{"id":3124,"date":"2006-05-26T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:56:19","slug":"book-report-biblioholism-the-literary-addiction-by-tom-raabe-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/26\/book-report-biblioholism-the-literary-addiction-by-tom-raabe-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I paid $4.50 for a used copy of this book from Hooked on Books when I went on my books-on-books binge (more details <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/book-report-everybodys-guide-to-book-collecting-by-charlie-lovett-1993\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>).  Of the other books, this is the one I liked least.<\/p>\n<p>In the introduction, the author mentions that the book stems from a humorous essay.  Perhaps the author should have left well enough alone.  I bet this was a humorous essay.  As a full-length book, though, it&#8217;s wanting.<\/p>\n<p>The book defines biblioholism too broadly for my test and paints the accumulation of books as trying to just have books or to build a library to look smart.  Maybe it&#8217;s a gag.  Maybe it&#8217;s too close for comfort to me, so I cannot enjoy mirth that ensues as the author lists various and sundry obsessive and compulsive behaviors associated with liking books.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sorry I read the book, but I am sorry I paid $4.50 for it.  Since you don&#8217;t trust a word I say anyway, feel free to buy the revised edition noted below for almost $6.00.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1555912400&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I paid $4.50 for a used copy of this book from Hooked on Books when I went on my books-on-books binge (more details here). Of the other books, this is the one I liked least. In the introduction, the author mentions that the book stems from a humorous essay. Perhaps the author should have left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}