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Oh holy poo poo, that's Geek Love Katherine Dunn!
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Yeah, I still gotta read that. It has been recommended to me many, many times.
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Apr 29, 2020 19:50
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It's worth your time.
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Apr 29, 2020 19:59
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
Thanks for noticing the placement. I forget where I first heard about Death Scenes, it was during a time that I was on a real James Ellroy tear. I ended up buying it for use in a Call Of Cthulhu game I was running.
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Apr 29, 2020 20:01
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What? Oh, Liartown. I was momentarily excited by the prospect of a book about the Long Island Railroad.
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Apr 30, 2020 01:33
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I really love this thread.
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gleebster posted:What? Oh, Liartown. I was momentarily excited by the prospect of a book about the Long Island Railroad. It always comes back to trains.
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Here's a couple more. I picked up The Ice Cream War at a used bookstore somewhere in Mississippi . Before I worked in mental health I studied history. My concentration was the First World War and I'd never seen a historical novel about the war in German Africa. Look into that campaign if you haven't. It's a good read...some comedic elements, some tragedy.   I really, really, really like the work of Seymour Chwast. I first saw his Homer's Odyssey at the library, I read it cover to cover on the spot. It illustrates the Odyssey in the style of the classic space action serials of the 30s like Flash Gordon, Radar Men From The Moon and (shudder) Star Trek: Voyager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVrvt4WuIM       This is another treasure from the giveaway bins...this is the sort of typing book I learned to key with! Walked out of my local used bookshop, did a cursory glance at the bins and snatched it. I still remember sitting in the typing class in middle school and the rhythm of every machine hitting the same letters at the same time.   If you can't make it out it says Pete Alexson, Rochester School District, Monroe County NY   
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Apr 30, 2020 15:56
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wrong thread
PHIZ KALIFA fucked around with this message at 05:58 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 05:51
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Here is a story about a wild turkey assault that I learned about from the schadenfreude thread:     
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Comrade Koba posted:Please tell me this is just a bunch of blank pages glued together. You jest, but when Carter was running for president, there was a book that was published called "The wit and humor of Jimmy Carter" and that book was all blank pages, with one comment in the back "He's working on it".
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May 8, 2020 17:38
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If only we listened....
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May 16, 2020 08:52
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Salvaged this when they were cleaning out the psychiatrist's office next door...taught me that the idiom of "pour cold water on (something)" is in part a reference to a treatment method for hysteria.        Back cover: 
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May 22, 2020 16:39
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That is awesome! "Congenital imbecility" is my new favorite term.
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May 22, 2020 16:58
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This but it's all the seasons of Simpsons references
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May 28, 2020 16:59
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Kinda wanna read that Sex Tech book ngl
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May 29, 2020 01:19
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y'all are in for a frontpage treat on tuesday, that's all i'm saying
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May 29, 2020 01:21
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I was supposed to be getting married in NYC this weekend, but instead I'll be stuck at home reading this book:   I am looking forward to it!
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:y'all are in for a frontpage treat on tuesday, that's all i'm saying What was this about?
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wa27 posted:What was this about? PHIZ KALIFA managed to interview Phil Elmore, the author of Street Swords and Flashlight Fighting. It's like Christmas in June! PHIZ KALIFA posted:this is kinda in poor taste given all of the everything going on, but, uh, this was more fun than i expected: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/street-senpai/
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for how bad his politics are i was expecting him to Take Umbrage to my, uh, self, but I guess sufficient decades of unrelenting internet-dunkage have tempered his ego somewhat.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:for how bad his politics are i was expecting him to Take Umbrage to my, uh, self, but I guess sufficient decades of unrelenting internet-dunkage have tempered his ego somewhat. I'm impressed that you went through the effort to reach out to him. That brings a smile to my face!
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the first post on his blog was asking for a writing job, and he listed his e-mail. it felt cruel, almost?
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Jun 5, 2020 22:51
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I work in a museum and we're building up our technical reference book library. I bought this book from Powell's and aside from having a great name, it turned out to be an early signed copy. I love the name of the man, "Dick Smith" although I'm not sure if that's a name or his job title. 
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mikerock posted:I work in a museum and we're building up our technical reference book library. I bought this book from Powell's and aside from having a great name, it turned out to be an early signed copy. I love the name of the man, "Dick Smith" although I'm not sure if that's a name or his job title. This is rad!
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Jun 10, 2020 19:01
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The new issue of Mad is a tribute to Al Jaffee, who is retiring at 99. 
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Jun 10, 2020 19:01
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Here are a few new things:     
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Jun 10, 2020 19:04
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Oh, and this:
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Jun 10, 2020 19:15
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Jesus Christ, sniglets. I haven't thought about that (or Rich Hall) since I was little.
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Pershing posted:Jesus Christ, sniglets. I haven't thought about that (or Rich Hall) since I was little. Yeah, those Sniglets books were almost as ubiquitous as those little Far Side softcover collections during the mid-to-late 1980's. There was even a Sniglets board game. Shockingly, I don't own any Sniglets books, but that's only because I haven't seen any cheap copies in used books stores during the past couple of decades.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I saw this book at the Jamestown, Virginia gift shop when I was there last September and thought it looked interesting: I got a few new books for my birthday from my fiance. She didn't realize I already had this one, but I like the hardcover better anyway, so I'll probably donate the copy I already bought.  I love this woodcut. Especially the ducks in the background.    This one is almost 1,000 pages, but I've enjoyed what I've read so far:   This was in the free pile at my apartment complex:  
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scouting collectors are bigger geeks than railfans and model railway dorks combined. (PS, do not confuse those two fandoms to a member, they will correct you) i was at an order of the arrow event and someone mentioned having a stack of misprinted council patches up for trade and there was a literal stampede.
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Been a while since I got anything worth posting, but after two months wait I finally received my (damaged) copy of Voluptuous Panic which I understood to be a great companion piece to Hollywood Babylon. I'll go through it eventually and maybe share the more interesting pages if there is interest. 
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bweep boop! posted:Been a while since I got anything worth posting, but after two months wait I finally received my (damaged) copy of Voluptuous Panic which I understood to be a great companion piece to Hollywood Babylon. I'll go through it eventually and maybe share the more interesting pages if there is interest. Nice! I've never read that. Keep us posted.
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My collection has grown again. Please help, I can't stop Franklin Press edition of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy:   Signed first edition of The Last Emperox. I've got a signed copy of the first in the series too, just need to pick up the second.   Signed limited edition of World War Z   Signed Easton Press copy of Disturbing The Universe by Freeman Dyson. Goes well with my signed The Double Helix.   I also just picked up an Artist Gift edition of I Am Legend from Suntup. They make some really freaking amazing limited editions. The prices on eBay for them are insane. Their 1984 that just released is beautiful but I have already reached my book budget for the next few months   Finally, the local Half Price Books has a 1st US edition copy of relativity! I am almost bought it despite not having even close to that amount of money to blow on a book: 
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D-Pad posted:
Holy poo poo! Half Price Books gets some crazy cool stuff in sometimes. I haven't done any browsing in used book stores since the pandemic started and I miss it.
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Oh wait we can post photos of collectible books? Game on, fuckers! Feesters in the Lake by Bob Leman. Rare on it's own, my copy is extra special:  Bob died a couple of years after this was published and there are very few signed copies, most of which are review copies (marked PC) and issued with dust jacket. My copy is numbered and, as you can see, has a dust jacket. Dust jacket covers make taking photos tough, there's so much glare... Here's a weird one:  Honey is Sweeter Than Blood by Jeffrey Thomas, Shadows of Flesh by Scott Thomas, and Nether: Improper Bedtime Stories both. Nether is essentially just the other two combined, but with a far smaller limitation (26 versus 250).  
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