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I just bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451, signed by Ray Bradbury, for a whopping $1.50. It made my day. (found it on the shelf at the local Goodwill store, mixed in with all the other books)
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Chris wrote: "I just bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451, signed by Ray Bradbury, for a whopping $1.50. It made my day. (found it on the shelf at the local Goodwill store, mixed in with all the other books)"Yeah, about three years ago around Halloween I found three signed books back in October of 1989 by Ray Bradbury in an random bin at my local library for $0.10. They were bought brand new at the time of the signing. I did not know they were signed until I bought them home and started to read them. The books were The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Kevin wrote: "Chris wrote: "I just bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451, signed by Ray Bradbury, for a whopping $1.50. It made my day. (found it on the shelf at the local Goodwill store, mixed in with all the other b..."That's awesome, Kevin. Great find. I always wonder what kind of journey an autographed book must take to end up on a discount shelf like that. Lucky for you and I, though, that they do.
Picked up a couple of books over the last couple of days.Babayaga
Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top
This one is funny, I order it from a local bookstore back on May 7th. Kept inquiring and they assured me that its coming. Realised two weeks ago they were waiting for the out of print hard cover. When I pointed out that I knew that and will need it. They re ordered it as a paperback and 3 days later I had the book.
picked a few different books in the bookshop today for a grand total of £51. Carson of Venus
2. Chasm City
3. Orion Shall Rise
4. Eye of Cat
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Shel wrote: "I'd completely forgotten that I pre-ordered the paperback of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, so it was a fun surprise when it showed up on my doorstep today! Can't wait to dig in when I finish my cu..."This is one of my favourite books in the saga. Loved it.
I just found an autographed 1st edition of Richard Ford's Wildlife for $5 at a book festival this weekend. It was definitely the highlight of the day.
Just picked up last weekend the original Dune books written by Hebert and The four Robot and the sixth Foundation books by Asimov.
Picked up a couple of books this weekCold Days
Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die-An Unofficial Companion
The Incrementalists
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
Went into a bookstore to peek and walked out with a couple of non genre booksStarted watching Masters of Sex on TV this week and it was interesting so I figured I would pick up the actual book
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Picked up another baseball book
Out Of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs
Had some extra during work on Friday. They are upgrading my computer I was out of service for four hours so I went to the book storePicked up some books
Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice
A Thousand Farewells
Sharpe's Prey
I just bought brand new The Unremembered, Fallen Dragon, and The Curse of Chalion last week. This is the first time I bought a brand new book in over six month.
Picked up a couple more this weekThe Last Dark
The final Thomas Covenant book.
The Hydrogen Sonata
the final Culture book
Picked up a couple of books todayAn Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Burning Paradise
couple more books today at the discount place down the streetThe Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates: A Novel
Not Quite the Classics
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wow Kathy, that is quite the haul! I only ordered three:Daemon
Day Watch and The Atrocity Archives
Now i wish I thought of some of yours! lol
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Day Watch and The Atrocity Archives
Now i wish I thought of some of yours! lol"
Thanks, Maggie. I keep a list (one of many) of books I'm "looking for" and then, when I'm at a used book store or shopping a sale like this, I can go down my list and see if they have what I'm looking for and if I want to pay that price. Of course, I usually also just browse when I'm at a bricks & mortar store, which generally leads to more purchases and more things to add to my list. There are still about 30 books on that list...
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Kathi wrote: "Thanks, Maggie. I keep a list (one of many) of books I'm "looking for" and then, when I'm at a used book store or shopping a sale like this, I can go down my list and see if they have what I'm looking for and if I want to pay that price."I do the same thing. It actually saves me from buying books on a whim. I take a picture or write it down and if it still interests me it goes on the list. Then I keep an eye out for it. Most books never make the cut
With all the said, I picked up a couple of books
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
The Boys of Summer
Great Expectations: The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season
One last book till Christmas....I hope.I am going to try. I have a book in the Mail from Amazon UK and another one on order at the bookstore and another waiting for an author signature.
But
I am not going to go out of my way to buy anything else
Lets see
So the book I picked up was
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
Picked up a couple of books todayMastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
A Wind in the Night
Exodus Code
picked a few today:Time and Again
The Fountains of Paradise
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Absolution Gap
Wyrd Sisters
Jingo
The Midwich Cuckoos
Cosmonaut Keep
My current job - the noble job of sorting trash from waste paper - has landed me the odd sci fi or fantasy title.For books marked with an asterisk, I found a translated - into Dutch - edition.
Bold-printed titles I have already read. What say you of the ones I have not yet read?
Fantasy:
Covenants by Lorna Freeman
Dragonquest* by Anne McCaffrey
Perdido Street Station * by China Miéville
The Book of the Dead* by Tanith Lee
The Diviner by Melanie Rawn
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan by Robert Shea and Robert A. Wilson
The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
Science Fiction:
A Gift from Earth* by Larry Niven
Circuit Breaker by Melinda M. Snodgrass
De dag van Aldebaran by Felix Thijsen
Dune * by Frank Herbert
Makers by Cory Doctorow
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge by Stephen Donaldson
The Planet Explorer* by Murray Leinster
Wyst: Alastor 1716* by Jack Vance
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Stephen Donaldson's SF Gap series made my brain hurt but I'm glad I read them.
I like most of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books (of which Dragonquest is one), and I've also liked the books I've read by Melanie Rawn, although I have not read The Diviner.
Looks like quite a good haul!!
Out with my son this afternoon and stopped in to a Church sale and picked this upThe Kingdom and the Power: The Story of the Men Who Influence the Institution That Influences the World- The New York Times
Interesting title for a book bought in the basement of a church. BTW, this book was on my list of books I was keeping an eye out for.
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I love it when that happens!
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie is on sale today for $1.99 (US), Kindle version. Not sure if it's only Amazon or other retailers as well. I just picked it up. Now to find time to read it. :)
Picked up a baseball ebook today from KoboUp, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos
I never really followed the Expos.
Ex-Wife took the kids out to her place for dinner, so after work took a detour on the bike ride home and checked out a couple of book stores I dont normally get to. Picked up some stuffConquerors' Heritage
Talon of the Silver Hawk
King of Foxes
Exile's Return
It's been a while, picked up a couple of books today100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Zoe's Tale
The Android's Dream
London Falling
Ken wrote: "It's been a while, picked up a couple of books today100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Zoe's Tale
The Android's Dream
[book:Lond..."
I have been wanting to read both Zoe's tale and London Falling----hope they're good!
The problem is that I have too many books. Not sure when I will read them.I plan to get caught up on Scalzi's stuff this summer. I have only read Old Man's War and Redshirts. Think I will pull out London Falling later in July or Aug
just bought:Ancillary Justice
Sundiver
The Uplift War
Neverwhere
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Blue Remembered Earth
Hmm nice haulAncillary Justice is very good, actually they are all good.....well excpet Blue Remembered Earth, I haven't read that one.
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Having read many recommendations, my husband & I decided to buy a number of books in The Saga of Recluce by L. E. Modesitt. At the store, I also picked up the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, the Tears of Artamon series by Sarah Ash, a Kage Baker book I didn't have (but not a Company book), the Kingdom of the Serpent trilogy by Mark Chadbourn, a trilogy by Deborah Chester, the Void trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, 2 omnibus editions (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker and Godspeaker) by Karen Miller, and a Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves.
Online I ordered:
Bearers of the Black Staff: Legends of Shannara
City of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles)
A Fortress of Grey Ice: Book Two of Sword of Shadows
Watcher of the Dead (Sword of Shadows)
A Sword from Red Ice (Sword of Shadows, Book 3)
River of Stars
Ordermaster (Saga of Recluce)
Redoubt: Book Four of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)
Arms-Commander (Saga of Recluce)
Surface Detail (Culture Novels)
The Wild Road: Book Three of Karavans
Yep, color me happy!
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Haven t bought much
This week I drank my fill
Daybreak Zero
The Alloy of Law
The Last Colony
Redshirts
Doctor Who: Harvest of Time
One Last Strike