Book Hauls!

Buy a book online? You can do that??
Really, I will never buy anything online.... I see more free books and movies in a month than I could fit in my room.
But, if you find that book - it is jammypacked with cool lingo, I was a-mazed, and want to read it again.
 
Vertigo said:
Moving my Mum into her new place and it being somewhat smaller than the old has resulted in me picking up a few classics that will require very delicate handling as their pages and bindings are all seriously brittle:

Isaac Asimov: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Pebble in the Sky, The Currents of Space
Arthur C Clarke: Earthlight
Gordon R Dickson: Mission to Universe
Poul Anderson: Guardians of Time, Trader to the Stars
Robert Heinlein: Beyond this Horizon
A E Van Vogt: The Mind Cage, The Silkie

Guess who I picked up the SF habit from! :)
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Nice little haul. The fact that I've read all the Asimov and none of the others reminds me yet again that I need to get cracking on a lot more SF I've missed to date. With perhaps 30 years life expectancy, I need to pick up the pace...
 
Indeed - nice looking haul and I've missed some of those myself. I have read all the Asimov, of course, but, otherwise, just Earthlight, Trader to the Stars, Beyond This Horizon, and The Mind Cage. Of those, it has its fans but the Heinlein isn't my favorite. It has its detractors, but I do like Earthlight quite a bit, but will admit it's not absolute top-tier Clarke. My favorites of all those are the Anderson (which is part of the van Rijn/Falkayn stories which are also presented in bigger chunks in the Baen editions for those who don't already have the originals) and the van Vogt. The van Vogt is really a trip because its simultaneously somehow one of his craziest yet most coherent stories. If I had to prioritize them, that's how I'd put them (in increasing order after the Asimov, I mean) but Your Mileage May Vary.

(As far as picking up the pace, that made me think of a scene I often think about. The first minute and a half is skipable as far as the point of posting it.)
 
I remember that fateful moment in my childhood - when I realized I would never have time to read everything in the library...LOL!
 
On a brief vacation to western North Carolina and the northeastern tip of Tennessee, besides the stuff one often picks up on such trips (such as a set of bowls for the kitchen) we bought some books, at a couple of places that were quite a contrast. One was a "book exchange" for a small town; bring a book and take a book, or make a small donation. I picked up Typee by Herman Melville (1842) and Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden for a few bucks. The other place was a "rare and collectible" place, where we paid more than I should mention for a book signed by Helen Keller and a first edition of Familiar Poems, Annotated by Isaac Asimov (1977).
 
Bick said:
Nice little haul. The fact that I've read all the Asimov and none of the others reminds me yet again that I need to get cracking on a lot more SF I've missed to date. With perhaps 30 years life expectancy, I need to pick up the pace...
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J-Sun said:
Indeed - nice looking haul and I've missed some of those myself. I have read all the Asimov, of course, but, otherwise, just Earthlight, Trader to the Stars, Beyond This Horizon, and The Mind Cage. Of those, it has its fans but the Heinlein isn't my favorite. It has its detractors, but I do like Earthlight quite a bit, but will admit it's not absolute top-tier Clarke. My favorites of all those are the Anderson (which is part of the van Rijn/Falkayn stories which are also presented in bigger chunks in the Baen editions for those who don't already have the originals) and the van Vogt. The van Vogt is really a trip because its simultaneously somehow one of his craziest yet most coherent stories. If I had to prioritize them, that's how I'd put them (in increasing order after the Asimov, I mean) but Your Mileage May Vary.

(As far as picking up the pace, that made me think of a scene I often think about. The first minute and a half is skipable as far as the point of posting it.)
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The thing is my Mum has had these ever since I was a kid and I can't believe there are any books (at least the SF ones, not the bodice ripper Georgette Heyers) in my Mum's collection that I haven't read. But... I do remember reading all the Asimovs but not the rest. I shall have to read them and see if they ring any bells! ;)
 
Beyond The Aquila Rift by Alistair Reynolds

The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter and Alistair Reynolds
 
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam... 1948 pocketbook, 4th printing... mixed in with religious pamphlets etc. outside, in a box, by the dumpsters. It's in NM nick, spine uncracked, which is rarer nor hen's teeth. The book is one page text, one page b and w picture. Nudity, yep. And nice little poems.
Meanwhile, as a Kindle guy, now..(did I mention that?) rare tomes abound wherever they can be found online.
 
J Riff said:
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam... 1948 pocketbook, 4th printing... mixed in with religious pamphlets etc. outside, in a box, by the dumpsters. It's in NM nick, spine uncracked, which is rarer nor hen's teeth. The book is one page text, one page b and w picture. Nudity, yep. And nice little poems.
Meanwhile, as a Kindle guy, now..(did I mention that?) rare tomes abound wherever they can be found online.
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That is a nice found, Riff. However, the 1948 edition of that book reminds me of the one linked to the Somerton Man case in Australia. A dead man was found on a beach with a fragment of the Rubaiyat in his pocket and nothing else to identify him. Later on, was found a copy of a unique edition of that same book and with a bit of the last page missing, which matched the bit found on the dead man. The dead man identity or murderer(s) was never found.
 
No! Really? (looks it up) ... wow, nuke codes? Micro-writing? Geeeeee..... there are some obfuscated notes, written in pencil, in this copy I found. Could it be related? Stay tuned!
 
Got a couple of oldies by Nicholas Stuart Gray, a 1960s children's author, The Apple Stone and Mainly by Moonlight.
 
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