Book Meme

[chickenfeet]

From ironed_orchid:

List 10 books you have on your bookshelf that you think nobody else on your friends list has on theirs.

Roger Garaudy "From Anathema to Dialogue"

Andrei Sakharov "Peace, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"

James Mark "Climbing in Southern Ontario"

James Raffan and Bert Horwood (eds) "Canexus: The Canoe in Canadian Culture"

Walter Strachan "The Artist and the Book in France"

EP Thompson "The Sykaos Papers"

Paul Halmos "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces"

Robert Proctor "The Nazi War on Cancer"

Douglas Porch "The French Foreign Legion"

Eric Wolf "Europe and the People Without History"

Comments

[aparecida.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

(I will now yoink this meme.)

[forthright.livejournal.com]

I have Wolf at work; does that count as 'my bookshelf'?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I guess so

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You got me...

[darcydodo]

I'm thinking I'd be safest going with some of my more obscure mythology/religion books, since Classics books in general aren't particularly safe — I've got a good handful of Classicists on my friendslist. :) For fiction, my guess is that almost nothing's unique to me.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I can do pretty well from my collection of really obscure 1970s/80s political stuff, older climbing guides and mathematics. Most of my fiction would be quite widely held but I didn't think anyone would have the Thompson (except, possibly, oursin who has everything!)

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Okay, you beat me flat this time. I knew of the Garaudy and of the Sakharov, but haven't read them and don't own them.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

... "The Canoe in Canadian Culture" sounds VERY nice... in a Sarah Palinesque sort of way...

*runs*

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

First of all it is the proceedings of a conference at Queen's University. I don't associate Ms. Palin with academic events. Second, Alaskans use kayaks not canoes. Sheesh do we have to teach you Frogs everything?

En barque. A la rame.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

About canoes vs kayaks, yup. About intellekshual snobbery, why, I thought that's what you'd moved to Canada to escape...

Re: En barque. A la rame.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I like intellectual snobbery. It's the other kind I can't stand.

[anthrokeight.livejournal.com]

I have Wolf, too, on my bookshelf at home and and excerpted in a book on Social Theory. I will probably be teaching him next term.

The rest... nope, not a one.