This is one full to bursting bookcase! Brilliant! Just as no one likes to see a scrawny baby, no booklover likes to see a malnourished bookcase.
Its owner, let's call him Mr X for now, says:
"Top shelf - sci-fi/fantasy collection including Asimov (his Foundation series), Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide trilogy in four parts, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Also hiding in there is a model of the C152 I learnt to fly in, Frank Herbert's classic Dune and somewhat embarrassingly L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, which is terrible.
"Next shelf - [Ms X's books] Harry Potter en mass, and a collection of classic fairy tales stand out.
"Next shelf - my aviation library. All manner of stuff but lots of biographies/autobiographies, with a tendency to first print runs with an intact dust jacket.
"Next three shelves - all my other books, share trading, investing, science, maths, manhood, travel, adventure, phrasebooks and dictionaries, novels, surfing, philosophy, religion, history....
"Bottom shelf - photo albums, stereo and miscellaneous junk.
"The proportion of books by subject matter seems to closely replicate my interest level in each topic!"
Which takes us back to the original question...are we what we read?
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