This thread has been bolded in my 'site new answers' all day so I finally came here because I felt sorry for it but I guess it's fine. As you were.
― kinder, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
That emboldening has got me more than once. In fact it is kind of mildly disturbing.
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah i don't know what the deal is with that.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
It's a bold thread.
― jmm, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
this is a nice profile. and there is a nice bookshelf shot. my favorite part: larry's home as a child didn't have a single book in it, and, now, 80 years later, he has filled that house with books in every room.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/larry-mcmurtry-minor-regional-novelist/
― scott seward, Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
http://www2.advertiser.ie/images/2010/06/27319.jpg
j.p. donleavy (& james joyce)
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
dude looks pretty calm even with zombie Joyce leaning in for a taste of sweet, sweet brains
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
McMurtry is or was a very active indie book dealer too, at least one shop
― dow, Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
more than a shop! half a town of book shop.
― scott seward, Monday, 1 August 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
thread reminded me that French books (and as a result french bookshelves) are ugly as hell. there are like three publishers and they all publish white spines with same text. makes for the blandest libraries
― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
And hardly ever any cover art
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 1 August 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
idk most book design (in the us at least) is ugly as hell, maybe it's better to just go the french route
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
^
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
no way
― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/3029684-in-a-room-lined-with-bookshelves-quintana-roo-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QCAwsgIaw2ppHSUpExLXi2Msaz7S4x03Ipnq9LsB%2FU2ZBdi88Ll0p5FlH1GjT0fSr8rIShQEbvRqg97RusSOs9k%3D
― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Calvino
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fcf%2Fbb%2F15%2Fcfbb1559381959b020da4db66fb41104.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Lessing may look sad but she's got Healthy Pleasures, by Ornstein and Sobel.
Brookner has Colette's... letters?
Percy has The Orchard Keeper by McCarthy.
Powell's got Bruccoli's bio of Fitzgerald (easy catch).
The Didion-Dunnes have The People's Almanac. Also, a very big dog.
― alimosina, Friday, 5 August 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link