I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

I think I've finally discovered a book whose ubiquity on LibraryThing is even more annoying than that of the Harry Potter books:

The first book in the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. While the reviews of it posted on LibraryThing aren't as teeth-grindingly annoying as those of the Harry Potter books, ( Read more... )

I guess I should be thankful, in the wake of this year's Thanksgiving, that I don't have a bigger Net presence than I do; because I don't see how I could frickin' stand all the trolls that are out there ( Read more... )

...or whatever it was that Yosemite Sam used for cuss words in those Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Every time I really get into pecking away on LibraryThing, cataloging my library one...frickin'...book...at a time, the site goes toes-up. Every goddamned time ( Read more... )

Just discovered this during the course of my laboriously adding my book collection -- one friggin' book at a time -- to my LibraryThing account:

LibraryThing has been renamed "LibraryStuff."

*Scratches headWell, as long as the functionality doesn't change for the worse, I guess I can live with "LibraryStuff." The biggest disadvantage to the ( Read more... )

In honor of LibraryThing rolling out its new feature allowing members' book reviews to be viewed as stand-alone pages instead of portions of a laundry list of reviews, I thought I'd provide a link to my short reviews of the 10th and 12th books (in chronological order, not in order of publication) of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, since I ( Read more... )

(With apologies to Gene Wolfe.)

The mixed blessing of cataloguing your books on a site like LibraryThing is that it can make you feel a bit like a kitten chasing leaves in the wind: nearly every book you pick up to dutifully record in your database cries out to be read now, daddy, now, while a few others beg to be re-read ( Read more... )

...that the cure for grinding to a complete stop in my book-readin' isn't embarking on a months-long new project after weighing the pros and cons of same for all of five minutes (LibraryThing, I'm looking at you), and it damn sure isn't pulling yet another stack of comics out of their boxes and re-reading them, usually for the fourth or fifth time ( Read more... )

Over the Memorial Day weekend (26 May -- 29 May), I discovered a nifty site created and run by Tim Spalding, the same gent whut brung yez the Isidore of Seville message board and Mothboard: LibraryThing, a site that lets you catalogue your books on-line ( Read more... )