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[jfb]

I'm almost done with the books. What I have left: Some books I recently read; some books I still think I might read; and the two shelves that hold my favorite books ever. Some of which I'll probably keep. Also comics. And cookbooks. Meanwhile, here's a smattering of geek stuff:


Toon, the cartoon roleplaying game
Greyhawk Adventures, campaign setting for AD&D
Player's Handbook for AD&D
Thief's Handbook and Wizard's Handbook, ditto
All the above are for 2nd edition AD&D. If you've been meaning to try the 90s edition of the roleplaying craze of the 80s, now's your chance. I also have a 3e Player's Handbook.


The CPSR Newsletter, Fall 1994, featuring "Not a Highway, but a Place: Joint Activity on the Net", a vision paper by the Jupiter team at Xerox PARC. Good times.
ACM SigPlan Notices, December 1986, featuring the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, by Rees and Clinger et al.
The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., copyedited page proofs of chapters 16-19 of the 1995 anniversary edition.
Joule: Distributed Application Foundations, a technical report on the language that led to E.

Comments

[xythian.livejournal.com]

Good old AD&D. Also toon. I wonder what happened to that other RPG we tried.

Favorites

[(Anonymous)]

I have to admit I'm curious as to what books are on those two shelves.

-B

Re: Favorites

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Well, they're not really my favorite books ever, but they're the books I've read and wanted to keep, the books that are front and center in my apartment for vanity's sake. Mostly literary fiction, and some SF (most of which is already gone). So far the only book I'm pretty sure I'll keep is Mrs. Dalloway.

[dkw.livejournal.com]

For a moment, I thought you meant this RPG, which seemed unlikely. (I actually learned a bit of that RPG when I was in high school and it was relatively new. But I never got any use out of it, just some wasted brain cells.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I endeavor never to mean that RPG.