Amusing Juxtapositions On Your Bookshelves

Mine are alphabetical so:

Penn Jillette, How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker next to Joyce, Dubliners
and
Anita Diamant, The New Jewish Wedding next to Dickens, Bleak House

Transformers Universe Vol 1

Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion - Bartholomew & Sykes

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A guide to field identification - Montague

Living Biographies of Great Philosophers - Thomas & Thomas

Okay, that's pretty much how my mind works.

"Countering Industrial Espionage" is next to "How To Make People Like You".

Oh man I hate to be a killer of amusement but these could be solved by rearranging the books. (Solved...or MADE LIVING!)

Abbott, don't kill the amusement! There is a fatigue involved with unpacking 20+ boxes and loading them into shelves ASAP so you can sleep that takes ages to heal.

BAIT AND SWITCH/Barbara Ehrenreich : LEIGH BOWERY/Sue Tilley ('Benefits Officer' from Lucien Freud painting)

I have a bunch of Archie double digests on the same shelf as my boyfriend's books about black metal.

i've got a 5x5 expedit with some totes hilare juxtos, lol. hamsun's 'hunger' right smack next to 'a moveable feast'.

"The Idiot's Guide To The Perfect Interview" next to "Death & Disaster" (a Warhol bio, him being a notoriously bad interviewee).

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lol I misread that as

"Living Biographies of Great Philosophers - Thomas and Tuomas"

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You two write some good bios.

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Ethan, this is not Contrived Juxtapositions Found On Google Image Search, dig holmes?

I often do this on purpose. A friend would shelve The Prince next to The Little Prince. I have my Marx reader next to How To Make Money in Stocks

My copy of "The Prince" is right next to "Trump: The Art of the Deal" (The Donald's autobio).

I just looked at my books and want to cry. Too tired to read and too many unread books.

But anyway

Twilight of Atheism and How the Dead Live (by Will Self)

"A History of English Literature 650-1937" by Legouis & Cazamian // "Ringo Starr" by Alan Clayson

A Child's Garden of Bible Stories//Be RAD! A Satanic Bible Study Guide for Teens

AIEEE!

"The Art of Soldering" / "Use Your Head"

This is only one book, but my wife's parents have an old Encyclopaedia Britannica, with one of the volumes being Menage-Ottawa, which always makes me think "Canadian threesome!"

i just packed finishing packing all but a few of my beloved books into boxes the other, so i can sell them all ;_;

my empty shelves are really depressing the shit out of me

"What is Surrealism?" : Canada (lonely planet guide)

Also, de Bottoin's "Consolations of Philosphy" is next to my Choose yr own adventure books, which says what I'm not sure.

from two yard sales on the same day : "How To Work For A Jerk" by Robert Hochheiser and "Never Work For A Jerk" by Patricia King.
Obviously, the amazing juxtaposition is not because of the bookshelf.

They just need to be together.

RR you should sell or pack up the shelves. Then you would only have empty walls to depress you.

yeah abbott, i'm hoping to get that done in the next week. i was pretty gung-ho about the whole selling thing at first, since they're pretty much all replaceable, and the few that aren't are the ones i'm keeping, but as i was packing them up i just kept getting sadder and sadder; they've taken me 10 years to collect and i have a really strong attachment to them, and i know it's gonna take years to replace them one-by-one.

Yeah, I've had to do that too and it is painful. But I found I now do not remember what 90 percent of my sold goods were. (Except for fucking NEWSIES. Why did I sell the DVD but keep the novelization?)

i have a librarything account to look at and feel sad about ;_;

the upside, tho: i'm moving in with someone who has tons of books, and tons of BEAUTIFUL AWESOME books, so that is quite a bonus, and he is also someone who will always buy me books.

At my parent's house: "How To Live To 90" next to "How To Live To 100".