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A collection of two books
Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly
speaking, could consist of as few as two books. To demonstrate that it can, and that there is no niche so narrow that someone hasn't squeezed into it, I offer the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." --Jon Meyers |
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A collection of two books
Jon Meyers wrote:
Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly speaking, could consist of as few as two books. To demonstrate that it can, and that there is no niche so narrow that someone hasn't squeezed into it, I offer the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." Well, much as that sounds like a real page-turner, I'll have to pass. |
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A collection of two books
Jon,
An interesting article. Thanks. Jerry et (Jon*Meyers) Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly speaking, could consist of as few as two books. To demonstrate that it can, and that there is no niche so narrow that someone hasn't squeezed into it, I offer the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." --Jon Meyers Moi's Books About Books: http://www.tinyurl.com/hib7 Moi's LIbrary http://www.moislibrary.com My Sentimental Library http://www.picturetrail.com/mylibrary Florida Bibliophile Society http://www.floridabibliophilesociety.org |
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A collection of two books
Jon Meyers wrote: Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly speaking, could consist of as few as two books. To demonstrate that it can, and that there is no niche so narrow that someone hasn't squeezed into it, I offer the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." Cool review. I have to admit that for myself there probably couldn't be a two item collection, because I am too compulsively completist. If I tried to collect those two books, I'd wind up getting all the novels with Any mention of threshing, however brief, or I'd branch out into other kinds of agricultural implements or something. Coolaceous concept, though. chiwito |
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Bob wrote:
Jon Meyers wrote: ...the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." Well, much as that sounds like a real page-turner, I'll have to pass. Okay, but you're also going to miss the story of a 1920 thresher extracted from a barn in Indiana using two pickups, a John Deere 830 diesel tractor, and a "disconnect lowboy [trailer] outfitted with a hydraulic winch." Your loss, I think. --Jon Meyers |
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A collection of two books
Jon Meyers wrote:
Okay, but you're also going to miss the story of a 1920 thresher extracted from a barn in Indiana using two pickups, a John Deere 830 diesel tractor, and a "disconnect lowboy [trailer] outfitted with a hydraulic winch." Your loss, I think. I have DirecTV and one of the stations (RFD) has a program for tractor fans - they show all sorts of old tractors and some other farm equipment. As corny as it sounds for a big city boy like me, I find the show fascinating! Maybe I will check out the thresher books after all :- -- RWF |
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A collection of two books
I could gather enough titles to fill a shelf or two of farm-machine
fiction. OK, what novels feature cranes (the featherless mechanical sort)? A friend of mine is a crane buff (preferably cranes used in quarrying, but cranes used in small-scale coastal shipping are another interest). Until now it hadn't occurred to me that there might be any fiction about them, but who knows? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Midlothian, Scotland http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message ... I could gather enough titles to fill a shelf or two of farm-machine fiction. OK, what novels feature cranes (the featherless mechanical sort)? A friend of mine is a crane buff (preferably cranes used in quarrying, but cranes used in small-scale coastal shipping are another interest). Until now it hadn't occurred to me that there might be any fiction about them, but who knows? Children's books. Lots of cranes in them, especially the older 1940s-1970s books aimed at pre video-game boys. Kris |
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A collection of two books
Jon Meyers wrote:
Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly speaking, could consist of as few as two books. To demonstrate that it can, and that there is no niche so narrow that someone hasn't squeezed into it, I offer the article, "An Analysis of America's Two Threshing Novels," by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. You can read it here-- http://www.steamtraction.com/archive/5004/ --at the website of "America's only steam and threshing enthusiast magazine." Great article Jon. What caused you to get interested in that? While I doubt anybody has a book collection consisting of only those two books, the article caused me to think of my good old Dad. In a sense he had a book collection of only two books, and one of them was "The Thresher". He never bought any books on his own, but he did ask me to track down two books for him. One was "The Thresher", and the other was "The Day of the Bonanza". The second is non-fiction, describing the settling of western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, including descriptions of early steam threshers. However, my Dad probably was not motivated by sentimentality for steam threshers, but because both books came from the area where he grew up. His father paid for his passage to America by working for a few years in North Dakota, and The Day of the Bonanza has a picture of the crew on a farm there in which I believe my grandfather figures. I now have both books in my collection, as my Dad died a few years ago. Gary Pfeifer Nederland, Colorado |
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