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« Reply #165 on: November 14, 2013, 01:06:10 AM »
Looks like my kind of haul!
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« Reply #166 on: November 16, 2013, 01:25:49 AM »
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
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« Reply #167 on: November 16, 2013, 08:04:00 PM »
Got the Capcom 30th Anniversary character encyclopedia. a must-have for the die-hard Capcom fan like myself.
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« Reply #168 on: November 17, 2013, 09:02:44 PM »
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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/L0fYaWb.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/86doZiR.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/VyMsCOr.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/OvJ098I.jpg[/img]

Paid $25 for everything from the store clearance sale, and $58 total for everything from the Friends of the Library sale.
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« Reply #169 on: November 17, 2013, 10:40:10 PM »
Quote from: techwizard on November 17, 2013, 09:02:44 PM
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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/L0fYaWb.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/86doZiR.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/VyMsCOr.jpg[/img]

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
[img width=700 height=525]http://i.imgur.com/OvJ098I.jpg[/img]

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.
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« Reply #170 on: November 18, 2013, 01:16:44 AM »
Quote from: The Infinite Leon on November 17, 2013, 10:40:10 PM
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.
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« Reply #171 on: December 05, 2013, 01:43:37 AM »
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.
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« Reply #172 on: December 05, 2013, 10:18:59 AM »
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.
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« Reply #173 on: December 05, 2013, 05:37:10 PM »
Quote from: Shadow Kisuragi on December 05, 2013, 10:18:59 AM
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.
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« Reply #174 on: December 22, 2013, 10:25:03 PM »
I picked up the following peer-reviewed and extensively cited & annotated studies on two of the world's most notable subcultures:

[img width=624 height=453]http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y409/Zagnorch/Books12-22-2013_zps335dcc6b.jpg[/img]
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« Reply #175 on: January 05, 2014, 02:51:21 AM »
Those are really cool pickups. I've always wondered what EXACTLY a chav was haha. I just figured it was synonymous with douche.
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« Reply #176 on: January 05, 2014, 07:03:06 AM »
Quote from: Dergatron9000 on January 05, 2014, 02:51:21 AM
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...
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« Reply #177 on: January 05, 2014, 09:35:37 AM »
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).
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« Reply #178 on: January 07, 2014, 03:56:07 PM »
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.
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« Reply #179 on: January 07, 2014, 04:04:35 PM »
I'll take the Robotech books.
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