Treasure Hunt (The Book of Lost Books)

NY Times ^ | April 30 2006 | Joe Queenan

[RightWingAtheist]

Bibliopath Ping!

Click on the link for the rest of the article!

[Xenalyte]

I couldn't get into the NYT article without registering, but what's here was enough to send me to eBay, where I just bought the book and should have it next week. Woohoo!

[Physicist]

Bibliopath ping!

(Freepmail me if you want on or off this list.)

[Red Badger]

Are Hillary's Billing Records in there?..........

[fzx12345]

Amazon link here.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400062977/102-8245456-8906562

[js1138]

In before post seven ping.

[Heyworth]

In a similar vein, but fictional, is the only-just-late Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum, a collection of lengthy reviews of imaginary books.

[wideawake]

Thank you sir!

[wideawake]

Sounds like Borges.

[bwteim]

Thanks for the ping!

[linda_22003]

That looks like my next treat to myself! Thanks so much for the ping.

[Kaylee Frye]

Thanks, I just added it to my wishlist. That brings the total items on my wishlist to 145. Yikes! Good thing I started sublists a while ago...

[BunnySlippers]

Bookmarking

[Heyworth]

Sounds like Borges.

Yeah, I believe Lem credits Borges with inspiring it.

[Tax-chick]

Cool! I'll have to put this on my library list. I wonder if he mentions all those sequels that Louis L'Amour didn't get around to ...

[Centurion2000]

"At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: 'Does not agree with the Koran — heretic, must be burned'. The other said: 'Agrees with the Koran — superfluous, must be burned'." — Nils Kjaer.

[Argus]

bttt

[Physicist]

Holy. Crap.

While I was searching for just the appropriate picture for my ping, I came across the most fascinating and repellent website.

Consider http://www.vaidilute.com. It's really slick, and extremely well-written to boot. It purports to be the work of a preternaturally intelligent (and comely) teenager named Gabriella. She's well-read, she's eloquent, she's accomplished...and oh, yes, a Nazi. I don't mean a Bush supporter or a Buchananite paleocon; I mean a Jew-hating, America-hating, white-power spouting...Oregonian.

The relevance to this thread is that she has a really nice page about preserving and disseminating books, to save them for future generations. The emphasis is on preventing a Fahrenheit-451-style future. It's inspiring stuff...until you catch the hints about how the Nazis got a bad rap over book-burning, and how the Diary of Anne Frank was fiction, anyway.

>shudder<

[Right Wing Professor]

She is cute, in a Goth kind of way. And so mixed up; socialist propaganda mixed with repulsion at the lice-ridden hippies in Oregon, and white power music. If she's going to hang with International ANSWER, she better get used to lice, and keep it quiet about the Aryan heritage.

What makes me hate this town most are various mental retards, hippies, and the rest of the assorted degenerates here that make Eugene so repulsive and utterly detestable.

No, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!