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I have an evergrowing stack of books that I haven't read or have partially read. And it only gets worse every time I go to the used bookstore.

My list:

Iliad
Odyssey
Confederacy of Dunces (read half)
Fast Food Nation (read half)
Ghost Wars
Secret Agent - Conrad
The Holographic Universe
Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
Brave New World
Art of War
The Prince - Machiavelli (read half)
Walden (read about 1/3)
Leaves of Grass
A People's History of the United States (read parts sporatically)
Lies My Teacher Told Me (read parts sporatically)
Koran
Bible (finished the New Testament, still working on the Old Testament)
1984 (currently reading and almost finished)

And the sad thing is I know there's more that I haven't listed and I'm about to buy Crime and Punishment. haha

Tell me about it! I have a habit of buying a book almost every week despite the fact that i have over a hundred books on my TBR list but im a fast enough reader and buying books is enough of a hobby alone to make it worth it.

StephenKingman wrote:Tell me about it! I have a habit of buying a book almost every week despite the fact that i have over a hundred books on my TBR list but im a fast enough reader and buying books is enough of a hobby alone to make it worth it.

Tell me about it ... going to have to get more shelves

I get most of the books from the library which helps me to avoid the piling up of books I haven't read. It encourages me to read them in the order I pick them out as well, since I will return them. When you buy a book, you can keep telling yourself you will read it some other time. With the library, you have a due date that helps encourage you to actually read it now.

Scott Hughes wrote:I get most of the books from the library which helps me to avoid the piling up of books I haven't read. It encourages me to read them in the order I pick them out as well, since I will return them. When you buy a book, you can keep telling yourself you will read it some other time. With the library, you have a due date that helps encourage you to actually read it now.

I'm a regular library fan but it does'nt stop me having shelves of books ... I just love the feeling of security it gives me knowing that I have an adequate stock of unread & 'to be reread someday' books to hand in case the sky falls in & I'm grounded for a few weeks.
I probably do need therapy but I'm happy in my psychosis and it's a harmless enough obsession!

Fran wrote:

Scott Hughes wrote:I get most of the books from the library which helps me to avoid the piling up of books I haven't read. It encourages me to read them in the order I pick them out as well, since I will return them. When you buy a book, you can keep telling yourself you will read it some other time. With the library, you have a due date that helps encourage you to actually read it now.

I'm a regular library fan but it does'nt stop me having shelves of books ... I just love the feeling of security it gives me knowing that I have an adequate stock of unread & 'to be reread someday' books to hand in case the sky falls in & I'm grounded for a few weeks.
I probably do need therapy but I'm happy in my psychosis and it's a harmless enough obsession!

Well said Fran! I use the library too but usually only for books that im pretty sure i wont want to read again, i prefer having my shelves of books, including my King collection, as motivation to keep on reading.

I have only read half of the books i have and i buy at least three a week. When i do read it and if it's good it goes on a "permanent" book shelf, because i feel like i have to own it. If it's bad i take it to this bookstore and he gives me credit for the book so i can exchange it, with no charge, for more books. I kind of feel like he's my librarian...it's a healthy agreement.

I think Erasmus said it when he wrote, "When I have a little money, I buy books. If any left over I buy clothes and food." (haha, I have a bookmark with those words!)

I currently have on my shelf...

Johnny Tremain (I read most of it a long time ago, but I never finished it)
Tangerine (I keep picking this one up, but I never get to the end)
The Visitation by Peretti
The Lost World
Congo
The DaVinci Code
Persuader
The Closers
Echo Park

And those are only ones that I've bought. I'm borrowing The Bones of Makaidos, Eternity's Edge, DragonLight, Left Behind, and Salem's Lot from various friends, and Speaker for the Dead and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch from the library. Of those I'm currently reading (meaning I try and get to them every night), only Salem's Lot and ...Palmer Eldritch are seeing any use.

It's crazy!

Kiki7468 wrote:I have an evergrowing stack of books that I haven't read or have partially read. And it only gets worse every time I go to the used bookstore.

My list:

Iliad
Odyssey
Confederacy of Dunces (read half)
Fast Food Nation (read half)
Ghost Wars
Secret Agent - Conrad
The Holographic Universe
Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
Brave New World
Art of War
The Prince - Machiavelli (read half)
Walden (read about 1/3)
Leaves of Grass
A People's History of the United States (read parts sporatically)
Lies My Teacher Told Me (read parts sporatically)
Koran
Bible (finished the New Testament, still working on the Old Testament)
1984 (currently reading and almost finished)

And the sad thing is I know there's more that I haven't listed and I'm about to buy Crime and Punishment. haha

The idiot
The monastery of Parma
Great expectations

The Pilgrimage By P. Ceolho
A Child Called Freedom by Carol Lee
and Pride and Prejudice

Little Women, that the book i remember.

Tomasaki wrote:I think Erasmus said it when he wrote, "When I have a little money, I buy books. If any left over I buy clothes and food." (haha, I have a bookmark with those words!)

... And a book was a significant investment in the 1500's

You don't know how happy it makes me to know that many people buy books and have them sit on shelves. I'm a bookstore junkie, every Sunday night I can be found in one of our local B&N or Borders drinking coffee and perusing the book shelves. Oddly enough I always find a book I'd like to read then I think "But I have so many" and then "If I don't buy it I'll forget about this one". So I have bookshelves with unread books that I have every intention of read so long as I figure out how to extend my time above dirt indefinitely.

I stopped keeping a list because I was adding like three books a day, and I had to start advertising them by genre, and next thing I knew I had an excel spreadsheet open that was three pages long and I realized "This is WAY too much work!"

Me and my wife used to go to Barnes and Noble and just sit there for half a day and read. Saw a lot of cool books I'd love to check out there.

Honestly, I think heaven is a bookstore with a cumfy chair and free soda.

Lol. Quite clever