I’ve just got all my books straightend out and in Alphabetical order (by author) and it’s inspired me to create this game. Here’s how it works: I list the first book on my Bookshelf, and someone who has that same book lists the next book on their shelf.
Oddly enough (or not, really) the first book on my shelf is:
Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope.
Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton
err…I arrange my books by size rather than by author and although I don’t have either of the books mentioned, I do have one roughly the same size.
I believe that makes it my turn…clear the way…
Napalm & Silly Putty -George Carlin
My books are organized by catagory – not any Dewey Decimalized deal, just catagories of my own choosing – and George Carlin rests on the Humor shelf next to:
Delia Ephron, Do I Have To Say Hello?
This game is never going to fly if y’all keep picking books I don’t have. :dubious:
I have the Cecil Adams and the George Carlin book, so can I take a turn? Next to my Adams book, I have the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now I know you all have that!
Immediately following my HHGTTG series is Isaac Asimov’s Fantastic Voyage.
By the way, Jess, I apologize for stepping on your toes. I guess I could have waited longer to see if anyone had the Ephron book. :smack:
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
I’ve still got tons of genetic biology and linguistics books on my shelves.
My books are grouped by “whatever looks good at the moment.”
Next to “Origin of Species” on my shelf is my copy of “Gray’s Anatomy.”
Wow…I have only five non-business-related books on my shelf here at work, and Gray’s Anatomy happens to be one on them(never know when you’ll need to know exactly where the spleen is). On one side is a copy of our insurance company’s provider directory, so I think we’ll go with what’s on the other side – The Onion: Our Dumb Century.
Well, as every good librarian should have…there is no order to the books on my shelves.
Just next to The Onion: Our Dumb Century, I have Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (three books in one. Dunno if it’ll count, but it includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass).
On my bookshelf, The amber spyglass is between a stack of paperbacks and…
Men of iron, by Howard Pyle.
Oops. I didn’t mean to sink the ship. Let’s try the other side. In the stack of paperbacks next to The amber spyglass, we find the rest of Philip Pullman’s books, and…
The snarkout boys and the baconburg horror, by Daniel Pinkwater.
No problem – probably nobody does. I thought of that after I posted – that I should have fudged a little and picked something else off the Humor shelf that somebody else might own. Dave Barry or something.
Ooooh, I have Yobgorgle, by Daniel Pinkwater. Close enough?
It is between Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Road to Camlann and A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, by Gordon Korman.
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag? Way to kill the thread, Helena. I don’t have that one, but I do have This Book Will Change Your Life, with which I propose to reboot the game.
Next to that I have Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul.
Surely we can keep this thread alive by loosening the reins a touch; I love book threads. How about if the book has major things in common (IE, you have the book, you have a book by the same author, you have a book with the same major theme, etc, maybe even similar titles but totally different books!)
apologizes to the OP. I love books!
So who has a chicken soup book or like: what’s next to it?
/Shadez
Well… Dung Beetle’s HHGTTG is the only book I have (mentioned in the thread, anyway).
It’s between Roughing It by Mark Twain and The Philip K. Dick Reader
My copy of Philip K Dick’s Reader is between *The Lensman * by Doc Smith and The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny.
My Zelazny books are flanked by *The Year’s Best Science Fiction * (about 8 years worth) edited by Donald A. Wollheim, and the first category in my nonfiction shelves, Agriculture, several books on horse training and horse farming.