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Old 06-15-2006, 07:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Your interesting books

What book(s) are you most proud of? Which one do you think is the most interesting? Has the most story (pardon the pun) behind it?

Mine:

Realms of the Living Dead: A Brief Description of Life After Death
by Harriette and F. Homer Curtiss. (1919)

However, this isn't really fair. It clearly states (somewhat blurrily thanks to my crappy camera phone) on the title page that the book was transmitted by the Teacher of the OCM. What is the OCM, you ask? Well, it is the Order of Christian Mystics, founded by our friends Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss.


The book is a description, a guidebook, and a manual on the crunchy, wonderful occult and paranormal world wrapped around a creamy Christian center. But the book does not just focus on it's title subject. In fact, it also covers telepathy, telekinesis, astral projection, the use of some familiars, spheres of influence, and some alchemy. Not the kind of thing you find everyday.

I can't really find a whole lot on it online. Google only gives a few hits, most of them links to places to buy copies of a reprint from 2005 or so. I had expected to find more about the book, especially since I could find a decent amount about some of the others they "Transcribed" such as The Voice of Isis.

God(dess), I love library book sales.

So... share. It needn't be metaphysical. Just interesting.
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Old 06-19-2006, 06:24 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I am particularly proud of my collection of pagan theory books, my handfasting books (I am an ordained minister of the pagan persuasion) and my Classic novels.
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Old 06-19-2006, 10:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
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When I was in high school, I was looking through my parents bookcase and found this:<br>
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It's really old, I think the copyright is 1959... It was like finding a holy grail, during that time in my life.
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Old 06-21-2006, 07:11 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Most proud? Hmmm. I have a first pressing of "Through the Looking Glass". That's pretty cool
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Old 06-21-2006, 07:26 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I have a copy of a book that sounds like it never should have been published - "Asimov's Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan", yes, by Issac Asimov. Two great tastes that somehow manage to go great together. What's even better is that my wife's dad got Issac to inscribe it to me. It has a very special place on my bookshelf.
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Old 06-21-2006, 11:33 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I have a copy of a book that sounds like it never should have been published - "Asimov's Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan", yes, by Issac Asimov. Two great tastes that somehow manage to go great together. What's even better is that my wife's dad got Issac to inscribe it to me. It has a very special place on my bookshelf.
Without trying to sound like too much like a tweenager...

That. Is. So. Coool.
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Old 06-21-2006, 12:14 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Without trying to sound like too much like a tweenager...

That. Is. So. Coool.
Thanks. The book itself isn't as good as, say, "Asimov's Annotated Gulliver's Travels" (which has way more science-style footnotes), or the other main G&S annotated books (I don't recall their names right now), but the juxtaposition makes it all good.
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Old 06-21-2006, 04:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I have a first edition of "Far From The Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy.

I picked it up in a teeny tiny town in California: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cedarv...,0.346069&om=1

There was this very small bookstore there, and I had just seen the BBC miniseries, so I was looking for this book. Just so happened it was a first edition! So cool.
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Old 06-21-2006, 05:16 PM   #9 (permalink)
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What came to my mind isn't anywhere near as exciting as the books you folks have on your shelves. Still, it is quite dear to my heart.

I have a well-worn copy of "Atlas Shrugged" hanging out on my bookshelf, given to me by a dear friend as I wandered off to socialist France for a semester abroad in Fall of 2001. I was reaching to read it when I heard the news of 9/11... and yeah... it's just a special book. It would most likely go for less than 20 cents if I were to post it on e-bay.
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Old 06-22-2006, 01:13 PM   #10 (permalink)
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One of the most interesting books I've ever read is called:

Amusing Ourselves to Death

It's not exactly a story so much as a theory. The premise of the novel is that Television and current entertainment methods (i.e. computers) are ruining our ability to think on our own.

It's written by Neil Postman if you're interested.
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