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AutoPuzzles Today => Automotive Book Reviews => Topic started by: Paul Jaray on July 21, 2009, 06:05:42 PM
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I realized that almost all of us collect a big amount of books, magazines, etc.
Other members may be interested in these books, and we can provide pictures, reviews and suggestions.
We can create a must-to-have list of books for the car-lover collector.
In this topic we can post info on a book we find interesting, or ask for suggestions for the best book to buy on a specific topic.
Your idea?
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Great idea!
I don't have many, but would be glad to contribute.
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I have very few but I will work on getting some reviews for them into the mix.
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Great idea. Count me in!
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A very good idea. I don't have many books, but when it is possible I try to purchase some true gems. Yesterday I've received 'Ceskoslovenske Formule' covering nearly all Chechoslovakian single seaters through 1935-1989. Great piece of automotive information and recommended for those who are interested. It's also not expensive at all.
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One I bought for my Dad a few years ago:
Classic American Convertibles
...though, I don't have any author or publisher info with me right now....
I have a few, too, but mostly related to Chevy.....
Cort | 35swm | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker ...Chitown #2 = 07/25/09
WRMNshowcase.legos.HO.models.MCs.RTs.CHD = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort
"I don't have time" ... Dido ... 'Sand In My Shoes'
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:thumbsup:
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Gentlemen,
I have created an Automotive Book Review Section. I did it so that then you guys could put all of these up as separate threads. That would make it much easier to index them and use them as links to book reviews off of the main page.
Thanks again for all you contribute here.
Charlie
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I suggest to subdevide this new book thread in different categories like: encyclopedias, technical stuff, illustrated books, make related...etc. ;)
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Amazing! Yesterday 've found "La Sport e i suoi artigiani" in a bookstoe here in Warsaw :D Just what the heck is such a book (not to mention it's in italian) doing in the store here is beyond my powers of understanding :P
If it wasn't for the price, I would've bought it right away. Unfortunately I have other, more pressing issues, so spending my three day earnings on a book is out of question.
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I suggest to subdevide this new book thread in different categories like: encyclopedias, technical stuff, illustrated books, make related...etc. ;)
Seriously, as the reviews come pouring in we will be able to index the threads in just such a manner now that I have created a board for each book's review to be posted in.
:P
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BTW:
5 quality book reviews, w/photos of book cover as a minimum will qualify the contributor as a Feature Writer.
:grad: :thumbsup:
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Feature Writer! I'll start scanning my library right now!
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Folks, do you think you could make each review a stand alone thread?
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Folks, do you think you could make each review a stand alone thread?
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That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, Charlie. Besides many of the books I am speaking of must be out of print. So I understand my piece can hardly qualify as a book review. But you can put it in the Feature Articles section if you like.
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That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, Charlie.
Thanks.
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Is it a relieved thanks or a sore thanks?
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A polite thanks.
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As I said, if your goal is to have here a kind of encyclopedia of automotive book reviews, my post or Neilshouse's may get in the way and I understand. Mine was rather to tease the curiosity of puzzlers, draw them towards books that may not necessarily help them to solve puzzles. If so, no worry: move my post to the Featured Articles, and I will add some other books and flesh to it later .
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I totally agree with Ray regarding my 'a few good books' post, if it makes the book review section look untidy please move it to wherever you think fit. The books I featured, like Ray's, are just a few books that I like and most would have no use whatsoever in helping to solve puzzles.
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I totally agree with Ray regarding my 'a few good books' post, if it makes the book review section look untidy please move it to wherever you think fit. The books I featured, like Ray's, are just a few books that I like and most would have no use whatsoever in helping to solve puzzles.
Thanks.
:)
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Gentlemen, I appreciate the contributions and the explanations, really I do. Thanks. :) The reason I created this section is because the books don't have to help solve puzzles. This is the "Automotive Book Review" section. Not the "Automotive Book Review That Can Help Solve Puzzles" section. Any automotive book review put up here is worthy of its own entry. Only then can they be cataloged or organized or used in any organized format whatsoever at some future date as they start to accumulate and become an AutoPuzzles draw unto themselves.
:)
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I’m too lazy to write a review of all the books I own, but in the pictures below, you’ll get an impression of the biggest and IMO most interesting part of my car library (although some of these books are crap as well).
If you want a (small) review of one of these books, just ask and I will write something about it.
No need to point out my field of interest is, I think!
Although a lot of books are still missing in my library, I’m already happy with what I collected the last couple of years. In the coming years I hope that my book collection will grow further and that it can close the gap with the really impressive libraries some of you guys must own!
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/75america/ALfaRomeo.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/75america/Italian.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c292/75america/Coachbuilders.jpg)
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I wrote a number of book reviews a while back in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek format (to wit: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3766), I could expand on them slightly and add a picture of the book cover easily enough. Question for the smarties: Would it be easier for me to move the threads into this section (can I even do that?), or just make new ones?
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I wrote a number of book reviews a while back in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek format (to wit: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3766), I could expand on them slightly and add a picture of the book cover easily enough. Question for the smarties: Would it be easier for me to move the threads into this section (can I even do that?), or just make new ones?
You upgrade them and I will move them. Let me know when you are ready.
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I would like to ask several questions the owner of the book British Specialist Cars, by Richard Heseltine. Please contact me via PM.
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BTW:
5 quality book reviews, w/photos of book cover as a minimum will qualify the contributor as a Feature Writer.
:grad: :thumbsup:
I just did that. So can I be a Feature Writer ??? Please, pretty please
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pnegyesi, I found the books you choose really interesting.
Is it possible to add (few) more pics of them, including the index?
Since I started this thread, I took a lot of more books, and your suggestions are excellent!
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Thanks, there are more books awaiting to be reviewed. Some of them are well-known, others are, well, not so well-known :)
We'll try to ask my brother to take more pictures, he's much better in this
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Got many new books as well, but will write reviews not until some particular puzzles had been solved... ;)
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Personally, I don't like to feature puzzles from books. I don't want to get into many details here, but as an author I had my own problems with people who've taken content without my permission. Yes, I know all the arguments here about making a book more popular, but still I have this aversion. Anyhow, this is not against anyone, just my personal policy :)
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Personally, I don't like to feature puzzles from books. I don't want to get into many details here, but as an author I had my own problems with people who've taken content without my permission. Yes, I know all the arguments here about making a book more popular, but still I have this aversion. Anyhow, this is not against anyone, just my personal policy :)
I agree. But the idea (PJ's, iirc) about posting reviews is indeed great!
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BTW:
5 quality book reviews, w/photos of book cover as a minimum will qualify the contributor as a Feature Writer.
:grad: :thumbsup:
I just did that. So can I be a Feature Writer ??? Please, pretty please
Done. Paul this is definitely in your realm of things you can now do. Look under someones profile for their account related settings and go from there.
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I wasn't sure on how to do that, but now I know, thanks.
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Just wanted to tell you that today I was finally able to bring home a lot of books a friend of mine bought this summer from the collection of the late Rudolf Kaiser.
Kaiser was a really, nice gentleman who made a living out of meticulously built racing car scale models. He had clients in Switzerland, Germany etc. Some of his books included volumes from the Catalogue Raisonne series, including Maserati, Cisitalia. I now also have a book on the history of Borgward, another on Veritas, and another on Duesenberg :), also a tome on the history of Carrozerria Touring et. al.
I am still after his most valuable posession though :) It is a notebook full of drawings, sketches from the 1920s taken at the Schwabenberg Hill Race in Budapest by Jenő Jurek.
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Congratulations then :)
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I'm looking for a book about the designer Pedro Serra from Spain.
Thanks in advance for any info!
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I'm looking for a book about the designer Pedro Serra from Spain.
Thanks in advance for any info!
Double service ;)
(http://alvolante.ifrance.com/imagenester/bks12gr.jpg)
PEDRO SERRA, CARROCERO
Pablo Gimeno Valledor
Cie Dossat 2000 - Madrid
ISBN 84-89656-59-2
21 x 29,5 cm - 137 páginas
Edición 2003
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Thank you! It's still not easy to get, though... :-\
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It should be for sale at www.casadellibro.com (where I took Gimen's book about spanish cars) but I can't open the site today...
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Ordered it now via www.buchkatalog.de. The Spanish seller will ship it to my local book store where I'll finally pick it up. (in 3-6 weeks :-\)
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BTW:
5 quality book reviews, w/photos of book cover as a minimum will qualify the contributor as a Feature Writer.
:grad: :thumbsup:
:bump:
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Oh my! Meanwhile got a lot of new books to review. Don't know where to start.
Usually I prefer to write about those with a grazed content of mystery cars... ;)
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I received dozens of books since my last review...time to bring this topic to life?
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Yes please, I really enjoy seeing reviews of obscure books, it's a big help in deciding what books I should buy myself - so many older, more obscure books I have never seen so can't really decide whether they are worth the (often high) prices being asked.
For example, I would love to see a review of the Von Horning book by Christian Suhr, if anyone has this?
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Yes please, I really enjoy seeing reviews of obscure books, it's a big help in deciding what books I should buy myself - so many older, more obscure books I have never seen so can't really decide whether they are worth the (often high) prices being asked.
For example, I would love to see a review of the Von Horning book by Christian Suhr, if anyone has this?
If you are talking about Christian Suhr's book "Von Hornig bis zur IFA" about the coachbuilder Hornig, I can say that it is a very good book with lots of archive pictures. I bought it for the regular price and it is worth it, but prices seem to have risen since it is out of print.
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great book
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I have quite a collection of 70's Road & Tracks. Would love to share them with you guys but I need to scan them first.