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Just for Fun > What is your weirdest, funniest or strangest book shelf name here on goodreads and why?

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message 1: by Shannon (new)

Shannon  (shananigansreads) | 355 comments While all mine tend to be quite boring I've seen some other users with book shelf names that make me wish you could put in a description just so I could know why. Please share some of your strange/funny/unusual book self names and stories with me. ;-)


message 2: by Batsap (new)

Batsap | 117 comments I wish that sometimes as well! Sometimes I'm just idly browsing and I'll end up on someone's shelf with a really weird name and I'm trying to figure out why from the books on it, but can't.

My shelf names are rather dull, apart from a couple. One is 'don't mention the war', which is a line from the wonderful Fawlty Towers amd -rather predictably I'm afraid - I put books I've read about WW2 on that shelf. The only other slightly weird one is 'seen on TV', which I use for scripts and tie-ins of TV shows and the like. 'Seen on TV' has oddly enough always been one of my favourite phrases.


message 3: by Pete (last edited Aug 06, 2011 09:18AM) (new)

Pete | 42 comments I saw someone having "genre-splatterpunk." I don't know what it is, but it's intriguing.

PS- mine are boring too. I have lab-lit, because with my background in chemistry, I enjoy fiction about science. Mind you, that's different from science fiction.


Commit Purple Prose From the authors, I'm guessing splatterpunk is something of a bloodfest, slasher type read. I've read some Jack Ketchum (he's on the list) and I just bought "The Light at the End of the Tunnel" (the supposed original splatterpunk novel) for my Nook (I do mean in the last couple minutes). You are an evil man for posting such an intriguing shelf name, Pete. ;)

If you ever want to look up a genre on GR, click explore, then genres, and type in the name. Splatterpunk doesn't have a description yet but there is a lovely list of titles in that genre. ;)

Ahh, shelf names--I've seen books shelved by the state/country they are set in. Someone has all 50 states with books!! -g-


message 5: by Pete (new)

Pete | 42 comments Deb, the Word Muse wrote: "You are an evil man for posting such an intriguing shelf name, Pete. ;)

Thanks Deb. I like to feel that I have a purpose in life.


message 6: by Louise (new)

Louise | 280 comments Deb,Ahh, shelf names--I've seen books shelved by the state/country they are set in. Someone has all 50 states with books!! -g- (th..."

That would be fun to have a look at - do you have a link Deb?


Commit Purple Prose Pete, I'm glad I reaffirmed your life purpose. Plus, I enjoy the company of evil people. -eg-

Louise, if I find/remember who they were, I will let you know!!


message 8: by [deleted user] (new)

I think mine are pretty boring to
The only slightl weired ones would be yucky and horrish mayhem which pretty much speak for them selves lol


message 9: by A book away from an episode of hoarders (last edited Aug 12, 2011 08:31AM) (new)

A book away from an episode of hoarders (fidgit77) | 45 comments The only shelf I think is unusual of mine is the "literary junk food" shelf. I just put stuff there that I enjoyed but its like junk food.
Lots of empty calories and no real substance.


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