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Here are the other books about Heaven's Gate that I mentioned awhile back: This is a sensationalist paperback:  This one is from the organization itself:  It is seriously the size of a phonebook: 
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Here are three volumes of pictures from collage artist Winston Smith, possibly best known for doing a lot of the artwork for Dead Kennedys records in the late 70's/ early 80's, including their famous DK logo.    These two half-rear end biographies about the bands X and Dead Kennedys were originally published in the early 80's, although I got my copies at a Tower Records in the mid-90's:   Here are a few miscellaneous coloring/ activity books that were next to those on my shelf:    This one is from the greatest TV show of all time:  Sadly, it's from the somewhat inferior 6th and final season after Larry Wilcox (Jon) quit the show, but I'll take what I can get. I just got this one in the mail after it was recommended in another thread (the lol at Trump thread?) as a good post-apocalyptic novel. Not sure when I'll get to it, but I'm looking forward to reading it.  Finally, here is a paperback book collecting three issues of Spire Christian Comics from the early 80's:  I can't believe they left these gems out of it:    
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Here's a trashy sex and crime thriller I took from my uncles bookshelf when I was about 14. I used to think the author was the same person who wrote Trainspotting. Possibly NSFW due to cover nudity https://i.imgur.com/yEEVQ2f.jpg
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Not gonna lie, that comic book order form book looks right up my alley.
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Check out what I found in gramp's copy of grapes of wrath:  ol von bismarck hisself maybe it's hindenberg? conflicting info SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Feb 5, 2018 |
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Guns! Bullies! Drugs & Alcohol! The Internet!
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Here's a Lawrence Welk Show-based work of fiction:  I see this one in used book stores all the time and have no idea why:  I picked this up last year and still need to read it.  For those of you unfamiliar with the Bay Area, San Quentin is located on right on the shoreline of the North Bay on what must be some of the most valuable real estate in the country. The view is breathtaking, and I've always wondered if that would be nice or sheer torture for the prisoners to see from their cell windows. Perhaps this book will answer that. This might be my favorite story from the ancient world along with the Epic of Gilgamesh and various tall tales about Diogenes the Cynic. Robert Graves' translation is great and I highly recommend it.  Corey Feldman is insane.  If you haven't seen this, do yourself a favor and watch it right now!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMQLtaewh4A
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Haha this dude playing 4 guitars is called Michael Angelo Batio, he still plays at least 2 guitars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3JhKXJDTM Gutter Phoenix posted:Here are three volumes of pictures from collage artist Winston Smith, possibly best known for doing a lot of the artwork for Dead Kennedys records in the late 70's/ early 80's, including their famous DK logo. Did this guy also do stuff for the Church of the Subgenius?
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I found this in a pile of free books yesterday:  A few months ago I wandered into a nearby church rummage sale and bought a whole bunch of WW2 paperbacks for a quarter apiece. Here are a few:      Aaron Burr might be the most fascinating of America's founders besides Ben Franklin.   My girlfriend is a fan of Rick Springfield's work on General Hospital during the early 80's, as well as his music. Here are a memoir and a novel he wrote.   She also showed me this video of Rick Springfield's enormous collection of old Star Wars toys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtAANVXQjUU Oh, and before I forget, every time people mention Bedtime for Bonzo I think about posting this amazing book, but promptly forget because my brain is an idiot: 
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This is an expose on Las Vegas from 1963: Speaking of Las Vegas, this book is nothing but photos of Siegfried and Roy's house:  Seems as good a time as any to post these:     Here are three books by Linnea Quigley, queen of B-horror movies:    Here are a few issues of Soviet Life magazine I bought for a buck each last year:   
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This book was written by a guy named Mike Warnke who claimed to be a high priest of Satan: This book is an expose on the guy claiming to be a high priest of Satan (Spoiler alert: Mike Warnke made it all up):  I know I posted about this one in the Chick tract thread, but I can't remember where and the pages take forever to load on my slow-rear end laptop because of all the pictures. Anyway, this might be most weird and wonderful book I have ever read. It really deserves it's own thread.  A classic Satanic Panic book from the mid-80's:  A book about demons:  A truly great autobiography by a musician I had never heard of before reading the book:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLceBSD7Cc Here is the entire series of paperback books based on the 1980's sci-fi miniseries V:   
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Here's the Ollie North Coloring Book I mentioned earlier, illustrated by Mort Drucker of Mad Magazine fame:  Speaking of which, here are a bunch of Mad paperbacks:      Here's a book about Mad Magazine publisher William Gaines. It is surprisingly difficult to find, which is too bad because it's interesting:  Here's a biography about Mad artist Al Jaffee. For those of you who didn't read Mad as a kid, he's the guy who did (still does?) the fold-ins on the back cover:  Here are four books full of art my my all-time favorite cartoonist (and Mad artist), Jack Davis:     And finally, a basic history of Mad Magazine, including color pictures of every cover up through sometime in the mid-90's or whenever it was published: 
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Feb 6, 2018 01:54
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Choco1980 posted:Not gonna lie, that comic book order form book looks right up my alley. It's a fun read. This one is also pretty good:  For reference, here is a strange rack toy based on the 70's Telly Savalas cop show Kojak that happens to be sitting on a book shelf in my kitchen:  SniperWoreConverse posted:Check out what I found in gramp's copy of grapes of wrath: That's cool! I'm trying to think of anything interesting I've found inside old books, but the only thing that comes to mind is a ridiculous inscription inside a used copy of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons:   I've always imagined Justin to be an insufferable dork and wonder how long it took Missy to get rid of this book. It never fails to make me laugh! fakeaccount posted:Did this guy also do stuff for the Church of the Subgenius? I'm not sure, but there are pictures of Bob Dobbs on the acknowledgement pages of the first two books, so I wouldn't doubt it.
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Getting Acquainted with Georgia, which was approved by the state as a textbook. I think it was the official textbook for Georgia history. The textbook is framed around a fictional story. Two northern children come for an extended visit with their Georgia relatives. The kids come away quite impressed with it has to offer. Clearly, these relatives were rich as they had their own servants. Who spoke in exaggerated dialect.  Vintage medical book from 1917:   Here's a childhood favorite, The Rats Who Lived in the Delicatessen. The lesson is that you can be too generous and that cats represent population control.   Stephen King was using Richard Bachman as his pen name for Thinner. He did not intend to be found out, though this was the book that did it. As part of trying to hide his identity, King got someone else to pose for the author photo. If I remember right, it was his insurance agent.  
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King has said he got letters right from the start asking if he was Bachman but it took a while for someone to put together actual proof. He did the whole thing in the first place because he wanted to know if people were actually buying his books because they liked them or if they were just doing it because they had "Stephen King" on the cover. Although the definite weirdest thing about the situation was how he has periodically dusted the name off and put out books "by" Bachman.
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I had heard it started out with weird publisher policies at the time not letting you publish too many books under your name within a specific time period, so Bachman was his way of selling old ideas of his (Rage was written while he was still in high school for gosh sakes) so he could keep paying the bills back in the 70s before he was a household name.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Getting Acquainted with Georgia, which was approved by the state as a textbook. I think it was the official textbook for Georgia history. Jesus Christ, that might be the most overwrought attempt at writing dialect I've ever read! I cannot for the life of me figure out what word puncher is meant to replace in the sentence I gits a punture on de road. Puncture? Is he talking about a car tire? Anyway, that one looks like a fascinating mess, and I would very much like to read the whole thing. Choco1980 posted:I had heard it started out with weird publisher policies at the time not letting you publish too many books under your name within a specific time period, so Bachman was his way of selling old ideas of his (Rage was written while he was still in high school for gosh sakes) so he could keep paying the bills back in the 70s before he was a household name. I know that a lot of prolific pulp writers (who were paid by the word) used multiple pseudonyms so they could have multiple stories published in a magazine/ multiple books published in a given year. Those who wrote sleaze paperbacks usually usually didn't want their real names on the books (Charles Willeford is the only exception I can think of). They'd often use pen names that were shared by multiple authors at that particular publishing house. Lawrence Block has said that people occasionally ask him if he wrote specific sleaze titles that were published under a couple of different house pseudonyms back in the early 60's and he honestly doesn't know if he wrote them or one of the other authors did. They were all written so fast (usually in a week or less) that he honestly doesn't remember everything he wrote. Also, some authors were under contract to a certain publishing company, so they'd write books under pseudonyms to be published elsewhere. If an author was only known for writing mystery novels, they might use a different name to publish a sci-fi book. A popular author might publish a book under a pseudonym to see if readers actually enjoyed their work or just bought anything with their name on it. A good example of all of the above would be the extraordinarily prolific Donald E. Westlake. He wrote all of the following books, yet they were published using fourteen different names:              
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Feb 12, 2018 22:44
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I stopped by the Salvation Army this morning and picked up an assortment of books for a buck a piece:         
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My dad has a pretty good collection of weird and wonderful books. He loves charity shops and often comes back with a find or three. A couple of good ones I remember off the top of my head: My big book of Pretty Pussies   and The Young Visiters (not my picture - sadly the book is at my uncle's right now)  Daisy Ashford, age 9 posted:"Oh Bernard she sighed fervently I certainly love you madly you are to me like a Heathen god she cried looking at his manly form and handsome flashing face I will indeed marry you."  I just found out the book is up on Project Gutenberg so I know what my bedtime reading is going to be!
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Dude looking at her all disgusted like "Maybe I should get back to church Sunday" You did write this book, Mr. Westlake.
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Feb 13, 2018 01:32
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It's been a while since I've really frequented the used book store, but I've got a few interesting ones.   I love this one, five hundred pages of machining fixture case studies from the 1960's.  
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Neat, I didn't know they printed real books for that. It's a fake novelization of a nonexistent movie that's all the premise for a Star-Studded Audiobook Here's a recent score from a take-a-book/leave-a-book cafe: 
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Feb 16, 2018 00:54
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Karia posted:
That's pretty cool. I've been wanting to get a large book showcasing industrial design for a while, and recently ordered this one. Does anyone have any recommendations for good Taschen books? Seems like a lot of them would fit the theme of this thread.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Oh, and before I forget, every time people mention Bedtime for Bonzo I think about posting this amazing book, but promptly forget because my brain is an idiot: Quoting this because this book is legitimately great and written by one of the coolest primatologists.
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Feb 25, 2018 10:54
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
Nevil Shute is a pretty good writer, If you like that I'd recommend "No Highway" and "A town like Alice".
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The following post is long and off-topic, but I figured I'd put it here instead of making a new thread since it eventually involves books. Feel free to skip to the bottom for those. I got laid off last week and yesterday was my last day of work. I knew it was coming and actually expected the gravy train to derail end years ago, but it was a pretty sweet gig and I'm sad to have it end. For the past seven years I've been working for a heavy utility construction company on a massive water tunnel project moving my way up from basic office tasks to managing the field office and getting heavily involved in the contract paperwork/ engineering side of things. Not the most exciting stuff in the world, but still not bad considering don't have a college degree or a background in construction. Also, some of the perks were amazing. Notably, I haven't had to pay for gasoline or a phone since 2011. For the first five years I got to work on site in a beautiful semi-rural valley among some wild foothills near some of the greatest hiking trails in California. Once the actual construction ended and our office trailer was removed from the site, I was able to work from home since I was the last employee working on the project full-time. It ended up taking almost two years to finalize the details of the contract paperwork and I had less and less to do as it dragged on. No complaints on my end! Some people say they'd get bored if they didn't have a job to do. I am not one of those people. I got paid to sit around my apartment watching endless Cops marathons on Spike and hilariously bad films on the Lifetime Movie Network, occasionally checking my work email to see if there was anything I needed to do. Since I was able to work remotely, I took paid vacations to NYC (thrice), North Carolina's Outer Banks (twice), Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and a bunch of other places I'm sure I'm forgetting. I also tagged along when my girlfriend went on work trips to Tokyo, Orlando, a free cruise to Key West and Cozumel, and multiple short visits to Anaheim/ Burbank. Occasionally I was asked to take trips to various places where my company planned to bid on upcoming projects, but none of those were very noteworthy. Anyway, the paperwork was recently finalized and despite the best efforts of my company, they haven't been able to win any contracts in the Bay Area, or even California for that matter. Last week I was offered the choice of immediately relocating to a project in Raleigh, North Carolina or being laid off. I chose the latter. My girlfriend and I already had plans for a short trip to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico, and it seemed only fitting that I "work" my last three days while on vacation, so away we went! The highlight, and main reason for our trip in the first place, was a ride on a high-speed zodiac boat around Banderas Bay to see the scores of humpback whales and their newborn calves swimming around doing whale stuff. They migrate down there between December and March every year to either have whale sex or give birth to the calves from the previous year's whale sex. Apparently baby whales don't know how to swim when they are born, so the mother spends months teaching them that, along with other advanced whale stuff like slapping the surface with their pectoral fins and tails to knock off barnacles, breaching the surface, and floating on their backs. According to the guide, Banderas Bay is a safe place with warm water, but there isn't enough whale food to go around so they have to swim back north once the calves gain some size and the female whales have picked up a suitor to help protect the babies from those motherfucking punkass killer whales looking to eat them during the whales' long trek back up the coast. It was amazing to see up close and I heartily recommend that everyone make the pilgrimage at least once. Pictures don't do it justice, but here are two that I managed to get on Adult whale about to show her newborn calf (under water when I took the picture) how to back float and beat their pectoral fins against the surface:  Baby whale bursting out of the water:  Anyway, it was a great trip and I'll get to the book portion of this post in a minute, but first here are a couple of notable pictures. These were being sold by almost every T-shirt vendor in town:  Donny Most of Stewardess School (and Happy Days) fame is all grown up and singing lounge music!  I saw these adorable luchador dolls at the airport yesterday and probably would have bought one if they weren't priced at an outrageous 945 pesos (about 53 US dollars). I hope you enjoy the picture, because I got kicked out of the gift shop for taking it!  As long as I'm wildly off-topic, here are a few souvenirs I bought for very little money. Luche libre mask, handmade toy wrestling ring and plastic figures, bottle opener, and 12" plastic luchador figure with a parachute so it works like a kite:     Those parachute/ kite figures (usually featuring bootleg superheroes) are all over the place and usually sell for between 100 and 150 pesos (between $5 and $8) each. I found the ancient Robin figure (with disintegrating parachute) on a dusty bottom shelf in a large, unorganized mess of a store and bought it for 50 pesos ($2.75). The other four (including the luchador above) set me back about $15 total.    Speaking of bootleg toys, I couldn't resist this hybrid of Homer Simpson and The Punisher:  I paid way too much for this (about $13 US dollars). No regrets.  I never wear clothes with stuff printed on them, but I just couldn't resist picking up one of these:  I have a whole lot of weird and wonderful stuff in addition to my vast collection of books. Perhaps I'll start a different thread and post some of the gems once I get my phone/ camera and computer situations sorted out. I still have plenty more books to post as well. I need to do a deep spring cleaning and purge a large amount of superfluous stuff from our apartment, and plan to get crackin' on that while I'm on the dole and looking for a new job. Welp, if you read this whole thing, thanks for indulging my vain venting. And if not, that's OK too. I promised I'd tie this into books somehow, so here goes: START READING HERE IF YOU SKIPPED AHEAD FOR THE BOOKS The resort/ hotel we stayed at had a bookcase in a little outdoor reading nook near one of the pools, and encouraged guests to leave their unwanted vacation books behind and grab one that someone else left behind. This made for a truly random selection of odd books, mostly obscure paperbacks. And also the Fifty Shades of Gray books. You can't get away from those. I spent some time one afternoon going through everything they had and taking pictures of anything I found to be notable.          I started reading this one. It is simultaneously terrible and enjoyable. I ended up taking it with me to read on the plane.   yaffle posted:Nevil Shute is a pretty good writer, If you like that I'd recommend "No Highway" and "A town like Alice". In retrospect, I missed a golden opportunity to read On The Beach on the beach. I live right next to a beach skirting the filthy waters of the San Francisco Bay, but that's really not the same. Sobatchja Morda posted:Quoting this because this book is legitimately great and written by one of the coolest primatologists. Seriously, this book is amazing. Everybody should do themselves a favor and read it immediately.
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New (to me) book:  Braille edition of February 1982 issue of Playboy (part 2 of 4)  
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  I'm cheating, but more people should see A Gun for George.
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Rascar Capac posted:
Polyester suits and AMC Gremlins? Sign me up.
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Proteus Jones posted:Polyester suits and AMC Gremlins? Sign me up. When your Gremlin bursts into flame from being tapped gently on the bumper, your polyester suit will melt to your skin, creating a water-tight seal which will keep you dry as firefighters attempt to extinguish the fire which is consuming the twisted metal prison in which you find yourself trapped. Synergy!
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Rascar Capac posted:
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I'm trying to be frugal while I look for a new job, so this is the only new book I've picked up in the last month.  It is a highly entertaining autobiography, although I'm an Ice-T fan, so I might be biased. I still have a bunch of books I've been meaning to post here. I'll go through my shelves today and take more pictures. In the meantime, here is an absolutely amazing book that I mentioned earlier in the thread (but did not post):  I wrote about it in more detail in the Chick tract thread: Gutter Phoenix posted:I think that the topic of word magic is fascinating. I've seen lots of footnotes and short references to magic names, magic words, and curses that rely on the power of magic words and names, but I can't think of a single book or in-depth article on that specific topic. I'm sure there are a ton of scholarly articles on the topic, and probably a bunch of books as well, but I don't know of any. A quick internet search led to a lot of crypto-pagan amateur speculation by weirdos who add a k to the end of the word magic. It's easy to find books/ articles on numerology and stuff that falls under the umbrella of Kabbalah, but I'm more interested in the ancient stuff.
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Holy poo poo, every illustration you posted is an avatar waiting to happen
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I lived in Kansas for 9 years and nothing even remotely this cool ever happened
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Where are these "Sexual Relief Clinics" located? Asking for a friend.
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Several of those Bates pages could have just as easily appeared in Book of The Subgenius.
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