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     CommentAuthorMunchkinguy
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008 edited

    
   As a project in collaborative art, I would like to invite people to photograph their bookshelves and bulletin boards and post them on this thread.
   

   Thankful People: alex
2. • CommentAuthorEastSider
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   I can't take decent pictures indoors but on my bookshelves you'll find lots of True Crime, biographies, baseball books, and local history.
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     CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008 edited

    
   Here's my rather... interesting bookshelf:
   
   On top:
   
   left pile: Juba; Junk Food (a book on fast food culture); Winnipeg Window Shopper; Pop-up Book of Phobias, Winnipeg 100 (a pictoral celebration of Winnipeg's first hundred years)
   
   Right pile: The Communist Manifesto, Plato's Republic, Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, Chomsky's Media Control, Nye's Paradox of American Power, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a couple of Jane Jacobs' books, an H.P. Lovecraft anthology, The Rebel Sell, Chatter, The Rise of the Creative Class, and of course Spychips.

   
4. • CommentAuthorEastSider
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   A communist.......I should have known!! ;)
5. • CommentAuthorFort Garry Dark
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   Mine feature dust. I don't think I'll contribute.
6. • CommentAuthorDeanK
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   "Pop-up Book of Phobias"????
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     CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   Top Shelf:
   
   From left: Lust to Kill (about Idi Amin), Kalashnikov AK47, Gorbachev's Mandate for Peace, Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich, Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Nuremburg: Third Reich on Trial, Takedown (the imbellished accounts of the capture of Kevin Mitnick), The Necronomicon, The Koran, Nineteen Eighty Four!!, Chariots of the Gods, In Search of Ancient Gods, Crash Go The Chariots, The Worst Case Scenario Handbook, Etiquette for Men (1920's), Machiavelli's The Prince, The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Life's Little Destruction book, More Life's Little Destruction Book, 1401 Things That Piss Me Off, Mazinger-Z volumes 1-4 (Japanese), The Habits of Seven Highly Annoying People.

   
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     CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   Middle shelf:
   
   Ralston-Saul's Voltaire's Bastards, What Orwell Didn't Know, Who REALLY Runs The World, Ten-Minute Activist, Illuminatus! trilogy, Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers, The Way of Zen, Cultural Materialism, Steal This Book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate people, Gilgamesh, the Principia Discordia, the Gnomes of Zurich (history of Swiss banking), Access All Areas, The Great Winnipeg Dream, No-one Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Cthulhu Mythos, The Practice of Industrial Relations, the Borgias, The Eatons, The Private Life of Chairman Mao, IBM and the Holocaust, and finally City Politics: Canada

   
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     CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
   • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

    
   Bottom shelf:
   
   From left: Two part biography on Adolf Hitler, the Hacker Crackdown, Opposing the System, KGB: The inside story of secret foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev, "Watch this, Listen Up, Click Here" - about the media we consume, Shades of Black, Trudeau, Rene Levesque's Memoirs, One Canada by John Diefenbaker, Abu Nidal: Gun for Hire, The Art of War, I Ching, Secrets of the Samurai, Japan: A Reinterpretation, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
   
   Can you tell History, Politics, and Philosophy are my favourite subjects?

   
10. •  
      CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     

    Posted By: DeanK"Pop-up Book of Phobias"????

    
    
    Yup. An example:
    
    Dentophobia (fear of dentists)

    
11. • CommentAuthorDeanK
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    LOL.. you gotta bring that one when we go out to feed you to the bears...
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      CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008 edited

     
    I KNEW you had an ulterior motive for the trip!
    
    As for the book - wait 'til you see the entries for acrophobia, ophidiophobia, and coulrophobia!
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      CommentAuthorSputnik
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    I have that pop-up book too... my favorite one is the fear of heights.
14. • CommentAuthorbree9643
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    Will do this when I get home because I think it's super-cool. I've long believed I just need to carry a photo of my non-fiction bookshelf with me wherever I go and give it to people as a warning.

    Thankful People: conceitedjerk
15. • CommentAuthorEastSider
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    CJ........those books on Hitler and the war look fascinating, I gotta see if I can get them at the library! Thanks for posting your bookshelf!
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      CommentAuthorZwikster
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008 edited

     
    Nice collection! Im taking note of some.
    
    I have Spy Chips, IBM and the Holocaust...and of course, 1984.
    
    If you like Steal This Book, check out the movie, Steal This Movie....its not bad
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      CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008 edited

     

    Posted By: ZwiksterNice collection! Im taking note of some.
    

    
    
    If I may make a couple of recommendations: The Rebel Sell, No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart, Chatter, and Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here are good reads. Rise of the Creative Class is great, too, as is Gnomes of Zurich!
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      CommentAuthorStBPegger
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     

    Posted By: Zwikster...and of course, 1984.

    You? 1984? Get outta here! ;>
19. • CommentAuthorDeanK
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    Much... just a reccomendation... blur the telephone numbers out and repost...
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      CommentAuthorconceitedjerk
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008

     
    Thanks a lot, Dean! That was gonna be my evening's entertainment!