments2024-03-26T11:27:35.814-07:00Comments on Tom Stephenson: BooksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-20575593387429401772017-02-21T15:31:15.849-08:002017-02-21T15:31:15.849-08:00I like that. I like that. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-56844038921153900672017-02-21T11:35:02.542-08:002017-02-21T11:35:02.542-08:00You are absolutely right about being dated, but I ...You are absolutely right about being dated, but I just really enjoyed the huge set in the bookshelf at my parents' house - I guess I just dig books in general! Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-52331382351683125782017-02-20T00:35:17.624-08:002017-02-20T00:35:17.624-08:00Also, for such a huge series of expensive volumes,...Also, for such a huge series of expensive volumes, they dated so quickly. Most had whole sections on the productivity and populations of countries whose borders would be likely to change in a couple of years.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-30014674158788724132017-02-20T00:32:56.346-08:002017-02-20T00:32:56.346-08:00I always hated encyclopedias. Maybe because I thou...I always hated encyclopedias. Maybe because I thought that it was a ridiculous notion that you could stuff all the world's knowledge into a few books. They were a follow-on to the arrogant Victorian mission to disseminate personal theories in the guise of knowledge. Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-49468661169572423402017-02-20T00:29:44.925-08:002017-02-20T00:29:44.925-08:00Keeps you on your toes I suppose.Keeps you on your toes I suppose.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-74378073498634366072017-02-19T20:59:03.182-08:002017-02-19T20:59:03.182-08:00Your illustration reminds me of modern day French ...Your illustration reminds me of modern day French 'flyers'. Why use just one font, when twenty would do.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-38560308356295096902017-02-19T20:57:46.607-08:002017-02-19T20:57:46.607-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-91459766922673663842017-02-19T18:36:16.700-08:002017-02-19T18:36:16.700-08:00We were just talking about encyclopedias in class ...We were just talking about encyclopedias in class the other day. I miss them.<br />Hello Tom!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394558427981331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-58245894726634034352017-02-19T14:59:36.979-08:002017-02-19T14:59:36.979-08:00Controversial. Paedo. 1 all. Controversial. Paedo. 1 all. Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-31128835607042768022017-02-19T14:33:12.507-08:002017-02-19T14:33:12.507-08:00Yes it is. It had beauty. Sad to see the word ped...Yes it is. It had beauty. Sad to see the word pedo mentioned in the same breath.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-285614025836930842017-02-19T14:27:09.936-08:002017-02-19T14:27:09.936-08:00Lolita is a briliant book. Somewhat contraversial ...Lolita is a briliant book. Somewhat contraversial these days, but brilliant nevertheless.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-48041515895282483862017-02-19T14:26:21.399-08:002017-02-19T14:26:21.399-08:00$5 to learn Madarin in 17 years. Not bad.$5 to learn Madarin in 17 years. Not bad.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-76208244645480918962017-02-19T14:25:30.592-08:002017-02-19T14:25:30.592-08:00I tried to read the BBBB one but couldn't.I tried to read the BBBB one but couldn't.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-23424158388933191912017-02-19T14:11:13.948-08:002017-02-19T14:11:13.948-08:00Those were the good parts.Those were the good parts.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-41493143569508701622017-02-19T13:16:48.324-08:002017-02-19T13:16:48.324-08:00I agree with you that your misdeed may have saved ...I agree with you that your misdeed may have saved the book and, as a lover of all things old, I am glad that it is now safe.<br /><br />As you may well know, the entire diary of Samuel Pepys can be read online for free. I read the first two months worth. But the man did nothing but eat, drink, go to the office (where he found nothing to do) and generally ignored his wife. So I gave up on it and never got to the good parts.Irishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12550611275677498097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-27353350236530926072017-02-19T10:54:26.234-08:002017-02-19T10:54:26.234-08:00My mother used to collect me from school and we wo...My mother used to collect me from school and we would call in at a rather shady looking backstreet newsagents only two minutes from the convent. (The boys who ran it would bow to the nuns when they passed by. We always referred to it as "the boys shop". When we went in my mother would be handed a parcel from under the counter. She said they were books "difficult" to get from Smiths. Lady Chatterley and J P Donleavy, Nabakov and Joyce. I doubt that they were really that difficult to get apart from Lady Chatterley but she probably had something going on with the newsagent, she being a bit like that. Sometimes I was asked to stay in the car. My brother and I read them all because they were always laying around in the bedroom on her side of the bed. She didn't mind. She also belonged to a book club and got things like Kon Tiki and Gerald Durrell and du Maurier and we read those too. She enrolled me in a book club and I got loads of Biggles books which along with everything else they sent I mostly hated having got used to Donleavy and Lawrence from an early age. The main books downstairs were the atlas and the dictionary. My father read engineering books and farming books. xxxxxxRachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-8070432059060462412017-02-19T10:48:36.055-08:002017-02-19T10:48:36.055-08:00I need to quote from a letter from a friend: "...I need to quote from a letter from a friend: "I returned a book about Chinese Poetry. I told the person at the desk it was late. She said, 'How late?" I said, 'Pretty late.' She looked at the date, then went and got the manager. The manager said, 'This book has been due for 17 years.' I said, 'But I read it.' She said, 'In that case the fine is $5.00'"Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-31760076193605360152017-02-19T10:14:29.054-08:002017-02-19T10:14:29.054-08:00Also, Harold Robbins ' Never Love A Stranger &...Also, Harold Robbins ' Never Love A Stranger ' and, a few years later, ' The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B ' ..... they were really well-thumbed in our local library !! XXXXJacqueline @ HOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154045482594773377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-40860689345480612432017-02-19T09:45:30.697-08:002017-02-19T09:45:30.697-08:00Tell a kid that they are not allowed to read somet...Tell a kid that they are not allowed to read something - tell ANYONE they are not allowed to read something - and they will not rest until they have read it.<br /><br />In the 1960s they banned 'Lady Chatterly's Lover', so a copy was brought into my school and handed it around. We only read the bit where Lady C holds the gamekeeper's balls in her hand to feel the weight, and that was easy to find in amongst the rest of the novel. You just held the book spine-down in the palm of one hand and gave it a little shake up and down - just like Lady C and the balls - whereupon it would fall open to the exact paragraph.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505385214324438018.post-48607269407801997652017-02-19T07:31:12.793-08:002017-02-19T07:31:12.793-08:00That was a good thing to do, to save that book!
M...That was a good thing to do, to save that book! <br />My parents were members of the Bertelsmann Book-Club - and some of those books I should not read (Thyde Monier e.g., Malarparte). Funny: very young people who can read know exactly were to find what they want (I was also forbidden all the works of Colette - but the parents of my friend had them, and she graciously lend them all to me). But I still remember my sister, whom I told NOT to read "Mike Walthari: Sinuhe der Ägypter" - you are to young for that!" Of course she read it all through - all that boring long novel, haha. Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.com