h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

wonder if the contents of ones bookshelves say anything about oneself?
I visited someone who had a shelf containing
The New Yorker Magazines for around 3 months
The Tale of Despereaux
2 Diana Wynne Jones Novels
manuals for PhotoShop, In Design, and Illustrator
2 dozen children's picture books.

She was 24, did some graphic design, was terribly sentimental about her childhood, and thought the New Yorker would improve her vocabulary.

Ever since then I've been examining bookshelves to see what they say about people.
Anyone?

Too many books to list them all

hmmm... lets see, this is going to take a while:

the jane austen colection
most of the terry pratchett novels
some charles dickens
george orwell collection
point horror and christopher pike(theyre the first things i read in my childhood, i keep them for sentimental value, honest!)
robert rankin
douglas adams (obviously)
virginia andrews
dianne wynne jones
john grisham
joseph heller (catch 22)
j.g ballard
jackie kay
neil gaiman
athur golden (memoirs of a geisha)
jil mansell
wendy holden

as you can see, i have quite varied tastes(and a rather large bookshelf

8 Sandman graphic novs,
Catch 22
The Real Frank Zappa Book,
1984,
Roger's Profanisaurus,
Eats, Shoots and Leaves,
Eats, Sh*tes and Leaves,
Tragically I Was An Only Twin (Peter Cook stuff),
Hammer Of The Gods (biography of Led Zep),
Parallel Worlds (recent popular science book)

and about 40 DVDs, 2 old copies of 'Sound On Sound' a recent 'Computer Music' and the box from a DVD player.

Fortunately most of my books are in storage: it's the only shelf I've got.

wonder what that says about me? im not even going near roymondo's (tho kudos on catch22)

so,after looking at my bookshelf howl, answer these questions:
1. what age am i
2. what sex
3. what is my occupation?
4. what sort of person am i

and i will tell you if you got it right

You're a girl, you're 17, you're a student

oh well done b'elena! except im 18, but you were only a few months off

To be honest, I read it somewhere, didn't recall where, though, so had to guess the age.

I have a HUGE bookshelf! It's actually a whole wall unit that I've overtaken.

There's probably about 200 books on it, mainly fantasy and crime/thiller novels with a few biographies and a few photography books (collections, not manuals) I probably have about another 1000 or so books in storage.

I guess that says that I'm a bit of a bookworm!

whoah i only have 200 (just counted) all hail deakie the harcore book fanatic


do you by any chance happen to be an english student?

Nope, my student days are well past me now!

I just like reading and I read very quickly, on average I read a book a day so when I order books from Amazon or wherever, I tend to order about 10-12 in one go. They start mounting up quickly!!

Me too! I have no idea how many books I have. A lot of them are in storage. I have mystery, romance, sci fi, textbooks (including the ones for my English degree), thrillers, poetry, children's books, management theory, cartoon collections, play scripts and cookbooks. Also on the shelves are family pictures, VHS tapes (), DVDs, music CDs, blank CDs, PC game CDs, other video games and boardgames. Time for a clear out.

i used to read 3 per day when i was going through my dyed black hair and badge phese. now the only books i have time to read are the ones on my course

Dust, Pornography, The Oxford Book of 20th Century verse, Keep The Aspadistra Flying:Orwell, spare set of guitar strings(nylon), one plastic comb, a cracked mirror, a photograph of a supply ship under the Scott Oil Platform in rough seas, provisional driver's license application form, 3 disposable lighters, a broken speaker, Shakey: Neil Young's autobiography, Watership Down: Richard Adams, The Day of the Bomb, King Lear, Chekov: Five Plays, The Great Shark Hunt: Hunter S. Thompson, The Hitchicker's Guide to the galaxy (a trilogy of five): Douglas Adams, Cloud Nine, The Thought Gang, No Mean City, The Mezzanine, Trainspotting, Fantastic Mr. Fox, a casio watch (not working, not even right twice a day)

Oh and a duracell 9V battery, removed to stop the smoke detector bleeping every time i make bacon, kosher.

Mostly mystery,farie, adventure and animal books.


You see there are too many books to list them all i am a massive bookworm!

All sorts: photo albums, cookery and gardening books, the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Road and world atlases, 2 Guiness World Record books, Natural History of the British Isles, Children's Medical guide. A candle, 2 owls & a santa ornament.

All my fiction is in another room.

On my w*rk bookshelf I have files, a Monarch v.8 guide, more files, training manuals about telecom services and notebooks about proprietary systems.

My bookshelf is full of dusty old books, some of which i haven't read just stuck them on the bookshelf for another day read loads of great books though but unfortunetly they are not on my book shelf.

im in the students union quite pissed would you beleive they have copms in here? ohhh need more booze. um. malibu and coke sounds good