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PasturesNew

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I seriously cannot understand people that don't have books in the house :eek: How do you live without the complete works of Shakespeare, we have loads of signed first editions, a large dictionary, various encyclopedias, various table books like The Atlas Obscura, and that is just in the lounge where we only have a small book case!

Those of us without books know it all.
Books are for learning - when you know it all you have no need for them.

Enterprise_1701C

PasturesNew wrote: »

Those of us without books know it all.
Books are for learning - when you know it all you have no need for them.

:rotfl::rotfl:

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CarrieVS

PasturesNew wrote: »

Those of us without books know it all.
Books are for learning - when you know it all you have no need for them.

I know some of my Discworld almost by heart and I will never stop rereading, loving and laughing at them. How do people manage without fiction?

-taff

CarrieVS wrote: »

How do people manage without fiction?

They buy 'Live Love Laugh' stickers so they can not read those too.

NaughtiusMaximus

CarrieVS wrote: »

I know some of my Discworld almost by heart and I will never stop rereading, loving and laughing at them. How do people manage without fiction?

My GF is a Pratchett nut, she owns every book he's written, many in both hardback and paper back (before we met I wasn't aware he'd also written a few non-Discworld books) along with various other books about the DW universe and DW artwork along with quite a few DW collectables and a couple of large framed prints.

When we sold our old house last year we waited until it was completely empty before taking the pics and listing it, if we hadn't it'd have probably ended up on the 'look at this' thread

PasturesNew

CarrieVS wrote: »

...How do people manage without fiction?

I don't get on with it. I can't follow the stories/characters or generally know what's going on.

As I am the owner of what is now called "a label", it appears that my issue with fiction might be part of the ASD spectrum that many struggle with. One of the "1001 little oddities you might have" ... when you've got about 900 of those on the list. I always knew I "couldn't read", just didn't know why.

I always say "I can't read" .... I can't read books that don't contain information, facts, methods. I can read "dip into" things, short pieces... but not a whole book.

Give me a telephone book and I can entertain myself for hours/days... give me an actual story book and I curl my lip and toss it aside.

I like family history (lots of nice facts and evidence) - and I will "do the tree" of anybody at all that I discover anywhere.... and that's my own fiction where I start with a name and discover their story. e.g. I passed a war memorial in a village and spotted a man's surname the same as mine, so I came home and did his entire life story, and that of his family ... to find out "how did it all work out for everybody"....

I was going away for 2 days with a friend, so googled the placename and added in the word "tragedy" and discovered a 150 year old local tragedy - so did that man's entire tree and the tree of about 50 of his associated family members, to see how things worked out in the next 50 years for them all.

-taff

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

My GF is a Pratchett nut, she owns every book he's written, many in both hardback and paper back

Don't forget the Kindle app...I've been known to have book emergencies where I've had to purchase books I already own....Including TP.

mooma29

this thread has made me giggle.
I don't really get the stickers thing eitehr, they are also often a bit wonky. Can we add those curly "sculptures" on window sills to the banned list as well? They seem to be in every lounge on right move. mind you most people would hate my stuff too (hubby certainly does) which is mostly photos, stuff my kids have bought us and my collection of shells and pebbles and weather cones from holidays/days out I enjoyed. We did stash a lot of it prior to the estate agent arriving with his camera. My sister actually thought we had redecorated

Beano123

What we did when we moved was put a lot of things into a storage unit - including some boxes of books that hadn't been unpacked in 2 1/2 years!

The house looked lovely - mainly as it was a sunny day so J could pile loads of stuff up by the shed out of the photos...

And the "Bath" sign that came woth the house was invaluable - it propped up the wonky "bookcase" left by the previous owners nicely!

CarrieVS

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

My GF is a Pratchett nut, she owns every book he's written, many in both hardback and paper back

I don't have them all but there are only a handful I haven't read - I think there's a sequel to Nation, I'm working my way through the Long Earth series, and I believe that's it. I think it's fair to say Sir PTerry shaped who I am as a person.
There's one that starts "Once upon a time there was Discworld. There is still an adequate supply" which made me tear up when I first re-read it after he died.