Bookshelved Wiki: EarleMartin

For info about me, see http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/ . I like ScienceFiction a lot: http://downlode.org/books/sf/ (woefully out of date page).

I wrote a Perl utility for retrieving book covers (see CoverToCover). Feedback welcomed.

GiveAndTake: Have some free books from me! http://bookmooch.com/m/inventory/hex

Wishlists:

http://bookmooch.com/m/wishlist/hex
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/N4JZCHN1KLO7/ - mainly comics and graphic novels
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/28HEBDQUF9QNF/ - other stuff or things unavailable on .co.uk

I was experimenting cataloging my collection on my Wiki:PalmPilot "Pocket Library" (causticmango.com); however, I'm not using a PDA any more, so that's fallen through. On the other hand, I've just signed up to LibraryThing.com. With the aid of a ":CueCat" barcode scanner, I'm starting to catalog my collection.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/hex

Books read

Books marked BM I got through BookMooch (see GiveAndTake).

July 2007:

Leadville? by EdwardPlatt?
AntiIce? by StephenBaxter
TheDiamondAsBigAsTheRitz? by FScottFitzgerald?
RaiseHighTheRoofBeamCarpentersAndSeymourAnIntroduction? by JDSalinger?
TheFiveGoldBands? by JackVance
JuniperTime? by KateWilhelm?
TheSymmetrians? by KennethHarker?

June 2007:

CatALyst? by AlanDeanFoster?
TheEndOfTheMatter? by AlanDeanFoster?
TheWorldSwappers? by JohnBrunner?
TheBeach? by AlexGarland? [BM]
TheDiaryOfANobody? by GeorgeGrossmith?
AWorldOutOfTime? by LarryNiven

May 2007:

Grass? by SheriSTepper?
NeanderthalPlanet? by BrianAldiss
TheReefsOfSpace? by FrederikPohl? and JackWilliamson?
PandorasStar? by PeterFHamilton?
Finity? by JohnBarnes

April 2007:

ChasmCity? by AlistairReynolds?

Earlier:

Currently reading

HigherOrderPerl? by MarkJasonDominus?
StepsToAnEcologyOfMind by GregoryBateson
KnowledgeRepresentation? by JohnFSowa? - technically, I'm still reading this, but it's been months since I opened it to be honest.

Reading pile

The shelf of unread books currently contains the following (probably purchased from my [/favourite bookshops]?):

TheBirthOfBebop? by ScottDeVeaux?
Shanghai? by HarrietSergeant?
SketchesFromAHuntersAlbum? by IvanTurgenev?
USA? by JohnDosPassos?
TheManWithTheGoldenArm? by NelsonAlgren?
TheStoriesOfEnglish? by DavidCrystal?
TheBridgeOfSanLuisRey? by ThorntonWilder?
VanityFair? by WilliamMakepeaceThackeray

I want to read...

LouisWainTheManWhoDrewCats? by RodneyDale?
OceanOfSound? by DavidToop?
VisualizingTheSemanticWeb? by VladimirGeroimenko? and ChaomeiChen? (editors)
BasicCategoryTheoryForComputerScientists? by BenjaminPierce?

Somewhere I have a heap of various works by [Apollonius of Rhodes]?, Aristophanes?, Cicero?, Homer?, Horace?, Lucian?, Lucretius?, [Marcus Aurelius]?, Plato? and Terence? that I really want to read, but I find them a bit heavy, so I'm saving them for a rainy day, or some time when I can read them very slowly in a quiet environment without being distracted.

What I was trying to read

...but are still somewhere in the house I moved out of a while ago, along with most of my books.

IntelligentLifeInTheUniverse? by [LS Shlovskii]? and CarlSagan?
BuryMyHeartAtWoundedKnee? by DeeBrown? - excellent, but depressing.
ArchaeologyAndLanguage? by ColinRenfrew?

Some UnfinishedTales too.

Welcome Earle, glad to see another Perl hacker! --DaveHoover

Thanks, Dave, I'm glad to be here.

I just want to let you know that I love CookingWithChocolateAndCoffee. ThankYou? --AalbertTorsius

Messages

Earle, I should have gone to meet you in a café on Saint-Denis street when you came to Montreal. It would have been fun! I can be very magnanimous but I wasn't in that precise period when you were here. But hey I'll be around for a few hundred years more so I tell you what: next time you come to Montreal, we'll make up for the lost time: Just drop me an e-mail and we'll have that drink together on Saint-Denis street. Take care! -- Robert Abitbol

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