>>25638698
I'm writing my own book that will demolish both. It's 300k words and 9 trillion IQ in philosophy.

>>25638710
What's the title so I can avoid it at all costs?

>>25638710
doing God's work

>>25638698
That searchable database is a good interesting resource. Worth browsing for ideas.

I wonder how much of it he really used and how much he just had because he was a compulsive book-collector (like Larry McMurtry)? He did say somewhere or other that he often got a book just for one paragraph or something. Hard to say what % of the whole lot he had actually read.

It’s surprising what *isn’t* there. 20,000 books means you aren't too worried about space.

Jeffers is there, copiously (letters, secondary stuff, many editions). Ditto Seamus Heaney. Where's Ted Hughes? Emily Dickinson & Hart Crane are there; where's Wallace Stevens? Auden & Dylan Thomas; where's Larkin?

He has a bunch of stuff by and about Graves (The White Goddess is annotated) but no Collected Poems? They Hanged My Saintly Billy but no I, Claudius? Really?

Doctor Faustus, but no Jew of Malta? Fairie Queene but no Duchess of Malfi? No ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore? (I'm pretty much certain he lifted the end of The Passenger from that. Maybe he threw his copy away to hide the evidence.)

You can explain some of his preferences with an Irish / Catholic bias, but even allowing for that, it's all a bit odd and inconclusive.

>>25638698
We avoid the romantasy with 80s/90s techno-thrillers.