All the books you ever read, in one neat little website!

[daughterofeve]

http://bibliophil.org/

I cannot believe I didn't find this site sooner.. it's absolutely perfect!

..I wish i had money, and a credit card, so I could donate to the cause :(


(oh, if anyone's wanting a buddy on there, my name's the same as it is on here)

[joft]

joy to the world

[songbird36]

It's pretty laughable to put George Orwell and Dan Brown in the same bracket of literary achievement.

I won't be in a hurry to sign up to this site..

[Shai Gar]

i am a bibliophile

[Shai Gar]

looking at this site i realise they are morons

their users with most read titles is at most 3000
i was in a reading club in primary school, before i left primary school i had read over 4500 books, which is their entire library and some of the towns library.

morons. i started in grade one and stopped being in the club when they told me they werent going to keep making levels and acheivements for me

[Arioch]

"What wild desires, what restless torment seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease."

^_^

[daughterofeve]

It's pretty laughable to put George Orwell and Dan Brown in the same bracket of literary achievement.

I won't be in a hurry to sign up to this site..
All of that is based on statistics, like how many users have a certain book, and how high they've rated it. I must confess, i've read neither author, but they both ARE similar in 'achievement' because their books have achieved popularity.

Different genres have different types of people that love to read them. IMHO they are all unequal, yet not one of them leads the others in quality. It's all subjective.. the mystique of books.


their users with most read titles is at most 3000
i was in a reading club in primary school, before i left primary school i had read over 4500 books, which is their entire library and some of the towns library.
Only someone with a verrrry good memory (and a complete list) could remember every single book they read... besides, you add books manually on this site, one by one so that you can add notes and ratings to it.
I like it primarily because it's not just this big impersonal list that just tells you the titles, this site allows you to see someones booklist as well as the cover, the rating they give it, and it's all hyperlinked to Amazon so you can read more about it, and if intrigued, you could even buy it!
There is no perfect website, only functional ones.

[songbird36]

Yes but the point is if I want a list of top 10 trashy bestsellers I can get that from the bookstore.

I want a site that offers incisive commentary and analysis on works of *literature* (and I use that word very deliberately to distinguish authors such as Orwell and Hemingway from the likes of Dan Brown and JK Rowling)

[Shai Gar]

what a crock of shit.

Orwell was great
Hemingway was great
Rowling IS great

never heard of dan brown so i wont comment

it seems you are listing authors that are dead in your great list, j k rowling is a great author whatever you think of her subject matter.

you offend me with your supposition that rowling is a trashy author. her books are very well written and they dragged me out of the i hate childrens fantasy section into the damn she writes well. although the movie adaptions suck, simply because of the new director.

in my opinion her harry potter books are up there with catch22, and much much better than chaucer.

[Shai Gar]

and literature is not a subject that only includes books written over a century ago.

lit·er·a·ture Audio pronunciation of "literature" n.
1. The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
2. Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: “Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity” (Rebecca West).
3. The art or occupation of a literary writer.
4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.
6. Music. All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.

[Aryan]

You also have http://promo.net/pg

[daughterofeve]

I want a site that offers incisive commentary and analysis on works of *literature*
Well then, look somewhere else, because the point of this site is NOT to give commentary! Sure theres a message board, but hardly anyone uses it because the site is built around recording the books you have read and/or own!

And seriously.. give me a break, it's run by only one person, with the help of donations. (hence the .org) Do you really expect the guy to do all that work in addition to maintaining the site? Besides, theres already a list of the '100 best' (http://bibliophil.org/100best.asp) on there.


never heard of dan brown so i wont comment

it seems you are listing authors that are dead in your great list, j k rowling is a great author whatever you think of her subject matter.

you offend me with your supposition that rowling is a trashy author. her books are very well written and they dragged me out of the 'i hate childrens fantasy' section into the 'damn she writes well'. although the movie adaptions suck, simply because of the new director.
Dan Brown is the author of The DaVinci Code.. I've heard that he is pretty good (although the book itself is complete Bull)

Actually.. I have a friend that really likes HP, but she's constantly complaining that J.K. should change her style, she thinks J.K. is still writing to a 5th grade audience, and that she should write it in a way that the series kinda 'grows up' with the characters. I personally don't quite see her point, because i started reading the series right after the 5th book was published, and I quite like J.K's style. But I do see where she's coming from; the 'kids' that were in 5th grade when the first book came out are now in their late teens, and are kinda 'outgrowing' the series, in a way.



Hmm... the gutenberg project? bibliophil already has a link to it in bold, right on the home page.

[songbird36]

I find the Harry Potter books are long winded, heavy with complex and wordy dialogue and short on action (especially the last one).

I have read all the HPs to my kids, and have also read other children's fantasy/adventure such as the Deltora Quest series which is much better. I also write both poetry and books myself.

I personally don't find JK Rowling a very skilful writer. If that's heresy, then I'll have to live with it.

[daughterofeve]

yeah.. I'm not a writer, only a reader.. so I wouldn't know. With books, I only know what I like.
You gotta admit though.. the storylines of CS and POA were pretty good, always kept me guessing! What I really hate the most in a book is predictability.

[songbird36]

Yes I think the first two books were good; and Goblet of Fire wasn't bad, but there seems to be a general deteriorating trend in the series as it has gone on. This has been remedied to some extent by the movies which as a medium can condense a plodding storyline and overcomplicated characterisation into something a lot more attention-grabbing.

And I also think the global obsession with Harry Potter has probably detracted attention away from other more worthy authors for young people - such as Terry Pratchett.

I for one won't be queueing up outside the bookstore for the 6th book..

[songbird36]

I'm really disappointed no-one has responded to defend JKR as the second coming.

Where are all you pale, ploughman's lunch eating sexophobes?

[joft]

To me, reading the potter books is like indulging in all the sentiments of growing up as a "different" type of kid. I can handle reading something that's mostly meant for a different audience (in this case, younger). So far my only criticism is that the 5th book seemed to dwell too much on harry's angst, but I think she can redeem that based on the next book and which direction it takes.

[songbird36]

So I think maybe Professor Umbridge is JK's husband dressed up in drag

dressed up with some nasty pink lipstick applied above the eyebrow..

[joft]

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[songbird36]

oh God I think I've died and come back as Edmond Zeto

*only without the attractive pink eyebrows*

[Edmond Zedo]

Right. What's all this, then? And who has pink eyebrows?

[songbird36]

Pointy ones.

Pedro...

[Shai Gar]

JKR is not the second coming, nor is she the best author ever to grace this planet, but she is however a brilliant author who writes some very good stories. not everyone need be a fan, however saying she doesnt write literature is simply showing ignorance of what good literature is.

the first two movies were pretty well done but number three missed out a hell of a lot of good story just so that the movie could be shorter. i personally dislike stories that are hacked to shit just for an audience that doesnt want to sit still for more than hour.

on the zedo thing, heh.

and my cousin (9) used to have his dad read the stories to him, i stayed with them for a week and had my little cousin reading them to himself by the time i had left. the kids should be using this story they all seem to love to push their reading ability higher, not so their parents can condescendingly read to them

[songbird36]

JKR is not the second coming, nor is she the best author ever to grace this planet, but she is however a brilliant author who writes some very good stories. not everyone need be a fan, however saying she doesnt write literature is simply showing ignorance of what good literature is.

the first two movies were pretty well done but number three missed out a hell of a lot of good story just so that the movie could be shorter. i personally dislike stories that are hacked to shit just for an audience that doesnt want to sit still for more than hour.

on the zedo thing, heh.

and my cousin (9) used to have his dad read the stories to him, i stayed with them for a week and had my little cousin reading them to himself by the time i had left. the kids should be using this story they all seem to love to push their reading ability higher, not so their parents can condescendingly read to them

My kids read to themselves as well as having books read to them - reading to them is just a nice thing to do. I agree books shouldn't be condensed for the sake of it, but neither should they ramble on fruitlessly about a whole series of trivial events (as most of the first half of "Order of the Phoenix" does).

I think JK needs a competent editor.