what's on your bookshelf

[Booker]

here's a sampling of what's on mine:
*topographies of japanese modernism*
*monkey brain sushi*
*tattoos of the floating world*
*yakuza: japan's criminal underground*
*三匹の蟹*
*women of the pleasure quarters*
*the rise of fashion*
*dressing the man: mastering the art of permanent fashion*
*accomplices of silence*
*comparative poetics*

i'm on a book thing right now, so if you know of any must haves for one's library, lemme know.

[kurogane]

I have no books. Just a bookshelf.

Like an empty vessel waiting to be filled, so the wisdom of the ages sits in anticipation of the coming enlightenment.

Makes organising it a breeze, too.

[nymphett]

My spread varies like a heaven and earth. Here goes (some of my favourite which I brought when I came to JP)
- Lonely planet's Japan
- Lonely planet's Europe on a Shoestring
- Surviving the World's Great cities - Tokyo
- Italian phrasebook
- Oxford Dictionary
- Hitler
- Handbook of Urban Survival - a going away gift fr a fren
- The Holocaust
- Chicken Soup for the Traveller's Soul
- 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions
- Tom Clancy's Executive Orders
- Sidney Sheldon's The Stars Shine Down (haha!)
& more Japan books & those Kamasutra & Hite reports books are not displayed in the bookshelf but stashed to the back of the room wardrobe.

[thickmick]

whats on yer bookshelf

dust

[SteadyRollingMan]

I have some books. Some fiction, some non-fiction and dust.

[Mandrake]

Hagakure, just for the kitsch value.

[Ed Ob]

All the Harry Potter books.
Lord of the Rings
Bridget Jones' Diary
Stephen King's IT
Oxford Anthology of 20th Century British Literature
1984
100 yers of solitude
The Godfather
Homer's Odyssey
Collection of the best New Zealand short stories
The complete works of the Bronte sisters
Who left the gas on: A lighthearted look at the life of Sylvia Plath
Lonely Planet's guide to Thailand

[Raceace]

What`s on my bookshelf?

Receipts
Bicycle parts
Ten dictionaries,yes ten
DSM-IV
Research and Methodology
Oxford Medical dictionary
Initial D comics
Justice of the the peace manuals(QLD and NSW)
Various law rubbish
Cycling Australia magazines
Let`s go english series
Express ways series
Lance Armstrongs Its not about the bike.
JPT 2 and JPT 1 books(JPT 1 not opened yet)
History of the Hutt valley. NZ
Harry Potter
My wifes music scores(Shitloads of em)
There is no more space!

[m2pi]

A PM-4000PX printer, software, microphones, a tennis ball, two rolls of duct tape, boxful of tools, old hard drives, a can of car wax, a pair of numchuk, bunch of rolled up ties, some coffee cups, Durex boxes, various cables, ... and books, manuals, an music scores stashed behind all these.

Some people call it messy; I call it an organized chaos.

[eku]

on......... the top or in the bookshelf
heres on the top
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8510/1111shelf8fd.jpg

[HavanaClub]

Candles, incense (Korean, local, Vietnamese), Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Hugh Johnson, Che Guevara, Aruhndati Roy, Hugh McLennan, the Bible, Bell Hooks, Irvine Welsh, Murakami, Larousse Gastronomique, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Quaran, my verbose, and slightly embarassing thesis, a black bic lighter...ad infinitum

[shooshoobeleza]

loads of wedding photos that need to be organized, stones, ornaments, vases, candles.. and books, glorious books! far too many of them..

current reads include one about Dadaism I'm ploughing through, Simone de Beavoir's autobiography (part2), and the Suicidal Bunny manga.

can never have too many books!!

[Spoon]

8 books on learning Kanji...

[User Name Deleted]

A ton of language textbooks and dictionaries, plenty of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy etc, Dickens rates a mention and add to that John Grisham.

[sosa]

A ton of legal texts and casebooks that don't merit listing.

But I do have a lot of Japan-related books too:

"Tale of Genji" Siedensticker translation

"A History of Japan" (3 volumes) by George Sansom

"Japanese Tales" translated by Royall Tyler

"Okinawa: History of an Island People" by George Kerr

"Japanese Inn" by Oliver Statler

"Tales of Old Japan" by L. Redesdale

"Taiheiki" translated by Montgomery

"East Asia: The Great Tradition" By Reischauer and Adams

[Booker]

on......... the top or in the bookshelf
heres on the top
i'll see your bookshelf and raise you mine....

[diva]

I want to see a photo of Booker's wardrobe...

[diva]

All the Harry Potter books.
Lord of the Rings
Bridget Jones' Diary
Stephen King's IT
Oxford Anthology of 20th Century British Literature
1984
100 yers of solitude
The Godfather
Homer's Odyssey
Collection of the best New Zealand short stories
The complete works of the Bronte sisters
Who left the gas on: A lighthearted look at the life of Sylvia Plath
Lonely Planet's guide to Thailand

So where are all the Americans books, Mr 'USA has the best writers'?

[sincity]

Not much in my bookcase except the complete Columbo DVD collection, Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" and Pushkin's "Yevgeny Onegin." I do not showcase books; I consume them and discard them or circulate them among friends. I never get drunk off the same book, at least not staggeringly so. My last Murakami novel is currently being read in Iwakuni by a nice guy with a preposterously large ____ and I couldn't be happier for him. The book I'm reading now, "Audrey Hepburn's Neck," was until recently sandwiched between F. Scott and Yevgeny, and though the splashes of blood orange and brilliant green adorning their jackets made for a pleasing happenstance, I shan't reunite them.

[Morning Star]

Nice guy with a big ____ enjoyed the Murakami book and brought it back. Currently sitting at the gf's apartment waiting to be liberated and re-appropriated.
I'm thinking about using it to start a literary-club for the filth in Ueno park. Get them to hunt me down some kitties.

[kintarou]

6 bookcases, over 100 dictionaries and english reference books, about a 100 music books, another one or two hundred scores, a solar-powered kubifuriningyou, novels and the usual other stuff.

[Ed Ob]

So where are all the Americans books, Mr 'USA has the best writers'?

You didn't really believe that post did you diva? I am shocked and offended. The only one of those books that would make it onto my bookshelf would be the Plath biog. Or maybe the Bronte's for kitsch value.
Unlike Booker, I shan't pose to impress (and I certainly shan't post photos: how tacky), but let me just mention the names Bellow, Updike, Delillo, Pynchon, Doctorow, Roth, Mailer, Faulkner, Williams, and Miller (OK, the last two are playwrights but they're still American). That's a bookshelf.

[Booker]

Unlike Booker, I shan't pose to impress (and I certainly shan't post photos: how tacky), but let me just mention the names Bellow, Updike, Delillo, Pynchon, Doctorow, Roth, Mailer, Faulkner, Williams, and Miller (OK, the last two are playwrights but they're still American). That's a bookshelf.
I shan't pose to impress, he says, as he blurts the last names (for we SHOULD know them, shouldn't we?) of those great novelists holed up in bookstores under the heading of great novelists. They speak for themselves, don't they, of the greatness of your bookshelf which you shan't pose to impress, let along stoop to the level of showing to one and all via the digital camera.
Want to be impressed? I'll give in to Diva's request (if feigned) and show you my wardrobe. Or I'll just drop the last names of the designers and let those names in all their glory speak for themselves as I downplay their magnificence.

[eku]

You didn't really believe that post did you diva? I am shocked and offended. The only one of those books that would make it onto my bookshelf would be the Plath biog. Or maybe the Bronte's for kitsch value.
Unlike Booker, I shan't pose to impress (and I certainly shan't post photos: how tacky), but let me just mention the names Bellow, Updike, Delillo, Pynchon, Doctorow, Roth, Mailer, Faulkner, Williams, and Miller (OK, the last two are playwrights but they're still American). That's a bookshelf.
its really easy to say you got all these heavy-weight intellectuals on your bookshelf and call a photo tacky... pity you cant post a tacky one of all your Louis L'Amour and Mills and Boone books :D

[JayJay]

Fiction

-Frank Herbert’s Dune books (I am a Sci-Fi freak)
>Dune
>Dune Messiah
>Children of Dune
>God Emporer of Dune
>Heretics of Dune
>Chapter House Dune
>The Bulterian Jihad
>The Machine Crusade
>The Battle of Corin.
-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all four of the original trilogy) (Douglas Adams)
-The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
-Animal Farm and 1984 (George Orwell
-Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited and The Doors of Perception (Aldus Huxley)
-The Dark Tower Novels (1,2,3,4,5) (Stephen King)
-The Samurai (Shinsaku Endo)
-A few Star Wars EU and Warhammer books.
-The Complete works of Shakespeare (two volumes)

Non-Fiction

-Moonage Daydream- The life and times of Ziggy Stardust
-Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy
-Plato's Timaeus
-Cassino- A Hollow Victory (WW2 History)
-History of Military Aviation
-Spitfire- A complete history
-Sun Tzu's Art of War
-Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere
-Shorinji Kempo Tokuhon
-Fundamentals of Kongo Zen Buddhism (Shorinji Kempo)

Comics
-Akira vol 1
-Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2
-Gummn (Battle Angel Alita) 1 & 2 and Last Order
-Neon Genesis Evangel ion 1,2,3 & 4
-You know you've been in Japan too long when.....

Art and Photography
-Chinese Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
-A Middle Earth album (paintings inspired by the Lord of the Rings)
-Beautiful New Zealand

Music Scores
-Blood Sugar Sex Magic (RHCP)
-Greatest Hits (RHCP)
-Louder than Bombs (The Smiths)
-Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden)
-King for a day... (Faith no More)

Geek stuff
-Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks. Many Codex’s. (Yes I am a geek but I don’t really play much anymore).

Language
-Learning Teaching
-Murphy’s Essential Grammar (Blue and Red)
-Oxford dictionary (which I never use :) )
-Japanese-English Dictionary
-Korean-English Dictionary

And an atlas.

I think that’s all, I'm not counting manuals and gear catalogs.

Quite a bit I think, and I'll be moving in May. :(

I used to work in a public library back home so I got to buy old books cheap or even get them free



History of the Hutt valley. NZ


No way! I used to sell that book to people when I worked at the Hutt Central Library. Never read it though, interesting? The Hutt is a mightily fascinating place.

[Ed Ob]

its really easy to say you got all these heavy-weight intellectuals on your bookshelf and call a photo tacky... pity you cant post a tacky one of all your Louis L'Amour and Mills and Boone books :D
Dearest Eku, the list I posted was a continution of another argument that American 20th century lit is superior to British.
I wasn't claiming they were all on my bookshelf, but that if they were it would be a bookshelf superior to any containing solely British writers.
Perhaps my inferior writing didn't make that clear. I am after all, British. Apologies.
BTW, when I say US writers I don't mean James Patterson and Stephen King, both of whom are prominent in that tacky photo of your bookshelf you posted.
Nice ceiling tiles though:)

[Raceace]

Fiction

No way! I used to sell that book to people when I worked at the Hutt Central Library. Never read it though, interesting? The Hutt is a mightily fascinating place.

I,m from Upper Hutt originally but left for Australia with the family in 1987 after GST hit.
The book has some great pictures of Wallaceville,Plateau
Akatawarra, Also the book was produced by INL in Taita
which is where my father worked as an associate editor.

Small world hey JayJay!

[aha yes]

BTW, when I say US writers I don't mean James Patterson and Stephen King, both of whom are prominent in that tacky photo of your bookshelf you posted.
Nice ceiling tiles though:)
I like her motherboards. Asus rules! :D

My bookshelf contains a bunch of books and journals on teaching and linguistics, a couple of mint condition kanji textbooks :(, a pretty random assortment of other books (Book of Clouds, Encyclopedia of Trees, social criticism, history, conspiracy, magick), and one hollowed-out copy of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope that I use to hide chocolate from the rest of my family.

[kintarou]

I want to see a photo of Booker's wardrobe...

and i'd like to see a pic of the man himself.



magick


aha, ever read any crawley? self-proclaimed devil. :eek:

and i like her motherboards too. way to go, eku. i just put my nice new athlon chip on an asus too. :D

[kintarou]

whoops, i forgot to say: remember that thread we had about japs (that's japanese for all you easily offended readers) never having any books? well they don't seem so popular here either, do they?

[Booker]

and i'd like to see a pic of the man himself.
in time, my mild-mannered friend. in time.

[sincity]

in time, my mild-mannered friend. in time.

That's too Linda Blair for me B-train. Consider yourself reported to The One and the Vatican.

[diva]

I'll give in to Diva's request (if feigned) and show you my wardrobe.

I wasn't joking. I'm sure the title 'Best dressed GPer' (or most expensively dressed) is a two horse race between me and you. But you have youth on your side....(starts weeping)

[aha yes]

I wasn't joking. I'm sure the title 'Best dressed GPer' (or most expensively dressed) is a two horse race between me and you. But you have youth on your side....(starts weeping)
I can't believe our resident fashionista and host JBS3009 would stand by and let such a blasphemous claim go unchallenged.

Where you at, James-kun?!

[diva]

I can't believe our resident fashionista and host JBS3009 would stand by and let such a blasphemous claim go unchallenged.

Where you at, James-kun?!

I don't think a 100% Gucci wardrobe and a collection of Rolexes are enough to claim 'best-dressed'!

[Booker]

I don't think a 100% Gucci wardrobe and a collection of Rolexes are enough to claim 'best-dressed'!
spoken like a true man of fashion. i'd be proud. in fact, i am.

[kintarou]

I can't believe our resident fashionista and host JBS3009 would stand by and let such a blasphemous claim go unchallenged.

Where you at, James-kun?!

jbs is a fop! besides, expensive or not, clothes covered in ____ from your 'fully-clothed' girl gently putting her arm around you while giving 'tekoki' in some karaoke dive just doesn't cut it. :eek:

[donpaulo]

an almost complete collection of Barbara Tuchman including
March of Folly
Stillwell
Bible and Sword

On war by clausewitz
The Five points a gang history of NYC
Battle Cry of Freedom Macpherson
The Gangs of NYC
The Unknown Stalin
Kursk, the battle of
Over the edge of the world
Russia at war by alex werth
History of Civilizations AN EXCELLENT BOOK by braudel

and my current tome "Gotham" the complete history of NYC to 1898

Steinbeck East of Eden
Mark Twain compliations
Hawthorne compilations

we also have too many english books to mention (at least 200 or so) plus numerous thesaurus', Dictionaries, and the Oxford History of words.

[Raceace]

Everyone seems to have a rather extensive library.
Are all the books mentioned those that you have read prior to signing on to the GP forums?
Reading never gets a look in nowadays, I,m too busy surfin those internet barrels!

You shoulda seen it the other day....6,7, hours straight!

[donpaulo]

race I reckon you make time to read. I often make the time before bed, unless its a good read in which case I bring it with me in the backpack and power read.
Most of the better books deserve a 2nd or 3rd reading anways.

[cutyourhair]

Its nice to see people posting pictures.

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Japanese Mind - Various
Kodansha's Kanji Dictionary
Japanese Dictionary of Intermediate Grammar
Various Notebooks
Misc. Japanese ikkyu and nikkyu texts
大阪人好きな大阪弁
家国の人格
日本の美しき残像
東京ターワ
国際離婚
漫画だらけ

[cutyourhair]

Booker - I totally see Oe Kenzaburo's "A Peronal Matter" on your bookshelf

[sincity]

race I reckon you make time to read. I often make the time before bed,

I don't read before bed I drink something intellectually stimulating like Jack Daniels. The only time I read is on trains and only then if I'm not drinking.

But I'm not saying you have a problem, DP, for as Clausewitz eloquently wrote: "The best war strategies have always been formulated by men in pajamas." No sir, you have a supporter in me for your nocturnal reading.

Unless of course you actually read IN bed with a dry wife beside you. Then I would have to call you don poofter.

[Booker]

Booker - I totally see Oe Kenzaburo's "A Peronal Matter" on your bookshelf
hells yeah, as they say. he's got another story, *agwee the sky monster* that i read not too long ago. a short one. it's good as well. check it out, if you haven't.

[JBS3009]

Well, clearly, if you looking for someone WITHOUT complex, innovative, and wildly COOL (I exclaim in caps) fashion sense, DON'T come to me... because nowhere else on these forums will you find a better example. And while I love Booker like a brother, his modern American brand-name couture deserves little respect, as Japanese male fashion is light years ahead of American fashion in terms of originality, boldness, and range (but don't get me started on that again).

I don't think a 100% Gucci wardrobe and a collection of Rolexes are enough to claim 'best-dressed'!
A collection of Rolexes!? I never wear a watch, because they spoil the wrist's natural form, and what with the pocket telephones nowadays being able to give a fairly accurate indication of the time, wrist watches are fast becoming an uncool thing of the past. And Gucci? Well, if it was mixed with a 290 yen flannel shirt from Harajuku's "ThankYou Mart", then well, maybe.


jbs is a fop! besides, expensive or not, clothes covered in ____ from your 'fully-clothed' girl gently putting her arm around you while giving 'tekoki' in some karaoke dive just doesn't cut it. :eek:
You remember that!? You and Mizuho Bank have got to get out more. And if you don't stop your jealous rantings, I'll have a girl give me some tekoki as I stand over your Burberry scarf.
And K-kun, I thought I told you to shave off those damn sideburns! I had no idea that Seibu's new collection this year was returning to the "stodgy theme" :p

[Nonbe]

Well, clearly, if you looking for someone WITHOUT complex, innovative, and wildly COOL (I exclaim in caps) fashion sense, DON'T come to me... because nowhere else on these forums will you find a better example. And while I love Booker like a brother, his modern American brand-name couture deserves little respect, as Japanese male fashion is light years ahead of American fashion in terms of originality, boldness, and range (but don't get me started on that again).

A collection of Rolexes!? I never wear a watch, because they spoil the wrist's natural form, and what with the pocket telephones nowadays being able to give a fairly accurate indication of the time, wrist watches are fast becoming an uncool thing of the past. And Gucci? Well, if it was mixed with a 290 yen flannel shirt from Harajuku's "ThankYou Mart", then well, maybe.


You remember that!? You and Mizuho Bank have got to get out more. And if you don't stop your jealous rantings, I'll have a girl give me some tekoki as I stand over your Burberry scarf.
And K-kun, I thought I told you to shave off those damn sideburns! I had no idea that Seibu's new collection this year was returning to the "stodgy theme" :p

I have to disagree, and agree with this post. Kintarou`s Burberry collection is legendary. This is the disagreement point. However, I went to Harajuku last week and spent 40, 000 yen, and came back with 5 stunningly original shirts, 2 pair of jeans and a pair of boots that would make a pixie wail with jealousy.

[kintarou]

You remember that!?


i remember everything!




I never wear a watch, because they spoil the wrist's natural form


now come on, jbs. we all know the reason you don't wear a writst watch is because it just gets in the way as you maniacally beat away at yourself between choruses of さくらんぼ



And if you don't stop your jealous rantings, I'll have a girl give me some tekoki as I stand over your Burberry scarf.


actually that's not a Burberry scarf. i think i picked it up in 主婦の店 for a couple of bucks. ya see, you can fuss around with your harajuku one offs but that's no match for a little stodginess and some charm.
what can i say? オレだから。。。:p

[Nonbe]

i remember everything!




now come on, jbs. we all know the reason you don't wear a writst watch is because it just gets in the way as you maniacally beat away at yourself between choruses of さくらんぼ



actually that's not a Burberry scarf. i think i picked it up in 主婦の店 for a couple of bucks. ya see, you can fuss around with your harajuku one offs but that's no match for a little stodginess and some charm.
what can i say? オレだから。。。:p

That`s ridiculous! Everyone knows that the kaoraoke favourite is さくら満開　by Morning Musume`s Sakura Gumi.

[kintarou]

That`s ridiculous! Everyone knows that the kaoraoke favourite is さくら満開　by Morning Musume`s Sakura Gumi.

well, we're talking about JBS! this site's self-proclaimed 'go-to-guy for men's egg advice' :eek:

[Nonbe]

That`s true.

However, my `face orchestra` typo was unintentional.

[Booker]

And while I love Booker like a brother, his modern American brand-name couture deserves little respect, as Japanese male fashion is light years ahead of American fashion in terms of originality, boldness, and range (but don't get me started on that again).

Thanks, James. As always. Most Americans can't dress, have poor fashion sense. I'll give you that. That doesn't mean that my lovely American brands are responsible for the toppling of United States of Couture. Nay, I say. For the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the girls that insist of wearing shirts two sizes too small so their jelly rolls come spilling out (I believe it's called a muffin top in england if I'm not mistakenO). The blame also falls on the masses for dressing alike. Sure, the Japanese bathe in originality, (don't we all, though) but those fashionistas roaming the streets have gone to the oposite extreme of their round-eyed brothers. What we have, James, is the deconstruction of modern couture and an emerging polarity that causes one (plus you and diva (but he's old), together that'd be three) to recoil in horror at the montrosities that are taking shape before our very eyes.
That magazine you admire so, Men's Egg, that represents a small community of fashion extremists who, in their efforts to be soooo different are in fact establishing a transnational bond with the blonde headed American boys that wear backwards baseball caps (color of choice, white), goatees (sp?), and Abercrombie and Bich shirts. They also have big earrings in both ears. The only difference is that there's no magazine here propogating their indifference to difference in the same manner as Men's Egg.
Now, don't think me a trash-talker. I admire you, James. You do what you do because you want to do it, not because Nonbe wants you to do it. If you sport the companion style to the yamamaba-look, good for you. Me, I choose something more subdued yet loud in its breach with modern conformity. The downfall of being stylish in a world where style is limited to A&F or Express (for Men) is that people think you gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) But it's something I can live with.

[kurogane]

Well, clearly, if you looking for someone WITHOUT complex, innovative, and wildly COOL (I exclaim in caps) fashion sense, DON'T come to me... because nowhere else on these forums will you find a better example. And while I love Booker like a brother, his modern American brand-name couture deserves little respect, as Japanese male fashion is light years ahead of American fashion in terms of originality, boldness, and range (but don't get me started on that again).
:p


The Management of GaijinPot is pleased to welcome you to the 1st Annual GaijinPot Gay-Off, already in progress:

Booker took an early lead with his cloying but almost unbelievably well-detailed acount of fantastically unimaginative brand name Hip Hop (also known as Hype Hoop) fashions, and his inexplicable fascination with wilful bodily disfigurement, but our resident girly-man James Kun (Go Go!) has surged ahead with his nativistic attachment to the visual pollution that is the hip Japanese male aesthetic.

Also, he made a very good point about wrist watches, there. If you wear one of those, you have that much less reason to flip open your designer cell phone with the drop wristed effeminate foppery of the professional asscandy man.

Stay tuned, readers. The battle is sure to get hotter than Shinjuku ni chome during a gel storm.

[Booker]

The Management of GaijinPot is pleased to welcome you to the 1st Annual GaijinPot Gay-Off, already in progress:

Booker took an early lead with his cloying but almost unbelievably well-detailed acount of fantastically unimaginative brand name Hip Hop (also known as Hype Hoop) fashions, and his inexplicable fascination with wilful bodily disfigurement, but our resident girly-man James Kun (Go Go!) has surged ahead with his nativistic attachment to the visual pollution that is the hip Japanese male aesthetic.

Also, he made a very good point about wrist watches, there. If you wear one of those, you have that much less reason to flip open your designer cell phone with the drop wristed effeminate foppery of the professional asscandy man.

Stay tuned, readers. The battle is sure to get hotter than Shinjuku ni chome during a gel storm.
and all this in the book section!

p.s. i'm wearing a pink shirt today. does that mean i win?

[scotty7]

I'd recommend the following from my recent shelf:

The House of Saud - Said K. Aburish
The New Great Game (Blood and Oil in Central Asia)- Lutz Kleveman

[kintarou]

p.s. i'm wearing a pink shirt today. does that mean i win?


no. i wore my pink shirt with pink and ice-blue stripe Burberry tie. Beat that you vulgar brute!

[Nonbe]

It`s not pink, it`s salmon!

I`m wearing a watch, and coolly I added a couple of links so it dangles down on my hand and jangles when I walk. Can`t top THAT in the style stakes.

[Ed Ob]

and all this in the book section!

p.s. i'm wearing a pink shirt today. does that mean i win?

The direction this thread has taken only serves to prove what I earlier suspected: for some, books are just another accessory.

From you Booker, I'm afraid it was all to be expected, but diva? kintarou?

A plague of badly co-ordinated bags and shoes on both your (fashion) houses.

[Booker]

The direction this thread has taken only serves to prove what I earlier suspected: for some, books are just another accessory.

From you Booker, I'm afraid it was all to be expected, but diva? kintarou?

A plague of badly co-ordinated bags and shoes on both your (fashion) houses.
don't worry ed, nobody really gives a flying____ what you have to say.

[Ed Ob]

don't worry ed, nobody really gives a flying____ what you have to say.

Similarly, nobody gives a flying____ what you wear.

And, if you haven't realised it yet, on a web forum, nobody really gives a flying____ what anybody has to say.

[Booker]

Similarly, nobody gives a flying____ what you wear.

Diva does. And you do, too. come on, admit it.


And, if you haven't realised it yet, on a web forum, nobody really gives a flying____ what anybody has to say.

i guess you have me there. match point: ed.

[User Name Deleted]

I don't know if I like the direction this thread is taking. I'm now wearing a NSW Waratahs rugby jersey and tattered jeans, and never have been and never will be fashionable.

Let's get back to books. Just finished 'Pillars of the Earth', so I need to visit the bookstore tomorrow for a strategic purchase to expand my library.

[JBS3009]

choruses of C≧C≠CA´CO`C／...what can i say? E´IE´a°CaeC�CA´...
Wow! Kintarou actually knows more than about me than me! It`s great having an avid fan watching your every online move, I must say!

JBS (is) this site's self-proclaimed 'go-to-guy for men's egg advice'
Actually, if you had checked my detailed profile since last November, you would have noticed that it reads "this sites`s go-to-guy for advice related to dating female Japanese reggae enthusiasts". Tsk tsk.


The downfall of being stylish...is that people think you gay.
This is exactly true. The biggest downfall of the foreign white male is our intense fear of being thought of as gay. And as a result, our fashion choices are thus rendered extremely limited and therefore over-simplified and primitive. We mainly owe this to Kurogane, yet I thank him deeply for being the closest living example to Home Improvement`s Al Borlan, and thus providing us with a excellent, but ominous warning to adapt and shed these inherent fears. And while red-necked forty-something Canadians (though admittedly bordering on comical ingenuity) may think the likes of Booker and myself are gay due to that little extra time we spend in the mirror or pondering before our wardrobes, we know who we are, what we want and how to do it. And if you look at my record, Kurogane, you`ll realise I do it well. Need I ask, what you doing at 21, K-burger? I highly doubt it was shopping for Men`s hair product with your attractive Sky Perfect television presenter girlfriend. Though if it was, yes, I owe you a peach Cassis for your troubles.

[diva]

that causes one (plus you and diva (but he's old), together that'd be three)

I've forgotten the Japanese term but 'slightly cool middle age man' is very in this year.

You can keep 'Mens egg', I have my copy of 'Leon'.

[theotherguy]

I've forgotten the Japanese term but 'slightly cool middle age man' is very in this year..

Choi furyou Oyaji.

There may be hope for me yet.

[kintarou]

Wow! Kintarou actually knows more than about me than me!

calm down there j-バーグ、no need to get so excited.


Actually, if you had checked my detailed profile since last November, you would have noticed that it reads "this sites`s go-to-guy for advice related to dating female Japanese reggae enthusiasts".

so, all the gatsby and shinjuku originals and this is what it's come down to? a reefer in one hand and a wannabe whaler in the other? i'm in awe!
but what happened to the 'cool in a non-smoking kinda way'? it seems our jbs is growing up.
alright then, would you mind giving me some advice on where and how i might approach a 'female japanese reggae enthusiast'?

[Nagasu-jin]

Here in Japan definitely not enough...

Around 10 books on Japanese Grammar and Kanji, a few Mangas of my hostsister I haven't touched yet, German versions of the Genji Monogatari, Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, Tom Clancy, Sherlock Holmes, one book about Japanese history, Japanese castles, Sadou and of course Lord of the Ring, etc. etc.

Now reading "Howly Cow" of Sarah McDonald, very good book in between but miss a few good books from home...

Living in the countryside it's quite difficult to get some good English books, Fukuoka here we come I would say!

[zeeidiotsare@yahoo.com]

All three books Wallace Christ read this decade. Makes for good reading again and again!

[StevieC]

Based on Japan?

Okay.

Lonely Planet: Japan
Discovery: Japan
AA's Guide to Tokyo
The Last Samurai - Life and times of Saigo Takamori
Samurai - A millitary History
Japan - From Settlement to the Bubble Economy.
Japanese for Busy People
Berlitz: Japanese Phrase Book and Dictionary.

[AV]

On the bookshelf:
some 200 DVDs and my orchids :)
Stashed away in the library are complete works of Lenin and Stalin (of which I am an extremely proud owner)

[nosferatu]

A lot of books...

A pair of dueling muskets, gunpowder & shot....

Yoyogi Park....6am......a duel

What say you sir!