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just a thread to post about the book's you find:

today at goodwill i picked up 4 books for 4$ bucks the books are:

the andomeda strain - michael crichton
the eyes of the dragon- stephen king
the bad place - dean koontz
forever odd - dean koontz

now i need to update all my books into the rfgen shelfari.
http://www.shelfari.com/groups/20987/about

Oh I picked up a ton this weekend. We had a book sale at our church festival this weekend. Sunday evening everything was $2 a bag. I'll have to make a list.

Who buys books anymore? Lithursday is all I need.

today at goodwill i got a few:

be cool -elmore leonard
riding the rap - elmore leonard
lord of the flies- william golding

I'm reading that one right now.

these are what I grabbed at our church festival this past weekend:

Conqueror's Legacy - Timothy Zahn
Conqueror's Pride - Timothy Zahn
Night Train To Rigel - Timothy Zahn
The Garden Of Rama - Arthur C Clarke/Gentry Lee
The Hammer Of God - Arthur C Clarke
Aliens vs Predator: Prey - Steve Perry/Stephani Perry
Aliens: Labyrinth - SD Perry
Aliens: Earth Hive - Steve Perry
Aliens: Mightmare Asylum - Steve Perry
Aliens: The Female War - Steve Perry/Stephani Perry
When The Tide Rises - David Drake
Imago - Octavia E Butler
The Giant Anthology Of Science Fiction - Margulies & Friend
A Treasury Of Science Fiction - Conklin
Lord Of Chaos - Robert Jordan
The Fires Of Heaven - Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
The Dragonriders Of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Night Shift - Stephen King
The White Plague - Frank Herbert
The Rosetta Codex - Richard Paul Russo
Lost & Found - Alan Dean Foster
The Flight Of The Phoenix - Elleston Trevor
Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
Tyrannosaur Canyon - Douglas Preston
The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle
S Is For Space - Ray Bradbury
Take A Thief - Mercedes Lackey
Fortune's Fool - Mercedes Lackey

wow some very nice book's there den, today i picked up

portrait of a killer, jack the ripper case closed - patricia cornwell
velocity - dean koontz
soul surviver - dean koontz
the funhouse - dean koontz
interview with the vampire - anne rice

Decided that after many years of contemplation, that I'll actually try out a Mack Bolan (The Executioner) novel and see if it suits me. There's 670+ books in the series and spinoffs if I do.

Recently I've picked up:

Savage Sun (Outlanders #3) - James Axler
Target Lock (The Executioner #258) - Don Pendleton
Stargate 03: Retribution - Bill McCay
Desert Kings (Deathlands) - James Axler
Sunspot (Deathlands) - James Axler

I'll also mention that if you come to find Shelfari too limited and irritating with it's odd quirks as I and others have found, try Goodreads.com out. Besides not having Shelfari's problems, you can add books if you can't find your specific entry or version and apply for status to edit book entries and upload covers. Oh and you can upload spreadsheets and text files of books and it'll process them and add them to your collection. :)

thanks for the site tan, i was browsing it for a few minutes and it looks even better then shelfari. now i just have to find some time and enter all my books on goodreads.com.

If you have a shelfari list going, you can export it to your HDD, then use that same list to populate your goodreads account, save you a ton of time. When I moved mine over, it processed 350 or so of my 365 listings from my Shelfari list. The other 15 were easy enough to add manually. :)

The last books I bought were Shaman's Crossing and Forest Mage by Robin Hobb.

i only have a few on shelfari, it's a work in progress i've been meaning to do for a while.

I bought this awesome art book called Street Sketchbook. Over 700 illustrations and images and it cost 60 bucks...but well worth it.

I got myself some Chakan graphic novels recently, good stuff.

i want to get into some graphic novels but not sure of what to get, any ideas of some good ones to start with?

I just randomly looked at the shelves of books while I was in Goodwill and spotted these:
Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin Uncensored
Super Mario Advance: Choose Your Own Adventure

Every other paperback was $0.75 but the Mario book was $2, which I didn't realize until I checked out.
The Zeppelin book should be good for work during the down times.

picked up thease while on vacation in wv:

the inhuman condition - clive barker
darkfall - dean koontz
winter moon - dean koontz
from the corner of his eye - dean koontz
night shift - stephen king
the bachman books - stephen king
morningstar - peter atkins
harrowgate - daniel h. gower

Wow, that brought back hidden memories. I had a whole bunch of Nintendo gamebooks back in the day... I had completely forgotten. Now I want them back!

Anyway, I have recently picked up:

David Gemmell - Wolf in Shadow
David Gemmell - Last Sword of Power
Terry Pratchett & Gary Jolliffe - The Unadulterated Cat
J.R.R. Tolkien - Unfinished Tales

holes - louis sachar .39
a light in the attic - shel silverstein (hardcover) .59
falling up - shel silverstein .59 (hardcover)

Another copy of Starship Troopers.

I find it ironic that, in a thread about books, "book's" is incorrectly used in the title.

We Were One by Patrick K. O'Donnell, It's about the marines that took Fallujah

the local library had a buy get one free on books, i picked up:

4 past midnight - stephen king (hardcover)
the girl who loved tom gordon - stephen king

i payed $1.00 for both of them.

Picked up:
A Brief History of...
-The Vikings
-The Normans
-Medieval Warfare
-The Crusades
for decent prices, new.

electric forest tanith lee
aldous huxley eyeless in gaza
40 cents for both!

Just picked up:

Bill Bryson - Down Under
Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country

I love Bryson. Been looking for a used copy of A Scanner Darkly, but no luck yet.

just picked up 4 books at goodwill for $1 each they are:

fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter s. thompson
cell - stephen king
the subtle knife - philip pullman
world war z, an oral history of the zombie war - max brooks

picked up just 1 book today:

post mortem - new tales of ghostly horror

Went sight seeing and picked up a couple deals:
A History of Newfoundland - D.W. Prowse ($20, new, softcover) http://storesonline.com/site/1495114/product/HY25550%20BP1
The Book of the Gods Part Two - Fred Saberhagen ($1, new, hardcover) http://berserker.com/bk_bksofgods2.htm

today i picked up:

hannibal - thomas harris
it - stephen king
red - jack ketchem

Last time I was at the book store, I picked up:

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac
Girls by Frederick Busch
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I haven't had time to read any of them, with school work and all. I'll probably start one next week sometime...

Does anyone here like gamebooks? I'm collecting quite a number of them.

Like "Choose your own Adventure"? I've read a few but don't have any currently myself. Tynstar here on this forum has a dozen or so I believe.

Well... I've got a complete set of 1st edition Fighting Fantasy books (all 59 of 'em) plus most of the spin-offs such as Sorcery! and AFF.  Does that count? :P

Bought Brisingr from Amazon for $15.

I've got all of the American Version Lone Wolf gamebooks, a bunch of choose your own adventure books, and a fairly large assortment of other random gamebooks. Lone Wolf is the best of its type, in my opinion, as choose your own adventure books tend to be boring. I was a big fan of the Grailquest series as well, they rival Lone Wolf in gameplay and content, but I could never find many of them.

private parts - howard stern

I've got all but 3 of the Fighting Fantasy books, original edition. Plus the AFF series as well.

All of the Way of the Tiger series.

And I just got I think 11 of the Lone Wolf books as well, due to arrive next week. Can't wait for those.

Yay my Lone Wolf books arrived just now.

Great condition, and the first editions too.

Time to get reading.

Picked up two books today.

Not In The Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Whispers Of The Bayou by Mindy Starns Clark

Pretty cool Lone Wolf community at http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home

They've actually put a large amount of the gamebooks online.

Yeah, I know. But I prefer the paper version, for old time's sake. I'm going for, I think up to book 18.

Plus it fits well with my FF collection.

At a book "fair" today, I got these:

A Guide to Tolkien (€2.95)
Professional C++ (€4.50)
Electric Guitar Handbook (€3.95)

I also got about 30 manga's (€1.95 each, and they are exactly the same as the ones that would cost €7.99 in any normal shop, it's awesome :D)

Dragon Knights: about 14 volumes
Dragon Hunter: about 12 volumes
.Hack //Legend of the Twilight vol. 1
Get Backers vol. 9
Cowboy Bebop vol. 1
Tokyo Babylon vol. 1

I agree, paper is supreme. Can go up to 20 cheap, then you get into the ones impossible to find.

today i picked up hannibal rising for a buck, now i just need red dragon then i will have all of the hannibal series.

I preordered: John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of mass instruction and also ordered Metal Memory from ferrarimarketletter I won't see it for two months since it is handmade (paper, leather binding all by hand) my ETA is 2 months :(

Also recently picked up: Dreaming in code and Making a difference ferrari coachbuilders

I may actually have a second copy of red dragon. I was able to pick all of them up for a buck a piece at Half Priced Books in Texas.

My last book pick ups were the third and fourth book from the Doom series in the 90s.
I started going through my closet and started finding alot of cool books i haven't looked at yet. Like Hitchcock magazines from the 70s and 80s

Hmm, I read Hannibal before Silence of the Lambs.

Never got around to the other 2 in the series though.

Picked up two stand alone dungeons and dragons paperbacks for 7 bucks. NIce light fun reading while at work

Bought Heart of Darkness for 75cents.

Just picked up:
1st edition of Steinbeck's The moon is down with dustjacket and the error on page 111. 6 bucks :)
Bruce Sterling's crystal express published by arkham house in a limited run of 4000 copies or so.

Also trying to pick up some other arkham house/lovecraft books.

Also: Chris farley bio, clapton bio, Just after sunset by stephen king

I just finished "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss awesome awesome book, the second one comes out in April.

Picked up The Portable Nietzsche, heavy stuff.

twilight

Picked up the last book in the Twilight series for Aubrey. She borrowed the first 3 and read them all in about a day.

Bought myself Halo: The Cole Protocol

Picked up one today:

The Devil's Sandbox by John R. Bruning  <~It's about the 2nd Battalion, 162 Infantry and the time they spent in Iraq in 04

Going to try and pick up Ender's Game today. Been recommended to me by almost everyone that I know. It's about time that I finally read it.

Ender's Game was good but it's sequel Speaker for the Dead is much, much better.

Picked up two today:

Stephen King-Just After Sunset
Tess Gerritsen-The Keepsake

Picked up several books today:

The Faces of World War II by Max Hastings
Journeys to the Mythical Past by Zecharia Sitchin
The Ancient World at War Edited by Philip de Souza
Eyewitness to the Civil War by Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop

picked up aubrey bone crossed for vday... also a surprise

while i was out on my 30$ game spending spree i also grabbed the final book in the hellgate london trilogy

Picked up Kitty Raises Hell for Aubs

I just recently bought and read the Living With The Dead series on my Kindle. 

The Shack

If graphic novels count...

Batman Year One
The Killing Joke
The Long Halloween
Arkham Asylum
Dark Knight Returns

I just finished The Shack... and start to read Dixie Tepper.

Picked these up at a local thrift today:

From the Editors of Cracked.Com: You Might be a Zombie and Other Bad News

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Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre

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The Bumper Book of Fads and Crazes

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Just finished the new Dark Tower book: The Wind Through the Keyhole.  I thought it was fantastic.  Just started Ready Player One.

I'm reading Batman: Year One too :)

Jim Gordon is such a bad ass...

OH MY GOD HE'S AWESOME! 

It's the first time I'd ever seen Gordon shown in that light.  Also read the first issue of No Man's Land and it is phenomenal.  I was going to buy some issues on Comixology, which works surprisingly well, but I really want to have physical copies so I'm adding them to my graphic novel wishlist.

I dare say Year One was Frank Miller's best work in Batman comics.

(I never cared much for The Dark Knight Returns for some reason)

I was totally geekin' out when I saw Batman Begins, noticing how much of it was inspired by Year one.

This whole deal is makin' me wanna reread Miller's Daredevil run...

I would have to agree.  Year One is my favorite of Miller's Batman books so far.  Recently finished Dark Knight Returns and it just didn't grab me and keep me interested the same way Year One did.  Long Halloween is also badass.

Rainbow Six, I just got it at Goodwill

2 new Batman graphic novels showed up in the mail today!

I'm going to re read The Long Halloween and then start Dark Victory.

Me too... coincidence?!? :razz:

[Dark Victory]
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[The Long Halloween]
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[Also reading some random Star Wars issue]
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I recently got my hands on the novelization of the first Suikoden game, in three volumes. Surprisingly difficult to track down!

Got Stephen Kings Misery and The Stand.

Haven't read Misery yet but The Stand is a classic.  If you like that, there is a newer book called The Passage that you will probably like.

Lonesome Dove.

The Little Prince

Got my hands on the last 3  Ys : The Vanished Omen comics, finally making my collection complete

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline for my Kindle.

I will have to check it out I have read Misery but not the stand lol.

i have A Memory of Light - book 14 of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson pre-ordered and paid for already. still waiting on it to get here though. it was supposed to be ready for the 8th, but it didn't ship until the 7th...and when i saw the tracking page i found out that there was a premium shipping option for only $5 (it's shipping via the free option right now). free is 3-9 business days, $5 for 2-4 business days...i would gladly have paid that, but the cashier never mentioned it at all when i was ordering. a little mad about it, i really wanted to jump straight into this.

Oh here's the "Small Scores Thread: Books Edition" I've been looking for.  :)

Been on a classics kick lately so I scooped all these up at the little thrift store by me all for one dollar.

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Over here in the states we only had the manga for 3 localized, none of the novels for the first 2 or the manga for 5. Finding them in my area sucks, there's one used book store that has them, but they have the same 4 volumes I already have and none of the other 7. I've seen the others at some cons, but what the vendors charge is borderline highway robbery.

Which ones do you need? I've got a volume of Suikoden III sitting in the house here that was given as a white elephant present.

Looking good, though personally I find Robinson Crusoe a bit of a slog.  All those commas makes me feel like I'm tripping through a page.  Love Brave New World.  Think I might dig that one up.  Thanks, GrayGhost81.

We have that same edition of Brave New World here - my wife repurchased it after we read it in Literature class.

I actually just read Brave New World for the first time about a week ago. Somehow I missed it in Jr High/High School. Definitely an awesome book deserving of its classic status.

The new Legend of Zelda Hyrule Historia of course!

Was up slightly north of town and found an encroaching Books A Million. Entered warily expecting the normal mainstream bookstore pricing nonsense but good God do they have some sales! Picked up The Rum Diary and The Brother Karamazov new for under six bucks. :O

wow great deals.

i haven't bought any myself recently but for my birthday i recieved two books. a comedy poem collection "written" by cats called "I Could Pee on That", and The Edge of the World by Kevin J. Anderson. never heard of the fantasy one but the description sounds interesting so i'll give it a shot.

Kevin Anderson writes well on the Star Wars universe, and I've read a couple of his non-Star Wars books. Not sure what series that is.

He did the Rogue Squadron novels didn't he? Was a huge fan of those.

i'm glad to hear some good opinions of him, because i did a quick search for reviews and was seeing nothing but bad.

Yeah, he did a few of the Rogue Squadron novels. Those were fantastic, and I've re-read most of the entire series numerous times.

Got these for $4 each in a junk shop:

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60¢ each at my Goodwill. I freaking love my Goodwill!

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Let's see...
Pratchett - you suck
Shadowrun - you suck
Battletech - you suck
Redwall - own it.
Star Wars - own them all, but still suck since I need a replacement for one of the Corellia books.

Shadow's jimmies are rustled.

Only picture I have available right now, but here's my set of hardcovers (which I've added quite a bit to this year):
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Picked up a copy of Neuromancer last night.

Just finished the last in Koji Suzuki's Rings novels, The Loop.  Very entertaining. 

I don't know if I want to go for literary or non-literary next.  I think I'll let the books at the Salvation Army near my work decide for me, eh?  If not, I'll probably get a Nathanael West book or something.  Or Niven.  I don't know.

Picked this box set up today thinking about selling it or trading it for something on here. 

I picked up another Discworld book, Lords and Ladies. Since it was all I found and I had no cash I padded my purchase with a few classics, A Tale of Two Cities, Dracula, and Last of the Mohicans.

Another small book score. This one might bring out the inner jealousy of Shadow as I just keep stockpiling this author's books!

First off, Shadowrun. I picked up Who Hunts the Hunter, its brand new.

DISCWORLD! Yes, more Discworld. I got 3 books in this series today. Maskerade, Thud!, and The Fifth Ele...

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No! NEVER! NEVER AGAIN!

The Fifth Elephant.

picked up
 - Snopes trilogy - William Faulkner (hardcover box set)
 - Greek Myths - Robert Graves (hardcover box set)
 - The Road - Cormac Mccarthy (paperback)
 - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (paperback)
 - Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad (paperback)

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tech, since you asked, I picked up Candide, Tom Sawyer, Scarlet Letter, and Count of Monte Cristo for you.

oh good no overlaps with what i bought today, i was worried i might grab something you had already found. those all sound good, i hadn't heard of candide or scarlet letter but looked them up and they sound good. the other 2 i had been wanting to pick up sometime. thanks!

Ah yes The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most noted revenge epics in Western literature. I picked up an unabridged edition-- about 1100 pages-- a few years back, and got about halfway through before I gave up because I had a hell of a time following every little detail.

I think I'll take another crack at it one day. But first, I'll pick up a Cliffs Notes guide so I can better keep up with all the subplots and exposition.

Myself, I recently picked up...


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Though it's not the playbook edition with DVD pictured here.

After leafing through it at a local goodwill, I found it interesting enough to buy and read. So far I've learned a whole lot about the ol' gridiron than I ever knew before.

I had a nerd moment and ordered this for $10...

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The Fall of Arthur - J.R.R. Tolkien

Found a bunch of R.L Stine books at one sale, among other things:

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^I sold my Goosebumps collection just last year and I'm already starting to regret it. I friggin love RL Stine but they were just sitting there in the closet so I decided to get some funds out of them. I did the same with my Series of Unfortunate Events collection I found for 50 cents each. Great profit but I kind of wanted to read them eventually. There's always PDF files if I'm really itching for em I guess.

What's the inside like? Don't tell me it's just for show...

I still have a bunch of them laying around.



It's one of those complete guides to the show, it has character bios, artwork, plot summaries, song lyrics, forwards by Lauren Faust and two of the writers, and little facts and bits of commentary from the staff. There's a map in there to. I really need to get around to reading it in detail. I'm happy with I saw flicking though it a little though.

Picked this up when I went to to the Phoenix Art Museum  to see The Art of Video Games.

http://www.amazon.com/All-Your-Base-Are-Belong/dp/0307463559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373910275&sr=8-1&keywords=all+your+base+are+belong+to+us

My roommate was drooling over your book, shoboni. Think I know what I need to get her (and her brother) for their birthdays...

The MLP book? It's not priced to bad. You can get it for like $15 including shipping on Amazon.

Yeah. Her brother is a big brony (Applejack) and he got her into it now.

That comes full circle, I got into it because of these forums in partial.

how did that happen? :P i don't think i've ever seen bronies mentioned unless it's someone referring to you

Someone brought it up in the "What are you watching thread" a while back, I can't remember who.

Thanks to my obsession with aircraft disaster shows, when I saw this at the local thrift I simply had to pick it up:

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Found this for like 44 cents at Goodwill(it's the old printing that's worth like $35-$40!)

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The Art of War by Sun-Tzu (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition translated by John Minford)
Contact by Carl Sagan

all comics/graphic novels:
Mirror's Edge
Metal Gear Solid
Duke Nukem Glorious Bastard (for a friend)

I have all of the originals from when I was a kid.

So do I, and one of the hardcover compilations with all three as well.

35+$s i am almost positive i have those rotting away in a closet.

Forget selling my games i should be selling my books!

Yeah, they put tamer pictures in them and discontinued printing of copies with the original artwork in them, so the old version has been sky-rocketing in price due to the backlash and people refusing to settle for the neutered version.  

Here's a example of the price gap in versions:

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That cover looks familiar.  I might have that one lying around somewhere.

Probably, they were a really popular book.

no books this time but i finally got around to buying a proper bookshelf. when i built my custom game shelves i moved all my books off them, and they've been stacked in my bedroom ever since. it's almost full already but the wheel of time stuff fits nicely into the built-in mini shelves on the opposite wall, so i can clear up a shelf that way if i really need to.

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I finally found a thrift copy of Pratchett's The Colour of Magic. I would start reading it but I watched the Sky adaptation a few weeks ago.

picked up Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace new, paperback.

Went to the quarterly Friends of the Library sale for Orange County here. Came away with a new Dragonlance book (doesn't happen often), a new Dragonlance Compendium (War of Souls), a couple new Forgotten Realms compendiums (Ed Greenwood & another one), some new additions to the Forgotten Realms paperback set, a hardcover replacement for Passage of Dawn (first 4 Drizzt novels now in Hardcover), and some assorted other novels including a Warhammer compendium, another Kamigawa cycle Magic book, and some other things.

We took the opportunity to finally construct the bridge between our bookshelves, since we were running out of space, and it worked out well with the TV stand we swapped out:

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cool setup, i like that

IKEA bookshelves, if you'll believe that.

They make OK stuff, to me the issue is in the assemblage. It's not quite cheap enough for me to want to spend six hours putting shit together.

$2 total for all, grabbed them for fun.

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Those Scary Stories are worth something if 1st Edition. Think we've had this discussion before.

Yeah, it was me that told you about it XD.

I picked up Unusually Stupid Americans: a Compendium of All-American Stupidity while doing my usual Monday night game-shopping run at my fave used-media establishment. 'Cuz I like nothing more than to read about and laugh/cry at the idiocy of others.

Nabbed a hardcover copy of Myst: Book of Ti'ana complete with poster. I'm going to get the poster framed and put up next to my Myst poster, since Myst was my first PC experience and one of my major influences for my career.

Nice Shadow!

I haven't seen hardcovers for any books after the first.

Ducked into Wempster's part of town in Gainesville for the bi-annual Friends of the Library sale. Think I went a little overboard...

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Holy shit, Shadow.

$200 price tag. Goes to a good cause, so no complaints. I didn't count how many books there were, but there's 80+ Forgotten Realms books there I didnt' have.

Passed up the "Even More Scary Stories" book that's a complimentary set to the Scary Stories books you picked up. Thought about picking it up and sending it to you to go with the others, since I already own it, but they were closing at that point.

wow, for $200 that seems like a pretty good deal for so many books

Some of you might be happy to know I've decided to broaden my literary horizons, and give this a shot:

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Hey, for $1.99, why not at least try.

Wish me luck...

techwizard fanboy. ;)

Ummm... this wouldn't have something to do with Techwizard's ava, would it? 'Cuz I really have no idea. Just goes to show how deeply my ignorance of LotR runs...  :(

this pleases me, i hope you enjoy them! if you have access to a copy, i highly recommend starting on The Hobbit. it isn't 100% required reading to get LotR, but it definitely enhances the experience and will make a lot of references in LotR clearer.

as for my avatar, that's Feanor, a character from The Silmarillion, which was another Tolkien story set in the same world as LotR but thousands of years earlier. it was published over 30 years after LotR, posthumously, and is definitely not required reading as it can be very dry if you aren't a big fanboy. it's written as a collection of myths, and reads like a history textbook, but is still great to me and a lot of fans.

also a lot of people i've seen who weren't ready to put their all into finishing the book always seem to stop within the first half of The Two Towers. unless you completely hate it, try to force yourself through that section because i hate seeing people leave it unfinished there when they didn't even get to some of the best parts.

the only other thing to note is that the style of the first half of Fellowship of the Ring is much different than the rest of the book, more childish in some ways. it gets darker and more epic after that.

You have my support Zagnorch, but be careful, I got married because she was named after a character in the books. Okay, maybe that wasn't the only reason but I use it when it suits me.

I was actually going to recommend you start with the Silmarillion but only as a joke because it's not at all a good place to start if you aren't already a fan and techwizard would have jumped all over me for doing that.

And remember, if while reading these books you start to think, "uhg, this stuff happens in every fantasy RPG, book and movie, and I think D&D does a bunch of this too" well, this is where they all got it from. Nearly all modern fantasy owes at least something to Lord of the Rings.

Oh, I am well aware of this fact. Only thing is, Legend of Zelda notwithstanding, I've never much cared the whole medieval/renfaire-set-swords-and-sorcery-mystic-quest genre that LotR practically single-handedly popularized. Hopefully, I can overcome this antipathy, and become engrossed in the journey...

besides a few points, LotR is pretty mild on the actual "sorcery/magic" stuff, discounting the Ring itself. the most fantasy part of it is mainly in the creatures and races. The Hobbit is much more heavy handed on both counts, but it's also aimed at a younger audience so it's less about realism and more about a fun adventure than LotR.

It's mild but it still spawned it. I think people just kind of inferred Gandalf shooting fireballs and such.

true, and gandalf is still magical in LotR, he's the main source of that sort of thing, besides some obscure things the elves and nazgul do.

Just bought Dr. Sleep by Stephen King.

i said i would resist buying more until i finished what i already own...well, today i bought 5 more used books! so my goal of reading everything i own is going swell. oh well, they were cheap paperbacks($9 for all 5)

The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by W.F. Jackson Knight)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translated by Edith Grossman)
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (translated by Philip Vellacott)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

the local Friends of the Library booksale is this weekend...foreshadowing.

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Had a pretty nice haul today, a couple of these are dupes but I like the style and this reprinted series will make it easier to track the chronology of the Drizzt stories. Gonna send the WoW book to a buddy though.

Looks like my kind of haul!

Most recent 5-for-$1 haul at the thrift store:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I, Robot - Issac Asimov
Star Wars: Tales From Jabba's Palace - edited by Kevin J. Anderson
License to Kill - John Gardner
Gone Bamboo - Anthony Bourdain

Got the Capcom 30th Anniversary character encyclopedia. a must-have for the die-hard Capcom fan like myself.

a local bookstore was going out of business and clearing out everything for next to nothing, and the Friends of the Library sale was this weekend. made for a lot of new books in my house. the first 3 pictures are from the FotL sale, 4th is from the bookstore clearance sale. titles listed from left to right, top to bottom.

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude)
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Five Skies - Ron Carlson
3001 The Final Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Poems of William Blake
Sophocles II
The Clouds - Aristophanes
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Politics - Aristotle
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
3 Great Greek Plays - Selected by Lyman Bryson
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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Soul Mountain - Gao Xingjian
The Death Gate Cycle Volume 1: Dragon Wing - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Death Gate Cycle Volume 2: Elven Star - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Death Gate Cycle Volume 3: Fire Sea - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
The Enigma of Arrival - V.S. Naipaul
Night Soldiers - Alan Furst
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
Flight: New and Selected Poems - Linda Bierds
Obasan - Joy Kogawa
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
Under the Ribs of Death - John Marlyn
Night - Elie Wiesel
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
In the Pond - Ha Jin
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Red Rabbit - Tom Clancy
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
Glory - Vladimir Nabokov
Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
The Riders - Tim Winton
Time and Again - Jack Finney
Undiscovered Country - Lin Enger
The Unyielding Clamor of the Night - Neil Bissoondath
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The October Country - Ray Bradbury
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A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Heart of Darkness and The Secret Shaker - Joseph Conrad
Beatrice & Virgil - Yann Martel
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Landing - John Ibbitson
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov
The Sea - John Banville
Reflections on Language - Noam Chomsky
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Paid $25 for everything from the store clearance sale, and $58 total for everything from the Friends of the Library sale.

dayyyyum son, hope you bought a new bookcase too.

not yet but i'm going to need one, the only one i had for books at the moment only had space for 1 or 2 more before buying any of those, unless i include the very top above the regular shelves.

bought The Stranger by Albert Camus today, only to find out that it was the same book as The Outsider which i already own. the version i bought today is supposedly a more accurate translation than the old copy though, and it's new so better condition. keeping the new one and giving away the old one.

Tao Te Ching? I've been looking for a copy of that for a while now.

Quite a few good classics in there, though a couple of them will likely let you down - they're more popular than "good". Also, I think I may have some extra Death Gate Cycle novels to send your way, since I've been replacing my paperbacks with hardcovers.

ya a lot of them i'm not totally sure if i'll like or not, and a huge chunk of them i know nothing about. some i just grabbed because i vaguely know of the author, others because it seemed somewhat interesting. there were only a few in there that i knew i wanted for sure.

I picked up the following peer-reviewed and extensively cited & annotated studies on two of the world's most notable subcultures:

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Those are really cool pickups. I've always wondered what EXACTLY a chav was haha. I just figured it was synonymous with douche.

That's actually a pretty accurate description.

To be more specific, they seem to be some unholy combo of whigger and your stereotypical deep-south trailer-park resident, with a little Juggalo thrown in for bad measure. Probably one of the most horrific examples of the influence of American cultural imperialism on the western world. No wonder the terrorists hate us...

Dead Sea by Brian Keene.  While I haven't read it yet I'm pretty sure I know how it ends (since this is a Brian Keene novel).

I just picked these up at my local G-Dub.

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Probably going to ebay the Robotech books unless somebody on here wants them. Legionnaire is staying in my tabletop collection.

I'll take the Robotech books.

Beat me to it.

Actually, I have the second one buried somewhere.

I had a limited-edition Carl Macek-signed slipcased hardcover edition of the third art book that I paid about ten bucks for, then sold online a couple years later for over a hundy. The buyer was local, and we arranged a pickup at the junior college I was attending at the time.

Anyhoo, if you did indeed shell out $0.99 for each one, that's one of the best book deals I've ever seen...

Yeah, it looks like the hardcovers are still going for big bucks. But, these softcovers aren't bad prices either, just highly inconsistent and with a crazy range. Not too much supply, but demand seems to be there on some days, with nothing on others.

Seeing as how Macek passed away a few years back, I wouldn't be surprised. Nothing like death to push up the values of collectibles. Just ask the folks running the estate of Elvis Presley, they'll tell ya.


The second art book is usually the least valuable, most likely because (1) it has the least pages of the three by far, and (2) it's mostly fan art, rather than original sketches by the shows' designers.

Got this for $.45 because it was half-off book day at Goodwill.

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It has some funny moments

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That's sound logic there.

In deed, this revelation might save some lives.

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ROFL. With the number of those books I pick up, I'm still missing most of those.

What books?

picked up a handful of books today. softcover original art style The Road by Cormac McCarthy to replace my pocketbook movie cover version, The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (totally not ready for this one), and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pretty sure I'm missing:
Ghost King
Pirate King
Downshadow
Murder in Cormyr
Storm of the Dead
Ascendency of the Last
Spirit of the Wind
The Dragons of Krynn (HOW DO I NOT HAVE THIS?! THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE FIRST POSTERS I BOUGHT MY WIFE WHEN WE STARTED DATING AFTER I FOUND OUT SHE WAS A DRAGONLANCE FAN!)
Bertrem's Guide to the Age of Mortals
Amber and Iron
The Forest King

...as I said, most of them. ;) 11/13
I lost my list of books when I reformatted my PC to bring performance back to par and install Windows 8.1. I'll put it back together today or tomorrow - supposedly, there's a library sale in my town today.

EDIT: Woop woop! Found out I was smart and uploaded it to Google Docs before formatting. I R SMRT.

Man I spent a lot of time reading Dragonlance books.

Never got into Forgotten Realms as much. Read a few of the first Drizzt trilogy but that was about it.

I finished Ready Player One. It got a little sappy, and I envisioned a more poignent ending, but the nerd culture was cool, and the world was well crafted, and plug me into the Oasis right meow plz.

I've got a copy of that at home that I need to read thanks to Deadman.

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After reading many of the original, fairly violent Eastman & Laird TMNT comics, my interest in the pussified kidvid nonsense that followed on the boob tube and the silver screen waned considerably. My preference for the comics deepened when I found out that it started as a tribute to and satire of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, which was among my favorite Miller works. Eastman and Laird even tied the turtles' and Splinter's origin to that of Daredevil. It was heavily implied in one of the above volumes' flashback sequences that the canister of radioactive waste that mutated the terrapin quartet and their rodent sensei was the same one that blinded young Matt Murdock and gave him his funky hyper-senses.

What I wouldn't have given to see a TMNT flick based on the original comics, a hard-R-rated actioner with all of the ridiculous over-the-top violence and social satire that an in-his-prime Paul Verhoeven would have almost certainly delivered.

Sigh... if only.

Hey now,

I found this at the Goodwill near work today:

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I've always wanted to read up on the history of and controversy behind what I consider the funniest sit-com of TV's golden age, as well as its radio predecessor. Oh, I suppose I could use that newfangled "internet" thingamajibber to research the deal. But where's the fun in that?

Acting as a bookmark was a San Francisco Muni bus transfer pass, coincidentally dated on my birthday. The year's not printed on it, though.

I was at a Barnes and Noble and shopped around it for an hour or so. Saw a lot of stuff I wanted like a D&D Clue and the Drizzt Board Game.

All I ended up buying was a hardcover copy of Snuff from the bargain tables.

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Ha! I just finally picked up Color of Magic today.

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Got all this today. The DM guide was $10 and came with the DM screen. The rest of the books were $3 each. I need to rebind most of them though.

local newspaper had a massive booksale for charity today, continuing tomorrow. 400,000 books for sale, there was a line of people (some who had been there since midnight) waiting to get in when it opened at 9. the line went down the street, around the corner halfway up the next block, into the parking lot and zig-zagged a ways through there before finally stopping, probably around 250-500 people waiting to get in. security at every door and they had to limit the number of people inside at any one time. it was intense, but at $3 each for hardcovers, $2 for softcovers, and $1 for pocketbooks it was worth it.

now for the haul:

Stargate by Pauline Gedge
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Trial by Franz Kafka
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
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Classical Literary Criticism by Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Alcestis and Other Plays by Euripides
Ethics by Aristotle
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Belgariad series by David Edding (book 2 through 5, already have #1)
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A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls all by Ernest Hemingway
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Charlotte and Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
George Orwell collection
The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays, and Poems of Oscar Wilde
Tales from The Arabian Nights
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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham volume 1 and 2
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Celebrated and Historical Speeches: An Anthology of Ancient and Modern Oratory by W.H. Beable
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
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Well, I just got back from Goodwill and found a nice Discworld treasure trove in their newest cart 'o books.

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This cover of Soul Music is better than the one I already have (holo > not holo), and I have a hardcover Hogfather already and another of that same copy of The Light Fantastic.

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Copyright 1978, I found this mixed in with the children's books at a local thrift store for $0.69.

Ordered this and it just came a few days ago, it's basically extra backstory and information in the form of a Journal.

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Greetings from Terra,



I'm kinda ashmed to admit it, but... that actually looks kinda cool. The illustrations are reminiscent of Link's "graffiti" form in Link Between Worlds.

That reminds me: I've been seeing a few Friendship is Magic DVDs at the thrifts here and there lately, and at fair prices. I might actually buy one and watch it, just to see what the fuss is all about. And of course all that hawt plottage--

Errrr...

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*Cough* Moving on to a another geeky pastime chock-full of scary fanboys, I recently grabbed this trio of mid-90s Warhammer goodness for $8:


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Byee

picked this up from a local bookstore. i've never read the bible and am coming at it from a literary interest, i want to understand where the infinite number of references to it came from. not religious so this should be interesting, at some point i plan on reading other religious texts too.

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"The quickest way to become an atheist is to read the bible." - Penn Jillette.  Please keep us informed on what you learned.  Old Testament - Reality Show god full of hate and jealousy.  New Testament - Rehab Show god full of remorse and in a 12 stepper.

After seeing the band for a third time, I really wanted to pick up Jeremy's recently released book.  He was seriously energized on stage - more than I'd noticed before.  And he and Ivan were greatly connected during the show.

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So far the book has been extremely entertaining, considering that he and I grew up with the same musical exposure and similar rebelious influences.  Jeremy Spencer is very articulate and well spoken which is appreciated by someone that finds many music biographies bland and somewhat mundane.  Any time that a celebrity or musician releases a biography requiring no "as told by" or "with so and so", I pay attention.  And Death Punch'd is HIS work and HIS words.  No, this isn't a book you want to read to the kids at night.  I highly recommend it to any music fans or those looking for inspiration to kick their addiction.

Finally found some Goodwill books after a drought.

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Just got this family friendly book today.

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Hey now,


While I'm not into Magic: The Gathering myself, I do know someone who will appreciate these:


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Library run this weekend:

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I rarely EVER find World of Darkness novels, so the clan novels were a very welcome addition. The Gundam manga are additions to my slowly growing Gundam collection. Forgotten Realms collection is now over 115 novels, out of the 500+ out there...

2 more Dragonlance Novels towards my wife's collection, and another Margaret Weis novel for one of the last Margaret Weis series we don't have completed. Heading back during lunch today to pick up the Mystic Empire hardcover to complete that series, and nabbing a cheap Warhammer manual.

used a gift card from christmas to pick up a couple new books today.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Been doing a lot of reading over the last few months. Got a Nook for Christmas. The last few Warcraft books I hadn't tracked down yet, all of Atomic Robo, and a few gaming history books. Have a complete (or to current, anyway) run of Fables, Hellboy, Xanth and all of Forgotten Realms waiting for me.

Edit: And I meant to post this in the reading topic, pardon.

Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.

This book sure does jump into the story quickly

I've got a copy of that on the shelf. How is it?

I am at the beginning of it. I am liking it so far

needed change for the bus so i bought a book from the thrift store. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Catch-22 is fantastic. Please give it a read. It's one of the better books forced upon high school students in Florida.
Finished up the last of the trilogy for the Baldur's Gate novels while my wife was in the ER. It seems the only time I take to read these days is doctor and ER visits.

I have not one, but two book hauls to post still. With all the packing and moving I just tossed them aside with my other books for now until I unpack them, now they're all that's left and will likely be my weekend project.

I wonder if I snagged anything that Shadow's missing or been hunting for years? It almost always seems to happen.

Oh, I'm sure... It's a desert wasteland in my area. Speaking of which though, the Gainesville sale is this month... Considering that I tend to come away with $100+ of books everytime, I'll see if I can make it.

Grabbed a copy of Murakami's 1Q84 (complete) over the weekend.

Has anyone here read it before? Is it as obtuse as some would have me believe?

I'm as intrigued as I am intimidated by it.

EDIT: Just after I posted this I saw Rich posted that he is reading this book in the what are you reading thread. Still, anyone else who has finished it, I'm interested in what you thought.

i haven't read it myself but i've heard mixed reviews about it. I'm not sure but i think it's postmodern in style, is that right Rich? i haven't read much, if anything, that is postmodern as far as i know but from what i can tell that might be a turn-off for some people. All hearsay though as i haven't read it like i said. i see it circulating regularly at the library i work at so there must be something to it considering the popularity.

I'm going to start it today so Rich and I can talk about it as we go. Plus it's a tome and I have two five hour plane rides next week so I'd like to at least put a dent in it and cruise through a lot of it on the plane.

Jaime, grab a copy at the library and join us?

Tell you what - I've been meaning to read Murakami for a long time. I have an extremely large book sale I'm going to this weekend, so I'll keep a look out for a copy. What "genre" would you say it's listed under, so that I can make a beeline for it when I get there? I loosely say "genre", since the sale organizes things oddly sometimes, and they'll split books into "Foreign" even if the language is English.

I would say sci-fi. It's also listed by Google as "Alternate History."

When I have a chance I'm going to start an OT for this book, so that you, Rich, anyone else who wants to join, and I can discuss the book as we go through it. Very exciting!

EDIT: Ok here it is. http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=15511.0

Sci-Fi? I'll definitely be through that section, so I'll keep a look out. Alternate History is an interesting genre popularized by Henry Turtledove, who I have a ton of books from.

my library has it under sci-fi too.

I just finished thrifting for the first time since my return. I may have just had my best book score at this Goodwill yet, and that's a tall hill to climb with all 3 of the Robotech art books looming over this store. With all this hype I bet Shadow's getting himself ready, I always seem to grab things he needs. I have a duplicate Icewind Dale trilogy now if anybody wants to start those books. We should start a book trading thread.

First, the regular sized, normal paperback novels.

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Next, the super ultra deluxe Collector's Editions with Treasure Island kept in shot for scale! All the paperbacks were 99 cents each to make the deal sweeter!

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And now, I present the final chapter of the Magical-Skylanders-Tote-Bag saga.

(Part 1: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=15918.msg228444#msg228444 )
(Part 2: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=14483.msg228445#msg228445 )
(Part 3: http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=13502.msg228446#msg228446 )

Aaaaand awaaaay we go.

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A French-language Citadel Miniatures painting guide? Hey, why not.


And in case you care, last week I picked up a stack of weekly science journals from the 1920s and 30s...

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...a stack of San Jose Sharks programs & yearbooks...

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...and a few All-Star/Pro Bowl programs.

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Needless to say, I'm beat. I think I'll go lie down for a while. In any case, I hope you enjoyed this wonderful little journey. Maybe we can do this again some day...

...but I doubt it.

Until next time...


...'Late

How'd I miss Psycho's pickup?! Damn!
...yeah, I don't have the Salvatore books in paperback, but I have the compendium. Fortunately, I own all of those in some form, so no spazzing out from me. Great find though.

Zag: Those Science Journals are amazing. Any interesting concepts or names in the journals?

Got a nice haul of books today, for free!

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Lovely illustrated guide to samurais and their history.

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Not one, but TWO copies of the Simpsons complete guide. It covers the first eight seasons in great detail. (Will trade one for SNES games ;))

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This thing that's not quite a book, but amazing nonetheless. It's like a paper cut out stageplay.

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You punch out the actors and set and props.

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Look at what could be. Such production value. Think of the rave reviews...

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Two encyclopedic DK guides. I love those things.

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Last but not least, this hefty madman of a novel. Going to be a while until I get to this.

Our (my wife and I) bi-annual haul from the Gainesville Friends of the Library sale:

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For a quick round-up, here are the series we nabbed books for:
Dark Sun
Eberon
Ravenloft
Dragonlance
Forgotten Realms
Dungeons & Dragons
Greyhawk
Battletech
Robotech
Resident Evil
Dragonbone Chair
Deathgate Cycle
Dune
Aliens vs Predator

...and, a few books from the following:
L.E. Modesitt
Stephen King
Isaac Asimov
Arthur Clarke (Space Odyssey)
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

picked up the Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood a while ago

I really don't need to buy more books, but the local Friends of the Library sale is this weekend and I might see what I can find tomorrow.

I'm jealous of Phsyco's Redwall books, I've been working on getting into it (I loved the cartoon as a kid) and so far I only have hardcopies of the original Redwall and Mossflower because it's all I've ever come across. 

Psycho can't compete with me. I'm missing 3 hardcovers, the newer tradeback reprints, and some of the softcover re-issues, but it's all here. 2 Christmases ago, my mom purchased all of the hardcovers she could find on Amazon for me that I didn't already own from when I was a kid. The owl is just an owl plushie, moved so the cats can't get to it. Series ordered chronologically, if you're curious.

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I've yet to see the actual cartoon though. I think it'd ruin my mental image of the series.

The cartoon is surprising good and they got away with a lot for a kid's show (one I think think of is actually showing the snake getting beheaded Highlander style and another is implying the graphic death of Sela with some horrifying noises after she get's thrown out). They even show Slagar's scarred face in pretty graphic detail without obscuring any of it in the second season.

I should really got on Ebay sometime and maybe see if I can find some lots for a good price.

My wifes-grandparents have been downsizing some old papers and books and stuff. In the last round I only found a couple things of interest.

This book is awful. These are the worst jokes.....which is why I grabbed it. Copyright is 1939 and this is a 1946 reprint.

I just took pictures of random pages, if you want more let me know   ;)


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I found these hanging around Goodwill, so figured I might give them a shot and see if they're as good as a lot of people say.

I tried The Hunger Games as a friend was obsessing over it. read it in a couple days i think, it was pretty bad honestly. it's mildly entertaining but there are a lot better dystopia novels out there than this

Found some $2 gold at Goodwill today.

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That's pretty cool. Better than my Jack London anthology find the other day.

Took a road trip today for an interview. I took the chance to visit a couple of my favorite stops and struck some gold at the book store house. Time to make Shadow jealous by saying these were all $.85 each. I didn't have enough time to dig too deep and these were pretty much in the open.

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I've never seen that Mystara book... I'm not sure which Greyhawk novels I have, though I DO see a Gary Gygax Greyhawk, which is pretty cool. I have 3 copies of Knight of the Black Rose - for some reason, I've come across it often.

Hell, for $0.85 per book, I'd have picked those all up in a heartbeat, even if I did own them. Nice find.

I'm guessing Greyhawk Adventures 1 is another Gygax book. This is 2-6 that I found today. I still need to lookup where The Eyes Have It fits.

It's another Adventures book, the last one I believe. Rose Estes took over for Gygax after he left TSR and continued the series. I don't think I own ANY of the Adventures series though, as they were meant as companions for D&D 1st and 2nd Edition (my neighbor had the set for AD&D 1.5).

Saga of Old City
Artifact of Evil
Master Wolf
The Price of Power
The Demon Hand
The Name of the Game
The Eyes Have It

...think I have The Price of Power around here somewhere. Let me go dig and see what I have.
EDIT: Nope. Just some of the novelizations. However, I have a bunch of duplicate Ravenloft books if you want/need them.

I have been interested in Ravenloft lately. Don't have any of the sourcebooks right now. Also if anybody finds any of the like... three Planescape novels I'm the guy to send them to!

I owe you some books anyways. I'll let you know which I have. They're just sitting in my duplicate book pile.

Ravenloft is a fun setting. Pretty deadly though. Characters commonly die or at least whenever I played it. But the gothic horror stuff is really cool.

Reading the new Marvel Star Wars comic, it is a pretty fun read so far.

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Surprised to find these today.

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Sweet. I've been picking up one-offs lately. Grabbed a couple more Forgotten Realms that I didn't own. I think last count put me over 120 unique novels.

Do boxes of books and maps count?

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Book wave is still going.

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Up for a trade? Pile of duplicates is starting to get unwieldly, and I have some things to send you anyways so I figure I can just fill the rest of the box.

Sure, there's a bunch of books I can shift around since finding those anthologies, but I don't think I have too much that you don't already that I would part with before reading. A small handful, but we can work that out.

I'll just fill a box and send it your way, and I'll send over my Excel lists later. If anything, you should be able to trade in some if you have them already.

Sounds good.

Holy Mother of D&D Hauls

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I've had some other random Goodwill finds that interested me.

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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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Here's a book I didn't purchase, for obvious reasons:


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How about... NO!

Hey now,

My TransFormers mania was kicked into really high gear when I discovered a sealed copy of the official & definitive Cybertronian holy scriptures for $30 at Goodwill:





As much as I'd like to open this up and read it, I fear that even unsealing it will cause my head to shrink and/or melt and/or explode, a la the bad guys at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

At the end of last week I had my best book haul in a long time.

I got these top two books at my local Salvation Army. The Far Side comic collection was at my DAV, always loved these comics.

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I found all these Warhammer books at my Goodwill in the kid's book section. I spotted one at a glance then went through the entire shelf with my fine tooth comb, sadly the softcover cooking section didn't have any more.

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Needful Things by Stephen King

It by Stephen King

Hey now...


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So whattaya think? Did I get a good deal on this Watchmen hardcover, or what?


Aaaand here's a little something I'm really rarin' to dig into:


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...'Late

So this was a fun day at Goodwill. Seems like a regular day where the book haul was going to come through pretty strong. I pay for my books and check my change to find a silver quarter was given to me. I seem to find treasure even when I'm not looking.

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These two I got today at Goodwill when I did some Secret Santa shopping. Sadly no silver today.

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This is cool.

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Really cool.

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe the Newspaper Comic Strips

100 Things Packers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die by Rob Reischel

So do we put strategy guides here or is there a separate section? I put all the ones I own in collection milestone. But I just bought...

Devil May Cry Prima Guide (There is like 3 companies that did a guide for the first DMC, I will probably get the Brady or Versus version as well and call it good for a while)
Kingdom Hearts II

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

For Your Eyes Only by David Giammarco
War In The Gulf by Thomas B. Allen, F. Clifton Berry, Norman Polmar

From a Buick8 by Stephen King
Danes Macabre by Stephen King
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott
Searching for Velociraptor by Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell

Manga Fantasy Madness by David Okum
The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark
Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark

Super Mario Bros. Trapped in the Perilous Pit

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

Guinness World Records 2017 Block Busters!

With The  Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
The Last Helicopter Two Lives in Indochina by Jim Laurie

8-bit Christmas by Kevin Jakubowski