Book trade

Corbett | June 25, 2007 1:04 AM

I normally make a habit of passing on books after I read them. Sometimes I give them to the guy next to me at a coffeeshop, sometimes a book comes up in a conversation and is dropped off at a friend's house, once I had just finished a scathing expose on Morgan Stanley's painful learning experience in China, and bumped into their CEO on the flight - and of course gave him the book.

I looked on my shelves today, and there were still a lot of books that somehow stayed stuck on the shelf, so I've decided to ask all my Taiwan friends (since the bookstores here don't have that great of a selection) via this blog to trade with me.

Here's a list of 125 books that don't need to stay on the shelf, and they are all free for the taking. It'd be nice if you can trade something interesting I haven't read. You can take as many as you want, and I'll drop them off at the Livingroom with your name on them. Just send an email or leave a comment with the books you want.

Happy reading!

*100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment, Various
A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Cansfield and Mark Victor Hansen
*A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines
*A History of Philosophy - Volume IV Descartes to Leibniz, Volume V Hobbes to Hume, Volume VI Wolff to Kant, Frederick Copleston, S.J.
*A History of Philosophy - Volume VII Fichte to Nietzsche, Volume VIII Bentham to Russell, Volume IX Maine de Biran to Sartre, Frederick Copleston, S.J.
*A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat, Suzy Becker
All-In-One Business Planner - How To Create The Plan You Need To Build Your Business, Christopher R. Malburg, CPA, MBA
*America, Franz Kafka
And Do Remember Me, Marita Golden
Bandits, Elmore Leonard
Basic Writings, Martin Heidegger
*Bertrand Russell's Best
Boarding Schools and Colleges, Eighth Edition
Breaking Out of The Box - The Biography of Edward de Bono, Piers Dudgeon
Chuang-Tzu - The Inner Chapters, A.C. Graham
*Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
*Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, Thomas Mann
Convergence Marketing - Strategies for Reaching the New Hybrid Customer, Yoram Jerry Wind, Vijay Mahajan, with Robert E. Gunther
*Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
Descartes Philosphical Writings, Edited by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Geach
*Dialogues of Plato, Jowett Translation
Differentiate or Die - Survival in our Era of Killer Competition, Jack Trout
Direct From Dell - Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry, Michael Dell
Dream Interpretation - The Secret, David F. Melbourne and Dr. Keith Hearne
*Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, Charles Bukowski
Essays in Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre
Facets of Taoism - Essays in Chinese Religion, Edited by Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel
Free Fall, William Golding
Fury, G.M. Ford
Getting Past No - Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation to Cooperation, Willian Ury
Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth
Habits of Wealth, Bill Byrne
Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer
Hemlock Bay, Catherine Coulter
*Hot and Cool - Jazz Short Stories, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Julio Cortazar, J.F, Powers, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and Others
How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
I and Thou, Martin Buber
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway
In Six Days - Why Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation, Edited By John F. Ashton, PhD
*Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Irish Journal, Heinrich Boll
Jack - Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch
Journey To The End of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Letters From Thailand, Botan
Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquirel
Love is the Killer App - How To Win Business and Influence Friends, Tim Sanders
Making Movies, Sidney Lumet
Managing a Nonprofit Organization, Thomas Wolf
Marcovaldo, Italo Calvino
Me - Stories of My Life, Katherine Hepburn
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene
Music of the Swamp, Lewis Nordan
My Life, Bill Clinton
*Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell
Nickel Mountain, John Gardner
Nonprofit Boards - Roles, Responsibilities and Performance, Diane J. Duca
*Notes of A Dirt Old Man, Charles Bukowski
Pandora, Alan Rodgers
Philosophy of Mind, Dale Jacquette
Pop Goes The Weasel, James Patterson
Practical Jung, Nuts and Bolts of Jungian Psychology, Harry A. Wilmer, M.D.
Primal Myths - Creating the World, Babara C. Sproul
Promise Me, Harlan Coben
Remember Every Name Every Time, Benjamin Levy
Screenwriting 101 - The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing, Neill D. Hicks
Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
Sony - The Private Life, John Nathan
South To a Very Old Place, Albert Murray
Stage Management, Lawrence Stern
Stop Paddling & Start Rocking The Boat - Business Lessons From The School of Hard Knocks, Lou Pritchett
Strategic Planning for Public and Non-Profit Organizations, John M. Bryson
*Tha KamaSutra - Special Collector's Edition
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Alexander Trilogy, Mary Renault
The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, Michel Foucault
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Boy's War - Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, Jim Murphy
The Decay of the Angel, Yukio Mishima
The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Good Schools Guide - The Independent Guide to the Best Private & State Schools, Amanda Atha and Sarah Drummond
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
The Intimate Act of Choreography, Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
*The Kinky Friedman Crime Club, Kinky Friedman
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy - Volume 1-3, J.R.R. Tolkien
*The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover, Kinky Friedman
The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata
The Mind's Eye - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Monkey House, John Fullerton
The Name of The Rose, Umberto Eco
The Nature of Mind, David M. Rosenthal
The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing, Charlie Papazian
The Nudist of The Late Shift, Po Bronson
The Organized Executive, Stephanie Winston
*The Pastures of Heaven, John Steinbeck
The Sandman - Season of The Mists, Neil Gaiman
The Spyglass Tree, Albert Murray
The Stage Management Handbook, Donald A. Ionazzi
The Start-Up Entrepreneur, James R. Cook
*The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
The Theory of The Leisure Class, Thorsten Veblen
The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Wizard of Loneliness, John Nichols
The World As I Found It - Bruce Duffy
Theatre Management and Production in America, Stephen Langley
Through The Brick Wall - How To Job Hunt in a Tight Market, Kate Wendelton
*Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard
Train Whistle Guitar, Albert Murray
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
Unleashing the Killer App - Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, Larry Downes and Chunka Mui
Venice - Tales of the City by Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton, Orson Welles, Casanova, Jeanette Winterson, Jen Paul Sartre
Very Old Bones, William Kennedy
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack
*Women, Charles Bukowski
Woody Allen - A Biography, Eric Lax
Yukio Mishima on Hagakure - The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan

* Have been taken

Category: Ramble

Comments (4)

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fee

July 2, 2007 5:47 PM

Thank you for your generous offer.

I would like the following books, please:

-Habits of Wealth, Bill Byrne
-Letters From Thailand, Botan
-Love is the Killer App - How To Win Business and Influence Friends, Tim Sanders
-The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
-The Name of The Rose, Umberto Eco
-The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing, Charlie Papazian
-The Start-Up Entrepreneur, James R. Cook
What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School, Mark H. McCormack

Please let me know if you might be interested in the following books:

-Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper
-A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
-Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Davis Sedaris
-The New Gold Mountain, Larry Wang

I can drop these books off at the Living Room on Tuesday, July 3, or later in the week.

Thanks, and thanks for sharing your books.

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yalun

July 26, 2007 8:51 PM

Journey To The End of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Letters From Thailand, Botan
Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquirel
Essays in Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy - Volume 1-3, J.R.R. Tolkien
Venice - Tales of the City

Hello, it is really very nice of you for this offering! unfortunately i have no books to offer in exchange because i just moved to taipei, if these books are still avaliable, is it possible to get into contact with you by anyway?
thanks!!!!

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corbett

July 27, 2007 4:56 PM

actually i've dropped off all the remaining books at an expat community center in tianmu called "the center." you can stop by during the day...

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Sunny

August 2, 2007 11:44 AM

Too bad I don't live in Taiwan. I would've wanted some of those books. :(

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