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Show us your shelf porn, Neil Gaiman!
- Posted on September 4, 2009 - 10:19 AM by Sean T. Collins
my god it's full of stars
Neil Gaiman can claim many honorifics: acclaimed comics writer, bestselling novelist, Newbery Award-winning children's author, dater of rock stars. To this list we can now add "owner of an intimidatingly awesome book collection." Shelfari, the online social networking site for book lovers, has posted an astonishing photo gallery of Gaiman's wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling personal library; if possible, it's even more impressive than you might have imagined the Sandman scribe's bookshelves to be. As a person who actually purchased a house in part to have more shelf space, I can only say that the creator of Dream is living the dream.
(Via Tom Spurgeon, whose headline for the link is so good that you really ought to click over there and reward him with your traffic just to see it)
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5 Comments
pulse768
September 4, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Wait, are they in alphabetical order by author? That's hardcore dedication to a personal library.
Keg
September 5, 2009 at 12:40 am
As a collector of books I bow down before Gaiman. Only in the Dreaming could I ever have anything like that!
jhota
September 6, 2009 at 1:53 pm
he's got a lot of books - including multiple duplicates of several titles. and it's interesting looking to see not only which books i also have, but also have the same edition. i wonder what the count of individual titles is; i haven't counted mine in a few years, but i was up over 2k books before i turned 30 - i'm sure a hugely successful writer must have lots more than that.
nikki
September 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Yes but has he read all of them?
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November 19, 2009 at 12:29 am
I have got to hand it to Neil Gaiman. Somehow he can make the libraries we have at home look so meager. Its a jaw dropping library. Wow!