Education & Reference The post your collection thread

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raskolnikov

There you go merry xmas, I made you a thread x


Or any other collection really. BF friendly of course- so stamps, coins, spoons, human hair, rocks, sports jumpers... go for your life.

 

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Aw they edited my thread title

 

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The books I own currently:

Helter Skelter
All the Young Men
My Sisters Keeper
5 Feet Apart
Buried Alive
Hitler's Furies
Defeating Terror
Belle De Jour; Playing the Game
Deceived
Speaking in Bones
Blood on the Altar
The One that I want
I'll be Gone in the Dark

In the past tho have owned a tonne more- did a huge clean out when I moved (twice) 2 years ago.

Have owned alot of true crime books; covering topics of serial killers to child abuse to drug smuggling etc...
As a kid: Nancy Drew Files, Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High and University, Point Horror.
And also had some non fiction books on; horses, cats + some sports book. Had a mad sports biography anthology. I must see if its still at my parents house.

 

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[raskolnikov]

They're the three bookcases I have up at the moment. I still have a box of books that aren't up at the moment because of renovations.

 

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You need a library rask

 

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Whats your dewy decimal system there... is there any type of system how youve shelved them??

 

[raskolnikov]

Whats your dewy decimal system there... is there any type of system how youve shelved them??

Pretty much just by topic.

 

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I recognise that Sheedy book.

 

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That's one of my bookshelves of cricket books, top two and a half shelves are all signed copies.

 

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They're the three bookcases I have up at the moment. I still have a box of books that aren't up at the moment because of renovations.

Whats the Lenin book like?

I honestly don't know anything about him tbh

 

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That's my collection of signed and Maupin firsts.

 

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[raskolnikov]

Whats the Lenin book like?

I honestly don't know anything about him tbh

Been years since I read it but from memory pretty good.

I've met Lenin in person. I mean, he was dead at the time, but I still saw him.

 

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Been years since I read it but from memory pretty good.

I've met Lenin in person. I mean, he was dead at the time, but I still saw him.

Ill have to google him.

Was he as bad as Hitler? Or like.. does his stats not compare..

 

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In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to see both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as the greatest of evils. Hitler was worse, because his regime propagated the unprecedented horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to eradicate an entire people on racial grounds. Yet Stalin was also worse, because his regime killed far, far more people, tens of millions it was often claimed, in the endless wastes of the Gulag. For decades, and even today, this confidence about the difference between the two regimes—quality versus quantity—has set the ground rules for the politics of memory. Even historians of the Holocaust generally take for granted that Stalin killed more people than Hitler, thus placing themselves under greater pressure to stress the special character of the Holocaust, since this is what made the Nazi regime worse than the Stalinist one.


Quite interesting...
Mass killings under communist regimes - Wikipedia

 

[raskolnikov]

Ill have to google him.

Was he as bad as Hitler? Or like.. does his stats not compare..

Lenin was probably worse, though Stalin is the one who is most compared to Hitler, both being WW2 leaders. A lot of historians say Stalin was worse.

 

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Lenin was probably worse, though Stalin is the one who is most compared to Hitler, both being WW2 leaders. A lot of historians say Stalin was worse.

In year 10 history iirc we were just beginning Stalin, and then covid hit..

 

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Marxism/Leninsim is a coherent if flawed philosophy parts of which remain relevant today. Nazism for what it's worth is based on Mein Kampf which should be nothing more than an historical oddity now. Ideologically there's no real comparison.

 

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A couple of those terms, re. mass killings (non war type scenarios) I've never heard of before.

Yeah raskolnikov once i get thru my 6 or so books i gotta read now, ill look up that topic.

 

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This is part of my home library - this photo is from about 18 months ago and the top 2 shelves now look a little different with the bulk of the books on those shelves now horizontally stacked, except for some of the taller ones which still stand upright

I have a real reluctance to get rid of books unless it's one I really didn't like and know I wouldn't read it again or they were text books

As well as those in the cupboard, there's some on the floor and then at least 3 or 4 boxes - including a box of war genre books & novels that belonged to my dad and I decided to inherit them, a small collection on Hitler which raised eyebrows when buying them 15 years ago

 

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Would love to borrow books on Hitler!!! No rush tho..

 

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Random thought- what about those dumb campaigners who turn their books around on the shelf- so its showing the pages, not the spine of the book.