Chaos Reading discussion

As Bird Brian suggested in another thread, we could use some Non-Fiction shelves. I was thinking of some nice diverse, reasonably specific categories for shelves.

A couple of suggestions (to give an idea of what I'm talking about) would be:

- Ancient History (NF)
- Modern History (NF)
- Brains (NF) - [I'm thinking about neuroscience, neurolinguistics, psychology, anything that even vaguely involves how the mind works]
- World Cultures (NF)
- Cooking & Eating (NF)

OR

We could use the Dewey System.

I'm not much of a NF reader these days. What do you think?

I love engaging, not-too-academic nonfiction and keep meaning to read more of it, so I'm fully in favor of this!

Are we just nominating shelves here, or books to put on those shelves?

I think there should definitely be a biography/autobiography/memoir shelf as well. I read a lot of those.

Riona wrote: "I love engaging, not-too-academic nonfiction and keep meaning to read more of it, so I'm fully in favor of this!

Are we just nominating shelves here, or books to put on those shelves?"

Just shelves for now thanks. I'll start some threads for each shelf at some point..

Kathy wrote: "How about a shelf for Film? Books about film of course. Maybe Film & Television."

Sure. We have a B-Movie Shelf, but a broader shelf for film would be great. I'm obsessed with the tv series of this book right now: The Story Of Film

Ruby wrote: "Sure. We have a B-Movie Shelf, but a broader shelf for film would be great. I'm obsessed with the tv series of this book right now: The Story Of Film..."

Wow, this looks great. And the series is available on Netflix instant. And I finally got a real TV yesterday to do it justice. Book and series added to queue.

Ruby wrote: "Kathy wrote: "How about a shelf for Film? Books about film of course. Maybe Film & Television."

Sure. We have a B-Movie Shelf, but a broader shelf for film would be great. I'm obsessed with the tv..."

I have the book which I read about 7 years ago. As I recall it is pretty interesting. I enjoyed the TV series (not least for his mesmeric delivery!)
A shelf for film would be great.

Ruby wrote: "Sure. We have a B-Movie Shelf, but a broader shelf for film would be great. 'm obsessed with the tv series of this book right now: The Story Of Film ..."

Just watched the first episode of this and it is fantastic!

I'm so glad there are fellow enthusiasts of the series! And "mesmeric" is the perfect adjective. It's like nothing else I've seen. I wish I could get my hands on the DVDs :(

Ruby wrote: "I'm so glad there are fellow enthusiasts of the series! And "mesmeric" is the perfect adjective. It's like nothing else I've seen. I wish I could get my hands on the DVDs :("

Amazon have it
http://www.amazon.com/The-Story-Film-...

Apart from his commentary and the clips of the films, he has filmed beautiful connecting sequences which wonderfully both support and counterpoint his commentary

Yes, the series is as filmic as anything else he discusses.

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