John Buckman

                           Presenter Muthamma Prasad with BookMooch creator John Buckman

Guest: John Buckman, Creator of Bookmooch.com (www.bookmooch.com)

Little about Bookmooch.com- theres more on the website!
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Give & receive: Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want
from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you've read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into
BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.

No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to
others.

Points for entering books: you receive a tenth-of-a-point for every book you type into our system,
and one point each time you give a book away. In order to keep receiving books, you need to give
away at least one book for every three you receive.

Help charities: you can also give your points to charities we work with, such as children's
hospitals (so a sick kid can get a free book delivered to their bed), Library fund, African
literacy, or to us to thank us for running this web site <grin>.

World wide: You can request books from other countries, in other languages. You receive 3 points
when you send a book out of your country, to help compensate you for the greater mailing cost, but
it only costs the moocher 2 points to get the book. John Buckman, who runs BookMooch, has lived in
California, England, France and Germany, and was frustrated by the vast number of books that were
printed in just one country and not available in the other countries (for example, many books are
published in Britain and never made available in America).

Wishlist: you can keep a "book wish list" that will automatically arrive to you when you have the
points and/or the book becomes available in our catalog.

Feedback score: each time you receive a book, you can leave feedback with the sender, just like how
eBay does it. If you keep your feedback score up, people are most likely to help you out when you
ask for a book.

Books

Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions was a science fiction short story anthology edited by Harlan Ellison,published in
1967.

A path-breaking collection, Dangerous Visions helped define the New Wave science fiction movement,
particularly in its depiction of sex in science fiction. The stories and the anthology itself were
nominated for and the receipients of many awards. "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber received
both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for Best Novelette, whilst Philip K. Dick's submission "Faith
of our Fathers" was a nominee for the Hugo in the same category. Philip José Farmer tied for the
Hugo Award for Best Novella for "Riders of the Purple Wage." Samuel R. Delany won the Nebula for
Best Short Story for "Aye, and Gomorrah..." Harlan Ellison received a special citation at the 26th
World SF Convention for editing "the most significant and controversial SF book published in 1967."

Islands in the Net by Bruce Stirling
Islands in the Net, a 1988 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling. It won the 1989 John W. Campbell
Award and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel that same year.

It offers a view of an early 21st century world apparently peaceful with delocalised, networking
corporations. The protagonist, swept up in events beyond her control, finds herself in the places
off the net, from a datahaven in Grenada, to a Singapore under terrorist attack, to the poorest and
most disaster-struck part of Africa.

In the story, the fictional book The Lawrence Doctrine and Postindustrial Insurgency, named for
Lawrence of Arabia, is banned because it deals directly with methods and tactics of an insurgent
rebellion.

Larry's Party by Carol Shields
The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the
ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze. Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their
honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing
obsession with mazes may help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as --
through twenty years and two failed marriages -- he endeavours to understand his own needs. And
those of friends, parents, lovers, a growing son. In LARRY'S PARTY Carol Shields presents an ironic
odyssey through the life of modern man, from the late seventies through to 1997. The mundane is made
magnificent by a perception which finds the drama in life's detail -- poignant, peculiar, or simply
absurd.

Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made
family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and fro between their volatile mother,
Miranda, and Daniel, their out-of-work actor father. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who
will supervise the children after school - and Daniel gets the job, disguised as Madame Doubtfire.