The Book Book

by Steven Gilbar

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312088035
• ISBN13: 9780312088033
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Little Gem !

Came across this little fellow a short time ago.This book of 229 pages is a whole bunch of stuff about books and writing.It gives the prize winners,best of different categories such as mystery,western,sci-fi,escapist,true confessions,Jewish,NY Times book review editor's choices,Pulitzer Prize winners,most significant by century,Nature writing,Classic Crimes,Metropolitan Life,Black American,Aviation Novels,The Best Fantasies,Modern British novels,and on and on.It also has many book quizes.many one-liners such as ,"Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book".It pretty well covers the 20 th. Century and even some before that. A great little reference,fun to thumb through book,and even good for suggestions on what to read.Since it was issued in1981,it could do with an update;but even so still worth having.

How to Build a Basic Home Library

If you can acquire all the titles in the main lists (not the quizzes or fun bits) in this slender volume, you'll find yourself in possession of over 4000 of the best books ever written on a broad range of subjects--fiction and nonfiction, classics and modern prize-winners, novels of ethnic experience, religion, seafaring, music, journalism, biography, history--almost any subject you might be interested in. In this prequel to his more comprehensive "Good Books," Gilbar doesn't attempt to explain *why* a book is good; he just presents you with a list of from 10 to 50-odd titles relating to a given idea, figuring you'll see at least one whose quality you recognize and be interested enough to try its neighbors. It's a nice item to browse through for fun, too. When I thought I'd mislaid it in packing to move, I almost panicked (fortunately it turned up at the foot of the bed not long after). It's definitely a bibliographical tool that every true booklover should have on the shelf--or, better yet, near the armchair.

How to build a basic home library

If you can acquire all the titles in the main lists (not the quizzes or fun bits) in this slender volume, you'll find yourself in possession of over 4000 of the best books ever written on a broad range of subjects--fiction and nonfiction, classics and modern prize-winners, novels of ethnic experience, religion, seafaring, music, journalism, biography, history--almost any subject you might be interested in. In this prequel to his more comprehensive "Good Books," Gilbar doesn't attempt to explain *why* a book is good; he just presents you with a list (often titled with a witty pun or other lightness, such as "Readin', Writin', and Rememberin': 20 Teachers' True Tales" or "Hitting the High Seas: The Nautical Novel") of from 10 to 50-odd titles relating to a given idea, figuring you'll see at least one whose quality you recognize and be interested enough to try its neighbors. It's a nice item to browse through for fun, too. When I thought I'd mislaid it in packing to move, I almost panicked (fortunately it turned up at the foot of the bed not long after). Though troubled by occasional misspellings of authors' names (try searching under the titles instead, since they seem to be mistake-free), it's definitely a bibliographical tool that every true booklover should have on the shelf--or, better yet, near the armchair.