Horace posted:

Here's a very wonderful book. It's so big (each page is A3 size) it comes in its own plastic case with carry handle.



Inside are 800 pages of aerial photography, covering every last inch of England.



When it came out, in 2001, aerial photography on this scale was still quite novel, and it was exciting sitting around with people looking up various personal and public landmarks.



The scale varies depending on whether the area is built up or just fields. There are a lot of pages of fields.



Google Earth was released around the same time as this book, instantly rendering it obsolete as anything other than a coffee table book for people with very strong coffee tables. Not that it was ever intended as anything else.

You can pick up a copy for next to nothing from the usual used book places, and although it's obviously useless compared to Google Maps, I'd still recommend it if you have the space. It's just so nice to get lost in. Plus what if your internet goes out and you need to know what the roofs of Cleckheaton looked like 20 years ago?

Horace posted:

Here's a very wonderful book. It's so big (each page is A3 size) it comes in its own plastic case with carry handle.



Google Earth was released around the same time as this book, instantly rendering it obsolete as anything other than a coffee table book for people with very strong coffee tables. Not that it was ever intended as anything else.

You can pick up a copy for next to nothing from the usual used book places, and although it's obviously useless compared to Google Maps, I'd still recommend it if you have the space. It's just so nice to get lost in. Plus what if your internet goes out and you need to know what the roofs of Cleckheaton looked like 20 years ago?

obscure_reference posted:

I've got a few more of these old Spillanes somewhere, will have to post them when I find them.

obscure_reference posted:

I've got a few more of these old Spillanes somewhere, will have to post them when I find them.

spinderella posted:

Oh man we all are.

pogue23 posted:

plenty for sale here

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0307243621

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Those old atlases are fun to look through. And like you said, they sell for really cheap since the internet rendered them obsolete (for most people) from a practical point of view. Every garage sale/ yard sale/ estate sale/ junk store/ thrift shop/ antique fair/ etc. I go to has them, usually for dirt cheap. Same with big hardcover art books. I think it has a lot to do with how heavy they are and how much space they take up. I know I would buy a lot more of them if I had more space on my bookshelves!

How much does that one weigh? I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 pounds (or I think about 5-7 kg for non-Americans).

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Those old atlases are fun to look through. And like you said, they sell for really cheap since the internet rendered them obsolete (for most people) from a practical point of view. Every garage sale/ yard sale/ estate sale/ junk store/ thrift shop/ antique fair/ etc. I go to has them, usually for dirt cheap. Same with big hardcover art books. I think it has a lot to do with how heavy they are and how much space they take up. I know I would buy a lot more of them if I had more space on my bookshelves!

How much does that one weigh? I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 pounds (or I think about 5-7 kg for non-Americans).

Jerry Cotton posted:

How does it handle areas that they can't publish an actual photograph of?

Pershing posted:

Within the last year I've really gotten into art books. I got started after I found an old table top lectern at Goodwill.

One of these things:


I put it on the dresser in the bedroom and started leaving my copy of The Art Of The Venture Brothers open on it. I've got three or four books I rotate thru...it's nice to look at good art first thing in the morning as I get dressed or right before I go to bed at night. That I can get really nice for cheap at my local used bookstore is an added bonus. Several of the one I've bought are from museums...I just know some star-struck patron paid full price in the gift shop and then hauled them back on the plane.

Horace posted:

Sixteen and a half pounds!

Horace posted:

What sort of area are you talking about?

Gutter Phoenix posted:

~Coxy posted:

Air force bases and nuclear submarine pens?

(Although you specified England and not UK so I doubt the latter applies.)

Groke posted:

Haha, knockoff Chick tracts!

Jerry Cotton posted:

Yeah plus certain other installations of that ilk.

bweep boop! posted:

I went back to the usual haunt and discovered a trove of the Soldier of Fortune novels, but sadly none seemed quite as batshit as Cult Crushers, so I skipped them for now. Instead, I walked away with this thread, the book:



I'm excited to begin going through it and posting some of the gold that is contained within. Additionally, I picked up this book on prohibition, which, to be honest was only bought because of the title and amazing cartoon on the cover. I am going to have to find a spot for it on my shelf next to Rettman's Straight Edge and Lahickey's All Ages.



Finally, I bought yet another music biography/history book, which wouldn't warrant mention except for the inscription inside being pretty cute (though it always makes me sad to see a gift end up in a used bookstore):





Bonus tag with wrapping paper still on the tape stuck in the back.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

But man oh man, I'm glad you mentioned Cult Crushers, because I started reading it this afternoon and had to stop after 3 chapters because it is so motherfucking insane I can barely hide my glee as I type this on my phone!!

I'm going to bring it to work tomorrow, scan a few chapters, and post one or two a day until we all read the whole book together. The chapters are only 5-6 pages each, so it won't take long to read them. There are about 25 chapters, so we can get through the whole thing in a few weeks and dissect the insanity in full. I was gonna post it here or in the Vantasm thread, but I'll probably make a dedicated thread for it tomorrow. I'll post the link here.

It is so nutty. The fascists are the good guys and make Tulsa their holy land. Anyone who doesn't want to live in a theocratic police state are only rebellious because the KGB and ACLU have turned them against Christ by using cocaine and brainwashing. Holy crap, I am so excited to share it because a summary CANNOT do this gem justice.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Hell yeah, I cannot wait.

I don't read or post in The Book Barn subforum, but I know that "Let's Read" threads have been posted there. I definitely think Cult Crushers needs its own dedicated thread, but it would probably get a lot more eyes and participation in GBS.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

I love buying used books and finding inscriptions. I see it all the time with religious books. And I see it a lot with self-published books too.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Nice haul! I totally want to read that Demon Run book.

I love buying used books and finding inscriptions. I see it all the time with religious books. And I see it a lot with self-published books too.

But man oh man, I'm glad you mentioned Cult Crushers, because I started reading it this afternoon and had to stop after 3 chapters because it is so motherfucking insane I can barely hide my glee as I type this on my phone!!

I'm going to bring it to work tomorrow, scan a few chapters, and post one or two a day until we all read the whole book together. The chapters are only 5-6 pages each, so it won't take long to read them. There are about 25 chapters, so we can get through the whole thing in a few weeks and dissect the insanity in full. I was gonna post it here or in the Vantasm thread, but I'll probably make a dedicated thread for it tomorrow. I'll post the link here.

It is so nutty. The fascists are the good guys and make Tulsa their holy land. Anyone who doesn't want to live in a theocratic police state are only rebellious because the KGB and ACLU have turned them against Christ by using cocaine and brainwashing. Holy crap, I am so excited to share it because a summary CANNOT do this gem justice.

Anyway, you are probably right that Cult Crushers is the best SOF book, but I might need to check out the rest too. Not sure how many there are.

More tomorrow.

bweep boop! posted:

Maaan, I started reading Cult Crushers but unfortunately just do not have the time for fiction with the new school year to get into it. I will have to make sure I have time and energy to get though it to keep up with the thread!

Some horrifying points that really jumped out at me in the first like 20 pages include the protagonist of the novel reminiscing about how he has kept order in the world by burning down gay bars, while the cocaine Nazis have a conversation where they discuss how glad they are for UN for protecting them and making it possible to flood the world with billions of dollars worth of cocaine. Absolute loving insanity.

Rhandhali posted:

I've got some oddball medical books that I unpacked.

The History of Castration is, well, about castration. Not a lot of pictures. I think it's self published.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

Crosspost from Chick tract thread:

It is rare these days for me to get a Chick tract I don't already have, but this is one of them. Here is the very first printing of the very first Chick tract:




This lovely picture was removed shortly thereafter:



Speaking of rare tracts, I finally got around to scanning The Secret Weapon, which is easily the rarest Chick tract printed in the last 30 years:

muscles like this! posted:

I don't know if they're putting out physical versions (I only saw Kindle) but the popularity of Paperbacks from Hell has got them to reissue some of the horror books mentioned in it.

Rhandhali posted:

I've got some oddball medical books that I unpacked.

The History of Castration is, well, about castration. Not a lot of pictures. I think it's self published.



No idea who USCCN publishers are, google takes me to a group that curates microbiology samples.



This one is legit. Louis Bakay was a neurosurgeon who was hugely influential. He also was an amateur historian.




Lots of fun photographs of old torture/surgical instruments and some very early contemporary anatomy sketches.

How to lift up a portion of smashed in skull.


Techniques for trepannation. Remember this is in a time when they MIGHT have had some opium around, maybe, but most likely you'd get something to bite on and, if lucky, some alcohol.


More illustrations on picking up depressed skull fragments.


The first illustration of cerebral ventricular anatomy.


Some pictures from Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica with one hell of a mustache.


DaVinci's anatomical drawings based on wax casts of the ventricles.


Miscellaneous surgical instruments. Some of them haven't changed a great deal in the past five centuries or so; only so many ways to rip/tear/cut/grab flesh and bone.

wa27 posted:

I'm glad that Fold-In collection seems to have each one printed twice, both unfolded and folded.